Hak Ja Han
June 21, 2019
American Clergy Leadership Conference's Unity Banquet
Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Good afternoon, everyone. How are you doing? After the fall of Adam and Eve, God allowed religions in different regions of the world to pursue goodness in order to create the conditions for him to embrace humanity again.
God originally created heaven and earth and everything in creation in his image. Finally, he created a male and a female, who would become the (good) human ancestors. He gave humans responsibilities to fulfill during their time of growth. However, as they grew up, Adam and Eve fell into a position separate from God. God, in his desire to embrace humanity and fulfill his dream, established fundamental principles of creation, so he had no choice but to lead the providence of salvation.
Thus, he establishes a chosen people and has been leading the providence of restoration through indemnity from the individual level to the national level. You gentlemen, by means of the Bible, know what kind of lives the Israelites led and how difficult the course of redemption must have been that it took Heaven four thousand years until he could send Jesus Christ, of whom he said, This is my beloved son [Matthew 3:17]. Then, after such a long time, God sent his only son, his son who could fulfill the purpose of the creation as God wished. But the Israelites did not recognize Jesus. They did not know Jesus' essence.
In short, they did not know what kind of being God is either. Thus, Jesus could not fulfill the whole purpose for which he had come. Before he went through the crucifixion, he announced that he would return. And what happened to the Israelites for leading Jesus to crucifixion? They paid a tremendous price for it.
Christianity arose with the Apostles, who while waiting for Jesus' return, gained rebirth through the work of the Holy Spirit. At first, however, they were severely persecuted. Later, having received official recognition in Rome in 313, Christianity spread from the Italian Peninsula to Europe and crossed into England.
At that time, England went out into the world and people said [of the British Empire] that the sun never set on it. They went out into the world ostensibly doing missionary work. However, being ignorant of God's essence and Jesus' essence, they finally ended up with a culture of looting, of selfishness, of prioritizing their national interests. And although they managed to be an economically rich and powerful country, in the inner aspect, on the spiritual side, they created many difficulties. From among believers in Christianity communism arose, with some asserting that God had died. Jesus said [Matthew 22:39] "Love your neighbor as yourself," but as a result of living a life opposite to that and when being in the situation of not being able to progress further, in the seventh century King James had the Bible translated from Hebrew to English thanks and this gave rise to The Puritans. The migration of these Puritans, desiring to worship God without the restrictions of the old system, gave birth to what is now the United States. God wanted to create the foundation for the Lord's return through this democratic country.
The beginnings were good, but when the United States had economic abundance, abundance in every respect, it turned away from God and was in a situation of family disintegration, juvenile delinquency and communism was threatened it; in a situation of not being able to do anything to prevent it, and since to save the world it was first necessary to take America to God's side, we crossed over to the United States and performed providential work there for forty years. I am speaking of the True Parents.
Jesus' hope was to be a True Father. To do so, he had to find God's only daughter, who had not manifested at that time. God chooses another people among whom he can give birth to his only daughter. So God's only daughter was born in Korea in 1943 through the Christian foundation that God had prepared for four thousand years. Those days were before the end of the Second World War.
World War II ended in 1945. Korea had been under the Japanese government. Its liberation came in 1945 but the Allies divided it into North and South. Divided with the northern part being a communist country and the southern part a democracy. The North had completely Sovietized and was preparing to invade the South. At that time, I was born in the North when the history of Christianity there had been brief. But from all over the world, those worshiping in spirit and in truth, knew very well about the Messiah.
All Christians expected the return of Jesus Christ coming over the clouds, but these spiritual groups knew that only by being physically born could the purpose of the divine Creation come to fulfillment. This is how I was born, amidst God's special protection through these spiritual groups. God had to protect me for me to grow up safely. Because of the faith that the Lord's return would occur around Pyongyang, my family could not think of going to the South. But God, foreseeing the future, put us in the situation of having to go to the South.
Two years after arriving in the South, the Korean War broke out. At that time, the democratic system in South Korea had not yet stabilized. How could God not do anything when seeing that situation? Although it was a country unknown to the world, sixteen UN member nations mobilized and protected democracy in the South. Why do you think that happened? Because of my mission, because I was the only begotten daughter. God's hope is that the only begotten daughter would grow up, find the one who came to take on the only begotten son's mission, and both would become True Parents.
Seeing the world's situation, I could not continue to doubt and although I was still close to being a child, in 1960 I came into the position of True Mother. In 2020, sixty years will have passed since that day. Since its inception, the work of the blessing is to give rebirth to fallen humanity through True Parents. We started with three couples and today there are thousands and thousands; we created countless blessed families.
I told you that the title was the "Role of the Chosen People." The chosen people! People God had chosen! Who are the chosen people in the twenty- first century, in the age of the True Father? It's you. All of you here today, as chosen people of the twenty-first century, have responsibilities to fulfill. In the past, for not fulfilling theirs, the Israelites paid a tremendous price. You, today's elect, must fulfill your responsibilities.
What will they be? You must be the messiah of your congregations and of your tribe. Only through the blessing in marriage is it possible for you to become messiahs. Are you willing to do that? I want to talk about you to God with pride. Enduring infinite sadness and pain in search of his lost children for six thousand years, God waited all this time for True Parents to emerge on earth and take control of his situation. He wanted to fulfill his Will two thousand years ago through Jesus Christ, but because the chosen Israelites did not receive him, it took two thousand years for the birth of the only begotten, the True Mother, to fulfill humanity's hope, God's dream of the united human family.
If the 7.6 billion people who make up humanity attend God, God can embrace them and become true sons and daughters of loyalty, of filial piety there will be no more wars, conflicts or obstacles that prevent unity. All the clergy gathered here today are messiahs of their clans and congregations. A messiah has to save people. Right? That is achieved through the blessing, through the Movement of True Family.
Will you do it that way? I hope you will work very enthusiastically for America to fulfill its filial duty to God, who has waited so long for this country to embrace the world.