Chambumo Gyeong Book 13, Chapter 1, Section 3
Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il and the Era After the Coming of Heaven

Proclamation of Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il

On May 5, 2004, at Cheonghae Garden in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, True Parents proclaimed Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s) and declared the end of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the arrival of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. True Father explained that Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il is the day when God transformed heaven and earth, top and bottom, front and back, and left and right, causing His light to shine brightly throughout time and space and causing the evil world of darkness to dissipate. The Era After the Coming of Heaven signifies the passing away of the age of indemnity and the advent of the world as it was at the time of the Creation.

Also, on April 19, prior to the proclamation of Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il , True Parents founded An Shi Il , the Day of Secure Settlement and Attendance.

1 On this day, May 5, 2004, I proclaim Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s). May 5 is indicated in numbers as “5.5.” Adding the numbers 5 and 5 together makes 10. It is as if God is grabbing the Era Before the Coming of Heaven with the five fingers of the left hand and grabbing the Era After the Coming of Heaven with the five fingers of the right hand, flipping them upside-down and combining them together into ten.

The right direction for a clocks hands to turn is clockwise, but Satan made them turn counter-clockwise, in the wrong direction. Now, with the Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il, the clock's hands will turn clockwise as they should. Thus, we have now moved past the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and into the Era After the Coming of Heaven, when we can realize the ideal world of unity. We will proclaim God’s fatherland and the era of the peace kingdom. All living beings from plants and animals to human beings and spirits in the spirit world will come to the peace kingdom, God’s fatherland, and come under God’s ownership.

Satan’s world will cease to exist. Every day in the Era After the Coming of Heaven will be God’s Day. Now your ancestors and religious leaders in the spirit world will be able to handle those who oppose us or try to split us into sects or try to break up our families. The Blessing will totally uproot them. (448-016, 2004/05/05)

2 Heavenly Father, we have established this day, May 5, 2004, as Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il. On this day, heaven and earth have been turned around, switching top and bottom, left and right, and front and back. Everything that began in darkness and evil now can be recovered into the light of goodness. Today, we who attend the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind welcome the original era of victory. It is the era of high noon settlement whose bright light of victory will never be extinguished. Today also marks the last day of the era of Satan’s evil kingship. Beginning today, the conflicts caused by the Fall will be resolved and the wrongs of history will be corrected on the way to establishing the peace kingdom centered on true love.

Father, today the Era Before the Coming of Heaven is giving way to the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Now, heaven and earth will become one based upon the number 13, so that the authority of Your throne will become the center of the two realms, heaven and earth. Now we will stand in the realm of Your extended family formed by the bonds of Your true love, true life and true lineage. In this position, on this day of victory, we will enter the era in which we can proclaim Your kingdom of unity and love and Your fatherland throughout the whole world. (447-309, 2004/05/05)

3 Based upon the Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il , we are going through a transition from the old age into the new age. There are 5 fingers on your left hand and 5 fingers on your right hand. When you put them together, you get the number 10, a pair of 5s. When these two 5s become one they are victorious together, and from 10 they can fly toward infinity. Then they can become a catalyst for liberation and complete freedom, and indemnify the 4,000 years of the Old and New Testament Ages. Jesus in his day could have established the kingship through 40 years of paying indemnity, but that opportunity was lost. In order to reclaim it, the Lord at the Second Advent came at the end of World War Il .

Since his coming, the Lord has recovered the nation that was lost, the world, the spirit world, and thus the cosmos that was lost. He completed his mission by giving the Blessing to the heavenly and earthly worlds, thus fulfilling the 40-year indemnity period. And now, centering on God’s nation, he has established this Day of Victory of the Number 10. By so doing, he has recovered the Era After the Coming of Heaven with its four seasons for the first time in history. We went over the hill of indemnifying history centering on the periods of 4,000 years, 400 years, 40 years, 4 years, 40 months and 40 days. But for the liberation of all of these periods, we need Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il . Having welcomed that day, now for the first time, God can wield the authority of forgiveness and complete freedom. Now God can abolish hell and recover its people so that they can transform hell into the kingdom of heaven. (450-121, 2004/05/19)

4 On May 5, 2004, I declared Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (The Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s) and the beginning of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. I proclaimed to the whole world that this new era is the time when we must bring about perfect harmony and unity between heaven and earth, between human beings and all things of creation, between the Eras Before and After the Coming of Heaven, between male and female, and between East and West.

