The Words of Sun Myung Moon from 2009
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The Words of Sun Myung Moon from 2009 |
Beloved citizens of God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk, who have received the Blessing!
We are celebrating a truly special and providential day. It is deeply meaningful because we are commemorating both the Golden Wedding Anniversary of the True Parents, the king of kings, and the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.
Furthermore, it is the historic day on which the establishment of the new True Peace Parent UN is proclaimed before all of heaven and earth. On this joyful day, let us all offer applause in gratitude to God, our Heavenly Father -- who governs the life, death, fortune and misfortune of all things -- for giving us this beautiful and dazzling spring day.
On this spring day, vibrant with life, God is beckoning all of you -- as lords of creation -- to freely participate, with all other created beings, in the creation of new life. He is blessing us to blossom beautifully like flowers and to live lives that are as bright as the sun and as clear as the waters of a stream.
Beloved new family members: On three occasions over the two days of January 15 and 31, we held the historic Coronation for the Right of the Liberation of God, the King of Kings. January 31 saw one such ceremony held at the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace in Korea, representing the East, and another held in New York City, in the U.S., representing the West. In this way we set a record through offering this providential event -- which is unprecedented in history and never to be repeated -- to Heaven in two different locations on the same day.
This past April, my wife and I celebrated the fiftieth occasion of the day of our Holy Wedding. The cries of the young students who resisted dictatorship finally ushered in a new spring on the Korean peninsula in the spring of 1960. On the sixteenth day of the third month by the lunar calendar in that year, my wife and I received Heaven’s seal and embarked on the arduous course of the providence of restoration that the True Parents, True Teachers and True King and Queen of humankind must travel.
How could I even begin to explain the path of the providence of restoration through indemnity that my wife and I have had to walk for the past fifty years to finally bring complete liberation and freedom to God, and to attend Him as the king of kings? Many years from now, historians will verify and record what I cannot explain at this time.
You are probably not aware of this, but there is profound providential significance in True Parents’ Golden Wedding Anniversary. Due to the fall of humankind’s first ancestors, God’s true lineage was lost and history came under the dominion of Satan’s false bloodline. I am sure you have learned about this reality through studying the Principle.
This inverted bloodline has been a facet of human history. Isn't it because of this that the physical world -- and even the spiritual world -- became completely mired in antagonistic Cain-Abel relationships of confrontation and struggle? Nobody has been able to find a resolution to this tragedy, and history’s problems have gone unresolved to this day.
Times are now changing, however. The doors to the realm of complete unity between Cain and Abel are being opened on the occasion of True Parents’ Golden Wedding Anniversary. We have entered the realm of grace wherein human beings can be restored to the level of completion and perfection at which they can inherit and share the original nature of God’s heart; in other words, to the originally-intended human state, without any trace of the Fall remaining.
In terms of O and X, we have entered the era when the good governance of God, who is in the position of O, can completely embrace and assimilate, without leaving a trace of it behind, the evil governance of Satan, who is in the position of X. The era is beginning in which the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven is substantially spreading out before your very eyes.
This spring, which has that kind of special significance, my wife and I celebrated our Golden Wedding Anniversary and successfully held the Wonku[1] Peace Cup Cain-Abel Cosmic Harmony Tournament for ten days starting on April 21. One day, it will become a festival of peace for all humanity, even surpassing the Olympic Games.
The Atletico Sorocaba football club from Brazil contributed greatly to this first tournament by laying aside everything else to come here at True Parents' invitation. Sorocaba won the FA Cup championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2008. During their short time in Korea, they played against four teams, representing North Korea, South Korea, Japan and China. They displayed an excellent standard of skill and demonstrated the soul of Latin American football. Would you please give a warm round of applause to encourage the Sorocaba team!
Ladies and gentlemen!
I would like to offer to heaven this precious new ceremony by reading with you now the message from Heaven that I proclaimed in January at the Coronation for the Right of the Liberation of God, the King of Kings. Please engrave the meaning of today’s event in your hearts.
Peace-loving citizens of God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk!
This is truly a precious and joyful day.
Let us all celebrate without reserve this historic and providential day and sing praises to God, our eternal True Parent, of His glory and nobility. On this solemn occasion, hundreds of billions of those living in the spirit world are here with us to congratulate and celebrate this blessed day.
This is the day God has yearned for ever since He created the universe. For tens of thousands of years, since the day those He created as His children, Adam and Eve, stained the heavenly lineage and concealed themselves in the dark, God has waited while enduring inexpressible pain and sorrow. He has waited impatiently for the day He could ascend to the throne of the king of kings, to be able to embrace His lost children and the creation again and live in joy for all eternity in the sacred reign of peace in the peace kingdom.
Ladies and gentlemen, God is and has always been the king of kings, even before He initiated the Creation. The heavenly way, however, dictates that after completing all aspects of the Creation, God must manifest substantially as the king of kings who reigns over the world of physical phenomena, the sphere of the objects of God’s love. That is why, motivated by true love, God sought and found the True Parent of the substantial world, who was to become His representative and heir.
