Hak Ja Han
May 23, 2015
Hoon Dok Hae in East Garden
Now that I look at all of your faces, I am so happy to see you today. Have you been well? Have you been healthy?... Seventy years have already passed since the liberation of Korea– the nation that is truly central to God’s providence–at the end of the Second World War. Furthermore, this is the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. In addition, people all over the world are celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
However, what has changed?
Particularly, this time in Europe when I met elder members, truly I was very grateful but also very inspired.
On several occasions, I felt that they are very precious, because for a half-century they have lived their lives for True Parents. I felt that.
We are different, aren’t we? Regarding Heaven’s providence, we are at the center of it. Please think about that. According to the Bible, humanity is six thousand years old. In the process of history, so many things have gone wrong. Truly, things went out of orbit because of the fall of human beings. Humanity is fallen, and in order to save humanity the providence of restoration has taken six thousand biblical years. God is almighty and all-powerful, isn’t he?
God had a dream and an ideal when he created human beings. In light of that, why is it that his first children, Adam and Eve, in whom he had invested everything in creating them -- our earliest human ancestors -- did not follow God’s commandment and live according to it? It’s an issue of responsibility.
In one instance, in one moment, a history of tremendous sorrow, tremendous suffering, tremendous pain began, because of one fallen act.
Our steadfast God
Heaven remained constant and always strove to educate and save humanity. That is why Jesus came as the only son of God, though it took four thousand biblical years for him to come. God had prepared the ideology of the chosen people. God had raised the chosen people. It required four thousand biblical years, but God kept his promise: he sent his begotten son, the Messiah, to earth. Nevertheless, what happened to the Messiah on earth? The chosen people did not accept the Messiah and they persecuted him. What was the outcome? Jesus was crucified. He died on the cross.
Even Mary did not fulfill her responsibility. Even the great priest, John the Baptist, the Archangel Lucifer, and Joseph, did not fulfill their responsibilities. Even the Jewish people did not fulfill their responsibilities.
Even though Jesus went to the cross, he promised he would come again. This was the beginning of Christianity’s two-thousand-year history.
Jesus was born in a manger and that is how (through the Holy Spirit) that history began. In the Bible, we do not have only what Jesus said; on the contrary, only a very few words from Jesus are in the Bible. When we look at the two-thousand-year history of Christianity, we see it went through many upheavals, ups and downs, and now Christianity is all over the world.
Even communism and democracy, are outcomes of the Christian cultural sphere. The reason for that is that it is time to welcome the Messiah on his second coming.
The Israelites two thousand years ago were meant to welcome the Messiah and to then create a nation. This was during the time of the Roman Empire, which was the Cain world. It was powerful. Rome was the center of the world at that time. I have seen the ruins in Rome; Roman ruins exist in the Alps. That is how powerful the Roman Empire was. By comparison, the nation of Israel was tiny. Their wish was to welcome the Messiah and then to use the foundation of the Roman Empire to realize one world centered on the Roman Empire.
True Mother speaking during Hoon Dok Hae in East Garden
Blaze a path for others
I can summarize my message today in one sentence: For two thousand years, Christianity has established a culture, but we need to build something even greater. We need to move forward, we need to be better. We need to be more constant but also to look more long term. When we look at even one architectural masterpiece built within the Christian cultural sphere, we must feel a jolt of urgency and ask ourselves how we are going to educate those in future generations, how we are going to testify about True Parents and how we are going to lead future generations to love True Parents. The world has yet to accept the True Parents, who have been trying to sow the seed of true love. They have practiced true love, they have tried very hard to embrace all of humanity and save all of humanity as their own children. The True Parents have given all of humanity the path to eternity. This is how the True Parents have opened the gate to eternal life: through the True Parents.
So how can all of the world’s people and those in future generations say, Thank you, True Parents? Those in future generations have reasons to lament having been born in the future, instead of as one of you, their ancestors, who lived in True Parents’ time. They may say, If I had lived together with True Parents, I would have done better than my ancestors did, I would have sacrificed myself more, I would have brought greater achievements to my True Parents.
Let us inspire the future generations….
Please awaken, everyone. Do you understand? From now on, you need to be different. I said the same thing in Europe. We have already passed fifty years. From tomorrow, you need to be different. No, you cannot do the same things; you cannot commit the same acts as you did yesterday. If only in one area, you need to lead your lives differently from today, if only in one thing.
Please lead lives in which you fulfill your responsibilities as blessed members.
Do you understand me? This time in Europe, even externally, I received a lot of support. Europe has fifty nations, and America has fifty states. Everyone, truly, if you genuinely put your hearts into it, you could restore half of all the fifty states in the United States. Yes, or no? Will you do that? [Yes!]