Although God’s providence for the Will is invisible to the eyes of people who are descendants of the Fall, it has proceeded without a single iota of error to the point where it is possible to proclaim the present time as the Era After the Coming of Heaven. It means we are ushering in an era of heavenly fortune unprecedented in history. God has now given us a heavenly decree to live our lives based on absolute values, a new set of values in accord with this new age. (450-184, 2004/05/21)

5 With 10, the returning number, we must settle everything. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 did not belong to God. Now, as we go beyond that age, we rise one level higher to start with the number 10, which is the returning number. The significance of 10 is that we have surpassed Satan’s world and can enter God’s new world. It makes a crossing point. That is how, by setting up Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il , I could proclaim the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

Now the Cain realm will totally surrender, and we will erase all the dates whose numbers have been under Satan’s shadow. This is what it means to stand on the level of “the victory of the number 10.” Now the world of Cain has ended and the lineages that existed in the Era Before the Coming of Heaven are changed. Thus we have arrived at the Era After the Coming of Heaven, when Abel will wield victorious supremacy in the position of the elder brother. (451-199, 2004/05/29)

6 Beginning on May 5, 2004, the calendar will change from the seven-day cycle marked by the Sabbath to the eight-day cycle marked by An Shi Il . God has never owned the days of the calendar, nor could He own His spring. He could never become the owner of the four seasons—spring, summer, fall and winter.

With the celebration of the Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il on May 5, now for the first time in history we are ushering in the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Now God can hold Satan’s world of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven in His left hand and the Era After the Coming of Heaven in His right hand and turn them around in a circle, thereby bringing all into His realm of victory. This is why I named that day The Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s. The two 5s becoming 10 set up the realm of victory. (450-177, 2004/05/21)

7 Heavenly Father, I set the date of An Shi Il after entering May 2004. As May 21 was the third An Shi Il , after those on May 5 and 13, we are now welcoming a new era, the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Centering on a new world of victory and centering on God’s true love—the ideal realm of oneness and its values—we are now standing before the responsibility that we are called upon to accomplish for the entire universe.

In the name of True Parents, representing the whole, I established Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il and its realm, in which are included all the dates represented by all combinations of digits below the number 10, the 4 seasons, the 4 years, the 8 years and the numbers 9 and 10. (450-158, 2004/05/21)

8 Now, Father, ushering in a new era in history and welcoming spring, summer, fall and winter, You are the owner. Everything is now arranged so that You can reign over all things with Your new days, seasons and years, based on the renewed number 10, which can expand 100 times, 1,000 times and 10,000 times, and on and on. I hope and desire that based on the establishment of An Shi Il , everything will make steady progress from this day forth by Your Will. (487-169, 2005/02/15)

Opening the Era After the Coming of Heaven

After proclaiming the Opening of the Era After the Coming of Heaven, True Father said that everything will pass beyond the era of liberation and the completion stage to enter the realm of God’s ownership. God had lost His springtime due to the Fall, but by opening this new era of the new heaven and new earth, God will be able to welcome His first real spring. True Father also revealed that God will be the owner from this time forth. In other words, the Era Before the Coming of Heaven was the era when the world was under Satan’s evil dominion, and the Era After the Coming of Heaven is the era when the world will come under the dominion of goodness.

8 On January 13, 2001, I1 held the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, passing the second millennium and marking the third millennium as a new age. Then, on May 5, 2004, history was divided into the Eras Before and After the Coming of Heaven, indicating the beginning of a new world. That day marked both an end and a beginning, signifying the beginning of a new heaven and a new earth. (487-169, 2005/02/15)

9 Originally Jesus was supposed to stand with his family as the foremost filial son, patriot, and saint, and as the king of the unified world and, in that position, proclaim the world of liberation and complete freedom. However, there has not been a single family in history that could stand in this position. What happens when you put the content of the Family Pledge fully into practice and stand in that liberated position? That is what I actually did, and by doing it I opened the Era After the Coming of Heaven, the world where God is liberated. True Parents opened the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. It is a restored world, different from the fallen world.

I proclaimed the Era After the Coming of Heaven in Yeosu and Suncheon. The past age had to be brought to an end for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven to begin. Furthermore, I had to establish as a matter of heaven’s law the standard of God’s direct descendant by restoring the eight stages beginning from a servant of servants and establishing a relationship where the partners liberate each other through making a substantial foundation of love.

