Hak Ja Han
October 25, 2017
True Parents' Special Gathering for Senior Members
Transcription by Airenae Culvy of www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgYwuLhV5GY
You can see that you and I have both grown older. The older I grow, the more I come to miss friends. I miss my parents and siblings, but, having friends one can share one's heart with is nice. One can undoubtedly summarize the history of the Unification Church providence as one of suffering.
When visiting Japan this time and speaking to the world, I said I would speak about the truths of history seen through Heaven's providence, Heaven's providence! In the beginning, when God, the Creator, Created all things and Adam and Eve, the man and woman who would become the first ancestors of humankind. God had a dream.
According to the Principle of Creation, God gave humankind a period of growth. He gave them responsibility. By developing through absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, they should have been in the position to receive the Creator's blessing as the True Parents of humankind. However, during this time, Adam and Eve developed greed. They began to look toward themselves. This is the unfortunate history of humankind.
God established principles during creation, and according to the principle that God, the Creator, established, humankind must become the True Parents through people fulfilling their responsibilities. God could not discard Adam and Eve and begin creating again. God's unspeakable sadness, pain, and sorrow derive from having to educate mistaken humankind so they can fulfill their responsibilities and be victorious.
Humankind's original mind, though, still searched for Heaven. We can see this when we look at fallen human history and the ancient civilizations. People at the time of the ancient Egyptian civilization created the pyramids and believed that the eternal afterlife was of more importance than their fleshly life. The dream of those who created that radiant civilization was the afterlife, to live happily in the eternal world.
Ninety percent of Egypt is a desert. The civilization developed by the Nile River and the Egyptians built the pyramids in the center of the desert. Four thousand five hundred years ago, how did they transport those boulders? More to the point, how did they erect such a stone construction without the use of cement or cranes? The pyramids are more than 140 meters tall.
The motivation for building this was for their happiness in the eternal world. Think about this. How did they cut such great stones taller than a person and how did they move them? How did they move those stones to the desert and how did they make such tall structures with them. This is something one cannot do with the strength of people alone.
Though humankind fell, longing to return to the original homeland was a sign of their original mind. It was even more difficult because through this history of the providence of salvation and restoration through indemnity God had to find and elevate a person who was victorious. God chose a people, the Israelites, and to go from the individual level and the national level and raise a people through the providence of restoration through indemnity took a long period of four thousand years. It was a difficult and rugged providence. God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, on the foundation of fallen humankind having created an environment to receive an incredible blessing. God's only Son! The only Son of God was the only one in the fallen world who had no connection with the Fall and who God could call, "My Son."
Mary, Zachariah's family, other Judaic figures and the other Israelites should have created an environment in which God's only son could fulfill his responsibility during his growth period. They did not fulfill their responsibilities. The Israelites did not fulfill their responsibilities! We can see through history what kind of indemnity they had to pay.
When Jesus died on the cross, He said, "I will return." Clearly, he said he would return to hold the Marriage Banquet of The Lamb. Then, Christianity, with its two-thousand-year history should have prepared for Jesus, who said he would return. The first condition to prepare for that was finding and giving birth to God's only daughter, Heaven Parent's and True Parents' ideal. God's only daughter has to be found first. However, Christians did not know this. They believed they would receive salvation through the precious blood of Jesus who died on the cross.
They say, if you believe in Jesus, you will go to heaven. However, that is not how God's creation works. You must find the parent. The parents!
Two thousand years ago, Jesus could have been the humankind's parent! Yet, before he could fulfill his mission as a parent, unfairly, he had to die. How regrettable! For him to die on the cross was unfair; but, that Christianity left him hanging on a cross was truly lamentable! They could not have been more wrong.
The truth of history, the truth of Heaven's providence is to give birth to the True Parents on earth. Two thousand years ago, God's only son had already been born; but, they did not fulfill their responsibilities, the Israelites. Heaven does not use figures or people (again) who have not fulfilled their responsibilities. God's only daughter would not have come through the people of Israel. I am saying that Heaven had to find and elevate a new people.
This was Korea's history: Historically, the Korean people did not like war, worshiped heaven and were well versed in astronomy. They are peace-loving people. Therefore, they did not invade another country even once. They worked to recover what had been theirs, but they never invaded. God found and elevated this people. That is why God raised the Han tribe as a good people, so that in the end, God's only daughter could be found within a Christian background. That is the providence.
