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We have to walk the opposite way to meet God
Have you ever lived that way? How about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church? These kinds of things happened to me constantly. Once I held on, would I let go or not? Should I let go or not? God must have had a hard time since he met Reverend Moon. There was a person who met the angel and won. Jacob won over the angel and became Israel, didn’t he? Do you think you can attain the Kingdom of Heaven without winning God? Winning over Satan doesn’t even come near that. It cannot be done without winning God. This may sound irreverent, but it’s true. Without winning God, the Kingdom of Heaven cannot be established.
Israel is the adopted son. Do parents get defeated by their children? [Yes.] They get defeated every time. Don’t they say, “Hey, please listen to my words”? The same thing applies. The way for a son to win over the father is in that kind of situation. With what? The way of love. If you only go the way of heart, then you can even manage a father like a slave. There is something in that.
Therefore Jesus, without winning God, cannot become the son of God. If Jesus doesn’t become the son of God, then the true ancestors of mankind cannot appear. Do you understand? If outside Christians hear this kind of thing, they will be so shocked that they will fall apart. If that is the case, so be it. People who get shocked and fall apart over this are bad, not I who am saying these kinds of things. I am saying dignified things. I studied about this with God’s recognition.
Everybody should think about this. The pathway of Reverend Moon of the Unification Church is a formidable course. I always give God’s blessing. But when it comes to the providence, then there is no forgiveness. There is no forgiveness even for parents, wives, and children.
Why should it be like that? Because we have to be separated from one world and welcome another world. Isn’t that so? To say it in other terms, it is the same thing as a once married woman getting remarried. Do you follow? The way of the providence of restoration is like a woman who lived with Satan getting remarried to God. It is like that. Don’t you feel it as if it were real? It’s the same thing as a remarried bride. When a bride remarries a new husband, if she thinks of her former husband, would the new husband like it? Would the new husband like the bride who thinks of her former husband? If there is any man like that, raise your hands. There is nobody, is there? Those who like it, raise your hands. Do you like it or not? That person shouldn’t appear even in dreams. In that way, we are trying to rise up to the stage where we can’t think about just anything, even in dreams.
In this world, if you take care of only families, does the new world come? There is a different, invisible way. If you try to go that way, it gets blocked. That is not the way that you can go beyond the world. Do you follow? So, trying to get away from this situation, we have to go the opposite way from the way of the world. And we have to walk the opposite of the way that the world likes. There is no forgiveness for even one wrong step. Where is the border? What is the 38th parallel between God and Satan? It’s “I”. When you try to take the world centering on your own desire, you can’t transcend the standard which took six thousand years to establish. But when you deny all of those things, and try to turn around, then it’s going to be the same as if you met a new husband. Is going down good or bad? [Good.] When something sticks in you, how do you take it out? Do you push it down or hit it up? Do you say, “Well, go quickly, go up”? You say, “You, fall down.” And what do you do? You kick it down. To where? Up? Kick it down a cliff.
When God loves, it would seem to be nice if God appeases. But God cuts him off ruthlessly and throws him down to the bottom of a cliff. God puts him into a deep valley so that Satan cannot come again. And then, when he is without Satan, God comes to visit and to cure him. If his leg is broken, then God will treat the leg. If the head is broken, then He will treat the head. And if he became unconscious, he will try to wake him up by giving him a massage, If God can’t move his body very easily, then God would put him on His back and climb up the cliff. It is like that. In that kind of a place, you can connect with God.
So what is the fastest way to connect with God? There are two ways. Leaving the world in order to train and study the truth in the mountains or going into the world and sacrificing. Which one is faster? The way which is three times faster than training and studying the truth in the mountains is to go out to the world. That is why the Unification Church must go out witnessing instead of praying. In my experience, that is three times faster.
What is the purpose of praying? To practice. If you practice even without praying, you can reach a higher stage than you can reach by praying. Any way I think about it, this is the fastest way. I persevered through so many hardships, made sincere effort, and continued until I met God. But when you come out to the front, suffer centering on God’s will. You will be in the realm where you can meet Father directly whenever something happens. If you really suffer for God, then in just a few days it’s going to be like that. Therefore, that is a fortunate place. When Father comes and becomes a master, then should Satan go away or not? [Go away.]