You too have to meet this standard; otherwise you cannot directly enter God’s nation. This formula is clearly determined by heaven’s law and the Principle. If you think that everything is all right simply because you have received the Blessing, you are ignoring heaven’s law. Just receiving the Blessing does not put you at that level. (483-245, 2005/01/19)

10 On May 5, 2004, I proclaimed the transition from the Era Before the Coming of Heaven to the Era After the Coming of Heaven, and then I announced the teaching of absolute values. Your fathers and mothers can become the owners of love only through you, their sons and daughters who received the Blessing. You must give the Blessing to your parents. When you do, it places them in the position of your younger siblings. Then you, in the position of their older brother or sister, can bring your parents, your family and other relatives with you to the kingdom of heaven. This is the path for them according to the standard of the Principle of Restoration. This is the plain conclusion.

Therefore, your ancestors in the spiritual world must come down to the physical world. They may even take some of you to the spiritual world. Why will they take you to the spiritual world? There is a Korean maxim, “First make them sick, and then give them medicine.” If you were left alone to continue your wrongdoing, you would end up destroying your entire clan. So those ancestors who received the Blessing will take you to protect their clan. They will take you to the other world where even Satan will be mobilized to train you. Actually, such a time has come. (488-302, 2005/02/23)

11 The Era Before the Coming of Heaven is the era of Cain, and the Era After the Coming of Heaven is the era of Abel. We are now entering the Era After the Coming of Heaven. This era will conclude when God’s ideal families are well established as the models of peace. Peace will begin with such families.

What do you think happened with the loss of Adam’s family? God lost His ideal family. The God-centered family structure that was to have been the basis of God’s ideal for the world of peace, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, was destroyed. The descendants of fallen humankind cannot repair this. So God, the subject partner of the ideal family, personally took responsibility and chose True Parents as the central beings for this work. As God is the vertical Parent, True Parents are the horizontal Parents. True peace comes when they become one and establish a family that creates the base for the four realms of heart. (534-111, 2006/08/03)

12 If the Era Before the Coming of Heaven had been perfect from the start, all individuals, couples, families, peoples, nations, the world, and the cosmos would belong to God. God would be the Owner of the heavenly kingdom. We would all be able to stand in God’s fatherland, the peace kingdom. But due to the Fall everything was turned upside down, so everything had to be put back in order.

However, now for the first time in history, God has become the Parent of all created beings in the universe. At the same time, He is completely established in the position of the Teacher and Owner. Based on the efforts of True Parents on earth, and the families of patriots and virtuous women and men in heaven, the earthly and heavenly foundations for the coming age are completely laid. The Era Before the Coming of Heaven is passing away, and the Era After the Coming of Heaven is opening. (448-011, 2004/05/05)

13 The Era After the Coming of Heaven, the age in which God is in charge, began after the passing of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven. This age does not belong to the Devil. His time is over. The Era After the Coming of Heaven belongs to God. The Messiah, who is the Savior, the Lord at the Second Advent and True Parent, is responsible to bring everyone into the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

How can the Savior save this world? It is through the Blessing, which brings people into God’s lineage. Hence, those of you who do not give the Blessing to your relatives will be held accountable. You will be challenged, “You were given the Blessing, but what of your brothers and sisters?” Therefore, you absolutely must give the Blessing to the members of your clan, even if you have to push them into it. (449-270, 2004/05/16)

14 The Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the Era After the Coming of Heaven are different. Therefore, now that the Era After the Coming of Heaven has come, you must live your life differently. But you still have a job to do before you can pass into the Era After the Coming of Heaven. You need to take my words and make them your own. Even after I am gone, you need to make my words alive and active. Otherwise, you will not be able to inherit the Era After the Coming of Heaven that I opened for you. (466-201, 2004/08/27)

15 A wild olive tree cannot yield the fruit of a true olive tree. That is why wild olive trees must be cut and receive grafts from the true olive tree. Now that we have entered the age when that can be done, God will soon be able to reign over the entire world, above any satanic authority. That time is the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

In the Era Before the Coming of Heaven, fallen human beings had to go a course of restoration through paying indemnity and free themselves from sins and crimes. It is as if our bodies were covered in filth and continually in need of washing. However, this is not God’s ideal.

