A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon March 17 in the Seventh Year of Cheon Il Guk (2007) Hawaii King Garden

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will
The United States and the Future Direction
of the United Nations and the World
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
March 17 in the Seventh Year of Cheon Il Guk (2007)
Hawaii King Garden
Respected Ambassadors for Peace and leaders from throughout the United States, including Hawaii,
distinguished guests from Japan and Korea who have come from afar to honor this occasion with
your presence, ladies and gentlemen! Together with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and my family,
I extend my heartfelt welcome to you all.
Ladies and gentlemen, my heart is intense and filled with emotion as I stand before you today. It is
not because of the Misoo celebrations being held around the world to commemorate my eightyeighth
birthday. Neither is it because, owing to the fact that I am as healthy as a young man, I am
filled with the hope of living beyond my hundredth birthday.
The reason I am so serious is at the beginning of this year, 2007 (the seventh year of Cheon Il Guk), I
declared a jubilee year in God’s providence, a jubilee year the likes of which God and humankind
have never experienced in all the thousands of years of history. Heaven has greatly blessed this holy
year.
God’s heart has been in pain throughout history because Satan’s dominion entrapped humankind
within its evil sovereignty, in the shackles of the era before the coming of heaven. That time has
finally come to an end and, from this year on, the gates to the revolutionary era after the coming of
heaven can be opened wide, ushering in the era of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which
humanity can serve and attend God as the central being.
Without your being aware of it, Heaven’s providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways.
Now numerous Ambassadors for Peace in 185 nations have received my teachings and are working
day and night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to convey to you
Heaven’s message, which is entitled, “A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God’s
Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World.” This is a
declaration of God’s plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity should take.
The Progress of Human History
Ladies and gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly
discover God’s plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Consider the
history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world’s great rivers. We are familiar
with the Egyptian civilization centered around the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization
between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Indus civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese
civilization centered around the Yellow River. Civilization shifted over time to the shores of the
Mediterranean Sea where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome.
History continued to progress, and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental
civilization in turn became the fertilizer for an island civilization, Great Britain, to flourish in the
Atlantic sphere. The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as “the
empire on which the sun never sets,” passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know
these facts from history.
Civilization arrived on the North American continent and soon took on the armor of democracy,
which was rooted in Christianity. This civilization raised the banner of the freedom of religion and
respect for equal human rights in its struggle against communism, which sought to establish an
atheistic sovereignty of evil. Through victories in the First and Second World Wars, and the third—
the Cold War—it won victory over totalitarianism and communism.
However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great, and the development of human
civilization did not stop there. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the United States of
America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and had raised and trained
the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to
its present stage of fruition.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is in the present time that the issue of the development of civilization
becomes important. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived in
the Pacific sphere. Human history has now come to a point in the providence where it should
conclude and reach fruition through the Pacific Rim region.
No force can stop the providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the
course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the era before heaven, nothing could prevent the
rise of the Pacific Rim Era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared this year to be a
jubilee year.
Our Mission in the Pacific Rim Era
Ladies and gentlemen, the arrival of the Pacific Rim Era signifies many things. What do you think
the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his
lifetime on earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah, to save all of humanity. He did not come
just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on a corner of the Mediterranean Sea. At that
time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome
was ready to rule the seas. Heaven’s desire was that Jesus first teach and transform Rome and then
rule over her, in order to bring salvation to all humanity through the vehicle of Rome’s brilliant
civilization. Yet, Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the
biblical record.
After thousands of years of preparation, God finally was able to send Jesus to the earth as His only
son. There is no way to fathom God’s heart as He anxiously watched Jesus’ each and every action.
Jesus’ death was a tragedy that broke God’s heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than
the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost from
the Garden of Eden due to the Fall.
During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a
suffering path that is beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States
of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes
Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States’ mission is to bring
harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible, and, in the twenty-first century, to fulfill the
responsibility that had been the Roman Empire’s, but which was not realized in Jesus’ time. The
responsibility, within God’s providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world’s six and a
half billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world, is on America’s shoulders.
These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven’s decree.
Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon,
the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to practice a life of true
love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to
establish a model, ideal family—a true family.
Then what kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family?
True Love and True Family
Ladies and gentlemen, God’s absolute true love does not instill a desire to have one’s partner exist
for one’s own sake. Rather, true love’s essence is giving, living for the sake of others and for the
sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing.
True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her
baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted
son who finds his greatest satisfaction in dedicating himself with all of his body and mind to
helping his parents.
When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually increasing in the
joy of each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the universe to our feet;
even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the value of true love. It has the
power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national boundaries and the
barriers of race and even religion.
The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so that
whoever practices God’s true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to
participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is
the absolute precondition for entering the kingdom of heaven.
The path is now wide open for humanity to establish true families. The family sets the pattern for
living together in harmony. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between
parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual
reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family.
This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the
root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. In this manner, the three generations of grandparents,
parents, and children should live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see
such families, and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs and Ambassadors for Peace to seek after
and establish them—families of Cheon Il Guk, the kingdom of God.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You
should raise families to which He can come freely as the Parent visiting His children. This is what it
means to live in service to God.
In such a family, God is the subject partner over your conscience, acting vertically. Following God as
your vertical subject partner, your mind stands in the position of vertical subject partner over your
body, bringing your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children’s
love, and siblings’ love—in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of heart—are perfected.
Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and right be connected as one
and spherical motion ensue. This leads to God’s everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and
His peace kingdom. If only the entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an
orderly world where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no
need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.
The Future of Humankind Is Rooted in the Future of the Pacific Rim Region
Peace-loving leaders from the Pacific Rim region!
Among the 6.5 billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors, relatives, and
brothers and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, many of us share the same
root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. There is nothing we cannot do if we receive the
Marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God’s ideal for peace! The future of humanity is in
our hands.
God’s providence has now spread from the North American continent and has blossomed as an
island civilization, the Japanese archipelago, which is in a position similar to that previously held by
the United Kingdom. It is now about to fulfill its destiny by coming to fruition on the Korean
peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of
humanity and the returning Messiah. The Korean peninsula, which stands in a similar position to that
of Rome in Jesus’ time, is regarded as an area of conflict between the sphere of the religions and the
sphere of politics, which have the mission of resolving the world’s problems. From a geo-political
point of view, the Korean peninsula is emerging as the arena of most intense confrontation despite
the ongoing work to secure world peace.
The principles of restoration through indemnity dictate that civilization must bear fruit in the Pacific
Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, the UN forces,
centering on the United States, were mobilized to the peninsula. Yet, they did not recover the
homeland and hometown of God’s desire as they should have according to God’s will, and they left
the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, taking the name “the Cold War,”
during which time people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, leading them to search
for God.
In order to make up for this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF)
and then organized the “peace kingdom corps” and the “peace kingdom police force,” comprising
women on Heaven’s side who have received the Marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are
willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of UPF. I have taken the lead in educating those involved
with these organizations. As the peace organizations that stand in the forefront of actualizing a world
of peace with God at its center, they will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.
You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting the Six Party Talks now being held for the
sake of resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula and reconciling the democratic nations
with the communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and
harmony rooted in the new ideology with the Heavenly Father at its center.
At such intense times, what exactly should be the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii in
the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and all the great oceans of the world. With the support and protection of
the American continent, the Korean Peninsula should protect and defend the Pacific Rim region by
bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies
in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan and the United States.
As I was well aware of Heaven’s plans for this area, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my
life in the United States beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. I first visited
Hawaii and prayed at a critical moment when I was on my way to meet Kim Il Sung of North Korea
in 1991 with the purpose of bringing an end to the Cold War era. On that victorious foundation, I
have now returned to Korea and I am working to complete the providence of establishing God’s
homeland and hometown. This year, in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I visited Hawaii
as the first stop on a trip to America.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the world.
Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations such as China and Russia
are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to aggressively pursue their own interests with the
powerless and small island nations. Regardless of what nation it may be, no small island nation by
itself can deal with these powerful surrounding nations and their economic, political or even military
ambitions. Those nations are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate any of the
smaller nations in a single day, without shedding blood.
Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all humankind be
guaranteed. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves will not be able to stop the
incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for all
these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite as one and build the homeland of the
new civilization. The small island nations dispersed in both the northern and southern regions of the
Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the
Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become as one country and
form one union to sustain peace throughout the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and
stability for all people.
What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm,
which is a lifeline on which humanity’s future depends, from the environmental destruction and
conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield the natural resources for the sake of peace in
the future.
True Parents’ Work for Peace
Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible suffering and
tribulations. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, hovering
in a state between life and death, I received Heaven’s seal and was made fully aware of the
destination of God’s will. Thus, I held dearly to Heaven’s command to bring salvation to humanity
as I returned like a phoenix and continued my turbulent life.
In Jerusalem, in 2003, on the foundation of the victory attained through such blood, sweat and tears,
I had Jesus proclaimed as the king of kings before heaven and earth with the acknowledgement of
Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, I was acknowledged as the king of peace
both in a United States Senate office building and at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in
June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in
Heaven and on Earth.
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Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the
establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God’s providence to
flourish. Now, it is certainly possible for UPF to serve as an “Abel-type” counterpart to the UN in
the era after the coming of heaven. UPF will renew the “Cain-type” UN and lead the way for
millions of Ambassadors for Peace throughout the world who have taken up my teachings, teachings
centered on the Heavenly Father—which consist of the principles of true love and the ideal of true
family—and, without fail, fulfill the heavenly will of creating “One Family Under God.”
The International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing
Ladies and gentlemen, the Universal Peace Federation will be in the vanguard of carrying out the
great revolution of restoring the original lineage of humanity back to that of Adam before the Fall
through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing held on the interreligious and
international level. Some may laugh and say that it is impossible. Yet, if it is God’s will, there will be
a way. What do you think will happen if people from the United States and Russia marry across the
boundaries of their nationalities through the international and cross-cultural Marriage Blessing,
according to the teachings of Rev. Moon, who is doing God’s work? The two nations will belong to
one family under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone harbor
antagonism toward, much less point weapons at, a nation which many millions of grandchildren
from their own lineage make their home?