Although we are overwhelmed by the grace of having received Heaven’s seal, my wife and I are truly joyful to be able to stand here as God’s direct representatives and hold this coronation for the king of kings. At the same time I am deeply sorry before Heaven; I have reached my ninetieth year of life, yet I have been unable to fully restore the 6.5 billion people of the world to God.
Citizens of the Cheon Il Guk who love God! Heaven will no longer wait. God is working with His authority as the king of kings through His representatives, the earthly True Parents, to establish a new heavenly law and restore the world. It is time to accelerate this true love revolution. Therefore, on this solemn occasion, I will proclaim to all of heaven and earth an outline of the new heavenly law, by which humankind and all things of creation will regain their rightful positions and be governed.
First, this era, which is gradually bringing us toward the year 3,000, will be the era of revolutionary change after the coming of heaven. In this era, we will no longer be captive of the principles of restoration through indemnity; it will be the time when the king of kings rules the spiritual and physical worlds with His rightful authority. It will be the era of the providence during which the earth will return to its original state, with the realm of the Pacific Rim serving as a central axis. People will no longer be beyond the influence of the new way of Heaven and of the new heavenly law. Therefore, you must lead a transparent life with your every action being as clear as a crystal.
Second, we must accomplish a revolution in educating all people on the value of absolute sexual ethics, with God as their vertical, absolute axis. This is the only way to pass on the good lineage to all humankind. That is the path to achieving God’s ideal of true families. From now on, sexual purity, purity of lineage and purity of love will be the educational philosophy of the human race.
Third, the new Peace King Representatives (boon-bong-wangs) and the Parent UN will be placed at the forefront of the efforts to completely eliminate the walls and barriers that traverse the earth in multiple layers and to reinstate harmony and peace between political parties, religions, races, cultures and nations. The existing UN (in the position of the Cain-type UN) and the Abel-type UN should become one and elevate to a higher dimension, becoming the True Parent UN -- in other words, the True Peace UN. Centering on the True Peace UN, war, disease, hunger and all other problems confronting the world will be addressed and resolved. This is surely the direction all people must go. They will have no choice because God and True Parents will be with them. Individualistic self-centeredness as well as collective self-centeredness will be eradicated, and this will lead to the realization of a world governed by our conscience and natural reason.
Fourth, the cross-cultural, international blessing marriage is the optimal method of establishing true families that will purify the lineage of the fallen human race and build the peace kingdom. In the end, reconciliation and peace will come about through lineage. When blacks and whites, Eastern peoples and Western peoples, Buddhists and Christians, and Jews and Moslems intermarry and carry on the blessed marriage tradition that True Parents have established, this world will naturally become one family. An ideal, heavenly kingdom based on the ideal of one family under God will come about. As we melt our guns and cannons to make plowshares, a new world of peace will open up before us.
Fifth, God created us as His counterparts in love, and He prepared the natural world as a gift for us, His children. God would not leave His children to live in a barren desert devoid of beautiful scenery. That is why all people have the duty to preserve and love the natural world. I am saying that you should develop your human nature as it was originally meant to be, such that you experience resonance even with a cluster of wild flowers as if you were sharing a heartfelt conversation with them. That will be the shortcut to restoring humankind to God.
Ladies and gentlemen who have been chosen!
You have all truly received a heavenly blessing. You are participating in the ceremony to launch the providential undertakings governed by the king of kings. You are witnessing with your own eyes the whirlwind of this historic transition point. You received an invitation to attend the coronation of the True Parent, the king of kings on the horizontal level, who will govern all of creation as the physical representative of God, the king of kings on the vertical level. Will you ever again, in your lifetime, have the chance to attend such a historic and significant occasion? Your ancestors numbering in the billions are cheering and dancing in joy and delight at this time, shaking the very axis of the earth.
I pray that you will open your mind’s eyes and engrave this extraordinary and historic moment on your soul. When else during your life will you be able to witness such a day of blessing and glory as you have today? I hope that you can heed the words of Heaven that I have shared with you today and use them as guidelines for your life from now on.
Ladies and gentlemen who have been chosen! I am sure you all feel this from the message I have just read, but humankind is entering a new era wherein the earth will be governed directly by a new heavenly way and new heavenly law. It is the era of the new realm of the fourth Adam where no one can enter the new kingdom of heaven without inheriting God’s new standard of heart based on His original nature.
Through True Parents’ providential Golden Wedding Anniversary and the commemoration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of HSA-UWC, I pray that you may become the wise and new citizens of Cheon Il Guk who thoroughly distinguish between Cain and Abel in your lives, who integrate them into a new realm of Abel, placing goodness at its center, and who restore the realm of the three generations.
I am asking you to form, and live as, new true families based on original human nature through which the new true grandparents, true parents, and true grandchildren can enter, hand in hand, into the new kingdom of heaven. Please do not forget that this is the meaning of the new Rally to Establish the True Peace Parent UN, which we are celebrating today.
I pray and proclaim in the names of the victorious True God and True Parents that the new authority of the great Blessing of God, the King of King of all nations, can flow abundantly into your new families, new nations, and throughout the new cosmos.
Thank you very much.
[1] Wonku is a transliteration of a Korean word coined by Father which literally means “round ball.” It is a term that refers to any sport played with a round ball (or balls).