Hak Ja Han
October 19, 2018
To all Japanese members in Korea, all of whom True Mother considers missionaries
Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center
October is the season of bearing fruit. Isn't it the harvest season? The results of your hard work in obedience to Gods' will for the past thirty years made you who you are today. It is something for which to be grateful. When children come home from school and open the door, who do they look for first? Mom! Mother! Did you also do that?
I know that among you, there are people who have had to endure indescribable situations. You experienced unimaginably difficult conditions; however, this was not because you personally did something wrong but because you are in a position that requires you to indemnify historical and collective failures of responsibility.
Are you happy to see me today? Let me then convey to you even more joyful news. Those who are celebrating their birthday today, please raise your hands. Those with birthdays today, please come forward. How many are there? I heard there was only one person. More people are coming forward.
You all have husbands, don't you? Have you ever received a birthday present from your husbands? [Only one of the eight women answered the questions clearly.] No? Have they ever said congratulations to you? No. Did they ever say, Happy Birthday? Oh, you didn't even get that.
Now that I reflect on it, I also never heard the words, Happy birthday! I love you! because for the past fifty- eight years Father and I celebrated our birthdays on the same date. I would like to present you with birthday presents on behalf of your husbands. I was estimating about seven people today. We have one more person. Eight is a good number, the number of "restarting." I'll take a photograph with all of you.
Because you received Korean husbands… Men in Korea particularly are not charming because of the Confucian ideas that they have long maintained. Hence, today, I would like to give to you eight people what you haven't received until now. You are indemnifying everything. It would be great if I could finish everything nicely in this manner. Would you listen, however, if I say a few words that you may not like? It is all for you.
Unexpected restoration
The history of Heaven's providence of restoration through indemnity was something that our Heavenly Parent, the Creator, did not expect. Each person, however, has to fulfill a portion of responsibility based on the principle of creation that Heavenly Parent established. As a result, God has never been able to relax for even a moment due to his constant concern for humankind. He had to wait patiently for True Parents to emerge. From the perspective of Heavenly Parent, True Parents were supposed to begin their course on a national foundation, a position where the nation welcomed them.
When it comes to solving problems arising within or between countries, no matter how great a deed an individual or NGO group does, they will still have a long way to go without a national foundation to support them. However, if on a national level they reach agreements one-on-one between countries such initiatives will multiply easily.
The loss of Jesus
In order to restore all human beings that have fallen, Heaven needed the long period of four thousand years until he could find that one son from among all people, to whom he could say, "You are my son." The painful history God had to endure in order to restore fallen people, who could not be trusted and who habitually betrayed him, I cannot express in words. Sadly, the right environment for the people to receive God's only son could not be established. We also know that on several occasions throughout his thirtythree years of life, Jesus spoke to Mary about his need to marry. And Mary was responsible for finding a wife for Jesus.
Even though she had conceived Jesus amidst Heaven's protection and had received a revelation related to this, she still did not know the true nature of Jesus' mission. She was unaware of her own responsibilities. In the end, the circumstances within which Jesus could fulfill his responsibility were lost to him. As a result, he could not avoid going the way of the cross. Mary was not by Jesus' side when he died on the cross. Neither were his disciples. Nor were the people that he had prepared through offering many devotions with him. Just a thief on his right and a thief on his left were with him.
How appalled would God have felt upon seeing this? When Jesus died on the cross, he promised to come again. He promised to return and conduct the marriage supper of the Lamb. Christianity began through Jesus' disciples, based on the rebirth brought by the Holy Spirit. Yet, these same disciples did not understand the true nature of Jesus' mission. They did not know why Jesus came and why he had to die, which is why they believed that salvation was possible only through the precious blood Jesus shed on the cross. This is the path has Christianity believed in and followed for two thousand years.
The returning Lord
Since God has the same beginning and end, what he had already begun he had to finish. What the returning Messiah needed was for God's only daughter to be prepared without fail. Hence, God found and established a new people among whom his only daughter could be born. The birth of God's only daughter needed to occur on a Christian foundation. With the passing of the last two thousand years, the world came to divide into four main religious spheres. There is no clear historical record as to when Christianity first settled in Korea.
Heaven's providence needed the birth of God's only daughter to come on a Christian foundation through the Korean people, and observers recorded exchanges between Korean people and those in the Christian cultural sphere beginning around the twelfth or thirteenth century. However, in the later era of the Choseon Dynasty, Koreans persecuted Christians due to the Choseon Dynasty's closed-door policies. Previously, however, Korea had been quite open, which enabled all religions that had come into this land, such as Buddhism, Confucianism and so on, to put down roots. These religions had one purpose. Their purpose should have been the same as that of Christianity, but their ignorance of the providence, meant they were unable to receive any further explanation.