Distinguished guests, you who have been called by God! The holy task of building the ideal
kingdom of heaven—the sacred reign of peace on earth—is being carried out enthusiastically in all
corners of the world, through the recovery of our ideal homeland and hometown. This is God’s hope
for changing the 6.5 billion people of the world to the lineage of the true tribe. At this very moment,
people are competing to fulfill their responsibility to hold hoondok rallies and Marriage Blessings in
twelve thousand locations in each of the 185 nations of the world.
The Coming Culture of Women
Ladies and Gentlemen, you have truly come to a meaningful occasion today. Please do not miss your
chance to ride on the currents of heavenly fortune that will surge together during this important and
sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover
seventy-five percent of the earth. Where else will you find a new treasure-store of natural resources
that hold the promise to resuscitate the earth endangered by all kinds of pollution and resource
depletion?
The oceanic era that has begun represents the women’s era. Transcending nations and oceans, the
Pacific Rim region must fulfill its mission as the main vehicle for creating the culture of the oceanic
sphere, which is the sphere of women’s culture. Please take this to heart.
I also say to you, please engrave this message on your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in
heaven are blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today, and they are
listening to this message with you. This is because they too must perfect themselves through you,
their descendants, and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers, and true lords and
owners.
Furthermore, they must become one in heart and body with the True Parent, the king of kings. From
the original position before the Fall, they must uphold the True Parents’ standard absolutely, take an
active role in carrying out their works, and be mobilized for the creation of the kingdom of heaven
on earth and in heaven through a life of service and attendance. Please do not forget that in this way,
the spirit world and the physical world unite as one living entity, and move and breathe together.
There is one more special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse yourselves in the
contents of my peace messages, to the point where you virtually know them by heart, and make them
the guidelines for your life. These messages of peace are a summary of my teachings that can be
found in more than a thousand volumes of True Parents’ speeches. God will stand at the forefront.
The spirit world and the physical world will unite to protect and aid you in creating the peaceful,
ideal world of God’s desire in which you can enjoy eternal liberation and complete freedom.
Again, I sincerely wish that you will engrave on your hearts the words I have conveyed to you, and
utilize them in educating your children, other young people, and the citizens of your nation. Aju!
May God’s blessings be with your families, your nations, the Pacific Rim region and the Peace UN!
Thank you very much.

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will - The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World Sun Myung Moon October 14, 2007

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will - The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World

Sun Myung Moon
October 14, 2007
Sun Moon University, Korea

Respected representatives of the Universal Peace Federation's Peace Kingdom Corps for God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk, ladies and gentlemen! It is truly a pleasure to be able to meet you here today. Together with my family, and on behalf of the seventy million people of my homeland, the Republic of Korea, I extend my heartfelt welcome to you all.

