Today is October 30 by the solar calendar and October 1 by the lunar calendar, the eleventh Day of Children. You will know that this Day of Children was established a full ten years ago. By count, it is the eleventh.
Human history that has come seeking one true Adam
Originally, such days as God’s Day, True Parents' Day, the True Children's Day, and the Day of All Things were not to be kept as we pass through a year but were to be kept on one day. But because humankind was caught in the sorrowful condition called the fall, they could not be kept on one day, and God has toiled until now to find such days.
Originally, had human beings not fallen, together with the perfection of human beings, the Day of Parents would have been established, the Day of Children would have been established, and the Day of All Things would have been established. At the same time God’s desire would have been fulfilled. That is, the ideal of creation would have been completed. Not only that, if all things were perfected and a perfected Adam and Eve had become completely one body centered on God’s love, a triangular relationship would have been formed in which God and human beings could not be separated even if one tried, and human beings and all things could not be separated even if one tried, and they would have formed one body. But because human beings fell, God’s love departed, and the day on which true parents and true children and all true things could be commemorated was also lost.
To recover this day again, one cannot but go the sorrowful course of Restoration, the grievous course of re-creation. In being re-created, human beings must be re-created centering on all things, and centering on human beings; the ideal of creation God desires and God’s love must be re-created. Such a process of restoration remains. To restore this, God has toiled until now.
If we examine the process of history until now for finding all things, because all things were already in a position of having been invaded by Satan, Satan had to be separated. That is why the work of separating Satan was done, centering on the condition called the offering. In the Old Testament Age, it was done that way.
Entering the New Testament Age, He sought human beings, but because we human beings too possess a fallen lineage, the work of separation had without fail to be done.
Thus, upon the separated foundation of victory, centering on a new husband and wife, a process of confrontation between God’s love and Satan’s love had to be passed through, and there God’s love had to remain. Only then can one meet the one day of the desire Heaven has willed.
We know well how tedious such a process of history has been. To lay a foundation of victory on which, meeting such a day, God’s love could be reborn, countless sacrifices have been paid until now in the course of history. In that process, all things were lamented, and in order for restoration to such human beings to come about, countless prophets and righteous forebears paid the price with blood and death in the course of history. We know that, gathering and gathering the price of such sacrifice again, a foundation of good victory was prepared, and one true Adam was sought.
The history of six thousand years until now is the history of raising an Adam-type figure and working, and of toiling to find the form of a perfected Adam while inheriting that great task through the ages. After finding that Adam, one must find Eve. Only when Eve too is found can the perfect will at last be accomplished and God’s ideal of creation be concluded. It was that individuals who could conclude the ideal of creation would furnish the bond of a true husband and wife and, by becoming one with God’s love, complete the realm of dominion of goodness. For that, one must without fail pass through a process of re-creating Adam, and next, modeling upon Adam, one cannot but pass again through the foundation of re-creating Eve so that it can be said, “It is excellent.”
But with that standard of “It is good” alone, it will not do. You will know well that it is the view of the Principle that without God’s love intervening here, no conclusion can be seen.
If we divide history and examine it, the Old Testament Age is the time of separating all things; the New Testament Age is the time of separating people; and the Completed Testament Age is the time of separating, centering on a victorious Adam and Eve, the family of love that Adam and Eve had lost. This age is the age of completion. In other words, because the Parents of humankind were lost, the separating must be done, centering on the Parents of humankind. When these Parents come to this earth and go through the process of separating, they cannot but go the road of suffering. This is the view according to the Principle.
What you must reflect upon on meeting the Day of Children
God has worked for two thousand years centering on Christianity. It was the desire of Christians to become sons and daughters of God. What was the responsibility of those sons and daughters? It was to fulfill the way of filial sons and filial daughters toward the Parents who would come. Had they fulfilled this way, the Parents could have avoided the road of humiliation. But because they did not fulfill that responsibility, the Parents came to stand in a position of bearing even the responsibility of the children.
The Unification Church today is what must fulfill both the way of children and the way of parents. We know that it has passed through a process of history of several decades centering on this. And thus today, October 1, by the lunar calendar in 1970, we have come to meet the eleventh Day of Children.
Let us examine the process of history up to the meeting of this Day of Children.
Seen as centering on the people of Israel, it was the mission of Judaism, from the position of an adopted son, to stake the position of the direct lineage and give full filial devotion before the Parents. From the position of an adopted son, bearing even the responsibility of a child of the direct lineage, they should have fulfilled the responsibility of filial sons and filial daughters and completely attended to Jesus as Parents, regarding his will as more weighty than their lives.
