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True Parents' Message at a Special Thanksgiving
Banquet to Celebrate True Parents' Victorious Rallies in Nagoya and Osaka on November
23, at Cheon Jeong Gung
Today is Thanksgiving Day in America!
Thanksgiving began with the Puritans. It was a day to prepare food from that
year's harvest, catch a turkey and give thanks to Heaven with your family. It
was also a time of sharing and preparing for the next year, to start the new
year with hope. We must become people who can realize Heavenly Parent's dream
and humankind's wish through True Parents. We must become filial sons, filial
daughters and loyal patriots in front of Heaven. However, the providence of
restoration through indemnity, the providence of salvation, has been a very
difficult and painful providence. Heaven endured and waited impatiently for a
long period, six thousand years, which was a period when—in order to realize
Heavenly Parent's wish and embrace humankind as true children—we could not take
even one step forward without paying indemnity. Humankind missed the
opportunity for the most precious and joyful moment; they are people adrift
with no sail or compass. What is the wish of people who are adrift? To reach
land. The wish of fallen humankind is to meet the true owner, but they did not
know where they were. They were confused. The religions for humankind that
Heaven let thrive began by saying, Let's live good lives. In order to do that, they
had to be patient in such a way and work hard in such a way. What, though, was
the result? What was the destination? They did not have an answer. Though this
was not clear, Christianity explained that the relationship between the Creator
God and people was a parent–child relationship. We must not be satisfied with
only that.
Recently, I have said many times that I
will reveal the truths of the providence. Heaven worked hard and created a
foundation. God had to find his only son and his only daughter. After four
thousand years, Heaven chose the people of Israel, who found the only son of
God, Jesus Christ. The environment at that time drove him to the cross before
he could fulfill his responsibilities! The central figures of that time! You
know well that this led to indemnity having to be paid.
The Unification Church, HSA-UWC, had been
unable to lay a foundation, so we could not say anything and waited. We could
not reveal the word, which we had to reveal. However, through these indemnity
conditions that True Parents set, blessed families emerged and it is true that
we have spread to the world! You must think about this. True Parents' advent!
It should have begun by the nation welcoming it. It should have begun with
people cheering, Joy! True Parents have come! Hallelujah! But how did it begin?
Do you think you fulfilled your responsibilities as people who knew Heavenly
Parent's, True Parents', and humankind's wish on the path True Father trod?
When he came, you did not attend him in glory and when he went, you could not
do so either. Through me, the only daughter of God… Through me, you have the
opportunity to accomplish the responsibilities you could not fulfill. That
opportunity is now. As I ended the Osaka rally, I spoke about "Shin
[Heavenly] Osaka". Shin Osaka! A Japan that attends God! Then, what must Korea,
which we call "God's homeland," do? The beginning point is the divine spirit.
The spirit, the truth, the word! The condition of all uniting with one
heart moving toward one goal... If you are blessed families and true children, you
must be filial to your parents. What is that filial piety? What is Heavenly
Parent’s wish? You must lead the way in revealing everything and informing
everyone by saying “This is how it is done." The time has come but we
cannot go forward with the same customs as in the past, the same thinking as in
the past. We must change. The family that Adam and Eve could not realize six
thousand years ago! We must fulfill our responsibilities as blessed families
who have emerged through the True Parents after six thousand years. We must
unite centered on True Mother. We must go forward under a united system.
Especially Korea, Japan and the United States, do you understand? You must
become models.