I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to you, your comrades and to your nations for the sacrifices you made during the Korean War to uphold the founding ideals of the United Nations and the noble cause of protecting world peace.

Ladies and gentlemen, God's desire is to save humankind from evil and sin, and to actualize the ideal He envisioned for all that He created. From the viewpoint of God's providential plan, the Korean War was not a simple war involving one country. It was a historic, righteous war that played a decisive role in bringing God's providence to fruition.

Due to constraints of time, I cannot explain in detail today the profound providential plan God has had for my life's work and for the Korean peninsula. I would therefore like to speak about aspects of God's providence dealing with the Pacific Rim Era that I have recently announced.

Distinguished guests, at the beginning of this year, 2007 (the seventh year of Cheon Il Guk), I declared a jubilee year in God's providence, a jubilee year the likes of which God and humankind have never experienced in all the thousands of years of history. Heaven has greatly blessed this holy year.

God's heart has been in pain throughout history because Satan's dominion entrapped humankind within its evil sovereignty, in the shackles of the "Era before the Coming of Heaven." That time has finally come to an end and, from this year on, the gates to the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven can be opened wide, ushering in the era of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which humanity can serve and attend God as the Central Being.

Without your being aware of it, Heaven's providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways. Now Ambassadors for Peace in 185 nations, numbering in tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to convey to you Heaven's message, which is entitled, "A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World." This is a declaration of God's plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity should take.

The Progress of Human History

Ladies and gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly discover God's plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world's great rivers. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization centered around the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Indus civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese civilization centered on the Yellow River.

Civilization shifted over time to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn became the fertilizer for an island civilization, Great Britain, to flourish in the Atlantic sphere.

The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as "the empire on which the sun never sets," passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know these facts from history.

Civilization arrived on the North American continent and soon took on the armor of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. This civilization raised the banner of the freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights in its struggle against communism, which sought to establish an atheistic sovereignty of evil. Through the victories of the First and Second World Wars, and the third -- the Cold War -- it won victory over totalitarianism and communism.

However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great, and the development of human civilization did not stop there. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and had raised and trained the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is in the present time that the issue of the development of civilization becomes important. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived in the Pacific sphere. Human history has come to a point in time in the providence at which it should reach completion and fruition through the Pacific Rim region.

No force can stop the providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the Era before Heaven, nothing could prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim Era. Herein lays the special reason that Heaven declared this year to be a jubilee year.

Our Mission in the Pacific Rim Era

Ladies and gentlemen!

The arrival of the Pacific Rim Era signifies many things. What do you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his lifetime on earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah, to save all humankind. He did not come just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on a corner of the Mediterranean Sea.

At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas. Heaven's desire was that Jesus first teach and transform Rome and then rule over her, in order to bring salvation to all humanity through the vehicle of Rome's brilliant civilization. Yet, Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.

After thousands of years of preparation, God finally was able to send Jesus to the earth as His only son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched Jesus' each and every action. Jesus' death was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost from the Garden of Eden due to the Fall.

During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a suffering path that is beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States' mission is to bring harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible, and, in the twenty-first century, to fulfill the responsibility that had been the Roman Empire's, but which was not realized in Jesus' time.

The responsibility, within God's providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world's 6.5 billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world, is on America's shoulders. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven's decree.

Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon, the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal family -- a true family.

Then what kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family?

True Love and True Family

Ladies and gentlemen!

God's absolute true love does not instill a desire to have one's partner exist for one's own sake. Rather, true love's essence is giving, living for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully.

We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted son who finds his greatest satisfaction through dedicating himself with all of his body and mind to helping his parents.

When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually increasing in the joy of each other's company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national boundaries and the barriers of race and even religion.

The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so that whoever practices God's true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute precondition for entering the kingdom of heaven. This is the new way of life in a family where people live peacefully centering on God. It is the ideal model of peace for all creation.

The path is now wide open for humanity to establish true families. The family establishes the pattern for people to live for the sake of others. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family.

This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and children should live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such families, and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs and Ambassadors for Peace to seek after and establish them -- families of the kingdom of God.

You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as a parent visiting His children. This is what it means to live in service to God.

In such a family, God is the subject partner of your conscience, acting vertically. Following God as your vertical subject partner, your mind stands in the position of the vertical subject partner of your body, bringing your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and siblings' love -- in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of heart -- are perfected.

Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and right be connected as one and spherical motion ensue. This leads to God's everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom. If only the entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an orderly world where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.

The Future of Humankind Is Rooted in the Future of the Pacific Rim Region

Peace-loving leaders from the Pacific Rim region!

Among the 6.5 billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, many of us share the same root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. There is nothing we cannot do if we receive the Marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God's ideal for peace! The future of humanity is in our hands.

God's providence has now spread from the North American continent and has blossomed as an island civilization, the Japanese archipelago, which is in a position similar to that previously held by the United Kingdom. It is now about to fulfill its destiny by coming to fruition on the Korean peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of humanity and the returning Messiah.

The Korean peninsula, which stands in a similar position to that of Rome in Jesus' time, is regarded as an area of conflict beyond the spheres of religions or politics which have the mission of resolving the world's problems. From a geo-political point of view, the Korean peninsula emerged as an arena of most intense confrontation despite the ongoing work to secure world peace.

The principles of restoration through indemnity dictate that civilization must bear fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, the UN forces, centering on the United States, were mobilized to the peninsula.

Yet, they did not recover the homeland and hometown of God's desire as they should have according to God's will, and they left the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, which came to be called the Cold War. During this period, people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, leading them to search for God.

In order to make up for this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and then organized the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force, comprising the women on Heaven's side who have received the Marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the Universal Peace Federation.

I have taken the lead in educating those involved with these organizations. As the peace organizations that stand in the forefront for actualizing a world of peace centering on God, they will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.

You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting the Six Party Talks now being held for the sake of resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula and reconciling the democratic nations with the communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted in the new "Way of the Heavenly Father."

At such intense times, what exactly should be the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii in the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and all the great oceans of the world. With the support and protection of the American continent, the Korean Peninsula should protect and defend the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan and the United States.