So if a foundation of Judaism had been formed that could furnish the names of children, there could have been no road of death for Jesus. Had it become so, the children could have blocked the suffering before Jesus received it.
Children have a responsibility to block the road of death of the parents and fulfill the way of filial devotion. Accordingly, had Judaism fulfilled the responsibility of children, Jesus would not have gone the road of death but would have accomplished God’s will. But Judaism failed to fulfill the responsibility of children and not only betrayed Jesus, who was the Parent, but even drove him onto the road of death. Therefore, God set up one standard of the spiritual Providence of salvation, gathered the children again spiritually, and came forth furnishing a foundation of worldwide development. That worldwide foundation is Christianity.
Here, centering on Christianity, a foundation of spiritual children was laid, but because a spiritual standard alone will not do, God has toiled until now to furnish an outward standard that could be united with this standard. And so we know that what set up a worldwide realm of dominion centering on spirit and body is the democratic world. Christianity, the ideological center and providential center of this democratic world, must fulfill the way of a true filial son and loyal subject before the Parents who come. When the heavenly Parents, or the Master of Heaven, come upon this earth to accomplish the will, it must be able to offer all its own without sparing and fulfill the way of loyalty and filial devotion. Had Christianity prepared such a foundation, there could have been no road of suffering before the Parents who come.
Although in that way the bond of the Parents should have been furnished and God’s ideal of creation realized, when we look at what came about centering on this Korea, which Heaven came seeking, it was not so. Although a new sovereignty should have been built centering on Christianity and the historical will inherited, because the Liberal Party regime colluded with Christianity and stood in a position of betraying God’s will, the result was that the responsibility in the position of children was not fulfilled, and thereby we were placed in a position of having to go the road of suffering over again. This is the history of suffering of the Unification Church.
The history of suffering of the Unification Church in this Korea does not end merely as the history of suffering of the Unification Church. That course is a course of historical suffering, and within that course dwells the sorrowful content that God’s six-thousand-year course of suffering was prolonged. And that the Korean people could not avoid the road of suffering and remain on the road of suffering until now is also, I think, because they could not follow the will and are indigent for that. We know that these people have walked the road of suffering for some forty or fifty years until now because Christianity, which stood upon the providential foundation where it could face the will, did not completely fulfill inwardly and outwardly its mission of receiving the will.
In the midst of such things, we have met the 1970s. Now, taking these 1970s as one dividing point, we must cross over toward a new age. Today is a Day of Children with such meaning. What we must reflect upon and pledge again each time we meet this Day of Children is that we will make it one day of resolving the han (한) of not having fulfilled our responsibility as children in the past. Centering on this day, we must newly resolve and restore through indemnity the position of Judaism and Christianity, which did not fulfill the responsibility of children, and, from a position of pledging every historical victory, we must be able to stand as filial sons and filial daughters not lacking before the heavenly Parents. I think that only when we stand in a position of discovering and awakening to such a self is there great meaning in meeting this day.
The history of suffering until the Day of Children was found
Now the worldwide stage has been furnished outwardly, but we must know how many roads of suffering God passed through to sift the inner heart (심정) until this Day of Children was found. Outwardly, God expanded the realm of the chosen people, centering on Providence. He expanded the Judaic realm of the chosen people and the Christian realm of the chosen people and made an environment that could encompass the world. And we know that, centering on the inner standard, He has always prepared to organize one clan united in heart.
Seen centering on the family of Adam, the brothers Cain and Abel fought. Cain was set up, separated on Satan’s side and Abel on Heaven’s side, and a battle of subjugating Cain centering on Abel, was unfolded. But this battle was a battle fought from a position where Cain and Abel had grown up. That is why we must know that, for fundamental restoration, He went back even to the origin of life and revived it. Thus, what Cain and Abel had failed in was carried out as the work of separation centering on the twins Esau and Jacob.
Jacob, after passing through a course of suffering of a thousand hardships and ten thousand pains, subjugated Esau and furnished a foundation of victory. Here the outward realm of Israel was prepared, but the inward realm of Israel could not set out. To furnish this inner content, Jacob’s son Judah and Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar furnished content of a three-generation form, and the battle of Perez and Zerah through the bloodline of Tamar and Judah broke out. Here the victorious standard that could restore Cain and Abel was furnished. The sorrowful history of not having been able to be born as the elder by taking the position of victory from within the womb was indemnified.
Furthermore, we know that the woman who, like Tamar, forgot her dignity and face and, braving the danger to her life, followed with single-minded devotion only the will of the Heavenly Father and who, transcending her whole environment for the sake of the will of the worldwide providential history, brought about the formation of one historical religious body, is Mary.
