Sermons of Rev Moon - May 7, 1972 - True Parents and Ourselves 2

[대태양/김현수]

Three spiritual children

That is the history of the development of the Unification Church. What did we do next centered on the true family after 1960? If Jesus had established his own family, he could have formed his clan and tribe. Then, if Jesus' disciples had restored the same position that he stood on, they could have become members of his tribe. Therefore, if Jesus had married an ideal spouse and established a family, Jesus' disciples could have married their ideal spouses and established families. In this way, Jesus could have formed a new tribe within the nation of Israel and the religion of Judaism. The clan of true sons of God centered on Jesus' children that could have been established after Jesus' Holy Wedding is completely different from the clan of Christians that was in actuality established as God's adopted children in the fallen domain. When Jesus' children were to be born, there would have been the families of the 12 apostles who could perfectly unite with Jesus' children.

You joined the Unification Church at different times in your life. Some joined when you were 20 years old, some when you were 30 years old, and some joined even after the age of 50. Before that, you lived in 'the secular world, within the domain of Satan. According to the original ideal, Adam and Eve were supposed to have a certain innate foundation. In order to restore that foundation, all of you joined the Unification Church after you were already born and then you witnessed to restore spiritual children.

As a result of this, you have created the foundation of Cain and Abel. In your case, there was no innate foundation made for you before you were born, so you have to restore it through indemnity The way to do this is as follows: you must have spiritual children who attend and unite with your physical children even before their birth. Unless you are clear about this, you cannot understand the course of restoration at all. When the spiritual children unite and serve the physical children of their spiritual parents, even while they are still in the womb, that is the restoration condition of the three archangels uniting with Adam, who was created by God.

Thus you need more than just spiritual children; you need your own physical children as well. You joined the Unification Church when you were more than 20 or 30 years old, and established the horizontal foundation by witnessing and gaining spiritual children. But those are Cain and Abel relationships, on the level of the archangel. The foundation to be restored as parents is not indemnified yet. How can we indemnify that foundation? The foundation is indemnified when your three spiritual children serve your physical children even in the womb. In that way, you can restore the earthly foundation of the three archangels willingly attending Adam while he was being created. Unless you go through this course, the family of the perfection level will not be able to appear. Therefore, after the Blessing you will give birth to your own children; By the time your children are conceived; you have to have three spiritual children willing to attend the child that will be born from your womb. Those who are born from blessed parents have to be protected by those spiritual children until they get married, or until they reach the age of 21.

The spiritual children can never allow the blessed children of their spiritual parents to fall. The archangels had the mission of protecting Adam and Eve And to help them become the ideal couple. The spiritual children have the same mission as the archangels. God has harbored deep grief and sorrow because of the fall of Adam and Eve. Spiritual children have to fulfill the archangelic mission of protecting the blessed children from falling. Otherwise there is no way for spiritual children to be restored to God's side. I am talking about the relationship between spiritual parents and spiritual children.

Only when your spiritual children fulfill such a mission in relationship with you and your physical children can you finally restore the position of parents, centered on your children. That is the same thing as Adam and Eve being restored through Abel. Thus the blessed parents can perfect themselves through the second generation, their children, just as the fallen parents, Adam and Eve, could have; been restored through their child, Abel. This is the way restoration by indemnity takes place. Therefore you should not conceive your physical children unless you have your spiritual children. You are not qualified to give birth to and love' your own children without three spiritual children.

This is the way of the principle. The principle of restoration is to reverse the direction of the fall to the original direction, with utmost preciseness, an to put it into the proper direction. That is why you absolutely need your spiritual children. In reality, you need them even more than you need the Messiah. You are loved by God; still, to seek after God's love should not be your concern. If you are loved by God, you are standing in the position of Abel. Abel is in the position of Adam, so he must have three archangels supporting him. only when three archangels completely attend Adam can the position of unfallen Adam be restored. If those three archangels dominate Adam and he fears them, the restoration of Adam before the fall can never take place.

The age of persecution

After you join the Unification Church and come to know the will of God and begin to experience the love of God, you are in the position of Abel and under the guidance of various good spirits. If you joined at 20 years old, you became an Abel at 20 years old. If you joined when you were 30, you became an Abel at that age, when you restore your spiritual children, you are allowed to restore the Cain and Abel relationship at the level of your age group. You cannot restore your past, so you must restore that in another way, by going through your children. Your three spiritual children must attend your physical children from the time they are still in the womb until they get married. Unless you establish this kind of tradition, perfect restoration cannot take place.

I myself have to follow that course and you must go that way too. If I have a mission on the worldwide level, you can take on the mission of the national level. I must fulfill one stage higher. I will create the victorious foundation on the worldwide level. The victorious realm of indemnity on the worldwide level has been created by expanding the foundation. That is the third worldwide course.