That is why the Era After the Coming of Heaven had to come. As it unfolds, all the indemnity will have been paid. It will be a world where there is no crime or sin, no Satan and not even the shadow of evil authority. Then, for the first time in history, God will be able to fulfill his original role as the loving Father of all individuals, couples, families and nations. Then He will begin to govern the worlds of heaven and earth as their Owner. (542-168, 2006/10/16)

Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace

True Parents held an event announcing the new beginning of the Pacific Rim Providence at King Garden, Kona, Hawaii, on March 17, 2007. Then, on March 19 at the Marriott Resort Hotel on Waikoloa Beach, they made the Proclamation of Returning to the Civilization of Universal Peace and the Age of God’s Kingship, and Returning to the Realm of the Peace Civilization of Cheon Il Guk as Our Nation that Transcends Nations.

Then, with the participation of True Parents and True Children, in April the same year, speeches announcing the Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace were held in 200 nations around the world, with True Parents speaking in the major cities of Korea, Japan and the United States. During those events True Parents announced, “The era of this new civilization is the era of oneness between God, humankind and nature. It will be an era of free and open communication, of peace without conflict or disconnection anywhere.” They also said, “The life of all living things on earth is based on water. Therefore, the 21st century will be the era of the oceans connecting the Pacific rim, as well as the era of the new heavenly civilization of peace.”

16 The time has come to remove the lineage that seized control of the realm where God was supposed to be the Owner, and enter the original world without the Fall. You can do this by becoming one with True Parents. Through them you can restore Cain and Abel, the root of the problem in Adam’s family.

I proclaimed the foundation of the original world on earth. If you have faith in this, it becomes a condition to mobilize the saints and your ancestors in the spirit world to make ramparts to protect your way. Then evil forces no longer can block your path. We have arrived at the era when, if you pray making that condition of faith, the four great founders of religion, all people in the religious realm who gained merit by serving and sacrificing themselves throughout history, as well as your own good ancestors, will come to support you.

I am announcing the Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace. Today, April 4, 2007, we will make this announcement. Therefore, all of you need to become princes and princesses who resolve to make effort to liberate your ancestors, destroy Satan’s world, and build the peace kingdom. (559-323, 2007/04/04)

17 Today is the 48th True Parents’ Day. We have to be serious during the next seven years: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, up to January 13, 2013. During this seven-year period you need to clean up history from the individual level to the cosmic level, which has been entangled with the results of the Fall. The issue is how we can create the same environment as the one in which God hoped to welcome His first spring after He finished creating the universe. Now God’s springtime has come in the providence. That is why I am proclaiming the Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace as we enter the era of the Pacific Rim providence. (561-010, 2007/04/17)

18 The new civilization means a God-centered civilization, a heavenly civilization. This is the dawn of that new civilization. The fundamental truth of history was hidden and humankind has remained in ignorance. It is now time to disclose it to the entire world.

What humankind needs to know most of all is the parent-child relationship. The oneness of parent and child means that they exist as one body. The unity of husband and wife also means they exist as one body. The sons and daughters who were born from that couple must also exist as one body. All have to exist as one body. From each person’s perspective, above are grandfather and grandmother, and father and mother. Then comes one’s own self. All three generations need to unite as one family. If three generations live as one family, their fruits can make God’s family.

The couples in each of the three positions, or three stages, hold the same value wherever they are placed, whether in the three-dimensional spirit world or in the two-dimensional earthly world. Therefore, to form an ideal family you need your grandmother and grandfather, your father and mother, and you and your spouse. More than that, you need to bear fruit in the fourth generation. Yours ought to be a lineage that inherits the seed of your grandparents, your parents, and you and your spouse, and opens the path to be fruitful in your children. (561-146, 2007/04/21)

19 The year 2007 is very special because I announced the dawn of the new civilization of the Pacific Rim Era. To go over this final hill, all the victories that True Parents gained from the world were brought to Hawaii, and then cuttings were planted throughout the world.

Now we are entering the age of freedom and liberation for the whole of humankind. The era of the Parents of Heaven and Earth has passed, and now it is the era of freedom and liberation of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, their own family, and all blessed families.

At the same time, we are all entering the era of the Principle, in which there will be no room for excuses for not fulfilling the Principle. This means that the era in which we need salvation is coming to an end. Once we return to the Garden of Eden, we no longer need the realms of religion or politics. We are now entering a realm higher than the religious realm or the political realm—the era of the Principle. (569-075, 2007/07/22)