When the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and foretold that she would conceive the Messiah, Mary said, “I do not know a man, so how can this be? Yet I am the Lord’s handmaid; let it be done to me according to Your word.” In that age this was a matter on which her life hung and a matter by which her dignity and her circumstances could all collapse, but Mary knew God’s will and accepted it out of a heart wishing that God’s blessing would be newly reenacted upon the earth. That is, we know the fact that, forgetting her face and dignity and sacrificing even her life, she conceived Jesus from a position of yearning for the heart of Heaven.
Here at last a lineal point of separation of victory was furnished, and upon that foundation Jesus came to be born. Because a son of God could prepare a new origin of love through Jesus, from the very hour Jesus was born as God’s separated son, he could arouse God’s love and be entrusted with it. From the time he was in the womb for ten months, God could not but await the day of his birth. We must know that Jesus was the representative Son who had to receive love from within the womb and, after being born, had to receive God’s love throughout his whole life, from infancy through youth, maturity, and old age.
We know that Jesus aroused God’s heart from the time he was in the womb and that at the hour of his birth the heavenly hosts and angels welcomed him. Furthermore, the three wise men from the East came with gold, frankincense, and myrrh and paid homage, representing the humankind of the world. And we know the fact that they stand in place of the archangel of the spirit world, furnished with substance.
Thus, God, unknown to others, furnished the will of the Providence of Restoration and had the Messiah born upon this earth. This was the result of the sacrifice of four thousand years of history. It was a shield that could prepare a historical victory. Although it was the mission of the people of Israel and of Judaism, prepared for four thousand years, to protect and uphold this Jesus, the people of Israel and Judaism, far from welcoming Jesus, raised the flag of revolt. We must know that this became a position of bringing to God the han of the fall a second time.
Adam and Eve fell as the ancestors of humankind just as they were, but we must know how sorrowfully God was stirred by the commotion that Herod the king and all Jerusalem raised centering on Judaism (Matthew 2:1–), from the time of the birth of that son, who had been God’s new hope of restoration and new hope of revival from within the womb. How great must have been the hidden circumstances and God’s sorrow when, in such a difficult environment, he was led all the way to the land of Egypt to protect Jesus! And thus the life of Jesus, who spent three years in Egypt and returned to the shore of Galilee and grew up, must have been a lonely life that others did not know. He had a mother, but she was a mother who could not love him as a mother; he had a father, but a stepfather; he had brothers, but stepbrothers; he had relatives, but they were in a position unrelated to Jesus. How forlorn must the infancy of Jesus, growing up in such a position, have been!
Seen from this point, we can know that God wished to love centering on Jesus but could not. He wished to love the brothers centering on Jesus and wished to love the relatives and the people and the nation and the world, but it was completely cut off, so we must recall once again how great was the sorrow of God, who had desired centering on Jesus alone.
Seen from such a position, how lonely a period were those thirty years for God, who looked only upon Jesus and awaited the day of hope. God inwardly and earnestly wished that, if it were at all possible for Jesus to pioneer all the difficult environments, he would not go out to the place of death, and He demanded such an environment.
Yet the people of Israel and Judaism did not know this and instead raised the flag of revolt. Because the people of Israel and Judaism thus bore the sin of forsaking and rebelling against God’s heart of love, the people of Israel, centering on Judaism, could not but go a course of indemnity and could not but become a people receiving historical calamity. And so we know vividly through history the fact that for thousands of years, as a people wandering without a nation, they were sacrificed before countless peoples of the world, or before their guns and swords, under the hooves of countless enemies.
Barely in 1948 did they receive the recognition of the United Nations and become independent as one sovereign nation, but without once again conquering the surrounding enemies, the people cannot secure a foundation of victory. Because that people failed in their responsibility in the past, before they accomplish Jesus’ will and furnish the posture of a victorious people, they cannot but pass through a course of battle a second time, and so at present they are surrounded by the Arab realm. We must know that such is the desperate position of Israel.
The time when the Blessed Families of the Unification Church must take responsibility
Because the history of indemnity thus grants no pardon, if a people did wrong, it must be resolved through that people, and if that people cannot resolve it, the world that was together with that people must resolve it. Setting before us such a historical phenomenon of indemnity, although there were many sorrowful and grievous facts in the process of history the Unification Church has walked, it is fortunate that the Teacher himself, centering on the will, did not die; but had he died, what problem would have broken out? Would this not have become a wretched people?