Individual perfection requires Cain and Abel. When you joined the Unification Church, you could begin to receive the love of God in a more direct way. The person who receives the greater love of God is automatically in the position of Abel. But Abel's position cannot be created by Abel alone; Abel cannot be created without Cain. Cain was born before Abel, and Cain has certain elements of evil by which he opposes Abel. By the same token, the archangel was born before Adam.

Just as the archangel invaded Adam, you will be attacked individually if you are standing in the position to be loved by God. Throughout history Satan has been persecuting religious people, particularly followers of Christianity. He persecutes families and clans which are religious. Therefore you too will receive persecution on the levels of the individual, family, clan and society. That is how you can win and make advances by being persecuted. If you as an individual receive persecution on the worldwide level, the complete victory of the individual is won. Your persecution cannot be limited to just one small village; it has to be on the worldwide level.

Thus even if you are receiving persecution within one small village, you will be receiving persecution on the worldwide level. The aim of persecution on the world level is the attack on life itself. If your life is attacked, that is certainly a personal thins but it is also on the worldwide level. If you dedicate your life for the sake of building the Kingdom of God. when you receive persecution from an individual person. you will be standing in the position of Abel on the worldwide level. So dedicate yourself to God. even unto death.

During the time period of dedication of seven or even 21 years. you cannot look back. If you begin to think. "Maybe I shouldn't have joined or gotten involved in doing God's will," then you will get invaded and hooked by Satan. If you have that kind of attitude then it will require another seven years to complete the course of restoration. Even Jacob needed 21 years in order to gain his family from his uncle Laban. If you cannot fulfill in seven years. it will require a 21 year course. The Unification Church is in a 21-year course from 1960 to 1981. Even world famous historians are saying that a new era has dawned since 1960.

The third True Parents

Some of your ancestors may have killed their own parents; some killed their brothers; there are many kinds of people in your lineage, There has been killing among clans for many thousands of years. At this time the past history of thousands of years of sinfulness is being manifested; every-one is becoming individualistic. God does not exist for many people and they do not care about their society or their world. All they are interested in is themselves. That is the condition of today's world, Ail of you are influenced by this. too. Generally speaking. the more developed a nation becomes. the more individualistic it becomes. Individualism is the locomotive that pulls everything to Satan's side. The individualistic world is the archangelic world. The more a society becomes individualistic. the more people lose touch with the nation. the family and God. The world is disintegrating through self-centeredness and individualism.

Therefore. in order to walk the path of indemnity we must go from the level of the individual. to the family. clan and tribe. We need at least 12 families to create a clan. The clan then multiples into a tribe and into a people. After establishing one tribe, you aim for the creation of a nation. In the fallen world, God's people have to win over another people to establish their own nation. That is the way of restoration. But in order for God's nation to come about, God's people have to break through the dominion of the satanic realm. In the satanic world, a new nation cannot be born unless a ruling group is overcome by another group.

Likewise, the course of restoration goes the same path. One people of God has to be ,created in the midst of the satanic world, which can gain victory in the face of those who oppose them, in order to create the new nation of God's principle. In the same way, Jesus could have created an excellent nation, surpassing any nation in the satanic world, which could have subjugated the Roman Empire; which was Cain on the worldwide level. That would have been the final point in the providence of God. Jesus was the second true man, sent by God to the world to become a true parent, due to the fall of the first parents.

At this time, we have to restore the failure to receive that second parent, in order to receive the third parents in a victorious way. In order to achieve a victory, the second parent was supposed to completely restore the failure of the first parents, Adam and Eve. But Jesus had to die without doing that. That is why the providence had to be postponed to the third time. Christ at the Second Coming is in the position of the third parent. He must physically and spiritually restore the position of the first parents, as well as Jesus and the Holy Spirit, who came as the second parents.

It is necessary and natural that the children have to go through the indemnity course. The reason the restoration of Cain and Abel is so important is that the coming of the True Parents is so important My speech today is entitled, "True Parents and Ourselves", True Parents are the embodiment of the ultimate hope in human history, as well as the ultimate victory. All the peoples of the world have to seek for this central point of historical hope. You Japanese people must not be too attached to Japan. Japan is something like an inn that you stop by on your way to the destination. The goal of history is neither the nation nor the world. The core of the providence is of course to save the world, but in order to save the world, the Parents of goodness have to establish the perfect foundation on this earth. Without the True Parents, there is no way to save the nation and the world in a perfect way.

