Blessed families and the future of Cheon Il Guk

True Parents have bequeathed the realm of their cosmic victory freely to blessed families and emphasized that Korea should be returned to God as His homeland. Since the ascension of True Father, True Mother has emphasized that testifying to True Parents and spreading their teachings to all people on earth as soon as possible is central to our responsibility and to enabling us to settle the ultimate kingdom of heaven on earth. Blessed families should stand at the front line of God’s providence. True Parents placed the blessed families in the position of tribal messiahs and urged them to take the lead in realizing the Cheon Il Guk ideal of one human family under God.

1 The deadline for the 2,000 years of providential history is getting very close, so everything must be revealed now. That is why for the past 12 years, starting from the year 2000, Father has led the providence and said, “Korea must become God’s homeland.” Many of you think, “Since Father said that, it will happen” ; but you should not just take it so lightly. Since Father said it, we here on earth absolutely must accomplish it. We must make it come true. We have this mission. (True Mother, 2013/06/23)

2 Our hope is a world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness. God also wants this. It has taken this long because throughout thousands of years of history the perfect True Parents, those who could complete the providence of restoration through indemnity, did not appear. Now, having attended True Parents, we have entered a new era, but is this enough to make us happy? Isn’t our goal to open a happy kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, and attend True Parents and our Heavenly Parent together with our neighbors, our nations and the world? To achieve this, you have to stand in the position of proud filial sons and daughters, loyal patriots and divine sons and daughters. Please pray that you will become blessed families that will accomplish your entire responsibility in this era by proudly informing the whole world about True Parents. (True Mother, 2013/10/18)

3 We have met the True Parents who can liberate us. We need to be reborn through True Parents. This comes through the marriage Blessing. True Parents have freely given this precious grace to many, and that is why all of you must make a solid resolution to live up to your faith. I want you to bear this in mind: it is time to attend True Parents in your family and act as blessed families and Cheon Il Guk citizens. (True Mother, 2013/05/24)

4 Because of True Parents, you are the first group of blessed families in history. Because of True Parents, you welcomed Foundation Day and registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Even though there are seven billion people in the world, you are the only ones who know of this amazing universal and cosmic secret. You can stand joyfully in the position of an ancestor. You must share the things that you know with others. You should reveal the True Parents to them. If you do not take part in the providence 1 am conducting now, you will have nowhere to stand. You should not think, “I will go to the kingdom of heaven since I have received the Blessing.” The place we must go is the eternal world. If you are wise people, what kind of decision should you make and how should you act? As blessed families, you should be able to create results you are proud of while True Parents are alive on earth. (True Mother, 2014/03/31)

5 Why has human history unfolded through such difficulties? Throughout this long history, people have moved forward in the pursuit of goodness by acting according to their conscience. However, todays world is in a confusing situation rife with racial, religious, ideological and territorial problems. We cannot remain quiet. God has worked through providential history without rest. Human beings deviated, so the providence unfolded as a history of indemnity required to get us back on track.

The Messiah is the one who straightens out things that are wrong. The Messiah must come as the True Parents. This means that True Parents must give rebirth to humanity. Without this process, there is no way to resolve the confusing history of humankind. However, to our amazement and gratitude, True Parents have appeared on earth. You all must become true filial sons and daughters of True Parents. (True Mother, 2013/12/15)

6 We must find the hometown that our Heavenly Parent hopes for. Where is Heavenly Parents hometown? It is True Parents’ hometown. Japan and Korea must become one to support the path toward the unification of the fatherland, that is, the unification of North and South Korea. They must do this without fail. When this happens, True Parents will stand in the central position before humankind, and all things will arrange themselves naturally. Human dilemmas over the problems of religion, politics, ideology and borders will be resolved. You have to stand at the forefront on this path, so that Asia will respect all the citizens of Japan, including the public dignitaries. Then you must show them the path toward unity. You cannot cling to small matters. In this era, all historical truth will be revealed. (True Mother, 2013/10/22)

7 Have you all made a resolution to become filial sons and daughters who will find the hometown? We have such a big responsibility and mission, and the time left for us to handle this is so short. So what must we do? The sight of Father working so hard and tirelessly for heaven, doing everything possible to save at least one more lost child, is vivid in my memory. I cannot erase it from my mind. It was such a miserable thing to see. If he were alive here on earth right now, he would be traveling ceaselessly from east to west, carrying out activities in every location. We on earth must fulfill those responsibilities for him.