God has, through the long history of six thousand years until now, hoped for and prepared the day of liberation. He sought to see, centering on this Korea, on these people, and on this land, the one time He had awaited, centering on a new Providence. Had Christianity and these people welcomed Him at that time, the Korean people today might have become a people that could boast before the world.
Moreover, our will too would have formed a worldwide foundation and would have widened its scope so that there would be no nation that did not praise its glory. Even seen centering on the Teacher’s age, the era in which that could be done is passing. You must know that this position, in which, after more than ten years have passed, I have sought you out, is too shameful to praise victory and cannot save face.
We must know the fact that on the road we must walk, there remains a national course of indemnity, and there remains a worldwide course of indemnity, and we must cross over this. Just as Judaism guided the people of Israel on the spiritual plane, and just as Christianity today guides world democracy, hereafter the Unification Church must be able to guide all the thought and spiritual issues of Korea. But because we have not yet put down such roots and have not gone as far as a position where our plans can be reflected across the board in national policy, we must know that there remains a course of battle in which we cannot but tread through a process of trial once again and cross over.
Then who will take responsibility for this?
Will our descendants take responsibility, or will the thirty million of this people in this age take responsibility? Setting this question before us, the band that can take responsibility is we ourselves, who are worn out and exhausted from activity to pioneer this will today. We must know clearly that this is a responsibility of the people and a national responsibility that we must bear.
Here, what sort of position are the Blessed Families in?
The Blessed Families of the Unification Church stand not in the position in which the people of Israel of old hoped for the Messiah centering on Judaism, but in a position one stage advanced, having received the Messiah and carried out a new organizing of the clan. When we consider this, the individual is not the problem. We must know that the time has come when those Blessed Families must join together and weave a new history.
There is no time to speak of all the detailed content, but the problem today is these families who have been blessed. A Blessed Family is not a family for the individual but, to the very end, a family representing the people, a family representing the world, a family representing heaven and earth. Because we must awaken to such things once again, family-level trial and indemnity are approaching before us.
In governing a nation, it is not arranged that Jesus himself governs. Is it not the original principle that Jesus’ family rules the nation? Seen from such a position, Jesus’ family alone will not do. There must be Israelite families that can be connected to Jesus. And when we consider that it was the foundation of desire centering on the age of Jesus that Jesus should become the priest who could guard all the holy of holies of that nation and become a new center that could guide that whole nation, then we individuals today too must not merely be individual men or women but must form families that can represent the sovereignty of Israel and inherit that sovereignty, and must be able to conclude and complete the responsibility of the priest as a family-level responsibility.
Is this not the victorious realm of Israel that God has come seeking for six thousand years? Given that the history of the Second Advent is for re-enacting what was lost in Jesus’ time, we must awaken to the fact that the six-thousand-year providential history was God’s inner course of struggle and a circuit of death. We must know that a Blessed Family must be able to represent the priest and be able to represent a provincial governor and must bear the responsibility of spiritual Israel and Judaism.
We must know that, in ruling heaven and earth, Jesus cannot rule alone. If Jesus rules alone and Jesus dies, who will take over that legacy? The sons and daughters of Jesus’ direct lineage, centering on God, must take it over.
They can continue the heavenly bond. Therefore, it will not do without passing through the process called “the family.” That is why we must know that the family is exceedingly precious. You must not merely rejoice that you are blessed families; you must be able to hand down, unchangingly for ten thousand generations, what God has desired. For that, you must establish a tradition that must be left behind. From now on, this becomes the question.
Up to the 1960s, it was a time when individuals pledged victory, but entering the 1970s, one must bear the family cross. From 1960 to 1967—that is, until God’s Day was established—was the time when the Teacher himself bore the family cross. All the factors of the family had to be indemnified and crossed over. And thus, after three years had passed and we met in 1970—that is, in the arena of crossing the three years of the second seven-year course—a family-level foundation of victory ought to have been accomplished, but because this was not furnished, unavoidably one must again go the road of the cross, centering on your families.
That is why notice is being given to the 777 Blessed Families to be mobilized from the first of December. Not only that, but the time has come when, centering on them, all the families must be mobilized. You must know that the time has come when a person who thinks of himself, thinks of his husband, and thinks of the comfort of his person cannot be forgiven before God. Therefore, because the age has come when Blessed Families must bear the cross, one must not resent anyone, and one must not think that one goes the road of suffering because of the Unification Church. One must go knowing it as a course a Blessed Family ought properly to walk, and here you must have a Day of Parents centering on yourselves. You must have this day on the horizontal plane, centering on yourselves.