Therefore, what is the true hope of history? It is not for a nation or even the world, but it is for the True Parents. You really must understand this very clearly. You cannot be nationalistic or hold on to your own world view. Even though you may have concern about your own race, you are allowed to do so only after you have inherited the lineage of the True Parents. Only after you inherit the blood lineage of the True Parents can you create your own clan, your society, Without receiving the True Parents, nothing can be accomplished. Please understand this very clearly. The Japanese Unification Church does not have a mission just for the sake of the nation of Japan, You may think that your country will become the central country of the world; all people want that for their own country because they want the very best for their country. But merely wishing will not bring about the goal. With that viewpoint, there is no hope for the country; darkness will come instead. People will realize when they come to a dead end that they made a wrong decision and will have to turn around. But in order to turn around, they will have to use a new method and find a new way.

God has been using the Unification movement to push those who don't know the way toward perfection through restoration, beginning with the individual and through the clan and the nation. Democracy cannot save the world and neither can communism. But they keep on going, and as they do, they experience more and more confusion and chaos. So they have to realize that they do not know the way to go. Everybody, including the people at the top and those at the bottom of society, has to go back to the original point to find the new direction. God wants to establish the foundation for the restoration of the individual, clan, society and nation behind the scenes, while the world is going through this confusion and mess. He wants to make the bridge for the world to come to the level of the foundation for restoration.

But when the people of the world finally realize that this is the only way and they rush this way all of a sudden, that might be the most difficult time in history. Why is that? Because when everyone wants to follow the way of the Unification Church, there might be many accidents as they crash together! People will desperately want to get in; but we will say that nobody can get in without a permit. That kind of time will come.

Embodiment of victory

When you observe the reality of the world around us, you can see without a doubt that these are truly the Last Days, The Unification Church members have learned that the world will become like this. But the True Parents are not like some rich and famous parents in one of your villages. Though there are masters or leaders in every nation, like the emperor of Japan, they are only temporary, like the innkeepers of a hotel in which you stay overnight. In order to unite the world and mankind into one, we must welcome our True Parents. The True Parents are the embodiment of the historical hope. By paying the indemnity for everything, they embody the victory for everything. You have to realize this. You cannot replace the True Parents with all of America.

Those who contributed to the providence of God in the past are all in spirit world; you people living now did not accomplish this. Those people in spirit world are also seeking the True Parents. But they cannot have a direct connection with the True Parents at this time; access to the True Parents is limited to those people on the earth, Those who have gone to the spirit world play the role of the angels. Therefore, the people here in the physical world who receive their aid are equivalent to the world of Adam and Eve at the time of creation.

In order to prepare for the True Parents to come, many people have been mobilized for the restoration through indemnity. Because the archangel fell, the realm of the archangels must be restored for the sake of Satan. the fallen archangel. Therefore, those spirit persons who have restored the realm of the archangels can be regarded as the archangels in the realm of servants. Not only the spirit persons but also you yourselves are in the position of the archangel.

The mission of the archangel has been carried out by three main religions. An example is Islam, whose symbol is the Koran in the left hand and the sword in the right hand. This doesn't reach the essence of religion. It is a Cain-like religion. The main three religions can be considered to be three archangels. In that realm, Jesus is taking the central role. So the time has come when, in our battle against Satan, Jesus can be the great general to drive out the satanic spirits, and we can establish a foundation on earth. The Blessing has been given now to Christ, and the Blessing has been given also to the people in the position of Cain. Through this, for the first time on the earth, we established the victorious foundation to be able to drive out satanic spirits, by mobilizing all the spirits who can influence people on the earth. In that way we can bring those who are under the control of Satan closer to the direction of God.

In a short period of time, the world will turn around. So far there have been numerous religions, each going through a difficult path. But that was the preparation to establish the foundation for the True Parents to be born. The True Parents are the perfected Adam and Eve; therefore everybody who was born before them is in the position of archangel. That is why all the religious movements which were born prior to the Unification Church are in the archangelic position. Therefore, isn't it wonderful to be in the Unification Church? Although you may be persecuted for being in the church, what You have here is very wonderful.

You may be just a tiny bird but you will gradually grow up to become an eagle; you will have many feathers and you will be able to fly. You can fly all over the world and see it all beneath you. Because you are just a tiny baby right now, many things could shake you; but after you grow and we are able to establish one nation, nothing will be able to shake you. To establish that one nation, we don't choose from just one race; we will mobilize all the races of mankind, all over the world, including black, white and yellow people. For that reason, the nation of America has been chosen as an archangelic nation, America has had 200 years of blessing. In 1976, the nation of America will celebrate its bicentennial, But the blessing of America has a 200-year limit.

It is the Principle point of view that a crisis will come to America after the year 1976. Without God, America could not have become such a leading nation in the world within 200 years, Her 200 year history symbolizes the indemnity of the 2,000 years of Christianity. America has developed herself as a world power and transcends nationality and race, Thus the Japanese people can immigrate and become part of the American people instantly. America is to become the Kingdom of God in the future. Soon you will be able to get into the Kingdom of God and work as the people of that nation.

