True Parents' Message at the Resolution Rally for a Victorious Entrance into the Cheon Il Sanctum in Cheon Won Gung
This speech was given on August 23, 2024, at the Cheongshim Peace World Center.
On the 20th day of the 7th month by the heavenly calendar in the 12th year of Cheon Il Guk (August 23, 2024), the Resolution Rally for a Victorious Entrance into the Cheon Il Sanctum in Cheon Won Gung was held at the Cheongshim Peace World Center. The event was attended by 21,000 people, including Cheon Il Guk leaders, heads of providential organizations, Heavenly Korea blessed families and members worldwide online. Following is True Mother's speech from that day, arranged by Cheon Mu Won.
Beloved leaders, members, and blessed families around the world, I love you!
Yesterday, I felt deep gratitude and love for the praise teams selected by each region. My great-granddaughter Jeong-ah, who is two years old, was watching with me. Later, I asked her, "All the praise teams did well, but who came in first place?" She doesn't yet understand the concept of rankings like first and second place. But she said of the team that came first, "Daddy's team gets 100 points." Then she said, "Jeong-ah has a big family." She mentioned that she has a large family. This is Heaven’s heart. We dream of one family of humankind centered on Heavenly Parent and we are realizing that. And two-year-old Jeong-ah says she has many family members. This is her original mind.
Our Creator, Heavenly Parent, has a dream. After creating this beautiful Earth and all things in heaven and on earth in the divine image, and finally created a man and woman to become our first ancestors. Heavenly Parent gave them time to grow through their own effort, and waited for them to perfect themselves. However, those who were meant to become our first ancestors did not achieve perfection, but fell instead. As a result, fallen humankind, living for 6,000 years in an environment of war and conflict in which unity is impossible, has not seen a single day of peace.
However, Heaven could not abandon fallen humanity. Thus, in carrying out the providence of salvation, God selected Israel as the chosen people. After 4,000 years, God sent the only begotten Son Jesus Christ, whom he could call "my Son." Yet people did not understand Jesus' essential purpose. Even Mary, who gave birth to him, could not fulfill her responsibility. Since the Creation brought forth a man and a woman, when the only begotten Son was born, the only begotten Daughter needed to be found. Because this could not be accomplished, Jesus ultimately had to go the way of the cross.
Before he died, Jesus said he would come back. He said that when he returned, he would hold the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. Two thousand years of Christian history began with the apostles resurrecting through the Holy Spirit, but people have not understood Jesus' essence.
So the reality today is that they are simply continuing as they did in the past. As a being who is the same from beginning to end, Heavenly Parent must see things brought to completion. The providence cannot be fulfilled through the people of Israel. We know through history that indemnity remained for the death of Jesus on the cross. For the completion of the providence, Heaven therefore selected and established a new chosen people through whom to bring about the birth of the only begotten daughter. Heaven must be victorious without fail.
The Only Begotten Daughter, born for the completion of Heaven’s providence, must come on a Christian foundation. So in the late Joseon era [*The period from the end of the Joseon Dynasty to the Korean Empire, 1897-August 29, 1910], though American Presbyterian missionaries, works of the Holy Spirit took place in and around Pyongyang, and inspired the independence movement. I was born in 1943, and the liberation of our country came in 1945. Yet Korea was divided into North and South by the Allied forces. The nation’s leaders, who all desired to see our independence, became divided between democracy and communism.
According to the Principle of Creation, God must give time for the only begotten Daughter to grow. A six-year-old cannot carry out the providence. Heaven must protect and care for her until she reaches the age where she can make decisions on her own.
It was after Korea’s liberation in 1945 that, in 1950, the Korean War broke out. I was in North Korea then, but Heaven guided me to come down to South Korea. The returning Messiah, who needs to fulfill Jesus' dream and complete Heaven's providence, must meet the only begotten Daughter on the basis of his having secured the support of Christianity. They must recognize the only begotten Daughter. However, the beginning was complicated. That's why even today, the Christian realm refers to the Unification Church as heretical. This should never have happened.
But now, through the only begotten Daughter, True Mother, the new era after Foundation Day has opened. The era of Cheon Il Guk. Cheon Il Guk is the kingdom of heaven on earth where blessed families that are perfected in love live together with True Parents attending Heavenly Parent. The world, however, is unable to grasp Heaven's providence. What is more, we are now completing and dedicating a temple in which to attend the Heavenly Parent on earth. How wonderful it would be if we could attend Heavenly Parent on the foundation of creating the environment for that and realizing national restoration.
Over the long period of time of waiting for Jesus’ promised return, Christianity has produced many well-known songs of praise. While longing for Jesus, Christians created many beautiful songs and hymns expressing repentance, love, and mercy. But the Cheon Il Guk era is different. It is the completion of the providence. What kind of heavenly heart should blessed families who live in attendance of Heavenly Parent have? As I said earlier, how is it that Jeong-ah, at the age of two, is speaking of the big umbrella of one family of humankind? This is her original mind.
This era of Cheon Il Guk needs songs of praise that express the excitement, love, gratitude, and glory of living with Heavenly Parent for the first time after 6,000 years of human history. The content of this praise should express the essence of True Parents and Heavenly Parent. If the first ancestors had not fallen and had reached completion, that would have been the where Heavenly Parent dwells together with them. It would have been the day we would have welcomed the True Parents of humanity.
Although the environment was unprepared, in 1960 we advanced to the position of the True Parents. Without that supportive environment, it took us sixty years until this point, the 12th year of Cheon Il Guk, to dedicate Cheon Won Gung and to look forward to entering the Cheon Il Sanctum in 2025. As we move toward that day, please would you, as the blessed families who fulfill the way of filial piety and loyalty to Heaven, and as the citizens of Cheon Il Guk that Heavenly Parent longs for, work to expand that environment!
I have said that the blessed families living in this era are living in a golden age. This time when the only begotten Daughter, True Mother, is still living on earth is the only golden age; there has not been one before and there will never be one again. I hope you will pledge to become one with me and work with me forever to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.
Just before True Mother departed, she called forward the Heavenly America praise team that had won first place in the Songs of Praise Competition, gave them gifts, and took a commemorative photo together with them.
The reason I am calling these people forward is that Christianity in America needs to fulfill its responsibility. Through songs of praise created by the Christian realm that has accepted the only begotten Daughter centered on ACLC pastors in America, I want all of Christianity worldwide to follow America’s example and unite. For this reason please congratulate them.