The coming age of the Unification Church
If the worldwide Day of Parents has been decided, then a new clan must be formed centering on you. And thus, centering on each of you as an individual, not a worldwide ancestor but a clan-level ancestor, must appear. For that, one cannot but establish a Day of Parents, a Day of Children, and a God’s Day centering on the clan.
Seen from such a position, each one of your families must find this nation to be our nation. You must find the clan and people of this nation as our clan and our people. You must be able to gather the whole clan—the Paks if Pak, the Kims if Kim—and praise them as our clan and our people.
When it becomes so, a nation of one brotherhood will also appear. The time has come before us when the foundation of such families must be made firm. The time has come to go toward a family-level dimension different from the 1960s. You must know that this is the final road.
The history of restoration through indemnity does not take the clan as its basis but always moves the clan, centering on the family. The individual too settles victory as a family, and the clan too can connect a bond of victory upon a family-level foundation of victory.
Further, the people and the nation too can settle on victory through the family’s foundation of victory. You must know that the family is thus the core. Why is that? It is because the victory of a family foretells the departure of new ancestors.
You Blessed Families, on the horizontal plane, must become new ancestors centering on your surnames and must furnish all the days by which you can establish a tradition as ancestors. This you must know. Because such an age is approaching before us, you must now pass through a family-level road of suffering.
The limit of that suffering is the restoration of the people. The family is for finding the people, the people are for finding the nation, and the nation is for finding the world. That goodness thus develops step by step is a fact well known through the Principle.
In October of this year, when we met on the eleventh Day of Children, a wedding was held centering on ten nations of the world. What does this say? It means that, centered on a foundation of heart, a horizontal realm of objects that can connect the world before one center is being accomplished. Because we have met such a time, the age of the Unification Church is approaching before us.
Now, if you only believe and go forward, your suffering will be overcome. At some point they will, without fail, submit to us. The age in which we can appear furnished with the settlement of victory has arrived right before our eyes. Because God loves and is anxious for His children, He does not seek to hand over the road of suffering to the children who go the course of restoration but seeks to set them in a position of no suffering, a position of having undergone suffering. He seeks to let them escape that road through a small condition of indemnity; this is God’s love. So you must lead your families and go seeking the land of Israel. You have such a responsibility.
Just as the twelve tribes of Israel had to go seeking the land allotted to them, you must now lead your families and go seeking the inheritance of the clan-level foundation. That period is from 1970 to 1972, and this was a time of crossing a watershed worldwide.
Even considering the outward situation, people take 1972 as the crisis point.
Because this age is an age of the history of restoration in which inside and outside must be united and one resolution must be reached, and because in any case it cannot but coincide with the providential view, and because the watershed of Asia must be crossed centering on 1970 to 1972, the Teacher has said that the three-year period until 1972 is important.
Seen centering on this day, is it not the time of meeting a full twelve years since the Day of Parents and the Day of Children were established? Accordingly, because 1973 is the time of crossing the number thirteen, we must without fail prepare during this period a foundation for a worldwide departure centering on the people.
You must know that otherwise a road of suffering remains in the future of the Unification Church. That is why, however we look up and down and left and right, the time is coming when we must settle the matter, whether by soaring into the sky or by digging into the ground.
Today, this Day of Children is the eleventh by count but is the tenth anniversary in full years; and setting this day before us and considering the question of the road the Unification Church must walk hereafter, behind us the world hangs.
We know that we must raise the banner of the liberation of North and South, and we must carry out the final ideological armament. But it will not do merely to know. We must act.
For that, there lies before our members a mission of the age by which we must resolve not only inner distress but outer distress as well. God hopes for such things. Yet God cannot become the center and act. Because Adam and Eve fell, restoration too must be done by setting forth the family of Adam and Eve. We must know that such a solemn point is approaching before us.
One must love God more than one’s own sons and daughters
Then what kind of person is a person who goes to the kingdom of heaven?
A person who loves their own son more than God cannot go to the kingdom of heaven, and if one loves one’s own wife or oneself more than God, one cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus, from a position of having lost himself, prayed a prayer of decision with the cross before him. Even if he lost everything, even if he lost himself a thousand times and ten thousand times, he must not lose the kingdom of God and must not lose God.
In order not to lose the kingdom of God, because the history of Israel, prepared over four thousand years, must not be cut off, he prayed for his enemies. He could not simply curse the nation of Israel before the guns and swords of the Roman soldiers. Because he had a responsibility to hold on to it and protect it, he could not but pray for the people of Israel, or for his enemies, even while shedding blood on the cross.
We must know that his forgiving the Roman soldiers and praying for them was because he had a heart wishing for the liberation of Judaism, which was paired with them. Jesus, even if he himself died, must not lose the kingdom of God and must not lose God.
