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Hope for Korea! National Harmony and Unity Spearhead Rally (April 30) | |
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Hope for Korea! National Harmony and Unity Spearhead Rally
April 30
Distinguished Guests, Ambassadors for Peace, Beloved Blessed
Families, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Let us think about how we can solve all the dark and sorry
problems that are occurring on earth today. The topic that I will speak to you
about today is Heaven's providence and Korea's mission seen from the history of
human civilization. Originally, God, the Creator, made all other living things
and then created Adam and Eve, who would become humankind’s ancestors.
He then said it was good.
God gave Adam and Eve, who would become humankind’s ancestors,
responsibility. That responsibility was to go through the growth stages and live
their lives united with God's absolute position. However, during the growth
stage, greed, looking toward themselves, formed. The greed behind thinking “I can be the
same as God”
formed. They made the mistake of acting before the time was right. Through
that, humankind’s
history ended up becoming history exhibiting the results of the Fall.
The omniscient and omnipotent God could not just stand back
and watch fallen humankind. According to the principle of Creation, he is a
being in which the beginning and the end are the same. God cannot use the word
“failure”. This is why God had no other choice but to begin the lonely and difficult
providence of restoration through indemnity to reach humankind Among the
numerous fallen peoples, the Israelites, whom we might call a good people
compared to others, were chosen.
How difficult must it have been that it took four thousand
years to achieve a foundation from the individual, family, tribe, race and
nation? Then what happened when God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, who could
have been the first ancestor, whom humankind had longed for and who could have
realized God's dream of fulfilling the purpose of creation? Jesus, who had lost
the foundation, had no other choice than to take the path of the cross. Therefore,
he said he would return. He would return and hold the marriage supper of the
Lamb. Jesus promised to absolutely realize the position of True Parent that he
could not realize in his lifetime. In order to do that, Christianity had to
fulfill the responsibility of bringing into existence God’s only
daughter.
When God works through an individual or nation, he does not
reuse a people that did not fulfill their responsibility. This is because the
people that did not fulfill their responsibility have indemnity they must pass
through. Through history, we can see what kind of life the Israelites lived. Heaven
chose a good people to give birth to the God’s only daughter. That people is what is
today the Republic of South Korea. After Jesus died on the cross, for Christian
culture to be accepted, finally, took around three hundred years.
The Christian culture, which began centered on the Italian
Peninsula passed through Europe and arrived at the island nation of Britain, through
which the age of the Atlantic civilization came to fruition. Through there
Britain Empire spread throughout the world centered on the sea. “The sun never
sets on the British Empire” described Britain’s power. However, Christianity did not recognize Jesus' true
nature; thus, Christians have not been able to cast aside selfishness even
though they speak of love. Jesus’ true nature is true love. True love is love that gives and gives,
forgets it has given and gives again. Though the European nations that achieved
the realm of the Atlantic civilization must have given something to the
colonies they occupied, they made more effort to take.
As Jesus died on the cross, it is the mission of
Christianity to listen to Heaven's promise that Jesus would return and hold the
marriage supper of the lamb, and to prepare for that. Representatives of Korean
Christianity were meant to fulfill that responsibility. However, there is no
truth to Christianity. They do not even know how heaven's providence is progressing
or know Jesus' true nature. How can Christianity, which is made by human
thinking, hang Jesus who should have been attended as the True Parents on the
cross for two thousand years saying they will be saved? This is disloyal and
impious. However, they do not realize this.
Now on this earth, God’s only daughter and God’s only son,
the True Parents, for whom humankind has been longing, have been born. Then
what must you do? There can be no perfection through ignorance. You must
understand that. True Parents have been teaching you for fifty some years since
the Holy Wedding and have been teaching all the people of the world. At that
time, in 1960, the world had only around 3 billion people compared to the 7.4
billion now.
Ladies and Gentlemen! Do you see hope for the future? There
is a future for humankind when you go forward in unity with True Parents. Do
you understand? We proposed the IAPP in 2016! In only ten months we have
expanded the organization to the six continents In the US Senate Kennedy Caucus
Room some three hundred people attended, among them current legislators. Some
eighty US legislators participated. On that occasion, I said that the way to
peace is through me, and proclaimed that they must unite with God’s only
daughter, with the True Parents. That is an amazing, revolutionary statement.
Jesus should have said those words two thousand years ago in the Roman Senate. In
this way, I have created an external foundation.
Even though this nation had been facing difficulties and the
world was in confusion seven hundred legislators came to this country. I told
them the way to peace is for each of them to return to their own nations, and I
asked them to fulfill their responsibilities as tribal messiahs. I said they
should become messiahs. Gradually, the IAPP is being established in 120
nations. A few days ago, an inauguration took place in India, a nation of 1.3
billion people. Neither Christianity nor Buddhism has been able to gain
influence in this nation. However, more than 120 legislators gathered and had a
successful inauguration. They do not know how urgent the situation is, but we
are able to see that many people are looking for the true lord! The True
Parents.
The wish of fallen humankind is to go through the process of
rebirth through the True Parents and to become children of God, our Heavenly
Parent. Now those of you here today must rise and teach the citizens of this
nation about True Parents’ advent. Your dream is that North Korea and South Korea unite
and their people live in a peaceful nation. Neither the power of politics, of
religion, or of some specific ideology can achieve that dream. True Parents
represent the only path to solving this.
A hundred years ago, the poet Tagore wrote a beautiful poem
about us when we were under colonization. The poem prophesized hope to come in
the future. “In
the golden age of Asia, Korea was one of its lamp-bearers and that lamp is
waiting to be lighted once again for the illumination of the East.” What is the
light? The light is the true word, the truth. It is through the True Parents
that the truth becomes true. We have received the blessing of being God's
homeland. Hence, all of us must fulfill our responsibilities. We must act on
them. We must show this through our actions. Then this people, this nation, can
stand upright in the world as a nation where Heavenly Parent and True Parents
can dwell. In this new age, we must begin the age of the Pacific civilization
and spread it to the world.
If the age of the Atlantic civilization, two thousand years
ago, was a providence that collected and took things away from others, the age
of the Pacific civilization will become the world all people want and Heavenly
Parent wishes for –
the world of one human family under God, which will be achieved through
practicing living for the sake of others centered on True Parents. Will you
make that resolution and put it into practice? Let us go forward continuously
until the day we can give joy and praise to our Heavenly Parent with a heart of
filial piety.