Where is the place you can witness that? If you can stand before God and reach the realm where I deserve some kind of medal, then God wants to give me the guidance which He never gave until now. Shouldn’t he? (Recording stopped for a while)
Do you want to go up or down? [Go down.] If someone says, “Since my life is difficult, I will find an easy way,” then we should beat him to death. [Laughter.] Don’t laugh. “Wife, my heart aches because I cannot feed my children. I cannot go this path.” Then Satan will dance with the rhythm, and God will pack up and leave. Do you think Father didn’t go through this path? Since you lived in the south, you could go and see them, but Father packed up and went to the north, beyond the 38th parallel. It wasn’t as if I prepared for packing and greeted them before departing. When you leave, usually you leave after you greet them. At that time, I had gone to buy rice in Baek Chun. After the liberation, we couldn’t buy any rice in Seoul. So I tried to bring rice back in a truck. In the truck on the way to the Baek Chun, I received an order: “Go over the 38th parallel.” I couldn’t help it. I couldn’t say, “Oh, my goodness, I’ve got to call my wife.” At that time I didn’t have a ride, so I went to a friend’s house, borrowed, a little amount of rice, saying that I would come back the next morning. And I brought the rice home and left. We used up everything and had no money. In that situation, I went over the 38th parallel. It was after Sung Jin was born. He was born on April 2. So it was one and a half months, about 50 days after Sung Jin was born.
I received the order on May 27. I departed from there and arrived at Pyung Yang on the sixth of June, leaving behind a newborn baby. Sung Jin’s mother was 22 years old then. We didn’t have any relatives. We were all separated in the world. I left a person in that kind of situation without saying a word. Even after I got there, I didn’t write to her once I determined to go because I thought, if I leave after I greet them, then it may become impure. If you cry for your children, then it becomes impure. Because of my wife, I, who would be an offering, could become impure. That was my thinking. I went over the 38th parallel like a soldier who leaves everything behind and rushes towards the place of death, prepared to go to jail. Do you understand? It was so serious to think, “I am going where there will be persecution. Would these hands be ripped off, would this leg be cut off, will I be cut in the back or the front?” I went to the north preparing to die. I wanted to take note of it. I know everything that happened on each of those days. I couldn’t write a letter. Once you depend on God, you shouldn’t interfere. You shouldn’t ask, “Will it be like this or that?” After I departed from my parents, I haven’t asked God a single time, “Are my father and mother doing well?” I never said this kind of prayer, “May blessing be with my parents.” If I pray, I could find out if they were dead or alive, but I haven’t tried to find out until now. However, I know spiritually all who passed away and at what time. I have lived doing those kinds of things.
After I came back to the south, I knew how Sung Jin and his mother had lived. I even knew where to go to meet them, but I didn’t go. I had to take care of the people I met in the providence. The reason that I started this path was not to meet Sung Jin’s mother. I started it to restore Cain and for the people of the world. I wouldn’t allow visiting my family to get in the way. I had to find the people whom I had relationship with and who did not oppose me. It had been three years and six months since I left home by that time. I could have met them if I had written a letter. But I didn’t write. There were people I had to see first, because I couldn’t meet people that I pledged and promised to bring to God. Until I met them, I had to wait to see my family. Right after I met the people, I called them and they came to me right away. From a secular point of view, I was a husband who met his child when the child was seven. That was around the time that I was living with members. I stayed with grandmothers, and if I welcomed my son and became happy about it, then it would have become a condition to be accused.
Whom does Abel go through? I should love Abel who goes through Cain and is introduced by Cain. When Cain says, “This is Sung Jin,” and reports to Father, “Father, Sung Jin has returned,” then I can embrace and welcome him as a manifestation of love. This is the way of Divine Principle. Do you understand? When Sung Jin and his mother came to me, I said, “Is this Sung Jin?” That was all. That was a heartache to Sung Jin’s mother for her entire life. Even bears and tigers protect their young, but what kind of man would do such a thing? After a father and son meet for the first time after going through the jaws of death several times over and suffering all kinds of hardships, I only said, “Are you Sung Jin?” not holding his hand even one time. I just nodded several times and did not even tell them to come in when they were standing in the doorway. The members are supposed to tell them to come in. I have gone through all kinds of miserable situations until now in order to live the way of the principle.
Once you entrust yourself to God, God takes responsibility for everything. Speaking in terms of the will, if the parent paid filial dues to God, then the child is supposed to become filial to that parent. The child must do his filial duty towards the parent. What kind of love would the child have towards the father who has met him in such a way? In spite of all this, when Sung Jin’s mother was already opposing the church for a good while and when Sung Jin was seven, he abandoned his mother and came to his father. His mother had been taking care of him on her back and loving him until he was seven as if he were gold or jade. Leaving behind that kind of mother, he came to his father who had not done anything for him. He was not tempted by someone to come. He came on his own accord. And when his mother was becoming hostile, he came beforehand and told us everything. Isn’t it strange? I feel sorry to Sung Jin now because I never had the chance to educate him. I never could tell him that the principle is like this or that. I did not fulfill the responsibility of a parent. Looking at the situation from a secular point of view, I would get zero percent in points as a father.
