Hak Ja Han
March 3, 2015
1.13 Heavenly Calendar
Foundation Day main address: joint Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day and the 2015 Cosmic Blessing Ceremony by the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind
Distinguished Guests, Blessed Families from Around the World, Ladies and Gentlemen: We have ushered in the new year and with it the third year of Cheon Il Guk. Heaven has blessed this day with a shower of white snow, as if to say congratulations. I take this to be Heaven's way of telling us to live, pure and unblemished, just like the white snow. Beloved Unificationist families, for the third year of Cheon Il Guk, the year of the blue sheep, what resolutions have you made? Shouldn't our way of life advance in the new year compared to the previous year?
Don't you think so? On this day, I offer my thanks and congratulations to Heaven while feeling God's unending grace and love. Since True Father's ascension, I have been endeavoring to offer and dedicate the three great scriptures to Heaven. As of today, the last of the three books, Cham Bumo Gyeong, will find its place among these holy scriptures.
I don't know if you welcome this day with deep gratitude, but I can tell you that Heaven has waited for this day for six thousand years. Heaven's providential course -- the providential history of restoration through indemnity -- which has guided human history, has been (in a word) tragic. Our Heavenly Parent went through many hardships to find one central point at which to wait. Here, he longed for the advancement of the providence. Yet, because of the repeated mistakes made by human beings, Heaven had to wait countless years to find this point. However, in 1960, a new morning dawned when the True Parents -- the first and last of their kind to appear in human history -- finally began their course of guiding providential history. Heaven gave humankind many religions in order to enlighten human beings, who had fallen into ignorance after the Fall.
However, there were limitations to this way of enlightenment. Ignorance of the root of the Fall limited religions from resolving the world's difficult problems.
God went through many pains in order to raise the Israelites, through whom he had tried to complete the providence of restoration through indemnity. God sent his only begotten son; however, this son never had the opportunity to shine. Our Heavenly Parent, God, went through non-stop excruciating pain; constantly, his heart was being torn into pieces. God sent his only begotten son to the people whom he had raised for four thousand years. This position remained.
Jesus promised to return. That was the start of the two-thousand-year providential history of Christianity. Then, must the returning lord come on the clouds? Ignorant people, even after the Enlightenment in the twentieth century, believed that the Lord would return on the clouds. They were unable to conceive of a messiah that would come in the flesh to carry out the dispensation of salvation. That has been the fiftyyear history of the Unification Church. I said that today is a good day, so I wouldn't want to speak of hardships. I will say, though, that we must reveal the truth.
Looking at the world today, have you thought, Who is the owner of this world? There is no owner. Is it the democratic world? Is it the communist world? Are the prosperous nations the owners of the world? No.
The true owner must appear. The true owner is the one that perfects God's providential history. That person is the True Parent. You know this, right? In the book of Romans is a parable about a wild olive tree and a cultivated olive tree. When people read this passage, they do not understand the underlying concept God is trying to express in these verses. A wild olive tree cannot become a cultivated olive tree on its own. When the owner comes, it can then engraft itself to the owner, the cultivated olive tree. However, this process of engrafting is not easy. The cultivated olive tree has a responsibility; its roots must be planted deeply so that it can survive in any difficult circumstances. What does this mean? After enduring many difficulties, you were able to receive the blessing from True Parents. Then, being in a blessed family, what should you do? The blessing will hold no meaning if you allow your blessing to extend only to your family, while living in this age of True Parents. Do you understand? Those in blessed families must fulfill their responsibilities. The blessing must not end up as a blessing that extends only to your family. You must reveal to your neighbors, your tribe, and your nation that True Parents are the true owners. That is the only way for you to go today if you want to receive the crown of glory, the only way to prove that you lived in this era with True Parents. Please engrave this in your hearts.
All the blessed family members here today and also those participating via the internet throughout the world should proclaim True Parents to all four corners of the world and fulfill their responsibilities as tribal messiahs practicing true love according to True Parents' teachings. Human beings are suffering and dying amidst the destructive force of religion, race and national borders that is afflicting tragedies upon the world today. Can you gaze upon them without doing anything? We must teach everyone and raise them as True Parents' children.
That is the only way to go in order to bring about the one united world that we, Heaven, and the whole of humankind have longed for.
I sincerely ask that you engrave these goals in your hearts and do your best.