Book 3: Cheon Il Guk and Our Mission
Part 1: The Road to a World of Peace
Chapter 10: World Peace and the Role of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace
This speech was given at a Global Assembly of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace on February 4, 2017, at the Lotte World Hotel in Seoul.
Distinguished guests, esteemed members of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace from 120 countries, it is wonderful to see you all. We all wish for a free world, a united, peaceful world. However, if you look at the world's current state, walls exist between religions and cultures and borders exist between countries. Nations are moving further toward selfishly putting their own benefit first, hindering the pursuit of a united world. What has happened to the wish that you and Heaven held?
The important role of parliamentarians
Originally the true owner of the world was God. From all created things to all human beings, everything in this world belongs to God. However, people do not realize that. They do not understand the relationship between God and humanity. That is why, throughout history, countless divisions and wars between nations have occurred. The selfishness of nations in pursuing only their own interests has pushed harmony and unity further away. This has been the history of civilization. When we look at the reality of the world we live in, we worry that we will be unable to say that the future for our descendants is a hopeful one. If that is the case, it is important for you to fulfill your responsibility.
Originally God the Creator made every other living thing and then made the ancestors of humankind, Adam and Eve. God gave them responsibility. The difficult state of all human beings today is the result of Adam and Eve's inability to fulfill their responsibility. However, because of the Principle of Creation, God could not just sit back and watch fallen human beings suffer.
God originally had a dream for humankind. God wanted to be the True Parent of humankind. However, the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, hurt God and thwarted God's dream.
Despite that, God could not give up on the dream He had when creating human beings, the dream of embracing all humankind as His children. Therefore, God developed a new plan within the fallen world, and He sent a Messiah who would be able to achieve God's dream and become the victorious ancestor of humankind. In order to fulfill Heaven's dream, God chose a people from among those in the fallen world and prepared them for 4,000 years through indemnity, restoration and education. Ultimately, after 4,000 years, God was able to send His only begotten son, the Messiah, who could fulfill His dream.
However, looking at history, we all know what happened to the only begotten son of God. If 2,000 years ago, the only begotten son, Jesus, had met the only begotten daughter, they would have become the true parents of all humankind. They would have realized the dream of one family under God through the great Cain-type empire, the Roman Empire. As events transpired, the central figures around Jesus, the people of Israel—that is, central people within Judaism—could not fulfill their responsibility. Jesus had no choice but to take the way of the cross, saying he would return.
Jesus said that when he returned, he would hold the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Those words meant that after the 2,000 years of Christian history, when the Messiah would finally come, he would find the only begotten daughter and they would become the true parents of all humankind.
Tribal messiahs and national messiahs building the Kingdom of Heaven
When you look at the state of the world today, there is no center. Small nations and larger nations think only of their own interests. In our hearts, we all desire to have a united world—a peaceful, happy, united world—but so many walls block our way.
However, today we have gathered here under one great dream, which means that you are dreaming the same dream as True Parents are and as God, our Creator, is. The only path to solving all the difficult problems of the world today is through the advent of the True Parents, who can heal all the problems of all nations, whether rich or poor. I am saying that all nations, all of you, must attend God, our Creator, our Heavenly Parent, in your nations in order for world peace to come.
God raised True Parents through a long period of 6,000 years, through the course of restoration through indemnity. True Parents are the only ones who can engraft the wild olive tree to the cultivated olive tree, as described in the Bible. It is only through that, through receiving the marriage Blessing from the True Parents, that you can stand as God's filial children. Consider this: We who have gathered here today are in a parent-child relationship with God. You can be God's children because the mistakes of our first ancestors, which prevented us from uniting in a parent-child relationship with God, have been rectified through indemnity.
The Universal Peace Federation and the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace will become the Abel UN in name and in reality. This means that all the problems of the world will heal in reality through True Parents. This movement, which will build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth through educating and healing with a parental heart, is moving forward with the establishment of Cheon Il Guk.
I would like to say today to the members of IAPP from many nations of the world, please become tribal messiahs in your respective nations. I pray that you will become proud national messiahs who will save the people of your nations by educating them through the teachings of the substantial True Parents. Will you do that?
Thank you.