The Words of the Hwang Family

Our Task In Relation To God's Providence

Sun Jo Hwang
June 30, 2002

In this age, we live in attendance of True Parents. What kind of providential significance does this age have? No matter how deeply we might think about this question, no matter how piercing an insight we might have, I think it would still be extremely difficult to completely comprehend all the providential meaning of this age. But in short, the providential value of the span of True Parents' lifetime is that it must restore completely and thoroughly all of human history and open the path to the eternal future. That is the meaning of True Parents' life as determined by the Principle.

Moreover, horizontally speaking, we can say that the time that we call the providential life course of the True Parents is the one time in history during which all problems, from the individual to the cosmic level, are worked out and put into order, thus opening the door to a new age. Through one simple mistake, Noah's life course ended in failure and the providence collapsed in a puff of smoke. The same is true for Abraham, Moses, and even Jesus. Through a tiny, momentary mistake that seemed like almost nothing at all, their life courses were reduced to rubble, and with the failure of their individual life courses, the entire providential foundation for the whole also collapsed, and was lost. This pattern has repeated throughout human history. However, in the completely opposite way, through the joint life course of True Parents, not only are True Parents renewed but also all of humankind is uplifted, as are all those souls who have already gone to spirit world and even those who have fallen into the darkness of hell. So, too, the whole eternal world of the future. This is the time in which we live, when all of these are being brought through such a transition.

Up until today, the history of humankind has been one of a culture of breakup and disconnection. On a small scale, that disconnection existed between the mind and the body. But as that disconnection developed and increased, where has it led? It has evolved into worldwide disunity and breakup between East and West, and disconnection between North and South. Beyond that, if we take this further, we can see it has led to disunity and disconnection between the spirit world and the physical world. This is how things have evolved as a result of the fall of man.

This all needs to change direction and head toward unification. And as mysterious or wondrous as it may seem, we ourselves are actually living and experiencing the providence of God at the time when all things are turning that corner and heading towards unification. Brothers and sisters, let me ask you: When did the Cold War, that conflict between the West and the communist world, begin? If we trace it back to the roots, we can see it had already started with the fall of the first human ancestors. When the first ancestors fell, the division between mind and body came into being, and this gradually expanded until it developed into all kinds of social division. Therefore, bringing all those things back together into a state of unity will signify the accomplishment of God's will. This, brothers and sisters, is one way we can understand the mission of the Messiah.

The structure of all this division and disunion started to collapse when the forty-year wilderness course was completed through the providential indemnity conditions set up by True Parents' course. It was then that the Cold War started to lose power.

The 1988 Olympics were held precisely at this turning point. Moreover, they were held in South Korea, on the Korean peninsula, which is playing the central role in the providence. And what was the most outstanding characteristic of these 1988 Olympics, from the viewpoint of the history of the Olympic movement? These Olympics where the place where the West and the communist East were reunited. That is their amazing achievement. During the Cold War, the Olympics were, on two occasions, held with only one side attending and the other boycotting.1 The Olympics highlighted that division. But the 1988 Seoul Olympics was the one where the communist East and the democratic West came completely together and a new beginning was made on a grand scale.

So East and West came together. And now, as the age of the settlement of Cheon Il Guk has come, the World Cup was held by South Korea and Japan together. This recent World Cup was in every sense the World Cup of peace. In the month of June, when in the past painful incidents have taken place [e.g. the Korean War began June 25, 1950], both for our nation and for the world, two nations -- Korea and Japan -- two enemy nations most unlikely to reconcile, came together in unity and held the World Cup in a festival atmosphere, together with all the people of the world. And just as Korea defied all expectations to become fourth in the Seoul Olympics, in this recent World Cup, Korea rose to fourth place again, exceeding all expectations. We certainly shouldn't feel disappointed with that fourth place result. Soon afterwards, I was watching television together with True Parents when Father himself said they had done very well. He said that we had given it all we had. And whereas Father was really rooting for Korea in the match for us to proceed to the top four, he wasn't really so concerned with the outcome of that final match [with Turkey, for third place]....