As I was well aware of Heaven's plans for this area, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my life based in the United States beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. I first visited Hawaii and prayed at a critical moment when I was on my way to meet Kim Il Sung of North Korea in 1991 with the purpose of bringing an end to the cold war era.

On that victorious foundation, I have now returned to Korea and I am working to complete the providence of establishing God's homeland and hometown. This year, in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I was in Hawaii on the first stop of a visit to America.

Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the world. Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations such as China and Russia are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to aggressively pursue their own interests with the powerless and small island nations.

Regardless of what nation it may be, no small island nation by itself can deal with these powerful surrounding nations and their economic, political or even military ambitions. Those nations are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate any of the smaller nations in a single day, without shedding blood.

Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all humankind be guaranteed. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves will not be able to stop the incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for all these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite as one and build the homeland of the new civilization.

The small island nations dispersed in both the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become as one country and form one union to sustain peace throughout the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people.

What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, which is a lifeline on which humanity's future depends, from the environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield the natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.

True Parents' Work for Peace

Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible suffering and tribulations. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, hovering in a state between life and death, I received Heaven's seal and was made fully aware of the destination of God's will. Thus, I held dearly to Heaven's command to bring salvation to humanity as I returned like a phoenix and continued my hectic life's work.

I have come to be recognized by various leaders of religion, academia, politics and others, both here in America and throughout the world, as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline.

The first has to do with knowledge of God. Until now, God has been known only as an all-knowing and all-powerful being. People think God is sitting on the throne of honor and glory as the absolute master, having nothing to do with the created world of all things. There is another side to this, however.

From the time I first embarked on a journey to fulfill God's providential calling to me, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings was that of parent and child. I learned that God became the Parent of pain, sorrow, and lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve.

Throughout my life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God's pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the coronation ceremony for God's kingship, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.

The second area has to do with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, human beings have not known the identity of the devil, Satan, who caused the human Fall, which led to all kinds of evil.

For fourteen years, I labored desperately to discover all the secrets of the spirit world through many bruising spiritual battles. Finally, I discovered the real identity of Satan, the origin of all evil. Taking one step further, I also came to uncover Satan's strategy and tactics to multiply his power.

After I discovered Satan's strategy of defiling the human blood lineage through the Fall, I became totally committed to restoring God's original blood lineage. The heavenly strategy developed for this purpose, and now widely known throughout the world, is the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing movement.

The third area has to do with understanding of the human condition. Where are we human beings from, how should we live, and where should we go? Why are our mind and body fighting, and why do we struggle in conflict? What is the meaning of life and death? Does the world after death truly exist? If so, how should we live on earth?

The answers to these questions and others are expounded in detail in the Principle of Creation that God revealed to me.

I have the intuitive ability to look into the hearts of men and women and predict their destiny. That is why many young people throughout the world come to me hoping to be matched with an ideal spouse.

The fourth area has to do with knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit world, the world after physical death, is a world that really exists, and to which all humans are bound to go as an extension of their earthly life. Human life is one continuous stream from conception and life in the womb all the way to an eternal life, after physical death ends our earthly life.

Those who discard their flesh after having received the Marriage Blessing, eradicating original sin and perfecting their spirit self, go through a sacred ritual of Seunghwa at the end of their physical lives that allows them to be welcomed and celebrated on their path to the heavenly nation and eternal life.

We should understand clearly that the numerous saints and sages who have lived on earth throughout history are now actually living in the spirit world. They are assisting God's providence for the earth, reborn as absolute good spirits after having received the Marriage Blessing from the True Parents.

Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in the spirit world exactly as it takes place. On the day when we go to the spirit world, our life's record will become the basis for judgment. That is why all human beings should practice a life of true love and sacrifice themselves for a greater cause.

The fifth area has to do with knowledge of Jesus. I came to grasp the terrible tragedy of the crucifixion of Jesus. He came as God's son, the Savior and Messiah, but he was rejected and opposed, even by the people that God had prepared. It was God's will that Jesus, as the second Adam, should fulfill the model of a God-centered ideal family, and engraft all humankind to him.

Christianity became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the nucleus of the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean civilizations. It has always stood in the position of the Bride to receive the Lord at his Second Coming. Therefore Christians in particular must comprehend the sorrowful heart of Jesus, who was driven to the cross, unable to fully unfold God's will for him.

My teachings clearly explain the truth about Jesus' mission, the limitation of salvation through the cross, and the reason and purpose that he should return.

The sixth area is in the knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other religious scriptures. These are books of secret revelation that enable human beings, trapped in ignorance after the Fall of the first human ancestors, to return to God.

Many of the important issues in scripture are described in metaphors and symbols. The meanings of these metaphors and symbols are to be fully revealed only by the Messiah sent by Heaven. Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core contents and deep meaning of the Old Testament.

In the same way, God's secrets regarding His providence of salvation, hidden throughout the Bible, are now being revealed by my teachings. The Bible is a book of revelations that concealed the secrets of God's ideal for the creation, the Fall, and the path of restoration. The Divine Principle revealed to me by God lucidly answers all the questions that are raised in the various scriptures.

The seventh area is in the knowledge and understanding of the goal of human history. History is not merely a record of events that take place by coincidence. It is flowing in a clear direction and with a clear purpose. It is a history for the providence for the re-creation of human beings' original state, through indemnity -- a history of restoration for their salvation.

Because of this insight into the origin and direction of history, I was able to successfully predict the sudden end of communism and dialectic materialism, in a speech delivered at the 1985 Professors World Peace Academy Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, a time when the Soviet Union was still at its peak.

Today, I am declaring that it is time for all nations and religion to break down their barriers. Through this, the era of "One Family under God" will arrive and last forever.

God is leading history. With the help of heavenly fortune, centering on the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress toward a world transcending religions and nations, God's kingdom on earth, which in Korean we call Cheon Il Guk.

The eighth area concerns true family values. God's ideal of creation is to build God-centered true families. It is the goal of His salvation providence to restore the ideal of the true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in his own family. In this way, it is to establish the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.

The Marriage Blessing movement that I have been leading is no ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a sacred ritual through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft human beings to the true lineage of God.

True families are the wellspring and foundation of true love, true life and true lineage. Through true families the true nation, true world, and true kingdom can be built. Families centered on the True Parents can become the base for the perfected relationships within the Four Realms of Heart and the Three Kingships, and become the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.