Until the sixties, I made Sung Jin live in another person’s house. Why? Because I have to walk the original way of the principle. Because Cain has to become one with Abel. Therefore, I let Kim Baek Moon take care of him. I let him live in another person’s house. Therefore he was educated while he was being treated contemptuously. He was supposed to live in an environment where he was not mistreated, but because these kinds of things exist, I let him live in another’s house.
While Sung Jin was going to elementary school, I never bought him a case of pencils. Do you understand? I never bought him pencils even when be was going to junior high school. After the holy matrimony of 1960, finally the face. Hui Jin also had to be involved in this kind of thing. Even Ye Jin after she was born went through the effects of restoration. If this is not so, the principle is wrong. Hui Jin was born in Japan. And then by going to the Buddhist temple and living in it, he passed through the process of living in other people’s houses. He also was born in a foreign land and died in that foreign land. The Unification Church is not going to perish just because of this. You who are standing in the position of knowing this heavenly history, how can you do something like that? You will be punished by heaven. This way is the road that Father has cultivated with his heart. That original law of principle is already an axis for heaven and earth, and it can become the constitutional standard of the restored Kingdom of Heaven. If you do not go the same way, can the connection of father and son which can inherit the traditional ideology be realized? No way. Before you are told by someone, you must voluntarily go this kind of way.
Did Father go through suffering because he was not as good as you are? Did God make Father’s family suffer for no reason at all? Why did God do that? It is for the sake of your families. Your family and Father’s family have to become one. They should become one, right? Where do they have to become one? They must become one in the place which is separated from Satan. Will you become one in the position where Satan is always following you? You must become one in the place where Satan does not exist. Satan will fall apart in the place where you sacrifice yourself for the sake of others. Isn’t that right?
Therefore, the wives of your families are all supposed to be sacrificed for this race and for the nation. Just as Father has traveled to North Korea to restore the clan, you also have to do the same. Everything has to be separated. You will not be registered in the Kingdom of Heaven unless you are first separated and then afterwards, reunited. In the bitter history of Korea, you must do that kind of work until the unification of the south and the north takes place.
In this way, without equipping yourselves with the force of heaven to bring about unity, and with the domain of a national victory, and with the attitude to face the nation in the sphere of Eve, you will all be sacrificed miserably on the road of suffering for the fate of unification. Just as Christianity became miserable, your future will be miserable beyond description. Do you not know this?
Because the Israelites made Jesus miserable, they were miserable historically, weren’t they? Although they liberated their country and returned home, the enemies are pointing guns at them and threatening. Centering on God, Israel must go beyond the tribal level, but couldn’t go to the worldwide level. The twelve tribes who were friends in the past became enemies and are now pointing guns at each other. Why? Because they have to indemnify what their ancestors had done wrong. Because they cut and separated each other with guns and swords, they got aimed at with guns and swords. The life of the Israelites, I have to put my hands upon them. There is no other way. So you want to go down? Will you go down? [We will go down.] You will go down crying or go down smiling? [We will go down smiling.] Where does the right of inheritance get passed down? Doesn’t it get passed down where there is hope? [Yes!] Didn’t I say you should endure until the end to receive salvation? That is why, when Jesus went to the spiritual world, he had to overcome three days in a suffering course. Centered on the spiritual realm, Jesus couldn’t do favors for people in the spiritual world after Noah’s time. It had to have a starting point of victory centering on both the physical and spiritual world. Therefore if he cannot open the road centering on them, he has to go into places where he will get accused. He has to prepare the road.
For that reason, Jesus went down to hell, pioneered, and opened the way. He had to perform such sort of work there. It was the same for Father. What did Father do in North Korea? Because I knew this principle, I went to jail. Didn’t Jesus perish in jail? Therefore, Father also had to be imprisoned and go back the way that Jesus had been thrown into. Do you understand? Even during that time, when I was handcuffed and went on trial, I received a promise that I would encounter particular individuals. I received a promise saying, “If you go there, you will meet people like Jesus’ three disciples.” If you don’t follow the Heavenly way, you are going against the force of fate in the providence. That is why, even on the way to jail with my hands handcuffed, it was a way of hope. Those people I met there are the same people who are currently giving testimonies to you. I went to the jail with the hope that I would meet such people. I went to jail in hope. I didn’t go to jail in despair. Because I went there, I could prepare the way. Through the conditions I had to make, the doors would open automatically. In order to do that, I had to indemnify everything completely. I should live a prison life and become an offering in jail. For that reason, even when I was in jail, I did the most difficult tasks. I did the most difficult things which required physical work. Do you understand? I didn’t yield the work one bit to other people. So I received awards which were given to model prisoners every year from the communists. All of them were given by the Communists. Since Father went to jail and became number one, as the most exemplary laborer, wherever Father goes in the world, there won’t be any problems. Unless I did that, the providence of restoration could not be achieved.