Brothers and sisters, in this age of the settlement of Cheon Il Guk, we really spent a worthwhile month, this June. There was a very substantial meaning behind Korea and Japan holding this 17th World Cup together, and that the Cup was held in the month of June. There was special significance behind each and every game that Korea won as we rose up the ladder rung by rung. None of the games were easy, right? None of the games were won in the first half, even. All of them were won with just three minutes to go, or two minutes to go, or in extra time. First of all the game would seem to be lost, then we would come and win it back. Game by game, we won by the skin of our teeth, out of breath and panting, finally rising up to the top four. In this way, step by step, the idea of the Korean team and the nation of Korea was planted deeply in the hearts and minds of the people of the world. Isn't that what happened?

In all of World Cup history, no one has had a more successful uphill run than Korea did during this World Cup. And how about those cheer squads? Although their name--"the Red Devils"--isn't so flattering, Father said that this means they are actually restored devils!

And who would have thought the team would pull together like it did? They had achieved nothing like that before the World Cup began. Well, I guess they had achieved some success, but nobody thought the team would really pull together in such an incredible way as it did. This was because of God. It was like a new wave flowed over everything. It wasn't due to anything we did, but due to the force of heavenly destiny that flowed from Heavenly Father. Nothing came together simply of its own accord, but rather, that new wave of heavenly destiny poured out over everything and brought it all together.

You know, even when we got that goal against Italy, the commentator himself said that it had not been done by Korea's power. When we sing the national anthem, we sing "God protect and keep Korea," and God really did preserve us that time. Even the commentator said as much. ...

Father has said that life is a moment in time, just a dream. During our forty, eighty or one hundred years, we need to prepare for what comes next. Everybody will die eventually. What will remain for us as we face our own death? Look at Jesus. What did Jesus do? Look at his foundation in the world. Father said the most important thing is that which has eternal value, not money, not being praised, not power. Those pass away. What about one's position? That also passes away. What will remain?

Yesterday, Father said that one thing shall remain. Of course, if we have not received the blessing, we need to do so. But as members of blessed families, registered families, and as tribal messiahs, there is one thing that will decide our eternal value. Everything else will pass away and there will be only one thing of which we can be proud. What is that? It is our having restored our tribes. Father can't help us restore our tribes. God can't do it for us either. Only members of registered families can do it. Restoring tribes can only be done by tribal messiahs. True Parents can't restore tribes. They are working on the worldwide level. That is their responsibility. What is the responsibility of those who are traveling along the providential road? Our responsibility is to restore members of our tribe as original beings. Other things have relative value. In the spirit world, can I be proud of having been the church president? It is just a position. This has what we call quantitative value, rather than qualitative value. The definition of eternal, qualitative value for us is receiving the blessing and arranging our tribes. Father said last night that this would decide the value of our lives. He reemphasized it at two o'clock in the morning.

Tomorrow is the historic twelfth Chil Il Jeol [Declaration Day of God's Eternal Blessing, July 1st]. What day was Chil Il Jeol? It was the day of blessing on which we became tribal messiahs. In 1991, True Parents proclaimed that God had blessed us to become tribal messiahs. They shared God's eternal proclamation at their Hannam-dong residence and launched the tribal messiah providence by sending us to our hometowns. They taught us the road along which eternal value grows. From now on, we have to keep in mind that the task before us is restoring our tribes, and nothing exceeds this in value or importance.

True Parents have accomplished the rejuvenation and restoration of humanity from the position of servants of servants up to the position of the royal children of God. Whereas once we were the fallen children of Satan, now we even pray and report to Heaven in our very own names. This is the kind of amazing existence we are experiencing.

Brothers and sisters, the world is now evolving into a single human community. Moreover, humanity is greeting a new age where even the spirit world and the physical world are completely united as one. As a final stage in that unfolding providence, True Parents held the Rally to proclaim the Unity and Completed Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and taught us that by this, the world united centering on True Parents--the world of complete settlement that God has desired--now needs to be opened up. How? By the registered blessed families establishing and settling God's dominion in the realm of their own tribes and clans. That is how it is to be done. We must remember this point clearly and keep it in our hearts. Let us pray.


Footnote: 1 The U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics was joined by some 50 other countries. The USSR-led boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was joined by 13 countries.

[Originally published in Today's World, May/June 2002]

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