On September 12, 2005, I founded the Universal Peace Federation. Then, in order to build "One Family under God" through the twin strategies of proclaiming God's Word and conducting the Marriage Blessing, I completed three world speaking tours with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children and our grandchildren. In this way we were able to successfully have three generations fulfilling the Marriage Blessing ideal within one family.

Afterwards, 120 Christian representatives in America as well as 1,200 religious leaders and 12,000 Ambassadors for Peace from across the world traveled consecutively throughout 190 nations, representing their own nation by spreading the Peace Messages of the True Parents and sharing the Marriage Blessing. This tour helped spread true family values as the universal values of humankind as we establish a new God-centered civilization.

As mentioned above, I have become well known as a champion in each of these eight areas. The support of all humanity is urgently needed for everything to be fulfilled. With God's grace, we will soon win the victory!

In Jerusalem, in 2003, on the foundation of the victory attained through blood, sweat and tears on the basis of the unity of the True Parents and all humankind, I had Jesus proclaimed as the king of kings before heaven and earth with the acknowledgement of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, I was acknowledged as the king of peace both in a United States Senate office building and at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God's providence to flourish. Now, it is possible for UPF to serve as an "Abel-type" counterpart to the UN in the Era after the Coming of Heaven.

It will renew the "Cain-type" United Nations and lead the way for millions of Ambassadors for Peace throughout the world who have taken up my teachings, "the Way of the Heavenly Father" -- which consist of the principles of true love and the ideal of true family -- and, without fail, fulfill the heavenly will of creating "One Family Under God."

The International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing

Ladies and gentlemen, the Universal Peace Federation will be in the vanguard of carrying out the great revolution of restoring the original lineage of humanity back to that of Adam before the Fall through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing held on the inter-religious and international level.

Some may laugh and say that it is impossible. Yet, where there is a will there is a way, especially if it is the will of God. Please think about this: what do you think will happen if people from the United States and Russia marry across the boundaries of their nationalities through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing, according to the teachings of Rev. Moon who does God's work on His behalf?

The two nations will belong to one family under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone harbor antagonism toward, much less point weapons at, a nation which many millions of grandchildren from their own lineage make their home?

Distinguished guests, you who have been called by God! The holy task of building the ideal kingdom of heaven -- the sacred reign of peace on earth -- is being carried out enthusiastically in all corners of the world, by recovering our ideal homeland and hometown.

This is God's hope for changing the 6.5 billion people of the world to the lineage of the true tribe. At this very moment, people are competing to fulfill their responsibility to hold rallies featuring the teachings of peace and the Marriage Blessing in twelve thousand locations in each of the 185 nations of the world.

The Coming Culture of Women

Ladies and Gentlemen!

You have truly come to a meaningful occasion today. Please do not miss your chance to ride on the currents of heavenly fortune that will surge together during this important and sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover seventy-five percent of the earth. Where else will you find a new treasure-store of natural resources that hold the promise to resuscitate the earth endangered by all kinds of pollution and resource depletion?

Now, the oceanic era that represents the universal women's era has begun. The culture of the oceanic sphere constitutes the sphere of the original women's culture that transcends nations and oceans.

In order to create this culture, the sphere of the Pacific Rim civilization should fulfill its mission as the main vehicle for successfully passing through the labor pains of the birth of a revolutionary era of God-centered civilization, with all women becoming one in heart and body centering on the True Mother. Please take this to heart.

I also say to you, who have come to this meaningful occasion, please engrave this message on your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in heaven are blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today, and they are listening to this message with you. This is because they too must perfect themselves through you, their descendants, and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers and true lords and owners.

Furthermore, they must become one in heart and body with the True Parent, the king of kings. From the original position before the Fall, they must uphold the True Parents' standard absolutely, take an active role in carrying out their works, and be mobilized for the creation of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven through a life of service and attendance. Please do not forget that in this way, the spirit world and the physical world unite as one living entity and move and breathe together.

There is one more special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse yourselves in the contents of my peace messages to the point where you know them virtually by heart, and make them the guidelines for your life. These messages of peace are a summary of my teachings that can be found in more than a thousand volumes of True Parents' speeches.

God will stand at the forefront. The spirit world and the physical world will unite to protect and aid you in creating the peaceful, ideal world of God's desire in which you can enjoy eternal liberation and complete freedom.

You should now find your place in history by fulfilling your mission as a member of the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force of the Abel-type UN, which is advancing God's providence in the revolutionary era after the coming of heaven.

History will forever remember you for leading a noble life of devotion to the well-being of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the Peace Kingdom Corps and the Peace Kingdom Police Force, which I founded. Who, if not leaders such as you, can stand in the forefront of these two organizations under the banner of UPF (the "Abel UN")?

Again I sincerely wish that you will engrave on your hearts the words I have conveyed to you, and utilize them in educating your children, young people, and the people of your nation. Aju!

May God's blessings be with your families, your nations, the Pacific Rim region and the Peace UN!

Thank you very much. 

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God’s Will The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon March 17 in the Seventh Year of Cheon Il Guk (2007) Hawaii King Garden

A Providential View
of the Pacific Rim Era
in Light of God’s Will
The United States and the Future Direction
of the United Nations and the World
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
March 17 in the Seventh Year
of Cheon Il Guk (2007)
Hawaii King Garden