If Christianity had welcomed and united with me, it would have been restored as the realm of Abel at once. However, established Christianity persecuted me and struck the side of God; therefore, it was vulnerable to be struck by Satan. This is why communism was able to gain power and attack the Christian world. The People's Republic of China is standing in the position of Satanic Eve. Japan, who is in the position of Eve on God's side, restored itself economically to the worldwide level in the past 20 years; likewise Red China, in the position of satanic Eve, became a part of the world scene in 20 years, In 1950, the United Nations condemned Red China as an invader. But after 20 years, she was accepted in the United Nations and came back to the world scene as a welcomed nation. The reputation and treatment of Red China was completely reversed in just 20 years, We can look at the Unification Church from that point of view; we may go the same path within 20 years. The second seven-year course will end in 1974. It is the principle point of view that the Unification Church will come to the worldwide level after the second seven-year course is over.

In that time period, the world will go through a lot of turmoil. Centered on Japan, America and Soviet Russia and Red China will struggle against each other. In that kind of turmoil, the one who has to row the boat and bring it into harbor is the Unification movement. We are trying to survive and not be shipwrecked, The person who controls the boat is the True Father. The world has been influenced by the standard of the True Parents. Everything in God's providence has been influenced by the standard of the True Parents. God Himself needs the True Parents. Without them, terrible things could happen. The True Parents are the highest hope for God. The outside world doesn't realize what a wonderful world is contained within the Unification Church, the world of the True Parents.

Necessity of True Parents

We can come to the conclusion that every one of you needs the True Parents. I know this principle very well, even though you don't. How much do you need True Parents? Although God is an omnipotent God, do you know how much God needs True Parents? He needs them absolutely, How much do you think those billions of spirits that are in the spirit world need True Parents. They need True Parents absolutely. Until, True Parents are born on the earth, the spirit persons in the archangelic world must do everything they can to help the earth. They will be in tears, waiting for God to send the True Parents. The mission of the archangel is to pioneer the way of indemnity. Before Adam was perfected, the archangel fell. That is why we have to establish the sphere of archangels who are perfected and who did not fall in the providence of God. When we talk about restoration, it is not only the restoration of Adam and Eve; we have to restore the archangel as well.

From now on, we will have the foundation to go forward into the future without sadness and mourning. There will be no foundation of indemnity to sigh about or moan about. Your descendants will be in a wonderful position. Actually, there is a deadline. Those who didn't enter the Unification movement by a certain time will cry with so many tears that their eyes will hurt. In God's providence, there is always a conditional time period. That is why the first, second and third seven-year courses are very important. All of you have to realize this.

To be united with the True Parents, each one of you has to cleanse your past sins on your own. If You have a lot of past sins, it will be difficult. Please cleanse all of your past sins very quickly. Those who have sins cannot be united with the True Parents You have to cleanse the historical sins first. You have to cleanse the stains in your blood lineage which were inherited historically from your ancestors. You have to examine yourself in the course of your life of faith in the church and compare it with the course of God's providence. You have to repent for whatever wrongs you did, and cleanse yourself of them. Then you can become the ancestors of goodness for the future, In order to become the ancestors of goodness, you cannot leave any burden of your sins to your descendants. If you become an ancestor who leaves a burden of sins to your descendants, you won't be able to enter the realm where our True Parents can take dominion. The blessed families in the Unification movement have to indemnify everything and start anew.

You can be the proud ancestor in the eyes of your descendants because you are pioneering the way of indemnity earlier than anyone else in the course of restoration. You are shouldering the indemnity for the racial and national levels. If one true nation is established for the first time in history, then real peace on the earth and eternal peace in spirit world will be created. At that time, we will be the target of attention of the whole world. All of you have to cleanse all the sins of the past, as well as the present, not for just your own sake but for the sake of your descendants. The best way to cleanse the sins from the past is to fight against Satan. That is the first condition you have to be the person who can win over Satan. You have to diminish the power of Satan to the point that he cannot come after you anymore. You have to make Satan give up on you. That is what the Principle teaches us.

The Principle teaches you what condition is necessary to subjugate Satan. You make Satan surrender in the satanic world by; taking three people in the Cain position and raising them up to be willing and dedicated protectors. The archangel was supposed to risk his life to protect Adam before the fall. Also, the disciples were supposed to protect Jesus to that extent. The position of the true victorious Cain is not achieved when he runs away at the time of hardship, as did the disciples when Jesus was to be crucified.

The true spiritual children cannot be the kind of people who run away from the situation when it gets rough. They have to shield you at the risk of their lives. The spiritual children are the people who must stand up for you, even at the time of crucifixion. They are the three archangels who gain the victory. You must raise up such people. Doing that is actually three or seven times more difficult than raising your own children.