If it were so, then even if Jesus died, that nation would not perish but would remain, and together with that nation, Jesus’ name would remain. Because together with God that love remains, and because God’s love that goes seeking that day remains, Christianity, which follows that road, has walked the road of death until now but has remained from there and formed a worldwide Christian realm. We must know clearly that this is to leave behind the kingdom of God and to leave behind God.
So you must not think of your sons and daughters as your sons and daughters centered on yourselves. Those sons and daughters are descendants of the heavenly kingdom.
Everyone, setting one nation before us, what is sovereignty?
To form a nation, there must be sovereignty; there must be citizens, and there must be territory. Sovereignty signifies the parents, the citizens signify the children, and the territory signifies all things. Seen providentially, all things correspond to the Old Testament Age, the children correspond to the New Testament Age, and the parents correspond to the Completed Testament Age.
Such a form must be applied to the family, must be applied to the nation, and must be applied to the world. This globe corresponds to all things; all people correspond to the citizens, and the sovereignty corresponds to a sovereign nation centering on God. In the forming of sovereignty on this earth today, there have been all manner of disgraceful displays and all manner of ugly affairs, but the sovereignty that must be left in God’s name alone must be holy. That is why all the conditions of disgrace must be settled and a new sovereignty formed. You must know that this is the kingdom of heaven and is God’s desire.
You must know that your families are in a position standing in place of the sovereignty of the heavenly kingdom. Because the parents stand in place of sovereignty, the children stand in place of the citizens, and material things stand in place of the land of that nation; being filial to the parents is being loyal to the nation, and being filial to the parents connects with the road of fulfilling the way of a saint. Now the family has become the origin of all manner of disgraceful things, but God has come forth looking for the family to become a holy foundation.
Therefore, we have a mission to gather the corrupted families within the realm of the fall. You must know that, although the families of this earth are breaking down, we are in a position where we cannot deny those families.
Then what must those Blessed Families do?
They must inherit that nation and that world and must inherit God’s love. A Blessed Family possesses the authority to inherit the nation and the authority to inherit God’s love. The Blessing is the permitting of a privileged authority by which, hereafter, one can inherit the kingdom of God and the love of God. Because the Unification Church has come forth holding up God’s love, which can connect God and the kingdom of God, it speaks of the world of heart and speaks of the history of heart. That is why the family becomes the question.
You must not love your sons and daughters more than the nation, more than God. The kingdom of heaven is a place where people live who love God more than their sons and daughters and love this world more than their sons and daughters. From such a position, the kingdom of heaven is attained.
To say one cannot do it because it is difficult makes no sense
God told Adam and Eve to govern all things, but with what must one govern? One must govern centering on God’s love. One must become one with God and govern the world.
From where does the kingdom of heaven come?
It does not come from a position where one can sing of happiness centering on one’s own nation. As the happiness of the nation increases, one must become a family that can catch the factor of that happiness and rejoice; and as the world is made into the kingdom of heaven, one must become a family that can catch the factor by which the world can rejoice and rejoice. This you must know.
Now, from the 36 Families to the 72 Families and the 124 Families, comprehending the whole, we must make a new departure from December. Here there must be no excuses. For whose sake is it done? It is for the nation, it is for the world, it is for God. The purpose lies here. It will not do unless it is for the nation, for the world, for God, for the will.
In family life too, Blessed Families must live a life of consulting about everything. It has been said that in the kingdom of heaven worship is not needed. Why? Because one lives a life of consulting.
Centering on the nation, centering on the Parents, one must consult while yearning for the love of the Parents. That is the life of becoming a filial son, a filial daughter, a loyal subject, and a virtuous woman. Living in mutual sympathy within a sphere of life of consulting the Parents is the kingdom of heaven, and the place where one lives reporting is the kingdom of heaven. And in reporting too, it is not that Heaven’s will reports to me, but that I must report before Heaven’s will. You must know clearly that this is the road of following the will.
Yet when I look at the Blessed Families, they say things like, “It is difficult, so I cannot do it,” but such a thing cannot be said. The road the Teacher goes is a road one cannot follow if one holds the thought that it is difficult. You know that if one holds such a thought, one cannot become a family in which happiness can dwell.
This road is a road of suffering. It is a road one must go with thanks to practice God’s will and righteousness and love, bearing the cross on one’s back and not minding even the road of death, knowing it rather as a road of suffering one ought properly to undergo.
One must go thinking that this is a road that fallen descendants, who did not receive the blood of proper forebears, must walk, and a road of retribution one ought properly to receive. You must know that one cannot help but make such a resolve.
