Hak Ja Han
March 31, 2014
Chapter 1 The Holy Wedding of True Parents
Section 1 The Holy Wedding and the Beginning of the Era of True Parents
The year 1960 carries with it great significance in God's providence of history. By holding the marriage of True Parents on March 16th of the lunar calendar (April 11, 1960 by the solar calendar) in the former Korean Church Headquarters in the district of Yongsan Cheongpa-dong Seoul, God was able to raise the anchor and embark head-on, on a full-scale restoration providence. This holy marriage is described in the Bible as "the marriage supper of the Lamb," being the first to take place after God's creation of the world.
The Holy Marriage Ceremony is the Turning Point of Providential History
1 Historians have said that "history entered the era of a great transition from the 1960's." From the perspective of the Divine Principle, you can say that although the realm of Christian culture failed, and Korea which should have been a foundation for Christianity opposed me in the 1960s, by overcoming all difficulties, in the name of God and True Parents, the Holy Wedding finally took place on earth and history began to transition into a new direction. The landscape of history has been one of breakdown and constant division among people; it has only spiraled downward. However, we transitioned into an historic era and the landscape has gradually moved past the era of division and into an era of one world. The time has come in providential history when everything must expand laterally by centering on Parents' blood relatives together with God. For this reason there will be a confusion of ideologies and a rise of cultural chaos. Likewise, things must be shaken up. Christianity was shaken up. On the 14th year after Korea’s Liberation from Japanese colonial rule, the denominational leaders of Christianity had no sense of this transition. They rebuilt churches and the Shinto shrines but did not know God’s providential plan. But they did not realize that the starting point of God's providence had begun leaping forward centering on Korea and expanding outwards to the world. The starting point for this transition was the Holy Wedding that took place in April of 1960.
2 The apogee or apex of the providence of restoration was in 1960. At this time, I received persecution from the nation, the nation's people, from all types of churches and from all individuals. The situation was desperate and I had no other choice but to decide whether or not I would live or die; the Unification Church was at a crossroads of surviving or perishing. I conducted the Holy Wedding Ceremony slicing through the difficulties and moved forward. At that point in time, a new history began, this was a historical turning point. Many historians would also say that the year 1960 was a turning point in history. I was brought down from the cross. All problems began to unravel at this point in history. (052-068, 1971.12.22)
3 After the Holy Wedding Ceremony, True Parents’ Day was established and for the first time in human history, the defiled love, life, and lineage inherited by the false parents was struck down and a new relationship in the original love, life, and lineage centering on God was rooted on earth. Up until that point in history, the blood lineage of the fallen archangel was passed down, but in 1960, on the day the True Parents were established, the original blood lineage of Adam and Eve, centering on God's love, took root. (196-219, 1990.01.01)
4. My Holy Wedding Ceremony was a cosmic as well as worldly event, worthy of a great celebration on this earth. On a world level, I established the standard of victory spiritually and physically by taking the vertical condition of indemnity and resolving issues on the horizontal plain on earth. In order to conduct the Holy Wedding Ceremony, I had to restore, beforehand, the position of the three disciples that betrayed Jesus. The purpose of the wedding ceremony was to establish a condition for indemnifying Adam's family. Adam and Eve, who were supposed to become the first ideal couple, were unable to form a true conjugal relationship due to the fall. Restoration cannot proceed through one person alone since the fall occurred through the act of two individuals. A man cannot be restored alone, and a woman, too, cannot be restored alone. Therefore, nothing can be resolved without the efforts of both sexes. In restoring the position of fallen Adam and Eve, the standard of True Parents must then absolutely be established on earth. (022-190, 1969.02.02)
5 In order to indemnify Adam, the ancestor of humankind, losing the realm of ownership by listening to Eve when they had reached the top of the completion stage of the growth level, Jesus must come on earth as a human endowed with the greatest potential of attaining a perfected character and becoming one with God’s love. He can then perfect the purpose of creation by finding one woman who can become one with Him. The order of creation—Eve being created of Adam—must be recreated so that new Eve can stand as the bride and, for the first time, establish a family that can propel humanity towards a perfected world. When this happens, it will mark the end of the fallen era in history and the beginning of a new era. This exact moment did occur in 1960. Today, on this earth, the manifestation of a relationship centering on True Parents is an auspicious cosmic event. From here on, a new True Parents’ Day has emerged. Until now, it has been but a hope and question of how God and humankind could find a way to restore the position of the false parents to the True Parents. (028-013, 1970.01.01)
6 The convergence of the hopes and wishes of Heaven and Earth and all people is none other than that of the Holy Marriage Ceremony. Through God’s love and in God’s name, a man and a woman in the realm of heart centering on the origin point of the family of God was established for the first time. I felt there was a story here to be linked to the realm of Heaven’s universally validated relationships and I was standing in the very position to begin this realm with the Holy Wedding Ceremony, which became one of the points of origin in history.
