Our Destiny
"You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess, and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land which you are entering to take possession of, it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables; but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year."
Deuteronomy 11:8-12
Do you want to go your own way, or the way God wants you to go? Where will you settle ultimately? I cannot take care of each of you individually, couple by couple, so you have to set your own goal and home church is the way. In home church you can be proud of your husband or your wife. That is your territory and realm.
No man will compare with your husband, and no woman will compare with your wife. Home church is the place for your settlement, so unless you establish the home church foundation you will be kicked out and there is no other world for you to go to. If you fail there then there is no way I can bring you along this path. I instructed you to go and your destination is home church. That is the order coming from the True Parent, teacher, head of state-all in one. When you love your home church you are consummating every order you have received from True Parents, true teacher, true patriot and true saint.
In a few years I would like to have a shrine built to the home church parents, home church messiah, and tribal messiah. You must build your home church in order to be honored by that shrine. Anyone who is successful will have their own shrine in their home church area, and when I am passing by that will be the place I visit and where I rejoice; where it is located won' t make any difference for it is definitely the place I will visit. It will also be the place God wants to visit. The destiny of women is to marry and go where their husbands go. In the same way the Unification Church destiny is to go to home church. This is where you will find your permanent home. It is almost like being given in marriage. Through the home church destiny you will go to heaven, but if you don't then no matter how much you love True Parents you cannot go. If you leave it unfulfilled then that great burden will be left to your own children to complete.
Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79, Belvedere
I am heading toward the heavenly homeland and so are you; we are in a great movement traveling from one continent to another, spreading the message of God and culminating human history. When we go door to door we embrace the people as if they were the world, not just the citizens of their particular country or isolated individuals. A miracle which can change the world is possible in this way of life. Don't you feel we are reaching heaven step by step?
The Age of Repentance
9.1.78, London
After you get married, where will you go? If the husband and wife are alone, they are naked, and Satan can always invade, because there is no fence around them. So what is your destination? Home church. This is the absolute direction and destination. Through home church, we will bring all people and races together into unity.
So after you get married, will you run away on a honeymoon, or will you go to home church?
Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere
The greatest banquet of celebration will be held in your hometown. Actually, the entire content of fallen history has been man's departure from his true home. All mankind departed from their true home. When we restore everything which is lost, we will go to our hometowns and have the ultimate celebration. When you go back to your hometown you can greet your grandparents. You might have been told they had died, but actually no one has died; when we combine the physical and spirit worlds together, everyone is there. At the festival all ancestors from all our family trees will dance around the banquet table.
Before we have this banquet on a worldwide scale, however, we must have it on the tribal level and that is the home church. You will be a tribal messiah, and you will have that banquet first at your home church with your own tribe. Everyone will go outside to appreciate the light of the moon. When that moonshine is accepted by the people, God's heart will be vindicated. This is why home church is the final destination of the providence of God.
The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere
Through home church you will be united with spirit world and your ancestors will come to assist you. Furthermore, you are becoming one with the physical world because your 360 homes represent the world. You are in the position of completed, perfected Adam and Eve, so where is your garden of Eden? That is your home church. Your area is Cain's territory, spiritually and physically. By creating your own garden of Eden in this home church area you are consummating your internal and external dispensation, spiritual as well as physical.
Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere
Today's topic is the slogan for this year of 1980: Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the destiny where true rest lies, where true happiness and joy lies, and even where true life lies. The person who lives and dies in home church is the person who is truly happy.
Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center
Why do we do home church? By doing it, we can inherit the blessing from God; it is our common destiny. We must achieve the level of messiah on every level all the way up to the cosmic. We must build a bridge from one stage to another. As representatives of the United States. you need the messiah. The whole world needs the messiah.
The Present Situation, Centering upon the Will of God
5.23.82, Belvedere
We know that human history is the chronicle of restoration. What is the ultimate point of restoration? Of course it is home church. As home church becomes successful you will go from level to level, and finally to the world; ultimately you will take off and even gravity won't hold you down. You may not know it yet, but this course is the miracle of miracles. The fact that I could announce the providence of home church within 25 years is a miracle; compare that to the little that Christians have achieved in 2,000 years. God sent Jesus to earth for certain reasons, and ultimately Jesus died for that purpose. All of these events are culminated in home church, the center of the dispensation.
25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere
Home church is the great finale of God's providence. I started out in the individual dispensation, then moved to the family, tribe, nation and world, fighting all these years for the global victory. After that I liberated the entire spirit world. Now I want to give all that to you as your inheritance. Home church is the final chapter of the dispensational history of God. The ultimate victory celebration will be held, not at the New Yorker or Manhattan Center, but when you can invite Mother and myself to be with you in your home church.
People so far have not known that the culmination of the dispensation of God is home church; religious leaders and saints never knew the final destination. I searched throughout the spirit world, knocking on every door and found the solution; otherwise, you would never know it. The greatest thing is that I have found the realistic way to find all the ideals described in the Old, New and Completed Testament. . . .
Shall we hasten to fulfill home church? . . . . Will you pledge that you will complete home church successfully? The conclusion is that the goal of God's dispensation shall be fulfilled by completion of home church.
Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere
The Unification Church has had twenty most dramatic and hectic years of history, emerging on the level of worldwide Christianity in that time. We are not worrying about the family, tribe and national levels, but have proclaimed the second three seven-year courses, another 21 years; that will be the era of total consummation. This is a most wonderful proclamation. Within twenty years we are trying to restore all the failures of Judaism after 4,000 years, and of Christianity after 2,000 years. The fact that we proclaim it can be done and that a new era has begun is in itself an extraordinary gospel and blessing for the world.
Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere
Home church is a great accomplishment and the pinnacle of Divine Principle. After all the struggles of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament, home church is the outcome, the ultimate fruit by which the Kingdom of God is going to be achieved. It is the ultimate fulfillment of love.
Home church is not a witnessing method. No, home church is our destiny, the final terminal and the fulfillment of the dispensation. Fallen man must walk this road; that is his destiny More than a man is destined to marry a woman, fallen man is destined to finish the home church mission either on earth or in spirit world. Can you deny it? How can you erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth other than by fulfilling the home church mission? This is not a dream or fantasy; this is the real blueprint from God. We have arrived at the final terminal. It is our great fortune to see this home church mission in our lifetime and install the pattern and tradition for history. You repeat the alphabet a thousand times a day in your conversation. In the same way, home church is the alphabet of the Kingdom of Heaven. It should become an intimate part of you. In home church you will find everything. In home church you can find God, Israel, Christianity, anything you want.
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
How long are you going to take to do your mission? Are you going to do it as soon as possible, or will you drag it out over a long time? Do you think home church is just another method of doing church work? Or is it the dispensation in witnessing, planned many thousands of years ago? It is your destiny, isn't it? If so, then how long has God waited for home church? Since Jesus came He has been waiting for 2,000 extra years, seeing the sacrifice of many martyrs' lives. People before that have waited for thousands of years for this, and for twenty centuries all Christians have waited impatiently for the Second Coming. The Lord comes for the second time for the very purpose of home church.
Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere
Do you know what home church means? Your ultimate destination is God's heart, and home church is your grammar school. When you finish there, you will have finished grade school. When America comes to the truth, you will have finished high school. When the communist world comes, you will have an MA. When the spirit world is reorganized, you will have a Ph.D. Actually home church is everything, and after that everything else is easy, just a few hours' work.
Persecution and Blessing
5.1.80, Belvedere
God's will shall be physically consummated in this home church system, in which you will find the consummation of all human history, the will of God, and the entire ideal of creation. I am asking you to become a tribal messiah to that home church.
The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere
All men want to have a destiny with God, but I want you to know that God has already set the appointment to meet you in home church. God is waiting for you in your home church area. Jesus is there and so is the Kingdom of Heaven. Everything you have been craving is there. I am out there. Don't come here to meet me, but go to home church.
Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere
Home church is truly our gospel, an amazing blessing from God. Through home church you can find and restore everything-there you meet God, the Messiah, Cain and Abel, and all the historical missions. It is really a wonder world.
True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere
We have reached the most logical conclusion that we must have a showdown with the world in the next seven years. We are now walking into a most crucial time. I can say that all is done and finished; all the foundations I needed to accomplish have been laid. Even the physical foundation, such as fishing, boat-building, and various industries, has been laid.
I can go anywhere in the world, and even if I died right now I would not be a failure. No one can overshadow my accomplishments; no cloud can hide them, whether I live or die. Now the time has come for the major role to shift from me to you. You are going to build the kingdom. I paid the debts of sin of the past and laid the groundwork. This whole dispensation will now be consummated for you in your home church of 360 degrees. That is your world, the microcosm of the globe.
Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere
If each one of you clearly realized that home church is the destiny of our movement then you would give your life for it, and my presence here in this country would be irrelevant.
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
The completion of the home church mission will really be your liberation and you will be free to enjoy your own home, elevated in the heavenly kingdom. Religious people usually talk about individual salvation, but we are talking about salvation for the tribe, nation and world. No one can bypass this. Everyone has to squarely face the mission of home churches.
We know the concept of the Kingdom of God and we have precise instruction about how to achieve that kingdom. It will be done through home churches and this is the completion period of the dispensation.
It is most important that we can talk about the conclusion of God's dispensation. Today, on November 12, 1978, I am commissioning you to be messiahs, to go to your world of home churches and fulfill that mission. Will you do it? Those who will do it, raise your hand. Go out to your home churches and don't return until you finish the mission. Even if you die there you will be victorious. I am going the same way and doing the same mission but on the worldwide and universal levels. You will live, eat and sleep there and have activities there, and when you are victorious there you will return to heaven.
The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere
Those who cannot do home church well cannot become national or world leaders because you will always be faced with Satan's accusation that you are unqualified. No matter how much education you have, until you fulfill this one condition you cannot be accepted anywhere else. Eventually you will do home church because each year it is getting easier as the Unification Church and Reverend Moon are more widely accepted.
Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere
You start out in home church, then tribe church, nation church, and universe church. It's all up to you now. Go ahead. Home church is the beginning. After you do that, you can do as much as you like, but home church is the bare minimum.
Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere
This year's motto is: Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven. As I already said, in the past two years home church was not that very near or personal to you. So far, you may have thought of home church as a kind of witnessing technique, or an innovation of the Unification Church. But it is the heavenly way. Home church is your personal affair; it doesn't belong to anyone else. It is your personal matter on earth and in heaven, not the Unification Church's.
Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center
Home church is our destiny, so pack up to leave the New Yorker. Would you accept my challenge to be victorious champions in home church so we can all rejoice over restored families?
Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere
The Unification Church today is on the road to Canaan on the worldwide level. Twenty years have passed. Normally, there is a forty year period in which to reach a goal. We have got to make it during the next twenty years. During this period, the first generation comes against us, the rebellious generation. God normally must judge them and even offend them. Just as in the case of the Israelites, they cannot be given the right to enter Canaan.
Even though God was very sympathetic to their situation, God had to judge them: the first generation could not enter Canaan, but all died in the wilderness. The second generation, belonging to Moses, could enter Canaan. Yet even Moses, representing the first generation, could not himself enter the land of Canaan. Instead, Joshua and Caleb, the second generation, entered. This is the pattern for the future of the world. Today we are living in the age equivalent to the wilderness period. Just like the Israelites after their Exodus from Egypt, we are wandering in the wilderness.
What do you think would have happened if the Israelites had been welcomed by the Egyptians? In that case, Moses would not have been thrown out, but he would have become a prince and then king of Egypt. The peoples of Israel and Egypt would have intermarried; Egypt's identity would have been lost and everyone would have become Israel. The culture of Israel would have become strong and would have absorbed everything. Even though the population of Egypt would have been larger than the 600,000 Israelites, there still would have been intermarriage to keep the tradition of Israel alive. Moses would then have become king. The culture of Israel certainly would have prevailed.
Today, Rev. Moon is in the position of Moses. If people truly accept Rev. Moon, then there will be no boundary between our movement and the national culture of America. They will, in a sense, "wed" each other in international marriage. Soon Unification culture would absorb them.
Because Father is in Moses' position today, if the first generation comes against Father they will not be given a chance to enter Canaan. They will be destroyed in the wilderness. However, in order to show mercy, to give them a better chance to be saved, Father is dragging everything out.
Yet Satan knows these heavenly tactics. He created the evil ideology of communism, and while we are not doing too much but waiting, communism is encroaching into every facet of the free world. Therefore, before it is too late, there must be an ultimate showdown between the godly forces and the satanic forces. We live in that era today. This is the time. The United States and Soviet Russia, with two conflicting ideologies, are confronting each other on the world level. The Unification Church is in the middle. While we are going through the period of these second three seven-year courses, Satan is frantic and his forces are rampant throughout all societies. They want to make their ultimate assault against the free world. . . .
What is the situation here in America? It is almost like Moses' tribes. Without knowing that Moses had gone up the mountain to receive the inscription of the Ten Commandments, the people became faithless. They made a golden calf and began to worship idols. There are so many idols in our world, so many things are mere carnal desires: drugs, immorality and the like. What sort of idol has America made? The golden calf is only symbolic. We have made a materialistic way of life the thing to strive for. We worship the almighty dollar.
This is the kind of scene in which God cannot do too much to help man. However, what happened at the time of Moses? Moses just became emotional and upset. He worked very hard in order to receive the Ten Commandments, but when he saw what the people were doing he threw down the tablets and they broke into pieces.
Today, Rev. Moon is in the position of Moses. But he is different from Moses, in that he is enduring. He will not do what Moses did in uncontrolled wrath. He is giving the truth, giving the Word. Instead of breaking the Word, he is feeding it to the people. . . .
If the communists resort to violence, Rev. Moon will stay on top. He has the means to stop them, since self-defense can be applied in those situations. Just as God said to Joshua and Caleb shortly before they went into Canaan, Heavenly Father has told Father to be bold and strong. The second generation should be bold and strong. . . . What would you like to become? Should you be like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, or like Joshua and Caleb in the time of Moses?
There will be seven years of great turmoil, which means seven years of communism. This is the final, ultimate war of mankind. It is the war of ideology. After twenty more years, Father will celebrate his eightieth birthday, marking forty years since Father and Mother installed True Parenthood.
Today we live in the wilderness. We have to clear and cleanse ourselves so that we are not accused by Satan. We should not make a blunder so that Satan can pick on us. We should be free, leaving Satan behind as we enter Canaan. That is the next twenty years. Altogether, it will have taken forty years.
Before they left Egypt, the Israelites married, and as married couples they moved into Canaan. It is the same thing in the Unification Church. We have mass, international, interracial marriages which will help us to create strong forces when we engage in the final battle against Satan in order to go to Canaan. . . .
In this 21-year course, the seven-year course we are initiating is just like the Israelite people circling Jericho seven times. For seven years, we will surround the secular society all the time, without food, without rest, just continually running around it. Then America will change. America will turn around. America will repent. In other words, Father is looking at America as a gigantic Jericho. In our home church, we must just keep on.
Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center
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Beyond Calvary
He said to them "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Matthew 16: 15-19
"I have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you."