All Blessed Families, mobilize totally
Now we must carry out total mobilization for three years. If the people here at this headquarters truly knew the meaning of the Day of Children, they would prostrate themselves here and wail. There is too great a gap between the will you know, the will you have faced, and God’s will. Accordingly, we must here make a new resolve and determination.
What we must know is that we are refugees. Just as those who were in the North crossed the thirty-eighth parallel and sought a way to live, we are the same as a band of gypsies. We are a band like gypsies, like the family of Abraham to whom God promised that his descendants would multiply like the stars of heaven and like the sand upon the earth. Moreover, we are not a band that lives, having formed a village where some protection can be received.
You must know the fact that the family of Abraham was in a position of standing alone, unable to rely on anything whatsoever, yet God came seeking that family and gave His command. The family of Abraham had no friends’ families either. In such a lonely position, unable to rely on a nation and unable to rely on relatives, they lived centering on God alone. From such a place, a heavenly family had to be formed, a heavenly clan formed, and a heavenly nation organized. God did not wish a second nation or a second people to intervene here. It was a lonely and solitary position. That only the couple, only you and I, must accomplish the will of the heavenly bond…. But even in weeping, one must weep centering on God’s will, and even in laughing, one must laugh centering on God’s will. Here the consolation of a third party is not needed.
We must go such a road. Yet we are not one family. More than 1,600 blessed families are spread throughout the world. The Blessed Families are a band of gypsies who have set out toward a new blessed land, a band that must go forth toward the world seeking one place of settlement.
You must know that if one people rejects them, they are a band that must cross national borders like a band without a nation and cross the road of suffering and go seeking one place of settlement.
When we look at the world situation, is not Korea, after all, in a more comfortable position than any nation in the world, given that the foundation laid, centered on the Unification Church, is broad and given the vertical and horizontal relationships? Although the North Korean puppet regime north of the thirty-eighth parallel is eyeing South Korea, we must know that we have a responsibility to unite and restore even the land of North Korea. When I left Pyongyang, I left with the resolve that I must go the road of suffering until I return to this native land and settle here.
Now you must advance totally until the day when the Teacher can go seeking his hometown and set out an offering and hold a celebration saying that this nation has been liberated. We cannot leave, as it is the land of the North trampled by the enemy. The worldwide arch-enemy, the Communist Party, must be fundamentally expelled. Because we cannot bring freedom and peace to the land of North Korea before driving out this worldwide Communist Party, it is our strategy to unfold this will outwardly with all speed and to launch a concentrated offensive in Korea to drive out the Communist Party of the world.
If the Communist Party, inwardly and outwardly, drives people into harsh organization and terror and threatens their lives and drives them onto a road of sacrifice for the founding of one nation, then we cannot restore the enemy camp where the enemy is without becoming free heavenly stalwarts who can transcend the danger to life.
What I prayed to God after finishing the recent event was not because I was glad the event was finished, but I prayed, setting before me the road these must walk after the event was over and the question of whether they would become personnel who can settle the road these people must go. Setting such questions before us, you must know that if there is one glad side, there is also a sorrowful side.
Reflect on whether you have fulfilled your responsibility as children
Meeting this Day of Children today, the question is whether you have fulfilled your responsibility as children. From this year we must also build churches. That is why I said at the beginning of the year that all the foundations of the work to be accomplished in the 1970s must be laid this year. Because the foundation to be laid, centering on the matter of the Association headquarters, or the social activity the Unification Church must undertake hereafter, or the educational question, must be laid through some band or other, we are putting our main strength into this. Even so, the environment is not prepared for us. We have many enemies. The decision is made by my consulting with God alone.
Who is the person who will take responsibility for deciding this work upon the earth? The only person who will take responsibility for deciding this work is I. So I take responsibility and decide everything. That is why I have presented various matters, and you must know that if these people do not fulfill that responsibility, I will push ahead even through foreign people.
If this is not done now, when will it be done? Had the Teacher carried it out decisively in 1960, the regional headquarters and district headquarters would all have been made by 1963.
Since ten years have passed and this has not been finished, you must know that it has come forth in a shameful form, torn and tangled and soiled like the skirt of a madwoman. For the same reason, from 1970 to 1973, we must by any means lay the framework before this nation and this people. If this cannot be done, your sons and daughters too will become wretched.
Now the time has come for you to know such things and put them into practice. In this period there must be no Unification Church member who grows weary. That is why what I instructed the Japanese Unification Church was that they must not rest on the spot just because the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) rally held nationwide in Japan was over. They must run again. I asked them to run, centering on the business field and the church field.