7 April 11, 1960, is the day True Parents were married. What significance does that day carry? Externally, it was a humble day with nothing out of the ordinary. There was only one event that day that made it significant; the Holy Wedding Ceremony took place on that day and was entirely different from all other marriages. Because the Holy Wedding Ceremony took place, history is now swayed by one person. Was the moment of fate prepared nationally and globally for that one person’s appearance? Did that period have a strong enough foundation to pass through its fate with history, its fate with the age, and its fate with the future? The ceremony itself might look simple, but when this becomes a core representative that integrates all the fateful relationships, history will come to study this day. (032-069, 1970.06.21)
The Holy Wedding Ceremony and the wedding supper of the Lamb
8 When we look in the Bible it says that in the last days, the messiah will come and conduct the wedding supper of the Lamb. The wedding supper of the Lamb signifies the coming together of a man and woman in connection to God's lineage. Satan cannot exist with the appearance of this couple, who becomes the True Parents of humanity. God then becomes humanity's ancestor and Heavenly Parent. The substantial form of the mother and father, the substantial form of man and woman, and the substantial form of internal and external character ties the bloodline centering on blood relationship. Motivated by God's love, this ceremony makes love, life and blood lineage swirl around together as one. In the ceremony, at the point of unity where both man and woman become owners of each other, the seed of life—namely the descendants—will be connected to God. That is the ideal of creation. But all of this was shattered into pieces with the fall. In order to restore the ideal of creation, True Parents must find it intsead of all creation, instead of humankind, and instead of parents. This is the essential point of the providence of salvation. (325-131, 2000.06.30)
9 With the return of the Lord at the Second Advent, the Bible says the wedding feast would take place. The wedding feast signifies a man and woman getting married. In order to have a wedding feast— or the marriage supper of the Lamb—there needs to be a bride centering on Jesus. A bride must be found. That bride must be as Eve as she was with Adam before the fall took place. The Lord at the Second Advent is the third Adam. Jesus was the second Adam and the Lord at the Second Coming is the third Adam. That's why the third Adam must come as the Adam before the fall and find an Eve who is in the state before the fall. An unfallen Eve must be found and the marriage supper of the Lamb must take place. Through this marriage they will become the parents of humankind. Adam and Eve, who were supposed to become the parents of humankind, fell and became evil parents. Therefore, if we have parents of goodness, as we should have before the fall, then we can all be restored. Therefore, humankind needs parents of goodness. The purpose of having the marriage supper of the Lamb is in order to ascend to the throne as parents of goodness. This is the main point of Christian ideology. (036-264, 1970.12.06)
10 If humanity did not fall, they would have born sons and daughters without any original sin and born families who could enter Heaven directly. The parents who stand in that position are the True Parents and the family who becomes one with God. Their sons and daughters are descendants of God's family. This family was not established in Genesis and the issue of establishing a bride and bridegroom was brought up again in St. John’s Book of Revelations. Who is that groom to be? It is the one who comes as the perfected True Father. Who is the bride to be? It is the bride who appears as the True Mother whom God can love. If Adam and Eve had not fallen they would have married centering on God, but due to the fall, they were married centering on Satan. They must be reclaimed by God. And finally, the Holy Wedding Ceremony, centering on God, refers to the marriage supper of the Lamb in the Book of Revelations. (053- 037, 1972.02.06)