I did not say anything for more than fifty years. Even though I knew all this, I was silent. I am different from you. I was different from birth. Even before Adam and Eve fell, they could communicate with God. If they had questions, they received answers. I was born as God's daughter with no original sin. Thus, even without anyone teaching Me, I know the path I must take. That is why Heaven gave us the growth period, a period for us to grow.
I was born in 1943. In 1945, Korea was liberated. In 1950, the Korean War began. I was young at that time. If I stayed in the north, which was becoming communist, I would not have been able to survive there. Then Heaven's providence would have stretched on even longer. Thus, Heaven had to protect Me. So, God had Me go south.
My physical parents believed that the Lord's return would have centered on Pyongyang and that the Palace of Eden would be established. So, after liberation, even though most intellectuals went to the south or out of the country, my parents could not leave. Heaven had to protect me until I reached a certain maturity. He protected me both in secret and publicly. Therefore, I came to the south.
After that difficult war, the Han people went through difficulties. They were poor. Yet I was able to live a life without problems. Many can testify to this around Me. Many people can attest that I was not an ordinary person.
I will say this clearly here that Father is without a doubt God's only son. I began speaking about God's only daughter in America after Father's Seonghwa. I spoke of this to the Christian ministers. They said this was correct and this was how it had to be. Isn't that so? A man cannot become a parent on his own. He had to meet the perfected only daughter of God to become the True Parent. You must know that point. You must know the truth.
Through meeting Me, through my determination... I was only seventeen! I was young. I knew all the complicated things. I knew this. So why did I say I would get married? I thought of Heavenly Father. I thought that the way to liberating Heavenly Father had to be Me. That was why I endured for fifty years. I did not do this because I did not know anything.
In Genesis, it says, "There was evening and there was morning"--the first day! Genesis could have just said it was the first day but said it was evening and then morning, the first day. The meaning of this is deep. Christianity's two-thousand-year period is evening. In the evening, you must prepare for the morning, to greet the new day. You cannot only sleep. You must prepare for tomorrow in the evening. Right now the Family Federation is in the same situation. Until now, it has been evening.
Now in the era of God's only perfected daughter, True Mother's era, you must prepare to greet the morning. Then you must reveal these truths! Heavenly Parent's dream, humankind's dream is for God's only daughter, True Mother, to appear. Only through The True Parents can you be resurrected and reborn. You have all worked hard from the early years of our movement. I have seen all this with my own eyes; yet, you cannot bear fruit with that alone. It was night.
We have to prepare to greet the morning. You must boldly proclaim that the True Parents have come to earth and that this nation must be a nation God can directly preside over through True Parents. ---people of all religions, must attend True Parents! That is the people's responsibility. Then, because they do not know this, we must enlighten them. You must say this openly and directly. We are not the Unification Church: we are the Family Federation!
What is humankind's wish? It is to fulfill the dream of one human family under God! It is to perfect the family, Family perfection! People do not enter heaven alone. You must enter as a family. We are talking about a united world, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth! The family must go together. Only then can they live together in the eternal world, the Kingdom of Heaven. Their worries would then go away. True Parents are the Ones Who guide us on that path. How grateful you should be.
We must help the (Korean) people realize this. What of Christian opposition? It is night for the Christian churches. I told you, it is the middle of the night. We must wake them up. Even though you have all grown old, you must still live exciting lives. You must thank Heaven every day: Ah! I am alive at the same time and breathing the same air as True Parents! How gratifying and exciting that is: If this people cannot accept this will, they are no different from the Israelites two thousand years ago. We cannot let that happen, right? Therefore, one might see as God's providence that democracy and communism has divided the people. Heaven is watching this nation and seeing how hard the people work to unite.
I spoke of the era of the Christian Atlantic Civilization. That civilization spread to the world but the result was that those involved took away from all those other nation's civilizations. Yet we are different. The Pacific Rim Civilization centered on True Parents marks the era of the new Pacific Rim Civilization. The true love expressed by living for the sake of others embraces the world as one! A world emerges in which we can say that both you and I attend True Parents, so we are of one family. We are clearly revealing the providence to them, so we must teach this truth to this people.
If I proclaim I am God's true daughter whom Heaven found after six thousand years, would you applaud that? (applause/cheers) You said that you would become my strength, so I will take heart from that. (applause/cheers)