In the Bible it says that Jesus gave the keys to the gates of heaven to Peter. Why were they given to him? It is because the kingdom of heaven must be realized on earth. Our responsibilities are tremendous. We know how we are supposed to live after having received the marriage Blessing. Living in a fallen world, however, you get stained with a self-centered lifestyle and it is difficult to escape your surroundings. (True Mother, 2013/12/01)

8 Just because some country is rich and powerful does not mean that it can unite the world. Attaining oneness comes from shared pursuits. There is no one in all of history who has worked harder than True Parents for the sake of world peace based on heaven’s providence. There is no one who has been more victorious than True Parents in leading the providence. That is why first of all you must know the Divine Principle and its teachings. You should live attending True Parents all the time and regardless of where you are. (True Mother, 2013/10/14)

9 Father said that Korea is God’s homeland. I would like to dedicate this country to him, and do so together with you. To do that you must obey my direction regardless of your rank. If I were to say, “Come down from your high position and start working from the very bottom,” would you be able to do it? That would be the mark of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. You must be able to do that for the sake of God, humanity and the Will. That would be the work of completing Father’s will. Father said that this is God’s homeland, but in reality it is not so. You who have breathed the same air as Father and worked with him during this era must bear the fruit. You just cannot leave it to future generations. We must do it. (True Mother, 2012/12/25)

10 We are at the starting point of Cheon Il Guk. Cheon Il Guk is the nation where we attend the Heavenly Parent and become His children. God is our Parent and King of kings. He who is the King of kings has embraced us as Cheon Il Guk citizens. The people in the world do not know this. You are truly blessed people. How is it that you have come to participate in the providence of history? True Father always said, “There is no perfection in ignorance.” He educated all people the same way regardless of their status in their field of endeavor. He made sure they knew. We have to do the same. There is no path other than this to unite the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. (True Mother, 2013/02/23)

11 lam going to establish the Heavenly Parents and True Parents’ tradition on a solid foundation. When we fulfill our responsibility we will come to stand in a position of reverence eternally as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. For this cause we must advance. We must not waste a single moment. By mobilizing everything and using our wisdom, we must make it so that heaven can embrace all human beings as Cheon Il Guk citizens as soon as possible. (True Mother, 2013/02/28)

12 What is God’s wish and the wish of True Parents? The heart and mind of Heavenly Parent is to find the children whom He lost 6,000 years ago. Through the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, many blessed families have been established throughout the world. There is nothing that cannot be accomplished if these blessed families follow True Parents’ teachings and unite as one in their country and throughout the world. As soon as possible, you must fulfill the hope of the True Parents, which is to find God’s homeland and God’s nation. (True Mother, 2013/10/20)

13 You have no idea how important this time is. Use every moment carefully. You are alive at this time, but how are you going to use your time and your life? For whom are you going to use them? If you use them well, you could become a hero or heroine who can go down in history. You can become a filial child, or even a divine son and daughter. God is giving you everything freely; therefore you should become a useful vessel for His desire.

Instead of just sitting and listening to words, you should take action. If we want to restore this nation, we must establish a goal and execute it. Shouldn’t we establish a plan? Although you feel you must eat three meals a day, you have to work with such dedication that you even forget to eat.

You need to know that the results determine whether you will be given eternal life. You have to create the environment where your descendants will say, “Our ancestors who lived during this time were truly great. We must become worthy of our ancestors.” If that happens, your children will naturally grow well before the Will. In that way, you should be different. So, more than trying to make lots of money, I hope you will do your utmost to meet many people and save them. The most precious thing is to save people’s lives. (True Mother, 2013/04/15)

14 Spring is the season of hope. It is a precious season during which our dreams can rise higher and spread wider. But despite the beauty of the season, we hear horrific and indescribably painful news from this country and from the world. This situation can be compared to the people of the world being on a ship without sailors, a captain or even a compass. They experience deep anxiety, not knowing how well the ship will contend with strong winds and high waves, or when it will sink by ramming into a rock.

As we watch these incidents take place, blessed members of the Unification Church around the world should stand up as heavenly soldiers. We can no longer just look on and wait. We should not keep the Blessing that has been bestowed upon us to ourselves. We must let the people of the world, who are like orphans, know that our Heavenly Parent and True Parents are carrying out great works. You must confidently proclaim True Parents, who are the only ones who can give hope to this nation and the world. The world cannot live without True Parents. I believe that these efforts will bring about new days of spring for all humanity. Now is the time for all members around the world to rise and take action until the day we bear fruit. (True Mother, 2014/05/11)

15 Presently, if we compare you to farmers before the Will, then the mission that was assigned to you, that of the tribal messiah, is to fertilize the soil. Making this barren ground into fertile soil depends solely on you. If you are lazy during the coming of this wonderful season, your harvest in the autumn will be meager. The position of receiving the Blessing cannot be fulfilled by sitting still.

