Special Sunday Service

Special Sunday Service to Celebrate True Mother’s Victorious Return to Korea (Victory Celebration for True Mother’s Visit to the Heavenly United States) held on Sunday, October 15, 2023, at HJ Cheonbo Heaven and Earth Training Center

I am so pleased to see you.

Cheon Go Ma Bi [Sky is high, horses are fat]. During the ancient Qin Dynasty, one poet wrote this in a poem. In the era when horses were the main form of transportation, a fattened horse was a good sign. Moreover, October is the season to reap, the harvest season. The Bible says that at the annual harvest-time, farmers gather the wheat and burn the chaff and thistles. This present era is the time to harvest the grain.

The grain is the blessed families of Cheon Il Guk! This is the completion of Heaven’s providence, the day of which the Creator, Heavenly Parent, has dreamed. Through True Parents’ dedication of the Cheon Won Gung and Cheon Il Sanctum, as you blessed families expand the environment of life in the heavenly kingdom on earth, attending Heavenly Parent together with True Parents, you are the true and healthy harvest.

Grain lives to multiply. The Blessing is not just for you blessed families. This is the time when we are to bring Heavenly Parent real results, real fruit, by expanding the Blessing to the level of the tribes, ethnic groups, nations and the world.

At this time, the truth about God’s providence is expanding globally through True Mother, the only begotten Daughter, for the continued expansion and completion of the providence. I pray that as the three main providential nations, Korea, Japan and the United States, stand united and attend the Creator, Heavenly Parent, the blessed families will fulfill their responsibility to expand the heavenly kingdom on earth, as both heaven and humankind desire.

The world has been torn apart by war and conflict for 6,000 years. Even today there are wars due to ideological and religious fighting—unceasing armed conflict and bloodshed with so many casualties. Thus, seeing that people could neither unite nor see what lies ahead, and in light of the history of God’s providence to save fallen humankind, God selected Israel as the chosen people. After 4,000 years, God was able to send Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, whom God could call “My Son.” But the lack of unity with him meant he had to go to the cross.

Jesus gave his life on the cross and said that he would come again. What was his purpose in returning? Jesus said he would come again and hold the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Christianity had its beginnings with people awaiting the coming of Jesus, who foretold his return. But they did not understand his original essence. Moreover, they knew neither the original essence of the Creator nor the principles by which God created. Thus their leadership became humanistic and, in reaction to this, a religious reformation took place.

Heaven knows that under a monarchic system, if the monarch makes a wrong judgment, Heaven’s effort will be in vain. God therefore initiated the Protestant reformation. And in order to create the environment in which a nation that attends God, under the new system of democracy, could welcome the returning Messiah, God blessed America over the course of 400 years. As it was a leading nation in the world and representative among democratic nations, when World War II ended it called for the end of such armed conflict and for a united world. At that time, the center of God’s providence was re-emerging in Korea. Two thousand years ago, the only begotten Daughter was unable to step forward among the people of Israel. She could not come to them in the present era as it was a nation with unresolved indemnity. Thus, God chose the Korean Peninsula, and in 1943 brought about the birth of the only begotten Daughter, who will see the providence to completion.

At that time in Korea, those righteous people who were working for independence gradually divided between democracy and communism. In 1945, Korea was liberated, but was divided into North and South, one democratic, the other communist.

According to the principles of creation, God gave the man and woman whom he called time to mature, a period of growth. A one-year-old or a six-year-old cannot take on the providence. I was in North Korea, so Heaven led me to go south in order to give me time. Then Heaven gave us 1960 as the year to begin the completion of the final providence. I was young at the time, but I understood the urgency in God’s heart, that Heaven could not delay the providence any longer. Although I knew that I had mountains to climb and conquer, I said “I will do it,” and in 1960 I assumed the position of True Parent.

True Parents. God waited 6,000 years for the True Parents to come. Humanity, too, even though unaware of it, was waiting. It was a tragic situation, with True Parents starting at the very bottom, but we spread the providence of the Blessing that gives people new life through resurrection and rebirth.

Despite the fact that the providence expanded throughout the world, Christianity was unable to recognize True Parents. Christianity was to have established the environment for the returning Messiah at the center of the providence. I wish we had been able to create the circumstances in which to have embraced them more from the outset.

Now we are in the Cheon Il Guk era. Cheon Il Guk, the beginning of a new history. We must recognize that the responsibility of the blessed families living in this era is to gather a healthy harvest for Heaven. We cannot delay any longer. We must create the life of heaven on earth where True Parents and blessed children live together with Heavenly Parent.

  For 6,000 years this beautiful earth has been suffering natural disasters due to human ignorance. This is a serious issue. They say that in the future there won’t be enough oxygen or water for living things to survive. It will break my heart as a parent if today we cannot improve this world and transform this future for our beloved children. What should we do? We must witness to righteous people, professionals, those whom Heaven has prepared in each and every way for this time.

So I hope you will all have a bright and happy future. Even if you have been unfilial, it is my heartfelt wish that you will all become filial sons and daughters of our Creator, Heavenly Parent.

Since our earlier presenters spoke very well, I will conclude my words here.