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True Parents’ Speech at the Special Gathering to Celebrate the Start of the New Year (January 3) | |
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True Parents’ Special Gathering to Celebrate
the Start of the 2017 New Year
January 3, Cheon Jeong Gung
One year has ended and a
new year has begun, the year of the red rooster. By the heavenly calendar, 24
days remain, but this is the year of the red rooster. They say the rooster is a
bird that lets us know when the time has come. In light of that, what is the very
first thing we, FFWPU, must find so we can realize Heaven's providence, Heavenly
Parent’s dream, True Parents' dream, humanity's dream? What you must think
about today is that only three years remain until our vision’s goal in 2020.
Then for the New Year,
as we greet the year of the red rooster in which the rooster tells us the time
has come, what are our responsibilities for national restoration? You must inform all the
people of this nation that they are the chosen people that Heaven has prepared.
They are the people of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the people among whom the True Parents were born. Through
this long period, God had waited for the True Parents, who could realize his
dream. In that that difficult environment, True Parents were born on earth. Christianity, which heaven had prepared to expand
the providence, did not cooperate, leaving no choice but to start again from the
very bottom. We have experienced many of those desperate moments over the last
50 years. However, God had originally planned when he sent the returning lord to
send him with a national foundation. Through that nation, all the world’s nations
would participate in Heavenly Parent's providence. Do you have any idea how much effort it took to
create that environment? In our goal to create the environment for the
returning lord, the True Parents, our most urgent priority is national
restoration. One of us has gone to
spirit world, and while I am still here, we absolutely must create that
environment.
We live in an era in which we can connect through the internet in a second, but what have you been doing? Heaven has given you a way in which one person can reach 10 people or a hundred people. Heaven gave you all of those methods. Why are you not using them? Do not lose this chance. Do you understand? That is why I have thought about many things. Out of those of you here today, not many participated in the Korean War. If you think in terms of “enemy lines,” and that you must regain the most important high ground to be victorious, what is the high ground you are facing with right now? It is the high ground of national restoration. In order to regain the high ground, all institutes must cooperate. That is why we need to strengthen the headquarters’ organization. Early members, Ambassadors for Peace, national messiahs—their blessed families must unite with the Korean headquarters for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, especially for the grand goal of national restoration.
As elders of the Cheon
Eui Won (Cheon Il Guk Assembly) you must unite with the Korean headquarters and
fully advance together. In order to regain the high ground, you must all become
one. Do not think you are older so you know more. More important is the goal is
to unite. There is only one goal towards the higher ground. Have you made the
determination for full advancement? If you have, then this year of the red
rooster will be full of hope. Until now, we have been unable to fulfill our
responsibilities and offer this to Father. We must absolutely achieve this. If
we advance with determination to do that, we can accomplish it. While I am on
earth, I must take my rightful place for your sake and for the sake of your
descendants. It is not possible for you to gauge all of the providence on your
own. I have to be involved. That is why I am the True Parent. The True Parents know
Heaven's providence. You must live in direct vertical alignment with the True
Parents. I am a True Parent; there is no successor without True Parents’ seal
and blessing. There is no successor in the providence. Therefore, I am planning
many things.
There is an educational
institute centered on the Sun Moon Foundation for cultivating future leaders. However, there will also
be the Sunhak Global Foundation, which will globally tie Korea, the United
States and Asia together under one system. Sun Moon will also go in that. Do
you understand? I am developing this kind of organization. I spoke about
national restoration but it does not end with just national restoration. We
must also achieve global restoration. The principle is that the nations that
unite with True Parents' teachings will flourish and the nations that cannot
unite will fail.
That is why at the
beginning of last year we proposed the IAPP and throughout the year finished
its establishment. In America, I proclaimed I was the True Parent in a place
with the same significance as the Roman Senate during the Roman Age. I said let
us go forward united with the True Parents. In the midst of confusion, in front
of humankind I said clearly that I am the True Parent and will reveal the
truth. You must be grateful to me. The more restored nations there are the
quicker Heaven's providence can come about.
Through UPF’s Ambassadors
for Peace foundation, now we will clearly say that we are attending the True
Parents. For them to become the people, the nation, that receives True Parents'
will, we must inform them. You have to do that to sink roots in all of the
nations and regions where we established IAPP, so that they may restore nations
that surrounding them. You must educate them in that way. Heaven has given us the opportunity for this to
happen. In this way, Heaven has prepared a global foundation.
Until your last breath, you
must do your utmost with the determination that you will absolutely realize national
and global restoration in attendance to True Parents. Do you understand? Will you do that? We will do our best in
order for this nation, this people, to receive Heaven's blessing in 2020. I pray that you all
absolutely become the people that will embrace the world as God's homeland. I
pledge this! I pledge this! I pledge this!