Respected Ambassadors for Peace and leaders of Hawaii, distinguished
guests from Japan and Korea who have come from afar to honor
this occasion with your presence, ladies and gentlemen! My wife Dr.
Hak Ja Han Moon and I extend our heartfelt welcome to you all.
Ladies and gentlemen, my heart is serious and filled with emotion as I stand before
you today. It is not because of the Misoo celebrations being held around the world to
commemorate my 88th birthday. Neither is it because, owing to the fact that I am as
healthy as a man of fifty, I am filled with the hope of living beyond my hundredth
birthday.
The reason I am so serious is that at the beginning of this year, 2007, the seventh
year of Cheon Il Guk, I declared a jubilee year in God’s providence, a jubilee year the
likes of which humankind has never experienced. Heaven has greatly blessed this
holy year. God’s heart has been in pain throughout history because Satan’s dominion
entrapped humankind within its evil sovereignty, in the fetters of the “era before
heaven.” That time has finally come to an end and, from this year on, the gates to
the revolutionary era after the coming of heaven can be opened wide, ushering in
an era of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which humanity can attend God as the
Central Being.
Without your being aware of it, heaven’s providence has been expanding in
extraordinary ways. Now Ambassadors for Peace in 185 nations—who number in the
millions—have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to
a special decree from God. I would like to convey to you Heaven’s message, which
is entitled, “A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God’s Will: The
United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World.” This is
a declaration of God’s plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity should
take.
The Progress of Human History
Ladies and gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of human history,
you will undoubtedly discover God’s resolve and the fingerprints He left as He
tirelessly worked behind the scenes. We are familiar with the history of civilization,
which began centering on four of the world’s great rivers. Later, human civilization
moved to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea where the Mediterranean peninsular
cultures flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued its progress and the
European continental culture emerged. This continental civilization in turn became
the energy stimulating an island culture, Great Britain, to flourish in the Atlantic
sphere. The British Empire, which dominated the four seas and wielded its might
as “the empire on which the sun never sets,” passed its splendid culture on to North
America. We know these facts from history.
Human civilization arrived on the North American continent and soon took on the
armor of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. The United States raised
the banner of the freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights in its
struggle against communism, which sought to establish an atheistic sovereignty of
evil. Through victories in the First, Second and Third World Wars, America won
victory over totalitarianism and communism.
However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great, and the development
of human civilization did not stop there. Victory came because God had chosen and
raised the United States of America as the second Israel, in accordance with His
providential program, and had raised the American people through Christianity. God
worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is in the present time that this issue becomes important.
The development of human civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe
and has arrived at the Pacific sphere. Human history has come to a point in time in
the providence at which it should reach completion and fruition through the Pacific
Rim region. No force can impede the providence now. Though there were both
victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in
the era before heaven, nothing could prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim era. Herein
lies the reason that Heaven declared this a jubilee year.
Our Mission in the Pacific Rim Era
Ladies and gentlemen, the arrival of the Pacific Rim era signifies many things. From
the perspective of the history of religions, what do you think the world would
be like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his lifetime on
earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah to save all people. He did not come just
to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on a corner of the Mediterranean
Sea. At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of
human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas. Heaven’s desire was that Jesus
evangelize and then rule over Rome first, in order to bring salvation to all humanity
through the vehicle of Rome’s brilliant civilization. Yet, Jesus died miserably on the
cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.
After thousands of years of preparation, God finally was able to send Jesus to the
earth as His only son. There is no way to fathom God’s heart as He anxiously watched
Jesus’ each and every action. Jesus’ death was a tragedy that broke God’s heart. It
brought Him anguish even more extreme than the time when Adam and Eve, whom
He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost from the Garden of Eden
due to the Fall.
During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history,
has walked a suffering path that is beyond human contemplation. Through this
course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the sphere of the second
Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism as well
as the Orthodox world, the United States’ mission is to bring harmony and unity to
Christianity and, in the twenty-first century, fulfill the responsibility that had been the
Roman Empire’s, but which was not realized in Jesus’ time. The responsibility, within
God’s providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world’s 6.5 billion people
and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world, is on America’s shoulders.
These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven’s decree.
Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through
me, Reverend Moon, the True Parent of humankind. God has given the supreme
command to practice a life of true love, understand completely the reality of the
spirit world, and find and establish a model, ideal family—a true family. Then what
kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family?
True Love and True Family
Ladies and gentlemen, true love does not instill a desire to have one’s partner
exist for one’s own sake. Rather, true love’s essence is giving, living for the sake
of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given,
and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the
joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it
at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted son who gains
his greatest satisfaction through helping his parents.
When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually
increasing in the joy of each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all
things in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can
compare to the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen
people have created, including national boundaries and the barriers of race and even
religion.
The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal, so that whoever practices God’s true love will live with God, share His
happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a
life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute prerequisite for
entering the kingdom of heaven.
The path is now wide open now for humanity to find and establish true families.
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The warm environment
of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity
and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is
the manifestation of the model, ideal family. This means that you need to establish
a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and
bears the fruit of true love.
In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and children should
live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such families,
and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs and Ambassadors for Peace to seek after
and establish them—families of Cheon Il Guk, the kingdom of God.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been
away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as a parent visiting
His children. This is what it means to live in service to God. In such a family,
God is the subject over your conscience, acting vertically. Following God as your
vertical subject, your mind stands in the position of vertical subject over your body,
bringing your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love,
children’s love, and siblings’ love—in short, the four realms of love or the four realms
of heart—are perfected. Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and
behind, left and right be connected as one and spherical motion ensue. This leads to
God’s everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom. If only
the entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an orderly world
where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no
need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.
The Future of Humankind Is Rooted
in the Future of the Pacific Rim Region
Peace-loving leaders from the Pacific Rim region! Among the 6.5 billion people
on the earth today, almost five billion are your neighbors, relatives and brothers
and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, you share the same
root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. There is nothing we cannot do if we
pull together centering on God’s ideal for peace! The future of humanity is in our
hands.
God’s providence has now spread from the North American continent and has
blossomed as an island civilization on the Japanese archipelago which is in a position
similar to that previously held by the United Kingdom. It is now about to fulfill its
