Hak Ja Han
November 16, 2017
Excerpt
2017 Hyo Jeong Culture Festival in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Beloved Global Citizens of Nagoya, I love you!...
Today we have gathered here to become the key players of this new age. When we look around the world today, we do not have hope for the future. Many religions exist but they were unable to give us a conclusion about the next life. Christianity alone said that the relationship between God, our Creator, and human beings was a parent– child relationship, but they did not comprehend the true meaning of this. The original owner of the universe, God, created all things in the heavens and on earth and created the man and woman who would become humankind's first ancestors. Through the growth period, they should have developed absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience to God. God would have then said "Now you are all grown. I will bless you!"
That was the moment God longed for, when he would have become humankind's parent. Unfortunately, however, before the proper time [Adam and Eve] began to focus on themselves greedily. This was how we came to have a fallen world, through which humankind could not stand in God's presence. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He is the same in the beginning and the end. He cannot change the principles he put in place at the time of the Creation. Therefore, Heaven had no choice but to go through the painful and sorrowful providence of restoration through indemnity. God chose a nation from among fallen humankind and through the providence of restoration through indemnity restored from an individual all the way to the national level. God wished for the time when a man and woman who could become humankind's victorious parents would appear.
When I hear "Nagoya" I feel happy.
Many of the early Family Federation leaders came from here. I pray that you members of Nagoya can bear the beautiful fruit of the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. Through True Parents, a new providence is progressing. Korea, True Parents' homeland, and Japan, which True Parents selected as the Eve nation, have united and crossed Asia to open the era of Pacific realm civilization. Heaven chose America as the eldest son nation, which represents the world. Therefore, from the of the Pacific realm civilization, the revolution of filial heart is spreading to the world, opening a new age….
Japan must fulfill its responsibility as the Eve nation, the mother nation. Through that, you can indemnify the wrongdoings of your ancestors. I want to make for you a Japan with no indemnity in the future, a nation that can boast of true peace. Only through this path, through these activities, can Japan have a future and furthermore can Asia and the world have a future. The dream is one human family under God! We can realize the peaceful kingdom of heaven on earth!