What kind of life would you all have lived had you not met the True Parents? You would probably have lived in your own country, within your own family, eating and being attached to your environment. Few of you would have thought about living for the sake of the nation and world. What do you all think, those of you who have met True Parents? If you have large thoughts, then how large are they, and how must you act? How you work, offer devotions and grow during the springtime will determine how you will appear when the autumn of providential history comes, and with what results you will stand before the True Parents. (True Mother, 2013/04/25)

16 All blessed families have heard Father’s words on how to move forward. Now everything depends on how you fulfill your responsibility. If you fulfill your responsibility, then your tribes and descendants will live in a free and happy world. You must prepare the environment. How you create the environment surrounding you during the remaining years of your life will determine the path to advance national restoration and world restoration.

Do not just chew over these words, for now is the time to give shape to your faith through your actions. A new era has opened. The words spoken by Father must be made into reality in your surroundings and your families, so that your descendants will have less indemnity to pay. If the responsibility is not fulfilled, it is natural that indemnity must be paid.

You have your personal life and your lives as individual blessed families. True Parents cannot get involved in all of that. True Parents have shown you the example, so you must follow it. Everybody should strive to live according to the Word.

Some miserable people distort the Word and live self-centered lives. I hope that you will all be wise. I am preparing everything so that you can go on the expressway of a perfectly established tradition. If you can just fulfill the responsibilities given you, there is no doubt that a free, peaceful and united world that attends the Heavenly Parent will be achieved. (True Mother, 2013/08/15)

17 During your short life, you must always think, “How can I achieve oneness in heart, oneness in body and oneness in thought with True Parents?” If you live a life of practicing this, then not only you but also your descendants will receive many blessings. There is no parent who wants to pass on 30 percent of their indemnity to their beloved children and descendants because they could fulfill only 70 percent.

The world has no choice but to gradually become one. We are the only ones who can properly educate the people of the world. Father established the ambassadors for peace, the peace kingdom corps and the peace kingdom police. The peace kingdom corps and the peace kingdom police will bring order to this world of disarray and confusion. They will fight not with weapons but with the Word.

All of you need to offer many prayer conditions. The blessed families and providential organizations must unite as one and make sure that heaven’s words, True Parents’ words, do not fall on stony ground but instead bear fruit. This is the responsibility of you who are living on earth today. (True Mother, 2013/12/01)

18 True Parents’ vision of one family under God, in other words, the fact that we are all God’s children is at the core of the initiatives we carried out, based on the unification of the North and South American regions. We dedicated all our efforts and the numerous peace organizations that we founded over many years entirely to the fulfillment of that vision. By the grace of God, this vision is now becoming a reality.

This new flower of hdpe must blossom and bear fruit here in South America as well. All the people on this great continent have dreamt of a new world where they can live freely and peacefully in nature, become one family that attends God as their Parent, and live in happiness. This ideal has been God’s cherished hope and the desire of humankind throughout the ages.

I believe that the challenge to make this dream a reality is a great one. The entire world is suffering due to everything from climate change and poverty to geopolitical tension and conflict. North and South America also face difficult problems of their own in different respects. Nevertheless, North and South America have enormous potential to build a new world. Heavenly fortune is now gathering in these continents. All eyes are focusing on South America. Ladies and gentlemen, you must open your ears and listen to the heavenly calling. You must open your closed ears. (True Mother, 2014/04/22)

19 1 would like to offer some proposals for the mutual development of North and South America and the realization of world peace. First, I would like to challenge all of you to take the lead in protecting the natural environment. The world today is heading toward calamity due to climate change and rapid destruction of the environment. God gave us the natural world to serve as our home, an environment within which we can flourish. We should love nature and treat all things of creation with care. Nature, in turn, will give us what we need. We should remember that people and nature are part of one ecosystem created by God.

Second, let us take the lead in realizing the ideal of one family under God by overcoming barriers of race, religion and nationality. The Family Federation for World Peace has been working for the realization of ideal families through the cross-cultural marriage Blessing. The marriage Blessing is the only way to reconcile enemies and bring about world unity. Millions of couples from around the world have participated in the marriage Blessing, affirming their marriage with a commitment to build a world of peace by creating God-centered, ideal families. In this way, we are bringing down the great walls that divide the human family.

Third, I ask that you take the lead in promoting reconciliation and unity among all the religious traditions in North and South America. A peaceful world begins with reconciliation and unity among religions. God has guided humanity throughout history through religion. At this time when heavenly fortune is pouring in, harmony and cooperation among the religions of North and South America are necessary more than ever. I hope that you and all the religious leaders of North and South America can take the lead in promoting interfaith dialogue and cooperation.

Fourth, I sincerely request that all the leaders here today help bring to fruition the ideal village projects that we have developed in Jardim in Brazil and Puerto Leda in Paraguay.

The new nation and new world envisioned by God is a world that goes beyond the divisions of religion, race, ethnicity and nationality. It is a world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, with no barriers. God exists, and in the end it is for this reason that your efforts for North and South America will not be in vain. It is up to each of us to make this heavenly ideal a historical reality in the shortest time possible. I sincerely ask you to work with me to carry out this action plan to realize an ideal community and build a new world. (True Mother, 2014/04/22)

The role of women

Women have an important responsibility in the providence of restoration, playing core roles on the providential frontier in each period. Women of the Unification family have shed their tears and sweat and conveyed true love in every corner of the world, in accordance with the words of True Parents, to fulfill the responsibility of true daughters, true wives and true mothers attending God. The role of women became larger and more important with the beginning of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. For the completion of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents have urged that women stand at the forefront of the tribal messiah mission, in order to restore the Cain realm by bringing Cain and Abel into unity.

20 It is time for women to take the lead. With maternal love, women should help our underprivileged neighbors on the individual, tribal, national and world levels, showing the world that we can fulfill our purpose together as heaven’s true sons and daughters.

What must we do for this to happen? People must hear the Divine Principle. Through hearing it, we should all be born anew and I, my neighbors, my nation and world gain inspiration to invest completely with life-or-death determination for the sake of God’s Will. Women have to stand at the forefront for this to happen.

There is a saying, “Behind every great man, there is a great woman.” I am not saying that men have not fulfilled their responsibility. Father said that a woman should help a man become whole. Without a wife, a man cannot become whole. He cannot be perfected. A wife makes her husband handsome. Therefore for a man, a wife is absolutely necessary. The same goes for every woman. However, women love peace more than men. For this reason, women must lead the way. (True Mother, 2012/10/17)

21 How important is the role of women? This is the era to fulfill the mission of mothers. Mothers give birth to and nurture life. Father has built a large home for us, and we must arrange and organize the internal aspects of the house. That is our responsibility. (True Mother, 2013/01/09)

22 As Father proclaimed the coming of the women’s era, he emphasized the importance of women. You probably remember that Father spoke of how a child born of a woman inherits 99.999 percent from the mother and only 0.001 percent from the father. Father spoke of this on many occasions, and I shared those words on many speaking tours worldwide. However, do you think women have been treated properly by their children and husbands? There are many women who will say that they have not been treated well. From now on, I want to raise woman leaders who will fulfill the mother’s mission, so that all women can live free of prejudice. (True Mother, 2013/01/09)

23 A core part of the Principle involves the teaching of yang and yin. From a temporal perspective, this can be divided into the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Until now, in the Era Before the Coming of Heaven, we were in the era of yang, and therefore men took the lead most of the time. Now is the Era After the Coming of Heaven, the era of yin. In other words, it is the start of the women’s era.

God created heaven and earth as yang and yin, plus and minus, but until now everything has been one-sided. Due to the Fall of the first human ancestors, yang and yin could not move forward equally, side by side. Since then, until this era, yang dominated the world. However, now is the time for the era of yin to begin.

The time has come for women to take the lead. Heaven knew of this amazing providence, and now we must also become aware of God’s profound providence to open a new path in 2013. God’s original plan was for a balance to be made, and that is exactly how the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven are to be realized. (True Mother, 2013/04/15)

24 Whether you are sitting down or standing up, asleep or awake, you should invest every ounce of your energy to raise up citizens of Cheon Il Guk, so much so that you feel that 24 hours is not enough time. You must become soldiers who can dedicate this nation substantially before heaven in order to advance God’s providence in the world.

Let’s take the example of the Israelites, whom you know very well. The Israelites did not know of God’s providential history or about indemnity. They maintained just one thought, “We are the chosen people blessed by God.” In the end, they had to pay indemnity as a people after Jesus ended his life sorrowfully. For 2,000 years, they were an unsettled people without a nation. Despite this, it was due to the influence of the mothers among them that they could survive. That is why I am emphasizing the role of mothers and the maternal heart in the creation of the environment for the sake of the providence. (True Mother, 2013/01/09)

25 By studying history we have seen the model courses of victory and failure. Look at Israel today: women join the army and fight equally alongside men in order to protect their nation. It is time for women to lead the way in saving the nation and the world. You must all know that the responsibility of women is serious and important. We must create a miracle. If you cannot participate with me in this providential march, your descendants will accuse you. You cannot say that you did not do it because you did not know. You have been taught everything. (True Mother, 2013/04/20)

26 The role of women in the church is important. In Korean history it has been the mothers, wives and daughters-in-law who passed on the important traditions. It is the same for our FFWPU. From now on, the wives should stand on the front lines. The successful completion of Cheon Il Guk depends on how much we live up to our faith and work and invest ourselves to realize the goals that we have established. The woman’s role is important in realizing these goals. As women who stand at the forefront to realize the providential goals, it is time to make a life-or-death determination. (True Mother, 2013/04/20)