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1. Korea's Misfortune And God's Will
(1) Why has God Subjected Korea to Trials?
How can we be victorious in the ordeals that our race must suffer to indemnify all the sins of history? You must pray, "This race was chosen as a clan on the side of goodness for the sake of a new world and to establish the Kingdom of Heaven with a new ideology. Please let us sacrifice to indemnify the sins of history."
Why has God let us suffer ordeals for hundreds of years? This is a terrible thing on the surface, but God has made this altar of sacrifice for us in order to give us a blessing. God has been training us.
What shall we do? We must be the priests who work for the restoration of this world. Representing our race, we must repent for our past before God and sacrifice in order to gain redemption. You must be a priest to perform these sacrificial rites.
When your race is being judged, you will be judged. This is heavenly law. When you receive judgment on behalf of your race, don't take it as a personal judgment. Rather, you must think, "I know God's will is to establish this race. Let me take responsibility.
I am a sacrificial offering repenting for the past with my left hand and resolving the present with my right hand. Even though I am divided in this way, I am not in the position to be invaded by Satan, because one side is a historical offering, and one side is an offering for the present time. Please take this offering!" You must pray like this, and Satan will give up. (13-265)
We must establish a rock-solid foundation for the world. We must build it of the strongest kind of rock. On the springboard of this rock, we have to develop and unite through our trials. (14-316)
When we consider the five thousand years of our history, has it been boring? Since the historical course of Korea has been bloody, we do not like to think about it.
This small country has had a very bloody history. We must still suffer much more in the bloody course of history in order to accomplish the will of Heaven.
In any country both loyal subjects and traitorous subjects may thrive. God's side is never the same as Satan's side. God is on the side of the loyal subjects. Even though God has been on the side of the loyal subjects, God's side has been invaded by Satan for thousands of years and He could not claim His authority.
God could not proclaim his son, family, clan, race or nation. We can never forget the sad history throughout which God has had to fight with Satan.
When we establish a nation on God's side, it is important that we ourselves stand on the side of God, and that we can be a sacrificial offering at the head of the country. You must understand that God's side has suffered so much and shed so much blood to maintain the side of heaven. The suffering is not over yet.
We must shed blood to overcome difficult situations. We are not paying just to appease Satan's desire. We have to risk death and offer bloodshed to relieve God's sorrow. (28-123)
(2) We Must Change Sorrow to Hope
A people who follow a clear purpose will not perish, but become more and more united through long periods of difficulties. We can find examples of this fact throughout history.
For example, even though the Jewish people have suffered intolerable situations, they have never forgotten that they are God's chosen people. Even though they suffered persecution and sorrow wherever they went, they kept moving forward, clinging to hope.
The persecution and sorrow did not defeat them, but helped them to unite to overcome their difficulties. We know that we have crossed the historical struggle process to overcome the difficult environment.
Sorrow can be a cause of disappointment, but it can be a cause of gathering inner power. Inner power can accomplish a purpose.
Then, what did the people of Israel wish for? They hoped to experience the thought unifying the heart of the nation and race. They sought after this and kept it in their minds when they died. They left behind the sorrow of not having fulfilled this.
They expressed their dying wish to accomplish this. When we see this, we can imagine that the more a race has passed through a sad course of history, the more this race can receive the victorious foundation of world history through that course of history.
From this viewpoint, the race losing its nation was sorrowful, but if its purpose was strong the sorrow was the motivation to receive hope. If the people of Israel had had their nation and had felt sorrow only on the level of the race, that sadness would have someday flowed away.
The more they confronted sorrowful fortune without having a nation, the more they developed the conception of nation and love of their people.
Because they faced the sorrow, they pursued a new nation and environment to break down the old practices. That sadness was exactly what motivated me to do so. You must know that this race will be able to gain victory one day.
If there is a race that does not fall down into despair, but unites and explodes with love for its nation, then we must think that this race has the power to move world history. (30-247)
(3) The Nation of Korea and the Will of God
Looking back on the past, the history of Korea progressed through plots, confrontation, fighting and veiled enmity. We have not had a time of forgiving, understanding and loving each other sincerely.
Do you know why the Koreans, with their long history and cultural traditions, have spent their history in confrontation and conflict? It is because it is the secret heavenly principle that in the Last Days Korea has to finish the fight and confrontation between Cain and Abel on the world level.
Accordingly, now is the time to bring an end to this stage of God's providence unfolding in Korea. But if we who are Cain and Abel cannot establish the national sphere of Abel, this race is more miserable than the Jews. You must keep this in mind.
Now the fortune of world history is progressing centering around this race. The division of Korea was the blessing of God to make this race be the leader of the world.
The division of Korea was a trial from God to make this race be the model for the world.
In order to unite the Unification Church and the established Church in South Korea, all religions became one, and to prepare the basics of fully digesting the land of North Korea and bringing the world together, God was divided into two countries.
Because I knew this, I was fighting at the head of the Unification Church. I did not fight for the Unification Church, I fought for the future of Korea, for you, and for the Korean people.
In the future, I fought to make the foundation for the chosen race to fulfill its responsibility. Whose will is this? This is God's and Jesus' will.
Korea is the third Israel, which is inheriting the providential responsibility which Israel and the second Israel, Christianity, did not accomplish. God's providence must be accomplished in Korea.
All civilizations must bear fruit on the Korean peninsula. We must be the standard to make one world centering on God. The new epoch of the Adamic cultural sphere must be established. (1980.11.8)
God established a trunk in history and has worked to create the horizontal environment throughout history's course. God has been seeking a person, family, clan, race, nation and world, that can be this sprout. Korea must stand in the position of the sprout and must experience all hardships.
Even though the sprout (trunk) stands in the position to have to receive all kinds of hardship from its branches at the same time, it must be able to advance, surmounting them all. In this way, we must also be able to overcome the trials that the world sends us. (17-208)
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