John 16: 12-14
After Jesus gave the keys to heaven to Peter, did Peter ascend to heaven, or did he go to the cross? What should Peter have done? We know that he should have gone to heaven by opening the door of home church on the dispensational level of that time, which was the tribal level. Then the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven could have been laid. But now we are starting home church on the world level which is much more difficult. Peter would have secured the environment through home church, and thereafter organized 12 tribes. Jesus had indicated that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven; likewise, unless we realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world will not come about either.
Now you have a better idea of what home church is like. Would you like to inherit the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven? Even though Jesus died, he could not receive that. You can now inherit something which Jesus did not enjoy, but what condition have you made to inherit it?
While you are doing home church, you will come to realize that this was precisely the destination of Jesus' work. Why did Jesus work so hard gathering disciples and giving sermons? it was so he could eventually send his disciples to home church. When you do home church successfully, won't the restored tribe and nation come into being automatically? By doing home church, everything will be restored at one time.
Now you know the most valuable thing. Now you know why I was so persecuted and went through such incredible difficulty. This is what I was up to, and this is what Jesus was up to. Now you know home church was the destination. This time is precisely analogous to the time when Jesus appeared to the disciples after the resurrection; now Pentecost is happening all around the world.
Now when someone asks you where heaven is, you will say, "Heaven exists in the environment of home church." Jesus said only that heaven exists in your mind; that is true, but now it exists in the body and in the home church as well.
What comes after that? There will be the national church, and after that the world church, and the cosmic church. Then this will truly be the universal Unification Church. After home church, other things will become more and more easy. You actually don't have to think about other levels, just home church. As the days go by, there will be more and more of this church activity and heaven will be realized in a more complete way.
Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center
Since Jesus was not able to complete the tribal messiah's role physically here on earth, we are now succeeding to that mission. By physically creating our tribal messiahship we can open the door for national and worldwide messiahship.
There are no barriers between you and the home church mission, neither racial, national, spiritual or physical. Jesus gave the key to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, and today I give you the key to home church because that is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. With one turn that key will open the door to salvation for one tribe.
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
If you have 360 homes assigned to you, yet you are not working in them, then people will come to accuse you and ask you to release them. They will tell you that they don' t need your kind of messiahship. They will tell you that they need an active messiah.
That is the key they are talking about to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus gave the key to Peter. Home church is that key. You can use it to open your way to heaven. That is the vindication of Jesus Christ. Before his crucifixion, Jesus Christ gave his key to Peter and told him to open it. Whatever you open here on earth shall be opened in heaven. "Whatever you open here on earth" means home church. Actually, when you do home church you are fulfilling Jesus' wish.
Home church is located on the other side of the crucifixion, on the Mount of Calvary. It is located beyond the hill of the crucifixion. Home church is located beyond the 2,000 years of Christian history. Home church is also beyond Father's suffering life. It is far beyond it.
Even if you could walk the path going through a hundred deaths, you still should be grateful. But Father laid the foundation in such a way as to make your road very flat, so that you can walk it without the crucifixion. How lucky you are! How grateful you should be!
For three years, you should make an incredible effort to be a true Abel. When Jesus was on the cross, his three major disciples fled from him. They were scared and ran away. It was a terrible mistake and they had to pay indemnity for it. . . .
At the family level, at least three persons can be blessed. This is where Jesus could not fulfill. Therefore if we become a tribal messiah we fulfill the mission that was left undone 2,000 years ago by Christ. That. is the precious purification period which all engaged couples are now going through in these three years. It is the Unification Church way of life. In three years' time, you should actually acquire 12 Cains, or 12 disciples. In seven years' time, you should find 84 members. That is the criteria. That is the ultimate goal. You will then organize your own tribe which God will recognize.
It is ideal to increase your membership from 84 to 120 in a three year period. It would be the ultimate conclusion to your purification. if you do this, you will truly be a successful Abel. Then you can undertake your Abel-type restoration. That is the reason that Father came up with the figure of 84 people (12 months for seven years). Anyone successful in fulfilling the motto "one-one-one" will gain 84 spiritual children in seven years.
Jesus was crucified before his major disciples became united. In order to indemnify these failures, we have to go through this sanctification period and reach the goal which Father is setting.
When you find 84 spiritual children, you will truly become a tribal messiah. Then you are in a position to restore Jesus' failure. in other words, because Jesus could not obtain the unity of 12 disciples and then 84, your doing so will have restored it. You don't have to make any other indemnity, because Father covers all the rest. Father has left only one area for you to cover. Father has done everything else.
Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center
When you restore your own tribe and become Abel, then you are pioneering the foundation where Jesus never succeeded.
World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center
The foundation for the restoration of your tribe is home church. If Jesus had accomplished home church on earth and ascended into heaven, then he would not have had to come back. But he could not do that on earth. If you have no foundation on earth, you have to be resurrected and come back here to start over.
Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere
Without doing home church no one can go to heaven. You must understand. Jesus left behind the key to heaven, namely home church. Even Jesus was not successful in home church, so he had no way to work in heaven on earth. That's exactly why Jesus told the weeping women not to cry for him but for the children of Israel. That is also why the Bible does not specify how a person can get to heaven. Don't ever be casual about this and say, "If I do it, that's fine. if not, that's still okay." You must think you must really fulfill. Don't pay so much attention to what your leaders do or don't do to you, but give all your energy to home church.
Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere
You are going to home church as the representative of John the Baptist and in the potential position of Jesus Christ. I am sending you to home church, where you and John the Baptist and Jesus Christ will be welcomed and not rejected. What you accomplish in home church is greater than what Jesus did 2,000 years ago: first, because there were not True Parents in his time and second, because they did not become tribal messiahs. You cannot go to perfection without fulfilling the growth stage, and home church is the absolute requirement.
Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere
How can you claim the right to the Blessing until you have completed your home church work? Jesus was destined to complete his work on the home church level, and afterwards get the Blessing of marriage, but he did not get that far. in the future, I will judge you according to every principle and word which I have spoken; that will be your judgment. The world will judge you, as well.
Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center
Adam and Eve were at the top of the growth stage when they fell to the position of Satan's children. Now you must return to the position of elder child of God. In home church you serve the Cain people as your elder children; then you have your own children. Ultimately you will reverse their positions and your son will become your rightful elder son. in that way you will elevate yourself to the direct dominion of God and you will become true parents.
Can you substitute anything else for home church? No matter how difficult it may be you must go through it. Jesus was able to indemnify the elder son's position on the national level but he was crucified before he could reach the world level. We must go through that stage successfully no matter how difficult it is. Those who want to save their lives will lose them, while those who are willing to die for God will live-that is the Biblical paradox. Likewise when you are willing to die for the sake of home church you will be successful and you will live with God. This is the time of fulfillment of God's goal of restoration; this is the time which all the books of the Bible were pointing to.
In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere
From the beginning, the Unification Church has been widening God's domain, not being distracted by opposition, but trying to serve others, and absorb persecution. You have been following me faithfully during the three seven-year courses, establishing Heavens domain generally in this world. Now you are continuing to work so that the same thing will happen in the spirit world. Exactly what point are we at now? So far history has been primarily indemnity for the errors of the past. We have to finish that history or else we will not be able to begin at the original point.
What was the cause of Adam and Eve's failure in the very beginning? They did not have absolute faith in God, and they did not have ideal love. Jesus was the second to come as the first ancestor of mankind, but his followers did not have absolute faith in him, nor did they have absolute love. The disciples should have wanted to die in Jesus' place, rather than see him killed. Jesus would never have been crucified if they had had that kind of thinking.
February 22, 1948, to February 22, 1982 was a period of complete indemnity for Jesus' life. That is the significance of February 22, 1982.
Because Jesus died at age 33, his 34th year is within the domain of resurrection. We have successfully crossed over the point at which Jesus died, and now are in the realm of new life, or resurrection. Because the spiritual and physical conditions have both been fulfilled, persecution has very much decreased in recent years. Naturally, however, the communists want America and Reverend Moon to be separated. They know that communism will be defeated if America unites with me, so their goal is to prevent that. This is the situation we have been fighting against.
We know that behind us are thousands of generations of history, and ahead of us are endless generations, so this fight is an historical one. Satan has to obey the Principle, too, however, and now that we are entering the realm of the 34th year, Satan has to retreat, having no claims against this new dispensation.
Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere
Where do home church and eternal happiness begin? They begin on the hill of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed three times to God. Home church should also start at Golgotha where Jesus bore his cross. When Jesus was at Gethsemane and Golgotha no one was sympathetic or understood him, but now there will be 100 other people watching you who realize how much easier it is than what Jesus had to go through.
Jesus wanted a handful of people who would understand him and say, "Jesus, you stay here and I will do it for you." But he did not have even one. Now, 2,000 years later, we find ourselves free to do anything we want. You can go out in Jesus' position to seek those disciples who will want to bear the cross for you. You are free to meet the people, to train them and serve them. You have to feel how fortunate your situation is compared to the time of Jesus before you can go out to work in the home church realistically.
Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere
Now everything you do is building a lasting accomplishment that will become your tower. The men and women going out into home church will be harvesting and bringing things in. We are moving across the boundary. We no longer belong to the old age or old territory. We are moving into a new territory and a new era. That is why I told you that home church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven. We can now build the physical kingdom with our own hands. in the past the Unification Church missionaries endured incredible situations. Your elder brothers and sisters were kicked and spat at, and even killed, but that era is now over. You doff t have to face that. When you speak the Divine Principle you will meet people anxiously waiting for the message and you shall be regarded as their savior. The people are waiting for you to come.
Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center
If you go on with your whole heart and soul, it will not take even three years for you to finish because more and more acceptance will be seen in society. Do you know where you are standing in history? The old tide has completely receded, and the new high tide which will carry you to the Kingdom of Heaven is ready to come in now. When the tide first turns the water comes in slowly, but gradually it gathers power and rushes in with power which no one can stop. Even God cannot stop it.
True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center
The level of clan messiah is your starting point. Why is that level of messiah necessary? The clans around Jesus should not have separated from him but should have united with him. They were also supposed to be united with the family that Jesus would have established himself. If John the Baptist had been united with Jesus, that level of clan unity would have been established.
Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere
How can you ever be a messiah yourself? As you know, the best anyone could do so far was to be saved individually, but now we can each become a messiah. There is no higher job than this and thousands and thousands of years can never be sufficient to replace that. Now not only individuals can be saved but we can save the family and nation as well. Do you know what that means? Jesus tried to save the nation of Israel and you can do exactly the same thing yourself. Jesus was to bring together John the Baptist's family and Joseph's family but he couldn't be messiah to his clan. if he had been successful then he would have marched forward to the national level of restoration. By having the same mission you can call Jesus your brother, but if you don't heed that mission then it can be taken away. If one group of people doesn't realize its mission then the mission will be taken by a group that does.
This year's motto is to be brave and courageous and march forward. The formula is to become completely one individually with the True Parents and then bring your Cain and Abel families together under the True Parents' family. The formula includes not only the family but the national level and world level as well. Who will bring two nations together? We must be able to love other races and nations as much as our own before we can ever expect to bring two countries together. Otherwise, no one would listen. What this means is that even if you die now you don't have to die outside your own home, as Jesus did. All the disciples fled in Jesus' time, but if you die it can be in your own home with brothers and sisters and parents to mourn you.
The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London
Why do we need home churches? You should start home churches because you need to go out to the secular world to restore Cain. Abel needs to bring Cain to God in order for both to be forgiven and accepted. in that position you are going to restore the mission of Jesus, which he was not given a chance to fulfill. You will bring that mission to perfection, and that is another meaning behind your home church mission.
Our goal is to make the entire planet one home church. Jesus was crucified because two homes failed to unite -- the home of John the Baptist and the home of Jesus. If John's family had welcomed Jesus then the will of history would have been for John the Baptist's sister to become Jesus' bride. Why? Adam has the dual responsibility of restoring both the angelic world and his own bride. The Messiah must come to restore a family of three generations -- grandfather, father and son -- before he can restore the world. John the Baptist was in the position of elder son, or Cain, but he failed to be totally obedient to God's son, who was in the Abel position. John the Baptist, in the archangel position, should have been totally restored to God through obedience to Jesus, but that did not happen. If Jesus had been successful in that dispensation then he would have undertaken to restore his bride. Jesus' bride had to be restored through the archangel's family, which was John the Baptist's home in Jesus' time.
Why do you as Abel have to go out into the satanic world? It is to restore the archangel, and secondly, to restore your Eve, or your mate. You women go out to restore the archangel and then restore Adam. Because the Messiah had not yet come and filled Adam's position and installed the heavenly formula, religions down through history discouraged marriage in favor of celibacy, preparing people to be able to welcome the Messiah wholeheartedly, free of the burden of their sexual desires. Until the Messiah comes no one is really entitled to marriage. Marriage is very important, but even after marrying we are under a certain discipline because we must demonstrate that we can overcome physical desires in order to serve True Parents and the world.
The Messiah first needs tribal restoration. John the Baptist's family was related to Jesus' family, and if true family unity had been made at the time of Jesus then the tribe would have been restored, and afterwards the national and worldwide victory would have been finished. But it was in the family level mission that John the Baptist failed. The two key families involved were the family of John the Baptist, whose father was Zachariah, and the family of Joseph. Joseph's home represented the bridegroom and the adopted son, while Zachariah's home represented the archangel and the bride.
Joseph's family should have been supportive of Zachariah's family and then John the Baptist would have stood in the position of restored archangel and provided Jesus with his bride. The two homes would have been united by the marriage of the Lamb and the installation of true parenthood at the time of Jesus. The Abel and Cain homes united together would have brought forth a new race.
The world today is divided in two parts, with one being subject and the other object, or up and down, heaven and earth. The home of the bridegroom represents the plus world and the bride the minus home. Religion is plus or upper, while race is the corresponding negative, and all of these can be united into one by the central concept of home church. You will extract the best essence of this earth and create home churches, our own pure world. The men restore Eve, the bride, and the women go out to restore Adam. Of course, before we do that we have to restore the archangel world, the external family, and then internally restore Adam and Eve. That is the concept of home church.
This ideal was not fulfilled at the time of Jesus, but now in our time we shall bring the messianic mission into reality through home churches. Home churches are of two types -- Jesus' home and John the Baptist's home. Of the two, Jesus is subject and wherever he moves there should always be obedience. The two kinds of home churches always unite around the concept of the Messiah; upon the foundation of unity you can accept the Messiah and fulfill the ideal of God.
Once again, why should you start home churches? This is the restoration of the position of Jesus, who could not accomplish the ideal of a home in his own lifetime. By going out to restore Jesus' position you are laying the foundation to be blessed and to install parenthood, which is the completion of the ultimate purpose of religion.
Jesus was not able to gather certain things in his lifetime. For example, Jesus did not have three major disciples in his lifetime. Why three? Adam's family had three sons. There were eight members all together -- father, mother, three sons and three daughters-in-law. Since that ideal family has been broken down into pieces in the fallen world we have to gather them together. The three wise men of the East were symbolic of the three disciples and were representative of angels. They bowed down to the holy baby and brought him gifts from far away. Their act symbolized other nations bowing down to Jesus, the son of God. Disciples are spiritual children in your terminology, and they are in the position of adopted sons who would have obeyed Jesus. This formula is never set up arbitrarily; it has spiritual significance which must be fulfilled. The foundation of three should be expanded into 12 disciples, representing the family and tribe. Next it would expand to 72 disciples representing an entire people or nation.