destiny by coming to fruition on the Korean peninsula, the homeland of the True
Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of humanity and the returning
Messiah. From a geo-political point of view, despite the ongoing work to secure
peace on the Korean peninsula, that area remains the arena of most intense conflict.
However, from the providential view the Korean peninsula must rise to take up a
position similar to that of Rome in Jesus’ time, by resolving the world’s problems.
The principles of restoration through indemnity dictate that civilization must bear
fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately during
the Korean War, the UN forces, centering on the United States, were mobilized to the
peninsula. Yet, they did not recover God’s homeland and hometown as they should
have according to God’s will, and they left the job half-done. As a result, global conflict
and strife emerged through the Cold War, during which time the Korean people were
deprived of their possessions and dislocated, leading them to search for God.
In order to make up for this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace
Federation and then organized the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police
Force centering on the women who love the Universal Peace Federation and are
willing to serve and sacrifice for the sake of peace under its banner. I have taken the
lead in educating those involved with these organizations. As the peace organizations
that constitute the vanguard for realizing a world of peace centering on God, they
will create the peaceful, ideal world of God’s desire.
You may not be aware of this, but I am assisting the Six Party Talks now being held for
the sake of resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula and reconciling the
democratic nations with the communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on
the principles of peace and harmony rooted in “the Way of the Heavenly Father.”
At such intense times, what exactly is the role of America and the United Nations?
Norfolk, and Hawaii—which is located at the center of the Pacific Rim region—
represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and also all the five great oceans. Hawaii
in the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West and link North and
South. With the support and protection of the American continent, Hawaii should
bring together the island nations of the Pacific and preserve and defend the Pacific
Rim region. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of
the Pacific Rim region centering on the United States.
As I was fully aware of Heaven’s plans for this area, I invested thirty-three of the
golden years of my life beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace,
centering on America. I first visited Hawaii and prayed here at a critical moment,
when I was on my way to meet Kim Il Sung of North Korea in 1991 with the purpose
of bringing an end to the cold war era.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in
the world and in the Pacific Rim. Although the days of communism are gone, even
now powerful nations such as China and Russia are constantly on the lookout for
opportunities to aggressively pursue their own interests with the powerless and small
island nations. Regardless of what nation it may be, no small island nation by itself
can deal with these powerful surrounding nations and their economic, political or
even military ambitions. Those nations are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they
could dominate any of the smaller nations in a single day, without shedding blood.
Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all
humankind be guaranteed. As I said, the small island nations by themselves will not
be able to stop the incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region.
The time has come, therefore, for all the small island nations in the Pacific Rim
sphere to unite as one. The small island nations dispersed in both the northern
and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan,
Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New
Zealand and other countries, should enter into an agreement as one body to sustain
peace throughout the Pacific Rim sphere. This will secure peace and stability for all
people.
What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the
oceanic realm, which is the resource on which humanity’s future depends, from the
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environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and shield
the raw materials for the sake of peace in the future. This year, in particular, a jubilee
year in the providence, I have come to Hawaii as the first transit stop on my visit to
America. I am now completing the providence of establishing God’s homeland and
hometown.
True Parents’ Achievements
Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of
inexpressible suffering and tribulations. I have not lived for personal glory or
comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path hovering in a state between life and death,
I received heaven’s seal and was fully aware of the destination of God’s will. Thus,
I held dearly to Heaven’s command to bring salvation to humanity as I carried on,
like a phoenix, with my eventful life.
In Jerusalem, in 2003, on the foundation of the victory attained through such blood,
sweat and tears, I had Jesus proclaimed as the king of kings before heaven and earth
with the acknowledgement of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in
2004, I was acknowledged as the King of Peace both in a United States Senate Office
Building and at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in June 2006, we held
the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in
Heaven and Earth.
Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven
and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will
enable God’s providence to flourish. Now, it is entirely possible for the Universal
Peace Federation to serve as an “Abel-type” counterpart to the United Nations in the
era after the coming of heaven. It will renew the “Cain-type” United Nations and
activate millions of Ambassadors for Peace throughout the world who have taken
up my teachings, “the Way of the Heavenly Father”—which consists of principles of
true love and the ideal of a true family—and, without fail, fulfill the heavenly will
of creating “one family under God.”
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The International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing
Ladies and gentlemen, the Universal Peace Federation will be the vanguard
carrying out the great revolution of restoring the original lineage of humanity
back to that of Adam before the Fall through the International and Cross-cultural
Marriage Blessing held on the interreligious and international level. Some may laugh
and say that it is impossible. Yet, please think about this: what do you think will
happen if people from the United States and Russia marry across the boundaries of
their nationalities through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing,
according to the teachings of Rev. Moon who does God’s works on His behalf. The
two nations will become one family under God, who is the eternal, absolute Master.
How could anyone harbor antagonism toward, much less point guns and knives at,
a nation which billions of grandchildren from their own lineage make their home?
Distinguished guests, the holy task of restoring the 6.5 billion people of the world
to the true lineage, and fulfilling God’s wish for an ideal kingdom of heaven that is
the sacred reign of peace on earth, is being carried out in all corners of the world.
At this very moment, people are in intense competition to fulfill their responsibility
to hold Hoondok-Blessing Rallies in 12,000 locations in each of the 185 nations of the
world.
The Advent of the Culture of Women
You have truly come to a meaningful occasion today. Please do not miss your
chance to ride on the currents of heavenly fortune that will surge together
during this important and sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in developing the realm
of the oceans, which cover seventy-five percent of the earth. Where else will you
find a treasure-store of raw materials that hold the promise to resuscitate the earth
endangered by all manner of pollution and resource exhaustion?
The oceanic era that has begun represents the women’s era. The Pacific Rim region
must fulfill its mission as the vehicle for creating the culture of the oceanic sphere,
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which is the sphere of women’s culture. It transcends nations and transcends the
ocean itself. Please inscribe this in your hearts.
Again I say to you who have come to this meaningful occasion, please engrave this
message on your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in heaven are blessed.
Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today and are hearing this
message with you. They too must perfect themselves and they do so through you,
their descendants. Thereby they advance to the position of true parents, true teachers
and true owners and lords. Furthermore, they must become one in heart and body
with the True Parents, the king of kings. They must uphold the True Parents’ standard
absolutely, take an active role in carrying out their works, and be mobilized for the
creation of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven through a life of service
and attendance. Please do not forget that in this way, the spirit world and the physical
world exist as one entity, and move and breathe together.
There is one special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse
yourselves in the contents of the “Peace Messages” and make it the guidelines of
your life. These Messages of Peace are a summary of my teachings that can be
found in over a thousand volumes of True Parents’ speeches. God will take the lead
in uniting the spiritual and physical worlds to protect and aid you in creating the
peaceful, ideal world of God’s desire in which you can enjoy eternal liberation and
complete freedom. Aju!
May God’s blessings be with you, your nation and especially upon America and the
Pacific Rim region.
Thank you very much.

