Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (136) Book 8. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace CHAPTER 5. God’s Will and Korea
4. The Korean people are the offering of providential history
Why in working His providence did God put the Korean nation through the way of the cross? He did so to call its people to their mission. God called the Korean people because they have a tradition of reverence for God and because they have overcome long trials by the exercise of moral purity and their peace-loving spirit. God called them to become the sacrificial offering of providential significance for the purpose of saving humanity in the Last Days.
The Korean people, who have gone through hardships for several thousand years, have now become the sacrifice for the salvation of the world. As they bear the world-historical cross of the division of their nation, they will continue to face countless trials, which they must overcome.
The Korean people must realize that this is a glorious blessing for the Korean nation and at the same time a fearful and heavy burden. If they fulfill their responsibility as people who offer themselves as a sacrifice, they will receive a glorious blessing.
If they do not, the heaviest misfortunes will befall them. A people will meet with misfortune if it is unable to fulfill its responsibility. A mission of providential significance, to be a sacrificial offering, has been laid on this nation’s shoulders. In order to fulfill it, the Korean people have to practice love, and at the same time they need to know the truth of God.
Jesus, as the incarnation of love, said that he is the way, the truth and the life. He was the incarnation of love and truth when he was crucified. This means that love and truth are necessary to reconcile the good and evil sides and lead enemies to come together in repentance. The truth refers to God’s teaching of love, not secular truth. God’s truth is sent to earth as revelation and comes through providential persons. God’s truth is the absolute truth, an all-powerful key capable of solving even the most difficult problems.
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