First, because the restoration of the economy is necessary, I asked them to stand at the head of the restoration of the economy and said that the flower-selling movement must be pushed through. So I reinforced their personnel.
If one has won victory on such a plane, there must be a determination to run still more strongly on other planes as well.
You must know that the family, as a family, must set up a new alternative here and go forward. At such a point, you must know clearly that even if I die, I must leave the Father’s will behind. You must know that this is the place where I must go with my bundle packed.
You are Blessed Families who passed through the road of suffering and prepared and accomplished one foundation of liberation, so with whom must you remain? You must remain together with God’s will. Only then will that will and God remain upon this earth.
Do not think that your family will perish because it is decaying. Do not think that families are pitiful because they are having a hard time. Both cannot be good.
Where the mountain is high, the valley is deep. It is a law of nature that to climb a high mountain, one must first go into a deep valley. Furthermore, to jump high, one must raise one’s legs high. But the higher one raises one’s legs, the more dangerous it is. As I instructed at the recent district leaders’ meeting, we must pioneer a new front, even by sending the little children to kindergarten to be raised.
We must connect God and you. And thus, we must establish a family-level tradition. Even if, without falling and without perishing on the road of suffering of the 1960s, an individual tradition was established, now as families, we must establish worldwide a tradition of not falling and not perishing. You must know that only then will the tradition the Unification families must walk take its place upon this globe hereafter.
Until now we have walked the road of suffering, centering on the outward field, to tear down the sorrowful wall of the nation blocked before us. The Teacher had a heart of resolving grievances toward this nation and this people, but because he knows God’s will, he has gladly received any difficulty. We have waged a war of attrition. We have fought and stood against them while drawing and selling blood and going ragged and hungry.
We have laid a foundation on which we can contend with them in strength. When we ask who guarded this three-thousand-li peninsula with sweat and blood and who was loyal while embracing God’s heart, because we alone possess content that can be asserted centering on God, we alone can meet the heavenly fortune that comes. You must know that now is the age of the fortune of unification. The family must carefully receive this time, which has come not together with a historical age but beyond the historical ages, after several thousand years.
When we consider that the han of the family of Joseph, who did not receive the time well, remained for ten thousand generations as the han of Israel and remained as the han of the world, we must not miss this one time that has come to our families today, but must preserve it carefully and make it one foundation before Heaven. If you offer up your family as a sacrifice of victory, that family will remain for a thousand years and ten thousand years.
If one comes to live as in the folk song of our country, wishing to live for a thousand years and ten thousand years attending both parents, one can bring about a result of value; but if not, your families will become wretched. Even so, the will of the Unification Church does not perish.
Pledge anew, resolve anew, and set out
You must know that before the road each of you must walk, there is a cross. From now on the question is which family will become a family of loyal subjects.
Knowing that the age is coming when a new tradition must be left for your sons and daughters, you must make a new determination today. You must know that thereby the carrying out (遂行) of your responsibility will be newly set out.
Now the time has come to furnish everything inside and out to establish the dignity of Heaven and the outward dignity of the church. Even looking at the house in which the Teacher lives, you must not think, “So that is the Teacher’s house.”
The Teacher cannot buy a house of his own before building the church first. The time has come to prepare a temple for the will and now to establish outward dignity as well. Until now it has been the plight of a beggar, the plight of a wanderer, and the plight of an orphan, but now the time has come to put the environment in order and furnish some standing. The annex is one thing, but the Teacher’s house too must be prepared.
Setting such matters before us, hereafter the Blessed Families must become an example in the life of attending to God in new fields. When the coming Sunday service is set before them, how many families are there who, to meet that hour with a heart of gratitude, cleanly groom their bodies and wait? They find the coming of that day a nuisance. Just watch what becomes of that family.
Knowing it so, you couples who are like sons and like daughters, centering on a new family…. It is different from the old days when the individual was filial. When the individual was filial, it was enough for the individual to offer devotion, but now, because it is an age when one must bear a three-dimensional cross, one must be filial, centering on the family.
In the individual stage, it is a flat cross, but when one goes forward furnished with a family, one must bear a three-dimensional cross. When one gladly receives this and develops and widens it, a clan is born, a nation is born, and a world is born.
Thus, the family must overcome the road of suffering and widen it worldwide. You must know that this is the responsibility that must be carried out as a people blessed by Heaven, as a family.
Meeting on this Day of Children today, I have spoken, hoping that this hour may be one in which you, bearing in mind that you are not only individuals but families with children, pledge anew and resolve anew.