Three is included in the number 12, meaning that the tribe is an expansion of the family. Seventy-two is inclusive of 12 and represents the nation, while 120 represents world restoration. Those were the key numbers Jesus had to obtain. Jesus had gathered 12 apostles and 72 disciples, which together totals 84, but that foundation was not completely established in unity and harmony in Jesus' time. Therefore, 84 is a key number for us and in our lifetimes we must each restore it. Eighty-four includes all the necessary ingredients to build the Kingdom of God on earth. Whoever fulfills the 84 will have done what Jesus could not do. If you restore one spiritual child per month you will fulfill the number 84 in seven years; that's how the standard one-one-one came into being. You have not yet fulfilled that criterion.
Now you know the meaning of home churches, right? The best of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras are all contained in the home church. Unless we are successful in that mission we are destined to repeat the era of Jesus, but after you win a victory in home church work you can restore Jesus' position and ultimately go on to the parent's position.
The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12 78, Belvedere
This is the 34th year since 1948; and we have six more years to go until 1988. Last Sunday, February 22, 1982, was the anniversary of the date in 1948 when I went to Hungnam prison camp. This means that I am now beginning my 34th year in the indemnification of Jesus' life and ministry. If Jesus had lived seven more years, he would have completed forty years. During the next seven to ten years the responsibility will rest upon the True Parents and their children, the members of the Unification Church, to achieve the fullest dispensation of victory for the salvation of the world.
Things will take place in the Unification Church to re-indemnify all the failures during Jesus' time. We will complete the uncompleted portion of Jesus' ministry during these next seven years. During this time, Jesus himself will appear to many of his most devout followers and lead them into the fullness of the Divine Principle.
By the year 2000, the entire world will know about the Unification Church; soon enough, there will be no more opportunity to do home church. If Jesus could have lived beyond age 33, his next major effort would have been in Rome. My situation here in America has been like facing the modern-day Rome. Within the next seven years, at least, the accomplishments that should have been made by the time of Jesus' 40th year will be achieved. I have spoken out very boldly and strongly here and by doing so, I took many risks for myself and the movement's progress. Why have I done this? In this way, Jesus' inability to go to Rome and fight for God's purposes could be indemnified. These next seven years must be a successful period. Otherwise, communism will totally occupy the world and religion will be wiped out everywhere.
Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere
Why do we need home church? Because fallen parents came into being. In order to restore this position, Jesus came to the earth. He had to go through a certain process; he needed to restore the Abel family of Zachariah and the Cain family of Joseph, uniting them. Because this was left undone, we must go, in our time, to the home church mission and restore those positions. Who crucified Jesus? Fallen men, men of faithlessness. Therefore, until you have paid back that debt, you cannot be restored.
I laid a victorious foundation for your home church by the victorious foundation of a world church. Home church is nothing but a microcosm of the world church. It is a mini-world in which you can inherit my foundation and my victory. By setting a condition on the home church level, you will win the right to do the things which even Jesus could not do 2,000 years ago; you will indemnify his position,
Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center
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Uniting Cain and Abel
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they only hated him the more. He said to them, "Hear this dream which I have dreamed: behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down to my sheaf." His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me." But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him' "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?" And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. . . .
Then Joseph could not control, himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, "Make every one go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, I pray you." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to ' preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Make haste and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry; you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have; and there I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come; lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.' And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here." Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers talked with him.
Genesis 37:5-11, 45:1-15
When you are successful in home church and bring your own relatives there for a banquet, what do you think will happen? Their attitude will change immediately. When you and your members bow deeply to them and serve them at the head table, don't you think they will want to do the same thing and bow down? The Bible says many times that your worst enemy is in your family; you don't have to look in the Bible to find that out because you have experienced it! If you succeed in home church then you won' t even have to fight your worst enemy.
If you succeed in bringing all your home church people into oneness, do you think they will agree that everyone should help do home church with your family? You won't have to do anything to witness to your family; if you bring them to your home church then automatically they will become home church members. This would be the normal course in order for the Cain and Abel worlds to live harmoniously. This is what the Principle shows us. If it doesn't work, then there is no point at which we can say Principle works.
By successfully restoring Cain and Abel, you can restore Adam's family. Why do we work so hard as Abel to restore Cain? It's in order that we can restore our parents; before that we cannot bring back our parents. Abel will restore Cain, and then in the elder brother's position he will restore the parents that were lost. The same applies to the clan; the Cain-side clan would have to be restored by Abel before the restoration of the parental clan can happen.
Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere
We are going to the eternal homeland of God and our Parents, but you cannot return there without restoring Cain first, your elder brother. Unless you restore Cain, you have no escort with whom to enter together into the kingdom. Even if you restore your own relatives into the Church, as long as there is an evil Cain world outside, it can always destroy you and pull you back. Therefore, the Cain world must be taken care of first.
You must succeed in the Cain home church; then you can do one more home church in your hometown and bring your own family back to God. Not only your Cain home church but your own parents and brothers and sisters will really bow down to you as they recognize you as a saint.
Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, World Mission Center
When you are literally adored by your home church people, will your own parents come and say, "You didn't love me at all. How can you love all these people? You will get nothing out of it"? Or will they say, "My son, you are great. I didn't know you were such a saint!"?
Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere
One very practical reason for doing home church is for the sake of your clan. Once your home church people understand God and God's will, they can welcome and educate your clan; they can be better teachers than you. This will eliminate the division of Cain and Abel within your clan.
Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere
There is one more reason why this is the age of new dispensation. Since I have fully paved the way of indemnity you too can come back again. It means that after you go through indemnity you can go right back to your family and restore them. This is why New York has already started the home church movement. If Cain and Abel come into perfect unity then the parents can be restored. If you bring your Cain-side family into unity with your Abel-side family then you can restore the family as true parents. After becoming children of True Parents and one with your Cain and Abel families you will have actualized the foundation to restore heaven on the family level.
The free world and communist world are divided now. There is division underway in the world but internally Cain and Abel must come into unity. When the Cain and Abel families come into unity it means the True Parents' family can be restored. When these three levels come together in unity -- Adam's family and Cain and Abel's families and the third generation -- that will form the three stages for the perfection of God's dispensation. That's the place where Cain and Abel won't fight anymore. That's the beginning of heaven and of restoration beyond the place where the fall took place. Unity really comes into being here at the third stage.
We are here to witness, which means restoring the Cain family. The restoration of Abel's family will follow after that. Once you do that then you yourself can be true parents to them and the restoration of your own clan can begin. As soon as the New York members finish the necessary work in home churches in New York they will go to their home towns to restore their own families. You are acting as the messiah of your family and clan by bringing them into unity.
The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78. London
The final destination is the restored family, and in order to accomplish it you have to struggle in two worlds and overcome many barriers. The Cain and Abel struggle exists within the free world and within the nation and church, even in the Unification Church. The barriers are always there, even in the Unification Church, and you must overcome them.
Our goal is to do home church -- first Cain home church, then Abel home church. Only then will you enter this restored family.
Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere
After the completion of a home church in the Cain world you can go and build one more home church, your Abel home church. Then you can invite your father and mother and whole family, and together with them you can enter the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God accepts only families, not just individuals. A family is three generations, and that is what you are supposed to enter with.
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
I am not the one who should buy myself a home in Korea. The parents' home should be bought by the children, Cain and Abel. God's house, too is bought by the children; home church will become God's dwelling place, God's house.
Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82. World Mission Center
Father has a different kind of responsibility now. He dedicated all his life to the world, but now he has to work for the sake of his own children. Father never even had so much time to talk to them before. Father also has to act as a husband to his wife, to Mother. He will have to meet his relatives, talk to them, and do something for them. So Father knew that eventually, after you do your public work, he could allow you private time; therefore Father started the home church. Do the public work through them, and later you can have your own private time through them too. Do you understand?
Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London
Once you have an outer home church in your area, you will also have an inner home church, which is your family. When you go back to your hometown after your home church victory, the people will automatically come and listen to you. When I go back to Korea after being in America, which is my Cain nation, I am received and welcomed by my Abel nation. The Koreans don't have to study Principle to accept me; if I am welcomed by Americans then Koreans will accept me also.
The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere
You have heard about home churches, but do you know why we are doing this? In God's dispensational formula Abel must always leave his home in order to save Cain. Unless Abel goes out to restore Cain, his elder brother, he cannot return to his true homeland. In the fallen world Cain is pulling the world, but in restoration the younger brother is pulling the world, becoming the elder brother whom Cain will follow. In the reverse process of restoration God recognizes the younger brother Abel as the true elder brother and he always goes before God together with Cain, saying, "God, this is my brother and I want you to love him." God will accept that proposal.
The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere
There is a very concrete practical reason why we do this. If you are Abel then you need Cain, and only together with Cain can you come to God. You cannot go to God alone, no matter how wonderful you are. Let this be the start of your future for the next 25 years. Think of nothing but home church and then you will accomplish God's dispensation.
25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere
Now the time has come when if you work faithfully and very hard then you can restore your own family. If God recognizes your foundation then in a few years no parents will oppose you.
Now be certain that you know that the age of Abel's indemnity has changed to the age of Cain's indemnity. When you go back to your own home you have to love your family and then save them.
The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London
In home church you shall be recognized by parents first. So far I have been describing Cain-type home church, but the Abel-type home church of your own relatives must also be developed. There your parents must be the first people to recognize you, before you are recognized by the society.
Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18. 79, Belvedere
You cannot start with your grandparents but must start with your parents and work backwards. When you can bring members from your own family circle there will be no persecution, but now you are still in the transition time when you have to bring people outside your family to make your foundation. This is why you must start home churches. Once you restore 84 people on Cain's side then you will go back to bring your own family members. In doing this you will be working to lay a foundation just as Jesus did. You will become like a parent to them in the True Parents' position.
The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London
Joseph's family was in the Abel position, while Zachariah's family was in the Cain position. Their unity was an essential key that would have enabled Jesus to be received. One essential point of Principle is that the position of parent can only be secure upon the unity of the children, Cain and Abel. That unity is what allows the restoration of Adam. The messiah's position is that of parent so through home church, unity can be established between Cain and Abel clans.
Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere
The two major families at Jesus' time were Joseph's family and Zachariah's family, which was the Cain family from which John the Baptist came. These two families were meant to work together, but when they failed to unite, they were shattered. Within your home church Joseph and Zachariah's families are expressed as Cain and Abel.
You have two types of home church -- the Cain-type is in your 360 homes, and after that is restored, you will do Abel-type home church in your own family. When both are completed, you are elevated to the parent's position, the Messiah's position, and then you are in heaven. In this miniature dispensation I have made your job practical and easy.
Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center
You would like to have your family be God-centered, wouldn't you? Home church is the base for you to practice this particular way of life. Then later you will go back to your relatives and install the ideal in the midst of your physical family. Everyone of you is now going through the tribal level since I have finished the nation and world levels. When you penetrate the tribal level you can go right to your family. This is where Jesus could not fulfill, so this is your starting point. You are going to love this tribe, your home church. You will be persecuted for that and yet you must love them unconditionally. By meeting that criteria you will ultimately love your family more than your tribe. Your tribe must bear witness, and signatures from 360 homes will be given that you are a son of God.
When you have your own family God is going to say that since you loved your home church tribe so much, you should go ahead and love your family more than your tribe. You must love your family more than you love anything else because they represent your tribe, your nation and world. That's the foundation of heaven. Once you reach this family level, there will no longer be any need for you to leave them.
Once your Cain home church is completed there is one more step you will go to your hometown and form your Abel home church centering on your relatives and family. Then you shall be truly elevated as messiah. Once you come to that point you will not have to do the difficult work of MFT [Mobile Fund Raising Team] or witnessing because you will have graduated from all that.
Your children won't have to have MFT training or witness door to door. There will be no more separation between God and men because their sensitivity will automatically lead them home. We will do all the difficult tasks from human history that need to be finished instead of leaving them to our descendants. We will hand down the glory, not the indemnity. It is a great blessing and a victorious declaration that we can do home church so that later on we can return to our hometowns and become tribal messiahs.
Once you walk that path and live it in actuality, there will be no room for Satan ever to come near you with accusation. Unless you fulfill home church yourself, however, your mission will be handed down to your children with even greater suffering. Then there will be two separate worlds, the world of those children who must do home church in place of their parents, and the world where people are rejoicing over the true family and true ideal home. God does not want to see that division happen.
There is no doubt that MFT and home church are tough jobs, but I want to see you welcomed in your hometowns and living in happy families. Do your utmost to bring the completion of that goal.
True Parents Day and Our Family
3.28.79, World Mission Center
Soon you will have your own Abel family with as many children as possible. What about the other families in the society, the Cain families? The American tradition is to say, "We don't want to worry about Cain. Let them worry about themselves," but that is not God's way of restoration. Cain is your elder brother and you cannot ignore him or his family. The country of America itself is in the position of Cain to you and your family. Since you cannot deal with the entire country, you must have a representative area to deal with and this is your home church area. It is Abel's job to create unity with Cain; God cannot just hand you that unity.
Your family as a unit is in a direct lineage from the True Parents and God; the Cain families are in the side-lineage. You and they must be united. We have a primarily spiritual mission but we must work within the physical realm to accomplish our mission. Abel's family must play the leading role in every way, spiritual as well as economic. Without your serving Cain, the restoration will not take place. To the extent that you sacrifice for the world's sake they will want to offer you great rewards. They will offer you material things and they will want you to teach them and their children. In this way you will have restored your parental position toward them. When you have established that, the satanic family will be able to cross over into the heavenly domain and be free of Satan.
Very soon many of you will start having children. Can your attitude toward your baby be, "I will love this child more than anyone else"? You must love Cain first and then Cain will turn around and love and care for your own children in order to pay you back. This is the proper way for your children to be loved. This is my tradition; I always served other families before my own. When Cain is united with you, together you can love your own children.
Why do we live in such a way? We must restore the position of the angels. We must restore the proper order of God first, Adam and Eve second, children third and angels fourth. Because of this we cannot love our own children with all our attention and focus as we are naturally inclined to do. In the original world it was not supposed to be that way, but since we are restoring the fall we must serve other families before our own. Then we can let the other families serve our own children together with us, thus restoring the position of the angels.
In order for you to restore the position of true parent, you must love the elder son, Cain, first. Your own son will be in Abel's position, or the second son. Until you have loved the first son you cannot love the second. Your elder Cain son will be subjugated by heart, not by force. He will rebel against you at first but you must keep trying to serve and subjugate him with your love. One day he will bow down to you from his heart. The Principle teaches that you must not love your Abel son first even though it is painful to do that. Is it clear to you? . . .
You should care for the children of the people in your area and bring them presents. When you care so diligently for other people's children they will want to bring gifts to your children, in turn. That must be the way your children receive gifts.
By loving your home church people you are loving your own children and by that relationship your own children will benefit immensely. When you bring your children up strictly according to the Principle, they will grow up and work for the sake of the country. At that point the Abel children will fulfill the elder son's position. That will be the beginning of the new history. You are laying the foundation now by uniting the Cain and Abel faction. In that way your children will be able to go directly to God without having to make Cain/Abel unity.