Declaration of the Establishment of Cheon Il Guk Cheon Il Guk is the Ideal Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon

Declaration of the Establishment of Cheon Il Guk

Cheon Il Guk is the Ideal Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace

Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
June 13, 2006

Highest leaders of all of the nations of the world, honored guests of Heaven who have gathered from every corner of the earth to celebrate this treasured historic and providential day, and people of the spiritual and physical worlds who are being reborn as citizens of Cheon Il Guk:

In the name of all humanity in the spirit world and physical world, numbering more than 300 billion, I offer boundless gratitude and glory to God, the Creator of all things, the eternal True Parent of humankind and Great King of the Cosmos.

I ask you to raise your voices high in praise for the victory of the True Parents of Heaven and Earth, the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace. They have personally completed the entire course of restoration through indemnity in order to save humanity, who, as descendants of the Fall, would otherwise be eternally destined to wander in evil and suffering, ever sliding down the path to hell.

You stand today in the venue of a tremendous event in providential history. This event is unprecedented and will never be repeated. It is the day when the King of Peace finally ascends in glory. Please recognize that, although they may not be visible to you, thousands and tens of thousands of your good ancestors of blessed families have come here. They are above your head now, joining with you in celebration of this awesome moment. All nature is rejoicing, and heaven and earth resound with choruses of Hallelujah.

If you truly understood the infinite value of this day, you would not be able to sit still. You would go throughout the world singing hymns of joy and dancing in ecstasy.

The Coronation of God’s Kingship

Do you know the significance of January 13, 2001? It was the Day of the Coronation of God’s Kingship. For countless years Heaven had been waiting for that event in eager anticipation. It was the greatest and most exalted celebration humanity had ever witnessed. On that day Reverend Moon, who had received the anointing as the True Parent of all humanity and traveled a path of indescribable suffering and pain until he had gained the final victory, offered his entire foundation to Heaven.

For tens of thousands of years, God had endured an existence full of lamentation and grief, even as He conducted His Providence with a parental heart. When that coronation ceremony was offered to Him, it marked the moment of His long-awaited liberation and release. On that providential day, we declared to all heaven and earth that we would attend God as the vertical True Parent and great King of the Cosmos, that we would unfurl and raise the banner of Cheon Il Guk, and that the new sovereignty of Heaven had begun.

For the next three years, the True Parents held firmly to the helm while the winds of heavenly fortune surged around us like a typhoon. We dashed forward as though each day were a thousand years. Then on the foundation of True Parents’ victory, we declared May 5, 2004 the Day of Ssang-hap Ship-seung. On that day, the True Parents brought to a close the Age Before the Coming of Heaven with its long years of grief, and opened the Age After the Coming of Heaven, the new era when we can build a new heaven and a new earth. This marked the beginning of a great and historic revolution to return the earth to God as a substantial reality.

Beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, today you are receiving amazing grace. You are participating in the coronation ceremony of the substantial King of Cosmic Peace, and you are being registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Not only you, but also your ancestors by the tens of thousands will thank you throughout eternity for the grace they are receiving along with you today.

The Bible says “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness.” (Mt 6:33) Today you are witnessing the miracle of miracles: the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, the substantial sovereignty in the Age After the Coming of Heaven. God truly works in mysterious ways. By the first day of the new millennium, God had already placed Cheon Il Guk on the horizon. Who could have imagined though, that they would see the day when the King of Cosmic Peace would ascend to his throne? We thought it was just a dream, but we are witnessing it in our lifetime.

The Path of the People of Cheon Il Guk

Citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory. Now, as the King of Cosmic Peace, I will declare, on this thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon Il Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every citizen of Cheon Il Guk should understand and live by as they walk the way of Heaven.

First, as God is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will establish the realm of three generations in your family, perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity.

Further, you will inscribe on your heart the need to uphold the Cosmic King of Peace, who is the horizontal True Parent, and to live with absolute obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. You will make living for the sake of others, which is the practice of true love, the standard of your life. You will establish a true family and raise true children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God’s lineage and bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.

Second, no matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one. In my case as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven’s path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: “Before you desire to have dominion over the universe, you must first have dominion over yourself.”

God has given you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows all these things about you before your teacher or your pastor knows. It knows them before your parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So if you place your conscience in God’s position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of “high-noon settlement”, it is certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body and perfect their unity.

World Peace through Exchange Marriage

Citizens of Cheon Il Guk, the unification of spirit world has been completed. The issue now is the 6.5 billion people living on earth in the physical body. They struggle in agony in the midst of sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon Il Guk.

You should educate everyone to understand that all human beings without exception are descended from the Fall and must change their blood lineage through receiving the Holy Marriage Blessing from the True Parents. You must continue the work of engrafting people onto the True Olive Tree, by having them participate in the grace of “exchange” (cross-cultural) marriage, until the day when all humankind, numbering more than 300 billion souls, is restored to God’s lineage.

Fourth, you are created to spend ten months in your mother’s womb, about one hundred years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You should understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for a healthy life after birth, you must devote your earthly life to prepare yourself for the next stage of life in the spirit world. Never forget that in every time and place, and no matter what you are doing, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live in harmony with the spirit world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world with sincerity and dedication, so that you may become perfected in your spirit self while you are living on the earth.

Fifth, your talents and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon Il Guk. Now, therefore, cut away and cast off your mask of selfish individualism. It is but a remnant of the Age Before the Coming of Heaven. In order to belong to Heaven, you must change ownership by participating in the Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering everything you own to God and then receiving it back from God.

In addition, all citizens of Cheon Il Guk will provide funds for the well being and peace of humanity, not by taxation but by voluntary contributions. They will demonstrate the model of offering the first three tenths of their income for public purposes. This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.

The Life of Citizens of Cheon Il Guk

Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, in the Age After the Coming of Heaven it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Human Fall. God created all the earth’s creatures as our natural environment; they are absolutely needed for human prosperity. Human beings and nature are meant to share a realm of mutual resonance, with humans as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner thriving under human management and beautified by human creativity. We can no longer tolerate actions that destroy nature and pollute the environment.

As citizens of Cheon Il Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature, human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where human beings and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature.

If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.

Seventh, the Age After the Coming of Heaven that God and True Parents have opened is a time of dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon Il Guk, you have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory. Therefore, please become Heaven’s emissaries, fulfilling the dual missions of the “Peace Kingdom Police Force” and the “Peace Kingdom Corps.” Serve humanity under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the position of the Abel-type United Nations. Worthy countrymen and women, if not you, then who, will nurture and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has given us?

Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your True Parent, for He is the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting Peace Kingdom by attending the King of Cosmic Peace and fulfilling the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters.

Beloved people of Cheon Il Guk, I hope that you truly will celebrate and enjoy this precious and holy day. Brush off all your cares and worries and celebrate this day in joy while attending your Heavenly Father and True Parents with all your heart. The sincerity and dedication expressed by each of you brings even more glory to this day. The beautiful mountains, streams, trees, and flowers here in the vicinity of Cheong Pyeong Lake are showering their blessings upon you as you prepare to embark on your ambitious journeys. Your descendants, too, will take pride that you participated in this long-awaited day, and they will honor and praise you forever.

I pray that the abundant grace and blessings of God in heaven may be upon you and your families.

Thank you.