11 For the first time since Heaven and Earth existed, the day has come when human beings became a filial son and daughter of God and stand before God as a bride and bridegroom. God will give the blessing to this couple to be the True Parents who represent the invisible God in physical from by saying: "How hard you have worked in order to come and find the Heavenly Parent and to know the heart of Heaven even in the midst of all the adversity on earth!" This banquet is the marriage supper of the Lamb. The marriage supper of the Lamb is offered on the standard of the preparation of the true bride's promise and understanding of the ideology, and on top of the standard of becoming a true filial son and daughter. From the day they receive this blessing they will become the True Parents of humankind who represent the invisible God in substantial form. Originally, if human beings did not fall, they would have grown in an environment of goodness receiving God's blessing of love and become children who could understand God's heart. But due to the fall, which was instigated in the physical realm by Eve, the bride, that connection was cut off. Therefore, human beings must become children of God by inversely passing through the bride's course. By doing this, human beings must achieve a connection of heart whereby God can say, "You are filial sons and daughters who can represent my heart." Can one become filial sons and daughters if there is no connection of heart? They must know how God's heart is, and what courses God has suffered through. When they do, they can then prepare the original form of Adam and Eve to stand in front of the ideal of creation. The marriage supper of the Lamb is precisely the event to prepare that form. (009-107, 1960.04.24)
12 Originally, humankind was not supposed to fall; they were to become the true ancestor who would accomplish God's blessing at the right time and within the right environment. But humankind did not do this and instead, became fallen ancestors. The un-fallen ancestor of goodness should appear before all people. This person can become the father to all spirit beings in the spirit world, and to all people in the physical world. In Christianity, this person is called the Lord at the Second Advent. What is the marriage supper of the Lamb? It is the banquet where the returning Jesus comes as the father to establish the position of the mother. The underlying guiding truth of Christianity is about this; at the center of Christian teachings is Jesus and at the center of Jesus’ teachings is love. The central lesson of the Bible is also love. The central point of love is the bride and bridegroom, and at the center of the bride and bridegroom is the marriage supper of the Lamb. Then what is the main meaning of the marriage supper of the Lamb? Originally, it is to receive the blessing as a true ancestor of humankind who is able to inherit Heaven and Earth at the prepared time and in the right environment, with God’s permission. Since Adam and Eve failed to accomplish this, this original blessing must be restored and re-aligned. (009-254, 1960.06.05)
13 The marriage supper of the Lamb is the day when we attend the True Parents who were lost 6000 years ago, and have a banquet together. Originally, unfallen human beings in the position of children are not supposed to be able to see their parents having a banquet (feast). Since the parents arrived after the fact, things have become backwards. Human beings are supposed to build a new world by attending the True Parents and giving birth to true children. However, due to the multiplication of fallen people, the order has become backwards. Then what is your hope (or wish)? It is to meet the True Parents. We must work to reverse what has gone backwards. This is restoration through indemnity. Therefore, human beings who were born backwards must go in the opposite direction. They must go in the opposite direction of what the secular world wants. The ties to the fallen world will be severed the more you move in this direction. A religious path is one where all ties to the world are severed. Finally through this path you can enter Heaven and become a citizen of Heaven. We must be reborn again in this way.
Chapter 2 True Parents' Engagement
On March 1, 1960, by the lunar calendar (March 27, 1960 by the solar calendar) at the former Korean Church Headquarters in Cheongpa-dong Yongsan-gu Seoul, the historical engagement ceremony of the True Parents was conducted. With this, God has laid the foundation for the birth of the True Parents in Heaven and on Earth.
Providential Background to the appearance of True Mother
1 When something is broken it must be fixed to its original condition. The world wants to become new; the nation, the people, the individual, the son and the daughter all want to become new. So Jesus came as the new son. A new daughter had to then be found. However, in the midst of finding a new daughter, Jesus died. Jesus' course to find and establish that one mother for which the whole universe hoped was full of hardships and persecution. A sorrowful and persecuted Jesus escaped, being chased from this field to that field and this town to that town. Jesus tried but failed to establish the will centering on Joseph's family—his family—and David's tribe. So he had to leave his home and walk the path of suffering for three years. (019-161, 1968.01.01)