Ultimately one country will appear which God can call His own. Once this country appears all the other countries will have to follow. God's order will thus be established.
It is so important what we do now! We are in search of our home but it is not waiting for us somewhere. It must be cultivated and created by us. Before we can do that we must accomplish all these points of understanding. When I started pushing you so strongly for home church, I gave you slogans like: Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven. Home church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven because it is your base.
The immediate goal of restoration is the restoration of the lost elder son. God has tried again and again to accomplish this and now all the multiple complications of history have to be straightened out. It has come to the culmination point of home church and I am passing on the inheritance of home church to you blessed couples.
Adam came as the eldest son. Jesus was in the position of second son. The third Adam must restore the elder son's position. The whole family of fallen Adam became the satanic elder sons family while True Parents' family is the beginning of the family of God's elder son. This is the time of the historical changeover when two worlds are clearly being distinguished. once we solve the problems of Cain through home church there will be no more Cain/Abel problems for our children in the future. They will be able to go to God directly without needing to make unity with Cain. The home church areas are the last foothold of Satan. By loving and sacrificing yourself for the people in the area Satan will be chased out and will no longer have a foothold on the earth.
The path of restoration has come to the point where you can now claim the legitimate position of elder son of True Parents through home church. This is truly the beginning of the civilization of True Adam and the end of fallen Adam. The new civilization is being passed through the True Parents down to you and your children. Those three generations are the elements of the heavenly foundation. You must follow True Parents' way and your children must follow your way. You cannot escape the Principle but must follow it absolutely.
In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere
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Attending True Children
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.
Romans 11:17-18
I have loved the members in the Cain position more than my own children and wife. You must become crazy about Cain, and in the process sacrifice your own family. That is proper. After doing that then you can come back to love your own children and wife. Even now at East Garden it is rare for Mother and me to eat together with all the children because most of the time I am meeting with the Church leaders at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even now I still live that way of life.
As my own children mature and think about my past and my mission, they will truly come to love and understand me. Even after I go to spirit world, the remaining leaders and 36 couples will love them as much as I loved those people, or even more. That is the best inheritance I could leave them. That is how I am opening the door for all mankind and all history to love them.
Children's Day and Tradition
11.20.79, Los Angeles
The true saint is not one who cares only for his family, but who cares first for others before his own family, even those who care the least for him. We can define the good God as the God who sacrifices Himself for the sake of others. I, too, have lived according to this principle. I have sacrificed my immediate family, even Mother, for the sake of the Unification Church. It is very seldom that I eat a meal with my own children; I usually eat with the Church leaders from all over the world. They are the ones who are sitting right next to me and Mother, eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner; our children are not there. Sometimes when I am eating a meal with the children and some of the Church leaders come in, I immediately send the children to the kitchen to finish their meal and give their seats to the Church members. My children, as well, must have Cain to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; they cannot enter without Cain.
For True Father and True Mother, there are two types of children: true Abel-type children and true Cain-type children. The true Abel children must be able to unite with the true Cain children. I have been working for them, in their place, fulfilling their role to bring about this unity; so, for that reason, my true Abel children must be grateful to me. On the other hand, the true Cain children must unite with the true Abel children; without that, there is no place for me to stand. There are two kinds of children for Adam: direct heirs and adopted children. Unless these children are united, the world cannot be restored.
This is the reason why, during 1981, which is the year of the final consummation of my 21-year course, I have been able to give Blessing to the true Abel children. Ye-Jin-Nim was engaged and married; Hyo-Jin-Nim was engaged.
Victor of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center
For the first time I can pay some attention to my own children. I never paid attention to them before now. The True Parents' children are the representatives of all mankind, and when they suffer and are unhappy, it means that mankind is unhappy. To preserve their well-being, I had to assist the well-being of mankind. It is your turn to liberate me. Will you give me liberation? So far, when I traveled it was always for the mission, and I would always take leaders around with me, so I neglected my own children. Now I will take my own children and embrace them. When you finish your home church dispensation, you can do the same with your children.
Right now you suffer and you have an abnormal situation. Some blessed couples are sending their children to their parents, or to the nursery, but they will not be shamed. Outside people will accuse you by saying that you don't even take care of your own children. Never mind. The time will come when your home church people will embrace your children and want to take care of them. That is beautiful.
Why have my wife and children come last? We must love the Cain world first. Love your enemy first and then love your own family. By doing so you are completely free from Satan's accusation. Not only can Satan not accuse you any more, but Satan will have to obey you. You can command him, "Satan, you know what I have done. Can you duplicate it?" Satan will have to reply, "No, sit."
Always look at God's own history. God always sacrificed His closest one in order to save the enemy. Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God, yet God sacrificed him in order to save God's own enemy. You have your own home church where you will love the people first. Liberate them before you do anything for you own children. When you liberate your home church and then come back to take care of your own children, everyone will embrace you.
Are you ready to liberate me from all my burdens? Instead of liberating me, all the leaders are always bringing me more decisions to make. They still rely on me for more help in finances and inspiration, but that day is over. You should be independent and go ahead like a locomotive. I don't even have one home of my own to dwell in. You may think I have East Garden, but that's the Church's property. Do you want me to have a home of my own? The time has come for me to look after my own children.
Now is the time for you to do home church with all your heart and soul. in the meantime, the true children must have their well-being taken care of for the sake of mankind, for their suffering will reflect the suffering of the nation and the world. When Ye-Jin is over twenty and gets married and has children, if she is still going through suffering then it is not good for the sake of this nation, or you, or the world. This is because your children's path will follow the pattern of the true children's course. We have to completely smooth it out and lay the highway so that they can go forward easily. It is actually for your sake that I am now going home to take care of the true children. That is for the sake of the future. While I am doing that, you become frontline soldiers.
When you do home church in seven years and really give yourself, the time will come that your home church people will say, "You are father and mother to home church. We will liberate you and take up your mission. You don't need to come here because we shall work harder than you do. Don't worry about us." That should happen now here. You should say to me, "Father, don't come. We don't need you. Go to a big resort and stay with your children and have a wonderful, peaceful, glorious time. We shall take over the battle." Would you do that? Then eventually you will be treated just like that by your home church.
History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center
Before your physical child arrives you had better start loving Cain's children so they will love your child. I never paid a lot of attention to my own children; of course I love them but I paid more attention to the 36 couples and gave them precedence. Even now I am not able to pay my full attention to my own children. In other words my own children are being sacrificed for the sake of the world without their even understanding it. That is why members from all over the world want to serve and love my children. It is only natural.
Once you give birth to children you will take the position of true parents. If you love your Cain children first and they make unity with your Abel children, you will successfully fulfill your position of true parents. That is what we are striving for. If you don't want to go this way it means you don't want to be true parents and ultimately you don't really want to get close to God. Only after you have become true parents can you go to Heaven. What else can we do but go this way?
It seems that every other word which comes from some of you is "my" and "mine" -- my fiancée," or "my wife." Have you ever thought about Cain's fiancée, Cain's wife? It is your business to worry about Cain's love and marriage even more than your own.
In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere
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Marriage Blessing
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.
John 3:16
There are a number of blessed couples in New York and their attitude sometimes is not right in the sight of God. They may think that because they have a baby to take care of that others should go out witnessing. That is wrong. The baby would say, "I'm a heavenly child. I don't want a mother like you but a mother who will do home church." Sometimes the baby cries because of that. Having a child is a blessing but it is no excuse not to do home church. I am going to expand the nursery so you can go out and work in home church.
. . . This is not the time to cling to your children because you must set the condition. People in the secular world cannot give up their closest loved ones but you must set a better standard. God gave up His son Jesus, so why can't you give up your child and go out for the salvation of the world? That is God's most logical strategy and that's how I have lived already.
The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere
The years 1970-1972 were years of incredible ordeal for the Korean blessed couples. Leaving all their children behind, the blessed wives went out on pioneering missions throughout the country. They sent their children to orphanages or to live with families who were reluctant to keep them. It was almost like Moses' mother leaving her child in Pharaoh's palace. But Moses did not lose his identity. By the same token, when our blessed children went to other places to live, they did not think that their parents deserted them, but they knew that their parents were righteous enough to put their mission ahead of everything, sacrificing all for the sake of the mission. Adults complained about parents leaving their children behind, but the children received incredible sympathy from their peers. The more the parents rejected the children, the more sympathy they got from the other children. Through these experiences, the barriers that prevented national unity were broken down in some ways. After I and the Unification Church became famous, some of those who cared for the blessed children during those years came back and said, "Do you remember me? When you went out for your three-year mission, I took care of your children; you must pay me some tribute now." They all want to take credit now!
This time, however, you don't have to leave your children behind. You can care for your children, go out and work for home church, come back and be with your children. The next day, you can go out in joy again. The elder Korean members suffered this ordeal for the sake of the world, but all you have to do is home church.
Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere
All of us must move straightforwardly toward that goal of restoration; it is truly all that matters. Of course, you have to think of your Blessing and tend to your children and families, but which is truly the most significant the home church work or your personal life? Surely home church work is more important than anything else in God's dispensation. If you worked diligently doing home church all your life, but could never receive the Blessing, you would have a wonderful life once you got to spirit world. You could call out to me and I could take you directly to the home of the True Parents and give you your free pass to Heaven. But if you came to spirit world without having done home church work, you would not be able to receive any pass or certification.
Total Completion of the Ideal
2,28.82, Belvedere
No matter how old you are, there is one thing more important than Blessing: home church. What parents do not want their children to get married? That's the whole purpose for which they have been raising their children.
I have been hearing that some of the engaged women are pressuring their fiancées to get more education so they can be leaders, even wanting them to get Ph.D.'s. Is it a wonderful fiancée who thinks that way? No, her fiancée should say, "You Satan. Instead of going to school, I will do something else." Now you agree with this after listening to me because you have a new perspective!
The hard way is to get your Ph.D. and then find out that what I am saying now is true. The way we work is much more worthwhile than getting a degree. Without going this course, no one can get to the heaven that I introduce. Do you need lots of education to register for citizenship there? No, being persecuted the way God and True Parents have been persecuted is the requirement instead. This is why "my indemnity" is part of today's topic. You must know what your indemnity is.
The World of Good and Evil and My Indemnity
9.28.80, Belvedere
When you are truly consumed by this fire of conviction then nothing matters, not even eating or sleeping; you are truly crazy about the mission. Now you have a fiancée, a new loved one, so you can love your people more. That is the standard I am giving you. Do you wish you had more time to spend with your fiancée instead of at home church? Your antenna should be directed to home church. Is it?
True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere
When you look at your own fiancée you feel uplifting joy. However, that is the time to realize that before you love your home church and fulfill your own mission, you have no right even to love your own fiancée. You will realize that you must earn the right to love your own fiancée.
Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center
Those who were in the matching ceremony, raise your hand. Have you imagined your fiancée in his home church? if your fiancée is in his area, would you go there? Maybe you would start out to go look at your own area, but your body would actually be moving toward his area! Is home church less important than your fiancée? You shouldn't waste time writing letters or holding hands for one year. Don't think about your fiancée so much because Principle says we must love our home church more and then we can love our fiancées later.
The Public and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere
Some of you sisters think you are old maids, but that is not actually the real problem. Your problem is home church.
Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere
This is the time you start preparing to be a family; you don't just go into it lightheartedly. According to the experience of other people it is not all easy, and in no time at all you will have children. Have you established the required condition of having 84 spiritual children, as you all should, and are you taking up your family on that foundation? Of course you are not ready in that fullest sense. Because of the circumstances I am giving you permission to live together, even though you are not worthy yet, if you feel that you will try your best.
You are indebted to everyone around you, including your own children, until you fulfill that foundation. You have to clearly understand this. I know what the Principle calls for and I had to fulfill it literally, not symbolically. If my own children ask whether I have really done what I taught the members to do, I am prepared to explain how I indeed have done it. If God asks whether I have lived up to the standard Principle calls for, I am ready to give a straight answer; even if Satan asks, I have a ready explanation.
One day you will also be asked that question, and you should be able to answer as I do. Without doing so, how can you assume the position of true parents? Where will you get material with which to teach your children if you don't? Before I could become a true parent I had to establish all the traditions necessary in the Principle point of view. It is only logical that you, a branch of True Parents, become true parents also; but first you must establish the requirements. Only then can you genuinely educate the generations to come.
Untitled Address to Blessed Couples
2.20.80
I can see that you still haven't come down to earth after your engagement.
You are all wrapped up in getting to know one another and your faces are different. What you should do when you meet your fiancée is to put your heads together and decide that you will each go to win in home church and then come back to ask me to bless you. You need a certain condition to fulfill before Blessing, such as having Cain-type spiritual children and your tribe of 84 people. You have already heard all of these things, so you know why you are going in the capacity of Abel to home church.
True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere
The actual order of things is that first you do home church and then receive the Blessing. The only reason you can have a blessed family before then is because True Parents and God regard you as a branch of True Parents, who are that trunk and root. When True Parents bear fruit, then you bear fruit because you are a branch. The significance of the fruit you bear is up to you, however. This is where your test is.
Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79. Belvedere
While this is still unfinished can you think about getting blessed? I could only allow those who already have the Blessing to receive it because they had brought at least three spiritual children. I took that as a condition, on the understanding that after the Blessing they could continue on to bring in 84 people altogether. Those who haven't succeeded after three years of separation should not want to live together. If you want to live together you must work much faster and fulfill this number. You should post these numbers everywhere, even in the bathroom on the sink, to remind you every minute of the day. From now on you will think this way, won't you? You must never forget this, even for one minute.
The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London
There should actually be no Blessing before home church is completed. From this time on, no one is automatically eligible for Blessing simply because they have been members for a certain number of years. Only those persons who succeed in home church and restore spiritual children are qualified for the Blessing. Jesus first restored his three major disciples and then the three became 12. Those 12 plus 72 seventy disciples established the number 84. This is an important number for us and it must be done in seven years' time by bringing one person per month. Jesus would have had the holy wedding after he had 84 people completely united with him. That is the same path I walked.
Where are you actually going to find your mate, your ideal object? in home church. You will be blessed with the person you find. That is the ideal situation. The procedure will be that the entire home church tribe in a general conference will make a recommendation to True Parents saying, "This person and this person are just wonderful and our tribe wants to receive them as true parents. Would you marry them together?" That kind of recommendation will be given as the counsel of the home church. In the days to come there will be no such thing as Blessing without having the home church pro -gram completed. This is not my statement, but a statement of the Principle.
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
After the completion of your home church crusade, you have the right to be blessed. Jesus Christ did not have the home church providence, and he could not have a heavenly wedding. Even though you may be blessed now, until you have completed the home church dispensation you cannot really have a home yet.
History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center
The time will come when the 360 homes will volunteer their sons and daughters, competing against each other to have their children accepted first. At the end of the third seven-year course everyone will be blessed. In other words, you will literally find your bride and husband in the home church. Unless you are welcomed in your home church you can have no wedding after the third seven-year course is over.
Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere
Is it better to do this work and build a home church while you are single and then get blessed and start a family, or to start a family now and separate while going to the home church? A baby can be a nuisance because his parents are no longer free. Your most precious time is taken up caring for the baby, and then you would wish you hadn't married before you had completed your home church work.
Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere
Those of you who understand the importance of the home church as your immediate business before your physical children arrive, I praise you and your ability to understand.
In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere
In this area you will create your Cain-type home, and then after that you are entitled to create your Abel-type home. Once you find your Cain tribe you will establish your Abel tribe. Even if your ancestral lineage is inferior to that of people in your home church area, you will still receive greater blessing than anyone in your area because you set the necessary condition there. When the blessing comes to you upon this foundation and you have children, they will receive more abundant blessing than anyone in home church.
The restoration process in the fallen world is one of three major divisions of Cain and Abel, husband and wife, and parents, but now we are bringing these three together for the first time. Home church is the process of uniting the brothers, Cain and Abel. Your home church and your mate's home church will come together eventually, and you will become a couple after receiving accolades from your home church. Upon that foundation you will join as husband and wife. There are universal implications in two home church areas uniting together.
When you are united as husband and wife upon this home church foundation and have children, you move upward to the parent level. Your children will come upon the foundation of the home church success and all your labor there will be reaped by them. In that case you truly have a foundation where you can receive God's blessing abundantly. Because the Cain-Abel separation has already been made in the home church and there is no stain remaining, you can offer your children as a pure offering to God. Then God will gladly embrace you and your children. Unless you stand victorious in home church, however, you will leave that duty and responsibility to your children, who will then have to go through that tribulation themselves.
Only upon the victorious foundation of home church can you as men and women bear sinless children, just as perfected Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden would have born sinless children. No one shall be able to come against that pure child. You must fulfill all these conditions before God's Blessing comes to you to be husband and wife.
We can conclude that the more you are oppressed and persecuted, the happier you will be and the more you will gain. You suffer more because you want to make your Blessing more precious, for it is your added suffering that will make your qualification more precious, and your diamond more polished. All your suffering and tribulation can be vindicated by having your mate; this one Blessing alone can make it all worthwhile. Your husband or wife is far more precious than your home church, and if you can give anything for your home church then how much more could you do for your mate? Since you are already trained by serving your 360 homes, you can be even more serving to your own husband or wife.
In your 360 homes you are withstanding all kinds of persecution, yet even if all your people come against you, you still love them. If later God uses your husband or wife to give you a hard time, what would you do? Would you say you could not stand it and shove him out the door? You are already withstanding so much now that when some hardship appears within your own family it will be nothing in comparison. You are absolutely loyal to each other and you are willing to do whatever your husband or wife wants. . . .
I want you to feel that home church is a training ground for your future married life, and that all the people coming against you are in a position to train you to live with your future spouse and in-laws.
True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere
After the crucifixion, the Holy Spirit came down and worked together with Jesus, and salvation work began through the Trinity. By the same token, a husband and wife working together are almost like Jesus united with the Holy Spirit, in a physical sense, going to home church to do the work of salvation. You should be able to say to your fiancée or spouse, "I love home church better than I love you." You may not do exactly that, but at least you know it.
In order to make a cold place hot, you have to become like burning charcoal. Would you grumble and fight with your husband or wife and then finally go to home church, or would you unite with each other and then go to home church? Husband and wife should chase each other out to home church. Pray together and go to home church, come back and pray more. Don't pray alone, but with each other. Your wife may say, "I need a little more sleep, you go ahead and pray," but don't give up; wake her up, pat her, shake her -- whatever technique you have -- make her come and pray with you. That is the most important thing: to pray together.
Why should husband and wife act together? Because when home church becomes successful, you should celebrate together, rejoice together. If the husband is celebrating but the wife's conscience hurts, she cannot laugh with him.
So you women like dramatic men, and you men like dramatic women, with lots of talents and many experiences. Thus, if the two of you go together to home church . . . you will attract many people. You will be just like me. I am versatile and multi-talented, so you love me. By the same token, your home church people will adore you, because you are in my position when you go to home church.
Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere
. . . Furthermore, the path to restore these 360 homes is given to a husband and wife together. This mission is given to each couple.
There are all kinds of couples in the world. Yet each of you with your mate is a representative of all the couples of the entire world. That is the role of the Messiah and the messianic family.
The worst judgment you can receive is that you as a couple, whether engaged or blessed, don't work in your 360 homes.
Father has told you very precisely time and again why you need to work within a 360 home area. If you still don' t understand, then forget it. There is no other way for you. Somebody else should just take away your 360 homes.
Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center
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The Restoration Providence and "I"
And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:39-41
Home church, where everything shall be solved, is the bridge to unite the physical and spiritual worlds.
Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere
Jesus' disciples worked for the country and the mission, but they did not have home church, so they could only reach a certain level. However, all your good ancestors over the past 2,000 years can come down and work with you, and through working with you in home church they can have instant credit. This is an incredible privilege. This is the only time the liberation of your ancestors can take place. At the same time, the path of perfection for you own descendants will be laid. Because of this condition; you can go to the real heaven, not just the conceptual heaven. if you do not do home church well, those people will blame you, and your ancestors will blame you for not doing more. They know very well what is important in spirit world. All your family, your clan and your descendants-even your country and the world-will connect to this heaven. Don't you want to have that kind of heaven? Now do you know clearly about home church?
Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, Belvedere
When you visit the 360 homes you should have the feeling of visiting your own ancestors and relatives, of going back to your own roots. Those homes in your area represent all your ancestors in spirit world. Among your 360 homes are all the generations of your ancestry; all the different combinations of your blood lineage. London has a unique combination of all races so it is really an ideal spot. This is why I insisted that everyone concentrate here and not scatter all around England. You have many, many relatives all around the world, and even though you don't know what your lineage is I have reached out and brought them into your homes.
Knowing that these 360 homes represent your ancestors and relatives, you have to be determined to hold on to them and restore them all one by one, never letting go. You should have a real fear of failing to do that. If God could do it all by Himself it would be easy but man has to do some of the work, although God pioneers it. God is always following man around, so from the moment you wake up you must be focused on your people. Some people will persecute you and others will welcome you. You should feel grateful to experience God's heart whenever you face opposition and persecution. Even if it is so bad that you cannot do your work you must feel grateful for that. You have the opportunity to experience some of God's pain and by going through it you establish the condition to pay the indemnity of the past.
Be determined to find three families first, then 12, 72 and finally 360. Everything will revolve around that number. The first three will be the most difficult to find but once they come you have a foundation for 12, and then getting 72 will be much easier. Once you meet the requirement of 84 then 360 will quickly come in, all at one time. Do you have time to rest in the park or to go shopping often? Everyone must work with his full heart and dedication. The fact that you are here with me in the right circumstances to do this work is something to wonder at. What you are doing now is not to save other people but so that you can live.
Since I have already told you to work here like this, heaven has already prepared the way for you. You can be very strong with anyone who is opposing you. It is vital that you speak emphatically with such people; you can even be angry with them. This is the perfect time to work hard. If this had happened a year ago you would not have been protected when I came, but now all kinds of controversy is starting. God is handing everything to you at one time.
It says in the Bible that when Mary Magdalene saw Jesus after he had risen from the dead she tried to touch him but Jesus refused her. Jesus had to lay the foundation first of 12, 72 and 84. Only on that basis could he receive his wife. Since he had not done that yet he could not go near even as close a follower as Mary.
You never knew all these details until tonight, but you did know that you were supposed to find one person per month, didn't you? You can even bring 84 people in seven months. it's only a matter of your desire. If you think that seven months is too long then you should be able to accomplish everything in forty days. You know now why you are going to witness to so many people; it is not to make the Unification Church prosperous but for your own individual merit. It is absolutely necessary to understand this. None of the millions of Christians on earth knows this. Do you think God will give them even more blessing then? However humble Unification Church members may be, if they understand all this then God will really treasure them, regardless of how feeble they are.
It is on this foundation that the Second Advent can materialize and on that basis your marriage will become possible. Have you been qualified up to now to be in that situation? Are you going to be qualified? You have the chance to be in that position because God and the True Parents have already done it. When the going becomes difficult do you remember that fact in gratitude or do you complain? . . .
Your real ancestors will live because of this and if you make this foundation your children will prosper, as well as your country. There is only one thing we have to do and as a result everyone will benefit.
The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London
Twenty years are the key. Six thousand years hinge upon twenty years, and 2,000 years of Christian history also hinge upon twenty years. If you look from God's point of view at all the failures of history, you would also feel that He must devise a solution and find a breakthrough. What is that solution? The greatest contribution I have made is giving you this great opportunity to overcome the 6,000 year old obstacles. No one could cross them all in an entire lifetime until I made the superhighway, with a special mode of transportation to cross over the whole thing in twenty years. Without cost I want to give it to you.
It has taken my whole lifetime to devise that highway, but I give it away for free. In doing so I can say that my whole life has been lived for you. If you just take off on your own you will never make it. Because I knew this, I have been leading you to the highway. We have a specific goal of breaking down all the boundaries in 360 homes in seven years. By doing it in home church you are actually doing it for the entire world.
No one has known how to start work of such gigantic scope, but I have made the solution small enough to see and finish in your lifetime. It won't even take your lifetime, but only seven years. Once my reputation has been changed and I am accepted, home church may not even take seven years, but only seven months. If you succeed in your 360 homes, you have the credential to go anywhere in the world, because your home church is the microcosm of the world. If you can make those homes your home, you can make the world your home. They comprise the launching pad for your Apollo 11. The real Apollo 11 landed only on the moon. but your Apollo 11 will land in heaven.
Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere
Are you fearful of this seven-year course? It is almost like an immunization. You must be given the shot. There is no way to by-pass it. Don't try to find a shortcut. Don't be wishy-washy.
All of us are like lepers. There is only one cure. It is perseverance, living through the seven-year course. That alone shall cure you of leprosy. That is the absolute condition. We must learn how realistic this is.
Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center
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Tribal Messiah
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:3
Your first step is to become true children, and then later the True Parents will elevate you into the position of parent. You must set the right condition and prove yourself worthy and qualified to inherit parenthood. Each one of you is a small-scale messiah and you must show to the world that you love God and mankind more than anyone else in history. You must create your own world microcosm because the entire world is too gigantic to deal with. God makes restoration easier by creating a small world of home church in which you will find your true individual, family, tribe, clan and everything. By loving that small world, you can say you have loved the entire world.
The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere
The Messiah pays the debt, so all you have to do is harvest the fruit. Then the title of tribal messiah shall come to you. By using the same formula and tactics you will become a messiah. The only difference between me and you will be that I lived my entire life in a bloody fight, but you will achieve the goal by receiving welcome. Because I paid the price and destroyed the satanic power, you can be welcomed as you become a tribal messiah.
Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere
Your home church area is a little world which represents the entire fallen world and history in miniature form. When you win your battle there, God will consider that you have won the entire battle and inherited my victorious tradition on the universal level. Your goal, then, is to become a tribal messiah to home church. When there are home messiahs, then tribal messiahs under the worldwide Messiah, all shall be accomplished and fulfilled.
The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center
If you work successfully in 360 homes where 12 nationalities are represented it is as if the world would welcome you. When you go back to your own country your people will welcome you. You yourself come in the position of messiah, not of the world, yet, but at clan level, to your own family and your own relatives.
Father Speaks to the Crusade
5.9.78, London
Just finishing elementary school takes six years of daily attendance. Do you think home church is comparable even to elementary school? It is the school for becoming a messiah. Think of how important it is. Even though you might attend it your entire life, you must give your heart and soul because you could not have any better school. Even though you have only 360 homes, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire universe.
The Importance of Prayer
4.15.79, Belvedere
Home church is surrounded by a spiritual foundation. The Messiah is the person who brings the spiritual victory and spiritual heaven down to earth to create physical heaven. Since you are a middleman or bridge to transmit the Messiah's work to your home church, you are his ambassador, and therefore, when you fulfill your mission you become messiah to your own tribe.
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
On the clan level, when the central family imparts good influence to the others, the clan level of messiah is fulfilled. When there is a central clan which is the subject of goodness within a society or nation, the national level of messiah is fulfilled. The same thing must happen on the level of world and cosmos.
Do we have our own nation within the Unification Church? We have achieved the clan level, but not yet the national level. At this time, we are in the process of elevating our level of messiah to the level of the nation. This is the role of home church. We are making the base of the tribal messiahship within America. All over the nation, there are clusters of tribes fulfilling this role. We are doing this in every nation of the world, so eventually one nation will emerge totally successful in the home church dispensation. At that point, the national level of messiah will be born. By the same manner, we will move on to the worldwide level. We are working on many levels at the same time -- individual, family, tribal -- with the goal of moving up to the national level in one country where the messiah can be accepted.
The Present Situation, Centering Upon the Will of God
5.23.82, Belvedere
By winning victory in the home church mission you are winning the position of parent and messiah, becoming first a tribal messiah, then a national messiah. The Unification Church is spearheading the messianic movement, proclaiming it everywhere in the world. At this time messiahs are going everywhere in the world.
The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere
The Unification Church is bound together by the father-son relationship, but our purpose is not to advance the well-being of the Church. We are here to accomplish something greater for the sake of the world and cosmos. I always teach you to sacrifice yourselves to help the nation and God, never to live for the prosperity of the Unification Church. if we truly practice this ideology then it has to become the central theme of the world. Then we can use the Unification Church as a ladder, going all the way to the top with the same principle. You are working toward being tribal messiahs, then national and world messiahs, all the way to God.
The Importance of Prayer
4.15.79, Belvedere
God wanted to create the Kingdom of Heaven in the garden of Eden by uniting three generations, with God as grandfather, Adam and Eve as father and mother, and their children. In the home church crusade you represent the Messiah, so you represent God. The home church children have their own natural parents, and when they are united with you, it resembles God's original intention for the garden of Eden. This is how we came to have the terminology of becoming a tribal messiah. Then God's dispensation can be consummated. The endless conflict between good and evil will end with this consummation.
Territory of Goodness
10.14.79, World Mission Center
The task before you is to become the tribal messiah. How incredible it is for you to become a messiah, especially on the national and world levels. Our mission is to restore the homeland.
Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere
How is achievement made in home church? On one side, God is putting all His focus on your home church work and on the other, Satan is trying to thwart you. However, Satan cannot stop you from achieving results. Never before in history has there been the chance for Satan to be completely eradicated from the clan level. Home church is your clan level of messiahship. As the messiah of your area, what is your qualification? Your only qualification is that you represent God's providence and dispensation in history.
In the position of the clan messiah, you stand upon all the indemnity of history and the True Parents. The clan messiah is the branch of the tree, which is the True Parents. As long as you are a part of the True Parents, resembling their nature and living within a give-and-take relationship with them, that small branch will grow.
Within your home church area, your roots will appear. Each house in the 360 homes will be one root. Perhaps the people living in each house of the 360 will try to uproot you from their homes. Even if they all get together and try to remove you, if you do not budge, it will be because you have secured the ground and your roots are firm. Even if the trunk of the tree breaks in half, as long as the roots remain in the ground the tree will stay alive.
Once the True Parents plant something in your area, no power can root it out. No power of Satan can damage that root. Someone can follow you and continue your work if you have to leave. God will automatically protect that root.
Your own roots are your ancestry in spirit world, and even if Satan tries to pull up those roots, he can never do it. Your branch is your physical clan on the earth. The roots of both the physical and spiritual worlds are in home church.
Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere
You might die in the process of shedding tears and sweat, but don't worry; you will not lose, but will be in the highest heaven. In that case you can make you own second coming. Jesus was crucified as a tribal messiah and was not able to complete the entire dispensation, so he came once again. in the same way, if as a tribal messiah you are martyred, your second coming is guaranteed, and on earth the people who inherit your mission will continue home church. There is no way you can lose.
So far I have preached many times about home church, but now it has come to the ultimate level. When you hear this you have to become crazy about home church. Your position is like Jesus', that of a tribal messiah crying out in the wilderness. Just as God prepared John the Baptist to testify to Jesus, God will also send a John the Baptist ahead of you to testify about you. It is hidden now, but in your area there are people prepared, just as God prepared the nation of Israel.
Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere
Until now, God and the Abel world have been on the defensive, and the world of Cain has been on the offensive. However, from this time forward it will be the other way around. For the first time in history on the world level, the Abel groups will become united with the parents' position, that is, True Parents and God.
After the Abel forces and the Parents become one, Cain's world will have no power. Jesus couldn't win the unity of his Cain and Abel tribes. However, you are inheriting the ability to bring Cain and Abel into unity on the tribal level; this is not because of anything you have done, but because of the accomplishments of the True Parents. Nonetheless, it is still legitimately yours.
Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere
I am looking for one person: the champion of home church. Whoever consummates the home church dispensation shall truly be recognized as the tribal messiah and will issue invitations to Mother and me to come to the first completed home church on earth. I am looking forward to that home church and am anxious to see whether it will come in Japan, Korea, or America.
Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center
When you go to your home church and get pushed down and pushed out, without any vacation, would you complain? There you will receive a certificate of tribal messiahship.
History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center
The time will come when there are so many people in the Unification Church that there won't be enough homes for everyone to have 360 homes. Then the extra people will have to go to Africa and find 360 homes there. if you don't do home church well then people won't welcome you in their homes and will look for someone better to be their messiah. They will kick you out and get a messiah who practices what I am teaching.
Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere
Home church will make you a tribal messiah, but are you going out with a messiah's heart? Do you look for someone to help you and give you something, or do you feel that you are the messiah who will bring whatever your 360 homes need? You are going to home church to give, not receive.
The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere
You are independent messiahs, and whatever you do is your own responsibility. You are to bring the Kingdom of Heaven in home church.
The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center
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Eternity
Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:18
Once you follow the principle of home church and are successful you can leave it behind. Everyone goes to spirit world; when you go there you have to belong somewhere so you need to be able to point out your tribe and family. This is your identity. As it is written, whatever is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven. As the tribes are organized through home churches, the organization of spirit world will truly begin for the first time. This is heavenly law. The responsibility of faithfully observing the law is the responsibility of the citizens and especially the leader of the country.
Unification Church and Heavenly Law
3.1.79, Belvedere
Where is the Kingdom of Heaven? When Jesus was asked that question, he said that the Kingdom is in the midst of you, in your heart. That is why the Kingdom of Heaven is in home church; you must unlock it there. Jesus left the key to the Kingdom to Peter, to unlock the Kingdom on earth. What you leave untied in home church will be left untied in heaven; as many doors as you open in home church will be opened in heaven. What you do in home church will be to your credit in spirit world.
I am not the one who decides whether you go to heaven or hell; you alone decide. I cannot say a word unless you have won on your own merit. I think Bo Hi Pak has an advantage over you; his face is well-known from the battles he has fought with me, so even if he starts home church three years after you, I think he will overtake you.
There are no exceptions; Bo Hi Pak, or not, everyone has to do home church to get into heaven. Even if he goes to the gates of heaven and says he is qualified to enter because he was my interpreter, if he cannot show the key then he cant get in. Even if you have taught workshops, and lectured all over the world, if you don't have the home church key, you won't be accepted.
Even the 36 couples have to have the home church key to enter heaven. This is why I always tell them not to think about settling down, but to be heavenly-gypsies all the time, living out of suitcases. Once you settle down it is hard to get moving again.
Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere
If you do not do well in home church, it will not matter how well you have done in the past, or whatever else you accomplish in the future. Without actually doing home church, there is no way for you to go to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center
Once you complete home church successfully, God will recognize you as having completed the necessary course of Abel. God wants to give you credit, and once you qualify he can use you anywhere He wants to. You have to win the hearts of 360 people; without going through home church successfully you cannot go to heaven. Belief in the Messiah won't be enough to bring you to heaven. You have to believe and then act before you can be saved.
The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere
Home church is the dividing way between heaven and hell. Those who fail and cannot go to heaven will say, "Oh, Father, why did you create home church? If you hadn't created home church I would not have had to go to hell." I will not say anything because members in the spirit world who worked hard in home church will blame them for saying that. They will say, "I am one example. I did just as Father told me to do and became successful, and so I could come to heaven."
The Public Way and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere
Temptation is waiting everywhere to block you through your body. I am not just trying to convince you so you'll work harder for me. This is the only viable principle, and it has been upheld by the entire universe and spirit world. Spirit world will be your judge. They know I am qualified, and now they are watching you to see how you are living. The Book of Revelations talks about the 144,000 who will welcome the Lord and be lifted up into heaven. if we have that many home churches here in America then we could almost cover the entire nation.
Home church is the place where you overcome the stony path of death. This is the one subject you must consummate in your lifetime. Without it, there is no room to be accepted in heaven. When you want to visit me or my family in heaven, it will be impossible until you meet the standard of home church. That is your 5% responsibility It doesn't have to take seven years; if you do well it could be done in seven months.
Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere
Home church is upon your shoulders. When would you unload this burden? This burden will never leave your back. Even if you die, this burden will still be with you. What will you do in this case?
When you go to the spiritual world, you will be stuck. Without fulfilling the condition of home church, you will be stuck. That is the Principle. It would not be fair if everyone could just automatically pass into heaven whether or not he did home church.
Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center
If you really love your area, will your people have to untie your connection to them when you go to spirit world? Make sure that they won't complain that you are leaving them before you finished home church and prepared them to do home church also.
When Satan will taunt you, asking why you never carried out what I said, how will you answer? Could I tell Satan he should not bother you because you are a Church member? Or would I have nothing to say, since you did not follow the Principle? Then you will ask me why I didn't press you more often to do home church. Will I agree I should have done more, or will I only leave? I know very well how fearful that situation is, and that's the last thing I want to have happen between you and me. This is why I feel much better when I am driving you out mercilessly. Maybe after 1980 is over I won't say anything more about home church.
If you try very hard then when you die you can carry on in spirit world. But if you don' t try hard here then it will be difficult to continue in spirit world. Home church serves as a condition for you to reach out everywhere, both on earth and in spirit world. Where would you find that condition in spirit world if you haven' t done it on earth? Nowhere.
Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere
Satan can no longer accuse you then, but if you fail that mission then your home church people will be able to accuse you. Why? They will say, "You knew Reverend Moon's ideology and revelation of truth and love. Why didn't you live it? You are responsible for the fact that your 360 homes didn't have the chance to go to heaven!" I have done this work tirelessly for twenty years, and upon that foundation you can do it in seven years, or even seven months. This is why accusation will come if you do not fulfill now. Your home church people will rage at you and you will have no excuse before them. They will be your judge.
One day after we finish our task here on earth we will have a great assembly in spirit world. At that time you will come to me in thanks for sending you out to home church, making it possible for you to go to the highest possible heaven. You will be comforted and there will be a celebration lasting for eternity. You can win assets of eternal value now, but if you come to me saying, "Please have mercy on me. I can't come to your realm because I didn't do the home church mission," I will reply, "I don't know you. Depart from me."
God taught this principle to me and this is why I desperately gave my life hundreds of times over to fulfill the mission. I have clearly taught you this here on earth, and if you don't do it then in spirit world I will say to you, "Depart from me."
Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center
In our movement, we have not yet gone beyond the four-position foundation on the family level. We have blessed families, but compared with our ultimate goal, this accomplishment is really very small. Unless we accomplish the four-position foundation on all the larger levels of clan, society, nation and world, your level of freedom in spirit world will not be complete. At best, the ideal will dwell on the community level in spirit world. As we expand on the horizontal level, the corresponding areas in the vertical plane also expand. At this time, there are many borders and boundaries between areas in spirit world, much as it is here on the earth. People have been joining the Unification Church on a one-to-one basis, so far; but at this rate, how can we expand to the world level? You must understand that your responsibility is to make the four-position foundation on the family level and then expand it all the way to the highest levels. . . .
As soon as we have expanded home church all over the world, spirit world will automatically achieve the same thing. Your responsibility as Abel is to stand on the center point, guiding others and living the heavenly, vertical standard yourself. When you can do that, you inherit the position of true parent. Standing at that position, you can rest assured that you are receiving God's love, Father's love, Mother's love and the love of brothers and sisters.
Total Completion of the ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere
We walk this path for the sake of God and humanity, and for the sake of the past, present and future. Furthermore, we are going to liberate the spirit world and God Himself. Do you think the work is already completed or that this task is easy? Will that world finally come 10,000 years from now or do you want to erect it today with your own blood, sweat and tears? Why should it be now? If we lose one more year, we are actually losing 40 million people because in a year one percent of the world's population of four billion people die. All those people will end up in hell with no chance of salvation if we sit idle.
They will go to spirit world and say, "Why didn't you Moonies wake me and tell me about the Divine Principle? You didn't do your job so you are not a saint. You didn't love the world at all." We must avoid such accusations from spirit world and mankind. Therefore, while we are alive and I am here on earth, we are going to knock on every door in the world and let the news spread so that people can go to spirit world without excuse.
The providence of God has three stages: Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era. Even though people oppose you, knock on their doors and make your appeal once for the formation stage, twice for growth and a third time for perfection. If they still reject you after three times, you have fulfilled your responsibility and they can't accuse you. Even if their ancestors are good people, they can't ask why we didn't take care of their grandchildren down here on earth.
Surely we have done a super job and now we are going a step further? Not only is my name known all over the world, now we are knocking on every door. How can people say they didn't know me when I have been sending my own sons and daughters to their doorsteps? Sooner or later these people will end up in spirit world and then they will know the truth because in spirit world they cannot hide from the truth. They will know that this was the only way for ultimate salvation and that, although they had the chance because we knocked on their doors three times, they rejected us. They will grieve, "Even though the humble Moonies came to my door, I didn't know they were the greatest of all saints. I had the chance to associate with them but I was not humble enough."
Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere
If you really work hard in home church, wherever you go in spirit world you can call out to your home church members and you will never be lonely. in fact, you won't even have to call them; they will already have created a fanfare to welcome you.
Victor of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82. World Mission Center
I would like to keep a record in my own notebook of successful home church #1, #2, #3, and #4. How many numbers would you like to have? You won't see that notebook here on earth, but as soon as you get to the spirit world you will automatically see that notebook.
If you find it and see you are number one then all your American ancestors will be shouting and dancing. God will be awakened and ask, "What are you doing down there?" and you will reply, "Father, come and dance with us. America has the number one home church and did the number one job."
Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center
I am the judge of this competition and I will go all over the world to find the best one. Will that title of best in home church last through eternity? The entire spirit world will erupt in recognition and there will be a great celebration there, with the ancestors of that person rejoicing and telling everyone their good news. Once you have that title, all your ancestors will claim relationship with you, no matter how distantly related they are, trying to link up with you for some benefit.
What Kind of Thought Do You Have?
6.10.79, Belvedere
When I die do you think my own children would take me to the homeland to be buried, or would people from all over the world participate to glorify my work and bury me? All Unification Church members will mourn me. If you live and die like that then when you are elevated to spirit world you can say you have lived for the world, giving your life for all people. There will be proof to be seen because when you live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.
When you go to heaven, God will say, "I want to show your record of home church to the people here in heaven." Then He will push a button and your home church movie will be on the screen. There will be no comparison to "Superman." You have been hit, kicked and spit upon, knocked unconscious; you prayed and struggled. The audience in spirit world will cry. Then finally God will begin to cry.
Let us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere
Unless you pass the test of deeds, you shall not enter the gate of Heaven. There is no boundary or nationality in spirit world -- no American heaven or Korean heaven. All are mingled as one race, and everyone is measured by the same criterion -- how much you fulfill true love. In your 360 homes you are in the center of God's love, bringing it to them as though you were ringing a bell. Everyone will start to move when that bell of God's love rings. By doing so you are demolishing all the barriers that have surrounded God for thousands of years. That is your true happiness and blessing. You are planting the root in home church, and when you go to spirit world you can deal with 360 peoples and races and denominations. You will be a universal person.
Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere
How do we go to Heaven in spirit world? On the basis of home church. You must leave love behind you so that the home church people will be eager for you to come again. Once you leave the foundation of that love behind you, even though you have gone to spirit world you can come back and start working again in the spiritual way.
Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere
The ultimate goal and the most joyful day that God can remember will be the day when His sons and daughters can be born into total life; this will be God's ultimate fulfillment. Throughout history, God has wanted to tell people this one message: we should have no fear of death, for once we go beyond it, we will receive eternity. The Unification Church was born to consummate this teaching of God and to practice it; the place where we must practice it is home church. Thus, the title of this New Year's message is: Victory of Home Church.
Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center
When you harbor the noble, harmonizing dream of love on this earth, you will be lifted up into limitless freedom in spirit world. What thoughts come first into your mind? When the thoughts of loving others come first, the doors of spirit world open up and you can reach God. You will have the entire spirit world as your domain and you will be totally free in the universe. It won't matter where you go, for doors will automatically be opened everywhere. The more you suffer for other people here on earth, the greater will be your welcome in spirit world. The ancestors of people who benefited from you will give you a ticker-tape parade when you arrive there, and the relatives of those who mistreated you will be apologetic.
The Unification Church is not just an earthly entity, but a universal entity embracing the spirit world and physical world together. Unless we can bring liberation to both of them, unification is not possible. For this goal, we shall lay the necessary foundation in our daily lives. The home church providence operates according to this principle; you give love through sacrificial service, and every door will be opened to you. You are not dealing with simple individuals in your home church area, but with a microcosm of the whole world.
Noble Dream
12.1.81, Belvedere
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Society and World Affairs
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
Matthew 24: 6-8
The communists are determined to destroy the free world and take over, but we will save the free world and also the communist world. That is our goal. The Unification movement is here for re-creation. The original will of God was corrupted, so we are here to re-create the world. We are that force and movement which will liberate the entire world centered on the true love of God. Our method is home church, through which you can contact everyone.
Today we declare the beginning of the second 21-year course, in which we shall become superior in every way over the evil ideology of communism. Our goal is to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and in order to do that we must liberate mankind from sin. We are committed to rise to the challenge without compromise. If you promise that to me, raise your hand. We'll see you in Moscow.
The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center
The communists' goal is always clear -- world domination -- and they are united in that purpose. But the nations on God's side are divided and uncertain. God cannot allow this situation to continue so He raised up Reverend Moon and Unification Church to regroup the forces in the free world and win against communism. The communists seem to be winning, gaining more territory and people every day, but we are winning spiritually. We are not alone, for the entire spirit world is with us. Which population is bigger, spirit world or people living in the world today?