When we look at the circumstances of this age, we see it is now time for them to realize these things. They must make the effort. And they must learn. Since this nation has already learned a lot about True Parents, they will welcome you if you confidently go forward and convey your message. Is that true or not?
People say many things, but they offer no substantial method to address and resolve all the difficult religious, ideological, economic, political and other kinds of problems happening around the world. Everyone is self-centered. They put their nations first. They cannot unite.
That is why I am conveying the following message: There is a limit to what human effort or power alone can be do. Things cannot work when our methods are human-centered. We can only unite when we attend Heavenly Parent, God the Creator, who is the Center of this universe. Blessed marriage given by the True Parents is the only way to eternal life and salvation.
Preparation for God's only daughter
For the past two thousand years, Christians -- both Catholic and Protestant -- have not accurately understood God's providence. They did not know the true nature of Jesus' mission. As a result, they committed many mistakes. What you need to know is that God was finally able to send his only daughter to earth, through this people, after six thousand years as reckoned by the Bible.
God's only daughter! I was born in 1943. Korea's liberation came in 1945. Alas, it then divided between democracy and communism. The Korean War broke out in 1950. North Korea, which already had a wellestablished communist system, had been preparing to advance on South Korea. The relatively democratic South Korea, in contrast, had not yet reequipped itself. When the Korean War broke out, it had no chance against North Korea. You need to know that sixteen member nations of the United Nations intervened in the Korean War because God had to protect me, his only daughter. What was deemed impossible happened.
God gave a period of growth to Adam and Eve in accordance with his principles of creation. I was born in 1943. And for me to uphold God's will, I needed to grow to an age when I could make decisions on my own and discern everything with common sense. The issue, however, was that the Korean War broke out in 1950, a few short years after Korea's liberation from Japan. I was only eight years old at that time. Heaven, therefore, had to allow me a period to grow. The United Nations forces mobilized and shed their good blood here to form a foundation that could welcome the True Parents in this nation. You need to know this.
Christianity's role
Next year will be the hundredth anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement. This nation is the one in which the True Parents can at last appear. Hence, the people of this nation, particularly in the Christian cultural sphere, needed to prepare a national foundation upon which the True Parents could appear though those in that sphere did not know about God's providence. Thus, many became patriotic martyrs. They had come from Christian backgrounds.
It is unclear as to whether or not they knew about the providence, about God's will. What is certain, however, is that because the time had come for the coming of the True Parents, God allowed a movement to unfold through righteous people in order to recover this nation.
Japan's role
You may not relate directly to that background. Japan was an obstacle in front of God's providence. Heaven, however, gave Japan the time to set up the necessary conditions and to achieve results to indemnify past mistakes in the long run, under True Parents' name.
Finally, Japan also went to war against the United States during the last World War. At that time, they took away whatever they could from Korea as supplies. On the day I was born, [in a vision] all those supplies were piling up in the front yard of the house in which I was born. Dae-mo nim, the one who had this vision, probably didn't know what this meant at that time. Many occurrences that would have been impossible to imagine did actually happen around me as visible incidents.
Secretary-General Yun explained global developments; Chief of Staff Chong-McDevitt and President Lee gave welcoming remarks. Uda Etsuko, president, international Family Assoc. prayed, both Lee Yeon-ah, chair, Foreigners Conference for Korean Reunification and Missionary Nakata Michiyo testified
Invest all your effort
Who was it that opened Cheon Il Guk? It was True Parents' heartfelt wish. The realization of the completed providence must happen substantially first on earth. Only when the establishment of the kingdom of heaven occurs on earth centered on True Parents will the kingdom of heaven in heaven open. Do you understand?
Please remember that all blessed families should work with a heart that invests everything, even in life-ordeath situations, to realize Heavenly Parent's dream of embracing all 7.6 billion people and establishing one great family under God. Only when you do so can you become eternally proud, blessed families and true, devoted sons or daughters in front of Heaven. Hence, you must take bold steps forward.
Talks between North Korea and South Korea are making headway, but there are still many problems to solve. A movement that attends True Parents at its center is essential in this process. Thus, I am asking all of you, Japanese missionaries, to educate this nation, which is the homeland of God, our Heavenly Parent, of True Parents and of the True Children, so that a proper center is established in relation to God's will within this nation.
In order to do this, Japan and the United States must become one and completely root out all conditions that can create an increasingly distant relationship from Heaven's providence. At this time, the Pacific Rim Civilization Era centered on True Parents is beginning and we are carrying out activities to expand the dream of one family under Heavenly Parent throughout the world. Things will go well if the three nations take the lead and fulfill their responsibilities.
The politicians of this nation do not know the providence. It is the same with regard to the unity of the two Koreas. We must therefore create the environment that supports God's providence. It is essential to show all people of the world that this is the way to become one. Will you do this work? Seeing all of you today, I feel hope.