I suffered from malaria for many months in jail. But even in that situation, I didn’t take any rest, not even for one day. Other people would want to make excuses in every possible way for taking rest, but I wanted to fulfill at least the amount of work given to me until I died. I never failed to fulfill the amount of work given to me. So as a prisoner, I even received special treatment from the chief manager of the jail. I didn’t say anything about it, but everyone looked up to me. I made a different place without saying a word in the jail. Do you understand? There they reorganized the prison groups differently every morning because there were nearly a thousand people, and many people went through the group I was in. All the people who went through my group liked me. It was the hardest prison of all my prison lives. There were many “dogs” behind this person “Moon”. Do you know what “dogs” are? But I was not a man who got accused for that kind of thing. This situation happened without a word. There were people who would escape. If I say escape, it was at the risk of their lives. In the jaws of death, I had to restore Jesus’ twelve disciples who had escaped. I had to restore them automatically. If I didn’t open my mouth, then the spiritual world would have to be mobilized and witness to them. My number was 596. It was five-nine-six. Somehow it sounds like “oh gu yuk” (to be modified and also “oh gu yuk” is 596 in Korean). Ancestors of some people would appear in dreams and order their descendants, “In such a room, there is 596, a particular person. Go there and offer him the rice powder that you received without keeping any of it for yourself.” But still they wouldn’t listen to the dream, thinking, “It is an absurd dream.” After trying two and three times, the ancestors would strangle him saying, “You, will you do it or not?” Then he would say, “Yes, I’ll do it.”
In jail, the rice powder was more valuable than life. This man would walk into the room and ask, “Is there number 596? Who is it? Who else could it be but this man here? This man is your teacher.” In this way, the spiritual world fed me.
After that, when I took refuge from Pyung Yang, four people followed me. It was restoration of the four position foundation. Do you understand? I brought out four people centered on the church. In this way, history cannot deviate from the principle.
What is the reason I took four people? Our mind and body are separated, aren’t they? The internal mind has sung sang as well as hyung sang. The external body also has sung sang and hyung sang. Therefore, it becomes four. Perfect unity has to internally subjugate the spiritual Satan and to externally subjugate the physical Satan. These four have to become one. Do you understand? If these four do not become one, then even the world cannot become unified. Do you know why Jacob had a second wife?
What happens in the Last Days? In the Last Days, there will be a division into four different kinds of countries. Two parts in the free world and also two parts in the communist world. The world will be like that. The whole world will be divided into four. The country of Jesus, the country of the thief on the right, the country of the thief on the left, and the country of Barabbas. What is the country of Barabbas? It is Islam. It’s a country of force. This is a religion which says, “Take either the Koran or the sword.” It’s the opposite of Christianity. That is the country of Barabbas. They are a group which does not know charity although they received benefit from Jesus. Such was Barabbas, only thinking of himself. This is Islam. It is like that.
The left wing and right wing originated at the time of Jesus. When the time is ripe for Jesus to come, centering on the country of Jesus, these countries will meet and try to take the right path. Because history was split from that point, history has to be controlled beginning at that point. A new way has to be found. The world today is divided into two, the right and left wings, isn’t it? Next there is Islam, right? And isn’t there Christianity, too? Christianity came into being centered on a new heavenly cultural realm which centers itself on the second coming. The time to gather the four parties is coming. Now is that time. Then what is going to happen to the Communists? The Communists will hold hands together with the Arab world. I have been saying this for a long time. This is what I said when I met Eisenhower, the former president of the USA, in 1965. I said that when the Communist world perishes, certainly there will come an opposing force to the free world through the Arab world. Now it is just like that.
In the flow of this kind of history, the Soviets and Nasser held hands together. We have to overcome him. Thus it has to fall to pieces. When the time comes, you should know that our time has come. Do you understand? America became isolated in the democratic world. It was divided, was it not? It is now isolated completely. And the Soviet Union is isolated completely in the Communist world now. The same thing goes for China. The whole world is isolated. Isn’t that right? The Arab world centering on Nasser is also isolated. Because Nasser died, all of them became isolated. It is the same thing with Christianity. Christianity itself is also isolated. Isn’t that right?
Does Christianity have a way to go? Does the free world have a way to go? Does the Communist world have a way to go? No, they do not. No one had the solutions, but through the second coming of the Messiah, a banner will arise saying, “We should do it this way,” centering on the ideology of second coming, with new solutions. Looking at history, these are the Last Days.
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