God is watching this tug of war and eventually He will judge who has won. We are on good speaking terms with that judge! God is saying now that He wants us to prove how much we love mankind and show Him that our love is greater than the communists'. Then He can give us the victory.
God is sending us out to home church, to the very family units the communists are trying to destroy. We are making the home the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. The communists know they must destroy two targets -- the church and the family -- in order to conquer mankind. But God's side is the champion for both home and church in our system of home church. We are now approaching the terminal of God's dispensation.
The First Day and Our Lifetime
2.2.79
You should know that your three seven-year courses start on my victorious foundation on the world level; you are not starting all over again where I did. America knows what I did, so you are working on an elevated level compared to my initial position. From this time on it is definite that communism will decline; when the three key nations of Korea, Japan and America really become one, Russia will quickly decline. This unity will not happen automatically, so who will bring it about? No other Christians have this vision, so the Unification Church must do it. . . .
You should know clearly that the past year marked the end of the period when the Christian nation and world came against us, and now the second three seven-year courses mark the time when nations will unite to fight, and form one free world. Right now only Moonies are willing to fight communism. Even though people don't like us now, because we are effective fighters against communism they will have to come to our side. Fighting against communism will automatically bring the free nations into one.
We are liberating Jesus and liberating God, and liberating the world. Who will lead the world after communism is stopped? The world needs the guiding thought of Unificationism. From 1981 a fierce battle will begin to eliminate the power of communism from the earth. Everything has a time when its fortune is rising or declining. When the fortunes of communism are rising, it is more difficult to suppress, but when its fortunes are declining it will easily tumble down.
Christmas in View of the Will of God
12.25.80, World Mission Center
. . . Korea has a two-fold problem today; one is communism, the other is the United States. Korea is hanging in the balance. The Unification Church has the same two problems, so Korea and Unification Church are really on common ground. The United States is the key to solving these two problems. If Korea and the Unification Church and America can become one, then the entire world can come into oneness. The spiritual, internal conditions are all set, and now the important thing is to translate them into a physical victory. If America can openly welcome me then communism will no longer be a problem.
This is why I came to America to build a base. Even though America has been hostile to me, I have stayed to build that base. President Carter is the 39th president, so the most crucial presidency is coming up. You know the number forty is important; if the next president will truly grab God and stand on His Principle then the world can be changed. If President Carter had done that then the world would not have been overrun by communism as it has. But now President Carter has been beset by so many problems that he hardly has strength to stand. . . .
This is the most crucial and exciting time in America's history, for if you become one with me you can ignite the nation. All you have to do is ignite the spiritual bombs which are ready and you will take off. Our ignition is true sacrifice, and the atomic bomb is home church. All the boundaries you can think of can be eliminated at one stroke. Our Unification Church mission is elimination of all boundaries for the sake of the world. Our job is unification of the world through home church.
Cross over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere
When the time inevitably comes that the American nation will respect and support me, then our target will become international communism. Even now, what looks like opposition from the American government is actually opposition from agents of communist power infiltrated into the departments of government and Congress. They are creating this atmosphere of condemnation of the Unification Church.
Nevertheless, they will not ultimately succeed; America is basically anticommunist because America loves freedom. When Reverend Moon and the Unification Church emerge in the public mind as champions to fight communism, the American public will naturally support us as their champions. I knew from the beginning that this was our destiny, so I initiated the victory over communism movement in Korea and Japan and now here in America, with our final goal as Moscow. Now you know where you are and what you are supposed to do.
We must be superior to any religious organization in America; our CARP movement should be superior to any youth movement here and our home church system stronger than any other Christian movement in the last 2000 years. Communism is the archenemy of democracy and freedom, but mainly the enemy of God. Furthermore, the moral degradation of American youth must be cleansed. That's why I have been educating you through the Divine Principle, so you are strong and capable, and your moral outlook is secure, pure and God-centered. That is our strength.
True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center
Let's say America has seventy million families now. Divided by 360, that's 200,000. If we have 200,000 active members then home church will touch all seventy million American homes and teach them. Then communism can be stopped.
You should know everything about your home area -- who is a good Christian, who has what job, what sympathies people have. Government agencies cannot stop communism. It can be done only through person-to-person contact. This way we can protect American homes from satanic invasion and discourage young people from using drugs and from bad practices of every kind. We can stop the collapse of the Christian spirit. If you are successful in home church and the neighborhood churches are empty because people find nothing there, you can preach in those buildings to a jam-packed congregation.
Our objective is to teach Americans to repent for not understanding Heaven before now. Don't you think that America and the world should do that as well as Unification Church members? We are doing home church to protect what is left of the family. We should not let American families slide further into chaos, but protect them and bring them into harmony to rescue the young people from decadence so that America can survive as a nation. We can expose the communists and their activities and bring community disapproval down on them.
Nothing very complicated need happen. If Christians are willing to realize that their doctrines are incomplete and will simply open their minds to new knowledge then it may only take seven days or even seven hours for them to change. Home church is the line of defense against communism; once we are organized in this way, the communists will find it difficult to move around secretly in America, which they do easily now. Do you think the State or Defense Departments can physically stop communist infiltration? Or could the President revive the sliding Christian spirit? People still listen to evangelists like Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, but every average Unification Church member knows much more than they do. Why then are you silent? Why don't you speak out with what you know? Perhaps it is because you think there is no immediate danger, but if you knew for sure what was happening in America today, you would certainly move faster than you are.
You are in the position of Abel in your home church and your people in the position of Cain, or archangel. They will not want to let you in, but tell them, "No, you need me. I am good." If you win in your area then you are safe and they are safe. But if you lose and are chased away then they will perish as well. Since you are Abel, God is right behind you and the possibility of victory is there for you. If you are educated and really understand what they need to know, then you will win each war you fight and the communists will never be able to affect you; you will be superior in knowledge, spirit, thought and in practical ability.
Your home church people are your Cains and you have to win them. Home church will be like tanks when communism moves against us. The government can't stop communism because no one is dedicated enough. They think they should only sit tight. Do you think the government could win public cooperation and enthusiasm by spending billions of dollars for programs? I have been working on this problem all along, and from any point of view our solution is what America needs. It is likely that the FBI and CIA have sent people to find out what goes on in the Unification Church, but could they find anything bad about what we are doing? We are only trying to protect America; if we don't then the communists will catch this nation. It's as simple as that. Don't you think home church is necessary?
If the Unification Church wins then we will see the remaining barriers begin to fall and the world's people can come much, much closer. This is the last major battle. If Abel wins then the historical war will be finished. In the seven years after 1980 we will launch an all-out war, not just guerrilla fighting. It will be a war of thought, not guns. If we win that war then we can stem the tide of decline and turn America in the right direction, guaranteeing America immense prosperity.
Do you understand now about the position of America? Clearly America is in danger, and do you know what we are going to do about it? The basic element is home church, and when that is done in meaningful numbers then even if the communists sweep this country they can be stopped. If they come before that happens. however, it will be too late.
The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere
Home church is being done even in the communist world and nothing can stop it. The communists are trying to tear it apart, but to no avail. Eventually the communists will capitulate voluntarily as they are won over by the spirit of truth and love given by you.
Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere
Military power will never stop the spread of communism; the battle must be won within communities and families. Only through home church can you defeat the influence of communism. If you have a good foundation in your area, you will know immediately if anyone comes into your community trying to preach communism. You will be able to prevent such unwholesome influences from invading your area.
Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere
Satan knows that this is the most critical and final showdown. If the home church crusade is succeeding then there is no more room for Satan. He must, then, become very strong. If we can go anywhere, including the communist world, doing home church, then that will be the concluding chapter. Satan Js fighting desperately to oppose you. He is having to fight very harsh opposition: us. He is putting up the final offensive battle. In the end, the communists will be used by Satan. That's by far the worst Satan to come in front of us.
World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center
Once the home church foundation is established on the clan level, the nation will be automatically protected. How does it work? Satan must go away once Cain humbles himself to Abel; he has no place to dwell when that happens. All over the free world, home church will become successful.
As soon as Abel becomes one with the parents, on the foundation of his unity with Cain, Satan will have to be expelled. Right now, we are in the process of making that Abel-parental unity. This is why we are working so hard to do home church and unite Cain and Abel clans. Once unity is achieved in your home church area, the whole free world will quickly be united with the parents. The free world will be entirely different at that time. Once the home church foundation is successful, the rest of the world will have to follow and success in the communist world will be simple.
As you know, we are dwelling in a new era which was proclaimed on February 22, 1977. Since then the Abel world and the parents have come to the verge of unity; it will happen very soon. Such unity will transcend all national borders. Communism will be throttled with the appearance of home church unity. Communist forces have been unable to expand very much at all since 1977; also, they have been experiencing more and more corruption and breakdown within their societies. On the contrary, we will be experiencing more and more of a revival.
Although the secular free world is also becoming corrupted and is declining at this time, there are some elements within the free world that are reviving and prospering. The element which is reviving is the home church world; it will become more and more prosperous, while every other aspect of the secular world will decline more and more.
Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere
Can anyone remove the chapter of American history that I have written here? Later on in history this teaching will shine even more brilliantly because it is God's Principle, not mine. This is why I am pushing you out to home church, the world where you will become a tribal messiah. The entire universe is ready for restoration but the center is empty. The whole environment is ready for the Kingdom, but the very essence is non-existent.
The relationship of parents and children is confused and the relationship of men and women here in America is void because tremendous chaos and confusion persist. The vertical father-son relationship is not clear and the horizontal man-woman relationships are all confused, so all other relationships are entangled and confused as well. That is the state of this society at this time. We need a policeman to guide all this traffic to the one vertical line where it can all be organized. . . .
Love of God is the key: when you have that you have everything and need nothing else. First there is the vertical relationship of True Parents and true children, and the horizontal relationships you have with each other. We are engaged in many activities and there is nothing we do not do. Many segments are needed to make a complete circle, so we are doing all kinds of things. Because our radius of activity is so wide, some things may appear to be unrelated to the overall goal, but actually it is all part of the same horizontal line of true love.
Home church is our system for filling the void in society. If all of your 360 homes are realigned in this vertical love relationship, would it be a noteworthy happening in America that would draw much attention? It would be like a volcanic explosion, a panacea for society's ills made visible, and in every state people would try to make it work. Many people in history will start out in home church and compete to see who becomes the tribal messiah first. This is the one way we can make unification of the world possible without fighting and killing.
What Kind of Thought Do You Have?
6.10.79, Belvedere
You may feel uneducated and simple, but you can't help but feel very insecure at the course America is taking. There is no intelligent reason to be optimistic. All the newspaper reports are bad. But if this can be stopped quickly and if America can be turned around as a result of what you are doing now, can you refuse to do this? Let's put it another way: sooner or later people will have to recognize that everything is hopeless and no one is doing anything meaningful about this country except the Unification Church. When that happens, you will be the flag bearers and then Americans will ask, "You are the members of the Unification Church. What do you think we should do?" Then you won't have to lecture them but just tell them, "I have been doing the home church, loving the people and teaching them." If you do that, America and the world will come alive once more. Your work won't stop there but will expand and expand to include spirit world.
. . . If everyone does that in America, this country will live. Senators and Congressmen don't have to make long studies about the problem of how to benefit America. They don't have to go to schools and study for years. All they need to do is turn their eyes toward home church and the Unification Church members will show them the way. If they follow that pattern all throughout the United States, this country will live.
. . . You must understand this message and try hard so that when you go to spirit world you will have something to report to Heavenly Father. Without doing that, there is nothing you can say in the spirit world. We have to try and try to set a condition to gain more time for America and let God take care of the result. Keep asking God to postpone the end of America for one year or two years. "During this year I will commit myself totally and get things done in America." We must pray that way to God, asking for an extension.
There is no other way I can explain why we must do home church and what the result will be. Now it is up to you to digest and carry out. Your success will be America's success and God's success. If the Unification Church fails, you can imagine the future of America in a few years. Maybe you can say that America will fade away just as it was suddenly born 200 years ago, but the world will die also if America fails. At least be responsible for the world. Where will God go, where will Christians and religious people go in the face of communism? I have been telling you again and again that this is the most critical year in all of human history. What does it mean? This is a year of indemnity. By doing home church the right way, we will make up for all the failures of the Unification Church.
We often hear about emergencies in the world, but now this country is in such an emergency that martial law should be declared. Will I say it is not necessary to do anything, as though this were peacetime?
I urge you to understand this situation very clearly and to make the foundation for the world's eternal happiness through pioneering home church. Everywhere you go, throw the bomb of love and ignite the people's minds, giving them hope. Show them the way to live.
Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere
When I go into New York City I don't concentrate on the skyscrapers. Instead I notice the dirty, dark alleys; the places where the Mafia and the drug addicts are working; I see where the prostitutes and thieves work. My thinking is, "How can I clean up those things?" Isn't it true that somebody has to clean up those things? Should I just leave them alone, or should I do something about them? That's why you are asked to go and do home church. If there are 1,000 evil-doers in your home church area when you first get here, one year later by your example and service you can reduce that number to 800. The second year you can reduce them to 500; the third year, 200. Finally, by the fifth year, there will be no one in your area who is doing evil. You can serve the elderly people in your area. Do their laundry, cook for them, clean their houses for them. I have done such things myself.
Wanting to Live in the Kingdom of Heaven
12.20.81, Belvedere
If you brought people from the street for ten years, how many would actually remain? You could never be a mayor or Senator on that foundation because people would soon forget you. Direct mail is also an efficient method, but it is too costly. For the time being we don't have the budget, so it has been temporarily discontinued, but we will resume when there is money for it. Once home church is successful, direct mail will be very, very effective. This strategy would work in any city. If the leader in Chicago, for instance, does that, he has a good chance to run for political office.
Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere
America has many strong defense tactics, but there are many things they have no way to control. There are many problems in this country, such as youth alienation, drug abuse, and family breakdown. How can this country possibly solve these fundamental problems without the help and guidance of the Unification Church? Do you really know this reality? You must go beyond just mentally understanding something; you must know and you must act. You must deeply realize the importance of doing home church.
Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere
In the United States, the government is in the Cain position, while Christianity is in the Abel position. Only through the unity of these two positions can this country be acceptable to God. Today, on the contrary, the United States government is dominating Christianity and this is the opposite of what should be happening. The communist world, which denies God, is in the position of the Cain world and the free world is in the position of the Abel world. The Unification Church is in the mother's position, so we are supposed to embrace both sons: the Abel, democratic world and the Cain, communist world. By doing so, the world can accept the Messiah; it can welcome the universal parent.
That has not been done very successfully, so, for that reason, we have to make the foundation from the very bottom. The very bottom is home church, then progressing to tribe church, nation church, and world church. Who has to do this? The Unification Church is committed to doing this, but I have already fulfilled those levels.
Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center
I am sending you out to bear your own fruit in home church. The worst wars in history began with tribal wars; so unless we indemnify tribal war, we cannot indemnify national war. Therefore, you are doing this in home church. By setting up your Cain-type home church and later your Abel-type home church, you can bring them together; then the ideal shall become reality. This applies to black, white and yellow alike. Of Noah's three sons, two could not fulfill the dispensation. Shem represented the yellow race, Ham the black race, and Japheth the occidentals. Shem and Ham could not fulfill their dispensational roles at the time, so Japheth took their place. This was only because of his dispensational position, not because of his individual qualities.
White people should love black people, and both should love yellow people. All races must love each other; otherwise, racial war is inevitable, and white people would suffer the most as a result. I am determined to prevent racial war. Communism is behind the scenes pushing for global racial conflict, but we are trying to unite the races. This is why our work is going strong in South America and Africa. Who will do that unless we do it? Other Christian churches? Other religions? Many churches today are too self-centered to actively promote racial harmony. I have undertaken this most difficult job. When I first came to America, I prophesied what would happen to this nation and all of it has come true.
True Parents' Day
3.25.82, World Mission Center
In giving the love of God you should not get behind anyone. Suffer more and love them more. In that love all kinds of people and all five colors of skin are included. If you are a white brother, would you visit white people first? If you are black, do you visit in the black community? Actually, it should be the opposite. Black people should go to white homes and white people go to black homes. That is the way we can destroy all the barriers of racism.
The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24. 78, Belvedere
Instead of visiting homes of other white people, whites would rather go to Spanish homes, black homes, oriental homes. That's restoration. How much history has been moving upward!
Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere
We will create the tribe that can mobilize on the spur of the moment. Abraham was mobile, Jacob was mobile, and their families were all mobile. The Israelites in Egypt were mobile. The men of God all took off and the exodus began. In Korea I obeyed the call to go to America, an unknown, hostile land. I did not hesitate. In the same way we are going to create a tribe of people and leaders who will not hesitate to take off, whatever the command.
You are becoming the true parents of your tribes. Your people must grow in the love of God so that they can embrace the rest of the world in love, all five colors of skin. You can become the glue to put all the pieces of the world together. I organized my tribe to include not only Koreans, but everyone. In my tribe there are all the races you can think of -- black, white, yellow, red and brown. You must organize your tribe in the same tradition. When you set the goal and begin marching on, move straight. Don't be distracted by what you see on the left or on the right. If you meet a roadblock and detour around it, what will happen? Your generations will follow that same winding way. What would you do under those circumstances, being aware of the people who follow you? Take the obstacle apart rock by rock and continue forward.
We are not going to fear any obstacle, and therefore, our way of life isn't going to be easy. When God's command comes, whether 1,000 or 2,000 members in New York have to move immediately won't make any difference. We will just pack up and disperse over six continents. Don't ever think that only America is our concern. Those six continents and five oceans are all our territory.
Parents Day
4.8.78, Manhattan Center
Many movements to make external unity are coming into being, like the European Economic Community, and no power trying to block this trend of unity can succeed. America persists in being very nationalistic and the communists are increasingly protectionist, but that is not God's will. I come from Asia, but do I proclaim Asians as a superior race and discourage other races? No, we are color blind and the True Parents are parents of all races in one family. There are no barriers in the Unification Church. No one can halt this because spirit world already has its barriers broken down and the physical world is destined to reflect that.
Which race has more numbers in spirit world? Asians outnumber everyone else. If the present barriers persist then naturally the yellow race would prevail by virtue of numbers, but I don't want that to happen. I would like you to create home churches which are beyond national, racial and economic boundaries. There is one God, one family and one church. If white Americans go to Africa and create home churches then there is no way Africans can oppose that and send them away; if they do then Africa shall decline. The angelic world and Adam's world have become one already and that is the trend of the future. No one can prevail against the trend of the future and even Satan must surrender. You can go out with full conviction and confidence that ultimately you shall prevail. Trust me and you will be victorious.
The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere
Before we can have a family recognized by all, we have to have the foundation of home church. You must really know how important this is. When home church is successful in your area, gradually people will gather together and a nation will be formed, without effort from you. This is possible not only in America, but anywhere in the world. You can go to any country and start this foundation. The home church movement can be worldwide; even moving into communist countries. Externally governments may try to stop home church, but spiritually they can have no accusation.
It is very clear what we have to do now. We will be patriots of home church. Home church is the foundation to go beyond national boundaries. Only after being successful in home church are we worthy of having our rightful position in spirit world. That is the indemnity condition for you to fly up to the world level, beyond Satans accusation. By realizing the incredible significance of this time, the Unification Church members must come into unity and focus on home church as never before.
Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere
For the first time in history people came from what could be called enemy countries to serve one nation. Every country, at one time or another, has been an enemy of England. America fought the War of Independence against the British, Germany was an enemy in the Second World War, as was Japan. Every member who works in this country is from an enemy country. At no time in history has this happened. Can you say that this is a historical thing?
This is not only an event in world history, but it is also very religious. It is dispensational because Jesus taught all Christians: "Love thy enemy." This is the completion of the New Testament. On that foundation we are going to plant God's heart for the first time. Historical enemies will come to help each other. Where, then, is the worst enemy? There is no longer any worst enemy, because the enemy himself has come to work for that very country which used to be its enemy. . .
You must also understand that London fits this dispensation perfectly, because it is a cosmopolitan city. You find every type of person in London, just as in New York. Actually, 12 countries must be represented within the 360 homes to set the condition for these enemy elements to be restored and harmonized. When Father took everything into consideration, London was chosen. London is not just a local city but a city of the world, isn't it?
You came here to England. This is not just one country, really; there are people here from 12 countries, so this is like the whole world. If you win here, you have won the world, not just one country. When you go back to your respective countries, you will stand on the victorious foundation of having won the world. Then you can go and work for your country in an easier way. After you witness successfully to three people you will have established this condition; then you can go back to France or to America and make an Abel-type home church with no opposition.
Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.82, London
Here we are breaking down all the barriers of race, language and nationality. We can give up all these things because we are bound by stronger bonds and values. When you really know this as you enter your home church, all heaven and earth enter with you. This cause is worth living and dying for, worth investing your youth for. The providence is unfolding at this time in history, and somehow you are one of the first to participate. The weight of history is moving forward with you. As soon as we succeed in that territory of goodness, no more negativity will be generated by the media, by the Christians; even the communists will not affect us.
Territory of Goodness
10.14.79, World Mission Center
Our purpose is to elevate the moral standards of society, revive the churches, and stop communism. All this we accomplish through the work of home church. Then an entirely new world will emerge. There are seventy million homes in America, and divided by 360 that makes 200,000 home church areas. Is it impossible to have that many members covering the whole United States? If you witness to 100 people a day then you will only cover three billion people in 100,000 years and it would still take over 1,000 years to cover all America. But if 200,000 people do home church, all of it could realistically be done in our lifetimes.
Unless you have home church, you have nothing to do with me! It is a bridge between this world and the heavenly world, and there is no way to reach the heavenly world without crossing it. If you choose not to do it then you have to give up the heavenly world.
I expect there will be a great movement of population soon because all the home church areas will be filled and people will have to go to other countries to do this. People will emigrate by thousands to do home church. Unless you do home church well, you will have no container for the blessings God wants to give you. Satan hates home church most.
After home church is completed there will be no national boundaries and then we can live anywhere; we won' t have to stay in any country where we are unwelcome. If your home church is successful, then I wont have to prepare separately for the march on Moscow; home church will open the way for the rally in Moscow.
In spirit world I can go directly to God now. Isn't that what you would like also? I did home church on the world level, meaning that all boundaries and prejudices will disappear. Since the victory in 1976, I have talked about home church and why you must do it. When you clearly understand this, you wont need an Abel figure but can do it on your own. Otherwise, you need someone to help discipline your life. Once you finish home church, you can live anywhere in the world. This is not easy.
Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere
Now you are undertaking tribal and racial organization centering on yourself, and in doing so, finding and restoring the external Cain-type country. Then the counterpart Abel-type country will automatically be restored. If you fulfill in your external home church then the internal home church, namely your physical family, will automatically be restored.
Korea has forty million people. If sixty million home churches are done here, then automatically forty million would be done in Korea without even trying. According to the Principle, if you complete the external then the internal will come automatically. I am applying this principle now.
When the time comes, there will be great movements from one country to another. When we concentrate in one place and secure enough people, that will bring the automatic restoration of the number of people found in Korea. This is the application of that same principle. Until we reach that maximum number, you have the privilege of going into any country. Cain and Abel must become one before the Kingdom of Heaven is realized. No matter how good an Abel you are, no Abel alone can qualify for heaven. The gathering of European members in England for witnessing is kind of preparation for the great movements we will undertake one day. Our members doing home church all over England have no concept of nationality. . .
The people who are deeply engaged in home church can move along with me and continue home church in some other place, but those who did not do home church cannot move on with me. That is the privilege of a selected people. The Third Israelites might be in Korea initially, but those who are privileged to go with the Messiah to another country are those who have successfully done home church. I did not decide that; it is the Principle. . . .
In the Abel position, you are going to home church, which is in the Cain position, and after making oneness with home church you can claim your parents. This is Principle. This situation applies to the whole world. I came here in the father's position, Abel's position, to America, the Cain country, which did everything to oppose me. This Cain represents the people of the whole world. I have loved this country more than the Abel country. After doing that I can go back to my home country and it will automatically unite with me. After that, the parents on the world level can be restored. This is the same principle which works in home church for individuals. Do you understand clearly? . . .
By this same principle all free countries will come into one, and because of that the communist countries will automatically be restored. Beyond that, we will restore hell and then all other parts of spirit world will be restored. Through this principle, spirit world will be liberated. How soon will that liberation take place? Almost at the same time liberation takes place on earth.
When I return to my original country, the people of those countries that cannot go along with me will feel miserable. Before that time you must become qualified and your country must qualify. Now you know much about every aspect of the importance of home church. If I explained this to you only in regard to a very high level, you would think it has nothing to do with your situation. But now you know that you are working on your level with the same principle that applies to this large area. Since the day of migration is not far away, I am telling you these things now.
You can see that America is one big nation, but it is greater than one nation in the sense that it can connect directly to the world. It is possible to say that America equals the free world. If America understands then the communist world will be restored immediately; but if it fails, I will have to fulfill this in a smaller nation. If that happens then America will see the time when it will even be ruled by one of the South American countries. . . .
The closer America becomes to the Unification Church, the greater the deterioration that will take place in the communist world. . . .
I know the deadline America must meet, but I will not say exactly what year it is. If you completely, 100% obey and work with me then during this time you can establish at least a condition on which I can extend the time and remain and give us more opportunity to fulfill sixty million home churches in this country. Can you say that I have not carried out my mission in America? I keep telling you that I have already done my part for you. I taught you everything about that. This is a very serious time. This is not just one country, one household, one clan: this one country is like one world, and the fate of America rests on you.
Even if the Russians do not listen, there is a way to make them listen. But it will be much more difficult to do if we do not succeed here in America. If America does not go along with the dispensational timetable, America's situation will become worse and worse. There is absolutely no room for mistake. This is the Principle and the Providence; this is God's plan. So believe that America will really experience difficulty if you do not meet the deadline. Do you think this is just my talk, or this is the Principle point of view? The deadline will come some time in the next President's term.
The period from Abraham to King David, then to the period of captivity in Babylon, and then to Jesus' time each contain 14 generations. Thus, from Abraham to Jesus' time there are 42 generations; actually we regard them as forty generations because Abraham, Isaac and Jacob count as one generation. This fortieth president comes at a period equal to Jesus' time, when the country will rise or the country will fall. So no matter what situation you find yourself in, be very brave and audacious. Stamp on whatever the circumstances you are in and bravely go in whatever direction God tells you to go, regardless of what people think. Then you will win the victory. Otherwise, you'll be dragged down into defeat.
The disintegration will not take place exactly after forty generations, but perhaps will linger on until the 43rd generation. During that time the country will experience continued decline, until at the end of the 43rd generation the communists can do whatever they want with America. At that point America will find absolutely no hope; the illness will have progressed too far by that time. This is the deciding point. I won't wait any more, but will decide soon whether I must leave this country or not. The other day when I was speaking this way, someone said, "Father, let's not think like that." But whether you think or not, you have to go according to the Principle. If Principle directs you that way then there's no way to escape.
It is possible that at the end of the 43rd presidency I would have to evacuate all Unification Church members from this country. Then America will become like Sodom and Gomorrah. I know that the years of the dispensation of restoration are very exact, and they never compromise or wait. Therefore, I am serious and am telling you now like it is. This is the time where you have to grasp the way you will make this country live. It's a life-or-death question, not just a question of trying the best you can. Either you do it or not do it.
Your life is at stake here if you are to do it. For four years I have been telling you to be serious about America. If you really cry with your home church, then there is the possibility of this crisis being put off for maybe a few more years. During this time we can both work out America's situation. But if you don't cling to it then the time will just pass by and America will have no hope; it will not even get an extension. . . .
If America is going to decline then it is going to decline fast. If you are to make some strategy against an enemy, you have to know his viewpoint. The enemy is just as smart as you. I see that this is the way communism will act. If you can imagine the possibility of these things, then why not the communists? How soon will it happen? This can happen any time. This is why I have placed so much emphasis on CARP activity, and created Ocean Church. If we really make America pay attention to what the home church is doing, they'll realize that this is the way for America to survive. Then in three years all America can make a positive issue of the Unification Church, and then America can live. I see the possibility that America will succeed, not fail. That's why I emphasized CARP, starting last year, and this year am beginning Ocean Church. I have prepared for a long time and now I am telling you to be desperate and do it.
If you have any doubts, the time is not far away when you can see whether I was right or wrong. I am even thinking that if we have many boats then we can transport many of our members to Africa and other countries. But if you leave behind a failure, this country will never be the same. If you have a victory in your country and then you go to Africa, that is very different from going on a foundation of failure. . . .
I am risking a great deal to do this; my own life is at stake. If this does not work, there's nothing God can do about it either. It's up to man's 5% responsibility. If America does not sufficiently change itself, a time will come when God will tell me to leave America. Think about that in the deepest way.
If we don't do this correctly then think about the persecution that will come in the future, for generations. If you don't act in the right way then we'll have one more cross; we'll have to carry this out under the oppression of communism. The second three seven-year courses are not my responsibility, but yours. You will be successful on your own or suffer on your own. Either way. . .
You understand that this is very serious thinking. How we. work in America for the next four years, the duration of the fortieth presidential term, will absolutely determine America's situation. If in the next three or four years Americans move to God's side then America will prosper. . .
Have any of you here ever thought with this seriousness for the future? No one. If you listen to me, don't you feel that what I am saying is very awesome and fearful? I am fearful about it myself. The serious consequences one way or the other are directly tied up with the Moonies. You must conclude whether or not you will do that. Do you understand how serious the situation of home church is now? Without home church becoming successful, there's no way to succeed; through this timetable there is no way for us to get around doing home church.
Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere
Each individual must preserve his central position within the family, society, and so forth. Where is that central position? It is in the home church. By defending the realm of God's freedom within your home church, you are defending all other realms of freedom under Him. Your 360 homes represent the entire world so when your area is living within the Principle, God will have a condition to move into the entire world. You will see sharp changes of direction within this world toward the side of goodness. A very effective time for God's providence will be happening.
Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere
Home church is your base of heaven, where you pour out your sacrifice and where you come for love. When the world atmosphere changes, the two most difficult activities we have -- witnessing and fundraising -- will be sheer pleasure, almost effortless. People will come like Niagara Falls and then the money will pour in. If you truly unite with me then it won't take even twenty years, but only seven years to change the world atmosphere.
Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere