How to Strengthen the Power of the Mind

When the sinful body is led by the godly mind, true love comes into being.

The essence of strengthening the mind is to toughen your moral will. What if everyone in the world lived by God's moral code. We would immediately see peace in the world. All conflicts would be resolved through God's point of view.

We must start with the basics. To strengthen the mind, it must be built up daily like a muscle through daily habits.

Through the small choices to do the right thing everyday, despite any fear, distress or fatigue, we can make our godly mind stronger than our flesh. Therefore, to strengthen this mind, we need challenges which allows us to encounter adversity and develop inner strength and will.

Here are five ways to harvest these skills:

1. Determining and realizing your goals

The most basic way to strengthen your will is to make a determination to God and yourself and achieve your goals.

For example, this could be talking to a relative that you know is distressed over a situation instead of enjoying a book. Or choosing a career that serves humanity such as social work.

To challenge yourself more, you can set goals that rely only on your spiritual power, deep prayers, studying the truth, and your acts of true love.

“Twelve years ago when I first came to Mountainview High,” recalls a physics teacher in a rural school

in the American Midwest, “I swore that I would bring the white and Native American students and faculty together in a tangible way. I prayed about it every day, stuck my neck out more than a few times, got misunderstood a lot and once almost lost my job. But now in the faculty there are cross-cultural friendships developing and this year the president of the student council is a Native American boy.”

To make promises to God and fulfill them is significant to reverse humanity's betrayal of the Creator.

This is the most powerful way to get divine support, also through building your self-respect and faith in yourself.

Heaven and other people notice the one who can always be counted on to fulfill their promises and carry out their responsibilities.

2. True Love as a Motivator

To have motivation will give you the power to go beyond any discomfort when it depends upon meaningful purposes that make the sacrifices you encounter worthwhile.

The strongest motivator is true love.

Love is the key to unification of mind and body.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

This kind of love is familiar to parents.

A father son team was the first team ever to finish the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in 1999. Dick Hoyt, was 62 and still raced every Boston Marathon for over 20 years while pushing his paralyzed adult son, Rick in his wheelchair.

His son excitedly declared that, “It was as if I wasn't even handicapped!” This was enough motivation for his father to challenge his every physical limitation and give his son such an awesome experience year after year.

The power of love is behind the heroic sacrifices of religious and national lore.

Many of the first Pilgrim settlers to North America starved to death instead of eating their grain that was later to be planted. They endured such hardships out of love for the next generation and the hope to build a community that could worship freely unlike their previous community.

Christians recount how St. Peter faced a painful execution upside-down on the cross gratefully out of love for God and his Savior Jesus Christ.

Whether if such acts are done on legendary proportions or just a small act of unselfishness found daily, true love is the strongest means to subdue your fallen body.

3. Acting on Faith

We can mobilize a tremendous power of self-control when we can sustain a great vision of the future despite any obstacles we face right now.

Debi Faris is a woman who is familiar with heeding the call of her heart and conscience in faith. As a wife and mother of three teenagers, she heard this call when she heard news of an abandoned baby found dead. She arranged to give the child a proper burial, and soon, one child led to three.

Her middle-class family committed to ultimately $27, 000 in expenses despite other pressing expenses her family had. She recalls, “I remember praying, “i don't think I can do this, God. I don't think I have the courage.

“I stayed quiet for a while until I sensed that what we were doing was right. It was an act of love, and at that moment I made a commitment to offer it to any child who needed it.”

She has since raised funds and organized volunteers to found a cemetery for abandoned babies called, “Garden of Angels. She fights for legislation to help prevent further tragedies.

Such people who believe in their own gifts or that truth and goodness will ultimately win, those who cultivate the power of faith and hope and demonstrate “sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not curently see” (Hebrew 11.1) have a priceless advantage that enables them to harvest their strongest resources to unite mind and body.

4. Service

Serving others physically such as massaging an elderly person's back, preparing food for homeless shelters, picking up bags of trash for the community, these practices are especially helpful for training our moral will through demonstrating humility.

A man and his comrades of a service club recalls how they were ready to do whatever work was necessary for his community without any fanfare.

“The staff at the rehab center were surprised to see middle-aged men willing to just set up the party, serve the boys soda and food and take down and mop up afterwards. And it didn’t do this CEO big shot any harm either to do grunt work for a bunch of not-too-grateful teenagers. I think I learned a few things.”

5. Connection with God

Ultimately all of these methods used to strengthen the moral fiber support the greatest remedy for the mind and sinful body to unite: only through the connection to the divine Source.

The first necessary step is to center your mind on God.

Then your body will automatically become one with your mind.

Through prayer, worship, study of God's words, supporting the spiritual community, acting on faith, fulfilling goals, being humble and offering service, all of these time-honored ways accesses the Heavenly Parent and tremendous resources of strength.

“Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature,” promises St.

Paul (Galatians 5.16).

The stronger the bond with God, the more readily your mind can conquer the fallen body.

Corrie Ten Boom was a watchmaker who was sent to Hitler's concentration camp because he rescued many Jews. After the war, he gave lectures about God's love and forgiveness and healing of wonds caused by the war. After one of her lectures, a former S.S. guard of her concentration camp waited at the back of the room

She instantly flashed back to the time she and her sister were forced to walk naked in front of the male guards on the way to the showers. They were ill, cold, hungry, elderly and in deep pain. They were also mocked sexually by the guards.

She remembered at that moment, her sister's pained face as she had to bear the humiliation in front of the very guard who attended her lecture.

Unfortunately, her sister died at the concentration camp. This former guard now came up to Corrie and acknowledged God's forgiveness of his past and he now asked for hers. He held out his hands to her.

She remembers, “I tried to smile. I struggled to raise my hand. I could not. I felt nothing. Not the slightest spark of warmth or charity.”

Yet her strong religious beliefs told her she must forgive him. She breathed a silent prayer to give her the strength to do the right thing. She resolutely took his hand in to her own matching her deds to her highest ideals and loftiest words.

Then, “As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.”

She then cried out to this soldier that he was her brother and assured him her forgiveness. Through her willingness to act upon the beliefs she always lectured upon, she unleashed a flow of true love which liberated both persecutor and persecuted.

To love another at the most difficult time requires the capability of the mind to assert itself over the demands of the satanic body.

Such efforts reduce the unnecessary pull of the flesh and at the same time enhances our moral and spiritual strength. Thus, the mind and body can unite centered on God's ideals.

Then, the heart is also liberated to give of itself freely and unselfishly, and reap the rich rewards therof.

Such a world of experiences would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Seven Principles for Loving Relationships



This post was rewritten and derived from the Religious Textbook Educating for True Love, written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

Will Jesus Return in the Flesh?

In light of those things, do you think the Messiah should come in the flesh or just in spirit?





In the ideal world we are going to build, we will be liberated from sin both on the physical and spiritual levels, under the actual guidance of God as our parent.



The Lord must come again in the flesh to accomplish his mission of saving the physical world.

The fall began by one physical man and woman on earth and can only be rectified through man on earth.

If he comes on the clouds of Heaven, spiritually, he cannot accomplish his mission of restoring the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels. The problem is the sin and corruption of this world, and not of heaven.



 Q. How will the Lord come at the Second Advent?

We can see through the parallels of history repeating itself that Christianity is in the same position as the elders, scribes and priests at the time of Jesus.

At that time, the people were waiting for the return of Elijah in the sky.

Why did they hold onto this kind of belief?

They were simply following the Bible prophecy written down in Daniel 7:13:

"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him."


Because of the great prophet Daniel, the people of Israel had every reason to expect the arrival of the Messiah to return on clouds of heaven. Christians are expecting the arrival of the Lord in the same way today, in a majestic show on the clouds.

Many people were denying Jesus as this Messiah because he was in the flesh - to them an ordinary man.

John condemened these people as the anti-christ in II John 7 "...many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the decevier and the anti-christ."

How, then will Jesus in our day and age if Elijah returned through the works of Jesus?  Still today the Jewish people wait for such an arrival and deem this second coming as the first coming of Elijah.

Unless we know the whole truth, we like the people of Jesus' time may fall victim of the words of the Bible by taking them in the literal sense.

In Jesus' time, the people were waiting for the return of Elijah upon the clouds and could not accept Jesus as the Son of God.  They would say that he had a mother and father, Joseph and Mary, how could he be the Son of God?

The disciples and the faithful of Israel argued this point all of the time.

Those who believed in the letter of the Old Testament and not the spirit would miss the Messiah.


Q: Then how will the Lord appear in the last days?

Believe it or not, we are in the exact same parallel to that of the time of Jesus Christ.  If we become slaves to the letter of the New Testament, we will commit the same crime that the elders, scribes and Pharisees committed 2,000 years ago.

What would you do if the Lord did return in the flesh?  If one told you that the Son of Man already returned with flesh and bones?  You would say I was a heretic.

It does not matter how one looks at the world, a man's views, or what one thinks, what matters is how God looks at the world.

The Bible states two prophecies: arrival of the Lord on the clouds and another that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

What do you do with these two prophecies?


If the Lord comes on the clouds, then he surely can't appear like a thief  unseen in the world.  There would be a lot of attention around his arrival on the clouds and could not be hidden from anyone's eyes.




When you see the signs of the Last Days, the Bible urges you to go into a dark room and pray. Who can tell you the time of the Last Days?

The angels do not know that day. Jesus said not even the Son of man knew when that day would arrive. Only God knows the time of the Last Days.

"That is why we have our answer from God. I am not saying you must believe me. I am just revealing what I know to be the truth, but you must verify this truth with God."

Christians simply believe in the words of the Bible and that Jesus will return on the clouds and only true Christians will be lifted in the air.


That is horrendous, empty, hollow. Religion is not out there, up in the stratosphere.

I am testifying that the Lord cannot appear in that kind of supernatural fashion. Jesus Christ could not return that way because the work of God is to be done here on earth.

The mission of the Messiah is a physical, realistic one. As a man he must come up from the bottom of human misery just as Jesus had done.



He must come to the most miserable nation and lift the human status from the slave position, to the servant position, to the adopted child position and to the direct child position by physically putting together the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. That is the mission of the Messiah.

Do not rely on anyone's answer.

In the Last Days, the Bible says, do not just believe anybody. Do not believe me, and do not believe someone just because of his or her official status in church or society.

Famous leaders will not necessarily give you the guidance God would want for you. Heaven is so near, and you can be lifted up by the spirit so high, that you can speak with God and receive the answer directly from Him if you are earnest enough.

 Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." (Matt. 11:15) And he said to his disciples, "But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear." (Matt. 13:16) He was not referring to physical sense organs.

When you use your spiritual senses and listen for the Word of God, you will find His direction and guidance. But it is not easy to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is very difficult for a foreigner to go through the process to become a citizen of the United States.

How much more difficult it is to remove ourselves from our corrupt life and transfer ourselves into the Kingdom of Heaven. But we can achieve this very thing.

We know that even after Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden, they still were able to communicate directly with God.
The only way we might miss that day is if we look for the Lord to come from one direction, and he appears from another direction in an entirely unexpected manner, just as Elijah did at the time of Jesus.

This is the reason you may not see the Lord at the time of his second coming.

Another mysterious prediction was given by Jesus Christ himself He declared about the Lord at the second coming: "But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation." (Luke 17:25) If Christ at his Second Coming appears in the glory of the clouds of heaven, who would deny him?

Nobody would cause him suffering and pain. The only way this prophecy can be fulfilled is if people expect his return from the clouds and he suddenly appears as a humble man in the flesh.

Do you think that Christian leaders of today would make the same mistake that the priests and scribes and elders committed at the time of Jesus? Yes! They may very well deny him and reject him, because the manner of his coming would be very difficult for Christian leaders to accept. However, in this way the Bible will be fulfilled. He will first suffer and be rejected by this generation.

Jesus once asked a most important question: "When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?" (Luke 18:8)

Although we do have faith today, it may be mistaken faith based on a belief which expects the Lord must come on the clouds of heaven.

There are few men or women on earth with the kind of faith ready to accept the Son of Man appearing in the flesh.

If this were not the situation, the Bible prophecy we are discussing here would not be fulfilled. Please note that Jesus did not say there would be no believers, but he said there would be no FAITH.

Jesus also said: "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them. 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.' " (Matt. 7:21-23)
This prophecy cannot be realized if his second coming is on the clouds of heaven.

At the time of the second advent, people again will be crying out, "Lord, Lord." At the same time they may be in the process of trying to crucify the Messiah if he appears in a manner different from their expectations. They will then be the worst evildoers.

This is the Bible. Those who truly have eyes will see Those who truly have ears will hear. Throughout history God has sent His prophets before the time of fulfillment. He warns the people of His plan. No matter how devout Christian faith is today, no matter how many millions of people are in the Christian churches, they and their churches and their world will decline once they fail to accept the Lord, however he may appear.

This was the tragic fate of Israel and the Roman Empire when they denied Jesus Christ, regardless of their righteousness otherwise.

We must therefore also be open to a new message. Jesus Christ did not come to repeat the Mosaic Law.

Just as Jesus revealed himself with the new expression of truth, the Lord at the second advent will reveal himself with God's truth for our time.

That truth will not be simply a repetition of the New Testament.

I hope that you consider these ideas seriously, and pray to God. He will answer you.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

You Are Spy for Heavenly Kingdom

You should think that you are servants of love for the heavenly kingdom. As you walk this path of faith, think of yourself as an intelligence spy to build the heavenly kingdom. Think of yourself as a servant o love, a secret fighter of love. After you have set your mind in this way, is there anything you could not accomplish?  If you live with such determination to do even more for the sake of saving your nation, clan, then your hometown will naturally surrender to you. In order to live in this way, a true original root and a true original bud which are based on true love are needed. Buds like you and me will not do. We must shed blood, sweat and tears for God's will.  Is this way going to be easy? You must practice a love that is greater than the one known by countless people who have lived on earth. For the sake of God, the earth and your hometown, you should love in this way.  Only after loving in this way, will the original proper root grow within your soul. You can be endowed with the right of inheritance and right of equal position because I have granted you the title of being true children. You should have faith in this fact and invest everything into the realm of love. If you invest your life just as God has invested, then your clan will be resurrected.  Then as your clan is being resurrected, one nation will be resurrected. I have done such things in order to stand in the position of the ancestor to all humanity, but you should realize the fact that each of you should walk the same path as well, in order to pass on the tradition to your tribe and become a tribal ancestor. Set a tradition for the sake of your tribe and for your clan. Those who can only think about their own individual self will be excluded from here. When you go to your hometown, you should go there with true love. If you bring and plant true love in your hometown and practice I, you will become true ancestors. You will become the first generation of true ancestors. If you are a Johnson, then your generation will be engrafted to the heavenly kingdom with the family named Johnson.  Then your father would be in he position of your son and thus each will fall in order.   Plant the Root of Love in Your Hometown           Up until now, you have lived anyway you have pleased. Things are serious now in these Last Days. You are responsible for whether you will end up losers or winners. That responsibility does not lie with me, but with you. Will you return to your hometown with the title of loser or with the victory of a winner? Which one is it? Of course, you should advance to your hometown based on he victorious foundation of God and the Messiah. Your hometown represents the world condensed.  It is a reflection of the Messiah's family, therefore, you should think of God's and True Family's history of indemnity as you work to fulfill your responsibility.  You should welcome the people who come to you there in your hometown with tears. When someone comes to visit you, you should have such a heart that you can talk with them all night without getting tired. We were like the Israelites who lived in Egypt for 400 years walking the path of indemnity.  We should love God, our parents, and our brothers and sisters. We should cut off the source of Satan who is working on the global level and accuses our actions in front of God to keep us under his dominion.  Because the Israelites fell into faithlessness and failed to overcome satanic influence, they were not able to build the ideal Kingdom of Heaven once they reached Canaan. They were instructed by heaven to keep their heavenly standard and foundation they achieved.  Instead they were absorbed by the lifestyle of the locals as they had lived in the desert for 40 years. Because of this, do not expect anything from the satanic world. Because we follow God's will, we are the best.  Even if we have to carry around our bags, even if we get cursed at and dogs bark at us, we are the best. We should participate to digest the problems and circumstances of the whole village with a shout of love and boldly march forward.   I hope you remember this as you fight onwards.   You should be able to proclaim in your hometown that it is God's gift to you when you glance upon the mountains and rivers. When you look at grandfather trees older than you, pebbles in the river and the fields, you should be able to speak to nature as an old friend. This is love. You have to learn how to love people and to love nature.  You should love all of creation because Adam and Eve were not able to do so as the first parents. This is the restoration. You should return to your hometown and love nature. Love everything there from he insects in the grass to the rivers and trees. When you have finished loving nature, then love the people there next. If you are able to attain this position, then love people on that foundation.  Love the people after all things have been restored. When we love the people there, we begin with the most miserable people. Start firs with he children, then up to the middle-aged people.    Among the poor people in the world there are many people of conscience. Although people avoid those in a dissatisfactory position in life, our church's families should love the poorest people in the world. Although the poor are living in the devil's world, there will be some among them who have lived a faithful live and can inherit heavenly fortune. You should return to your hometown and become people who can be the seeds. This seed should be planted and create an environment which heaven and earth can visit.  It should be a place which God would want to visit at any time. If you go to spirit world after building such a foundation on earth, you will surely be loved as sons and daughters of the heavenly kingdom. You should set such a course of love from now on. Return for Tomorrow's Post: Jesus Forgave Without Shedding Blood  This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Thirteen, Chapter 5, Section 3,4

 

Hobbies Industry is the Future

The future world is the age of hobby life Many wonder that if this new millenium is just the beginning of a life lived for God's Will, what kind of life and world will that be? Will it be like the Jetsons, with flying cars and push-button jobs or will we return to living off the earth finding alternatives ways to use the earth's energy as a resource? However, the new world may come, everyone envisions a world of incredible development and a better economic way of living. Human beings will be able to have enough time to enjoy their leisurely pleasures and have enough wealth spread among them to do so because of technology. As a result, humankind will learn and understand about the greatness of nature. We will have more appreciation for God as we will try to overcome the differences of culture, race and national borders. Isn't that the kind of world we are enjoying at the moment among the accounts of chaos? We are at the crux of a new era as the world of evil and destruction of the world falls away. After we have gone through this process in the world, then the ideal world will come.  We will enjoy the true life, a life of loving and caring for one another. The leisure industry will be the big enterprise of the future. The technological industrial age is an age where people do not have the need to suffer the need of hard labor due to automated technology. It is even almost that way now. Just like the Jetsons, machines work once the person pushes a button.  A time will come when there will be three or four machines that can produce products day and night where before it took thousands of people to do the same labor. Then what kind of industry will flourish in that age? It would be such things as the entertainment and fashion industry which both fall under the category of the industry of leisure. We have already entered this age. It has influenced the world already in not such a great way.  If these industries were centered on God, the world could be quickly influenced by His standards. This will be the time to build an economic foundation. The leisure and tourist industry are bound to develop and flourish. We have already passed the age of the slave labor where the president of a company worked at the desk in the office. The computer age has already made it where we can work anywhere outside of the country using man-made satellites. Orders are given while the executive is fishing on a boat while on vacation.  We are getting closer to a heaven on earth step by step. The boss can run the business from a position of freedom where he can enjoy his hobbies  and get rid of stress. The coming age where more countries, races and communities will unite, will need to have a way for families to travel around the world by car. An international highway is in the works to connect the four continents around the world.  This project seems impossible like the Panama Canal in its day and age, but is a necessary link to physically unite the world. This leisure industry will help people to feel God's happiness toward creation.  Artists will be influenced by the good spirit world to uplift the beauty of God's creation in their works. There is a system in development that will bring farmers who live close to nature to unite with those who live far from nature in order to develop and educate them.  We see this happening in many established corporations. People in urban areas can support them both through the best scientific technology. This is why developing the hobby business is important in order to enjoy many hobbies around the world. God did not create the world for His children to suffer, but for them to enjoy all the luxuries of His creation. The hobby culture will be able to help in that development. A life of leisure is the kind of life God likes.  You probably didn't know that your hobbies are connected to the creation. So many different hobbies are waiting for me. I never get exhausted. By enjoying one hobby after another, I automatically come closer to God's world. This is the best life that men can hope for. The hobby industry is the shortcut leading to the world of peace We must enjoy leisurely pursuits.  God did not create the world for His children in reluctance; He made creations so that He could feel its excitement. We also must experience this same joy when we experience God's creation. We should not do hobbies because someone tells us to do so, but we should do so because we enjoy them. All of these industries - leisure time, the hobby industry and hobby research and so on - should be centered on God. Only then can those be things that belong to God and used regularly by the beloved sons and daughters of God.  Otherwise, they become Satan's possession to destroy and distort away from God's purpose. I am not doing this for the money; in fact, I am investing a lot of money in order to develop these ideas. We have a lot of preparation to do in order to enter the spirit world. At the age of sixty you should go back to the farming area of your hometown and prepare by digging the land and exert yourself with devotion. Through fulfilling your responsibility in guiding the farming areas you fulfill the purpose of the hobby industry and leisure time iself. You then become a caring, warm-hearted person who is able to live in the upper level of the spirit world and make good use of your time there. We must develop the hobby industry not leisure industry from now on.  We have normally thought of the leisure industry based on how much profit can be returned. Fishing and hunting can be pursued for profits and commercial interests. That is what makes the leisure industry different from the hobby industry.  The hobby industry can spread to the smaller cities where people can enjoy themselves in each of the four seasons. We each have our own path and different tasks in which to fulfill. There are people who work at a factory, company and such with various jobs. There can be groups from 100 to 360 that are assigned to various jobs, in this way, different groups would do this work. Then fifty percent will be returned, therefore, the entertainment business is the best. The leisure industry is for profit while the hobby industry puts the hobby itself as its purpose. People say that people without money can't enjoy a hobby, but that is not true.  You can enjoy going on vacation once or twice a year; this is what the hobby industry would be able to do in the future. I believe that being the first to make such a worldwide organization is the short-cut in leading to peace in all fields, including the world's money market and human resources. That is why I have been preparing this ocean plan for twenty years.  So along with this hobby industry, I am thinking of doing farming as a hobby.  Back a hundred years ago, people spent most of their time surviving, cultivating and finding food and such.  This day and age, the youth and people have a more free time - this can be a problem as well for the world. Now, is the time to encourage people to live off of their hobby. Our job in the Completed Testament Age is to mobilize a great number of people.  In order to create this hobby industry, a large number of people will be needed. Which industry is best for interconnecting all of the people of the world which will be able to transcend the national boundaries and go beyond our cultural differences we experience coming from around the world. We will have the need for church activities. The only industry that can connect people of different background is the hobby industry, the industry of enjoying God's creation. We must prepare for the age of the hobby industry The hobby business is a term that has recently developed in the last three decades.  The age of urbanization will soon end and people will disperse out more widely. Men are made to live centering on hobbies. The hobby industry includes sports, hunting and fishing.  These were enjoyed at the World Culture and Sports Festival. We are opening up the tourist business worldwide. I am preparing the worldwide tourist business now. The establishment of our American bus company "Go Tour" was an essential link in the preparation for this.  From now on, the tour-leisure business will develop worldwide.  In the future, people will ride on our boats at tourist attractions around the world. We will attract tourists from any country and guide them with lots of money because we have a worldwide organization.  This is possible. Let us travel around the world while working and distributing goods. We can develop tourist areas and make a fishing ground. This area will be beautifully landscaped and kept free by making sure people do not throw cigarette butts or trash anywhere. This place will be a place free from environmental pollution. We will also make an area where people can sight see and enjoy their hobbies well.  We will create a tourist area that anyone will love instantly and wish to come and visit. By building such a heavenly place, then all the 7 billion people on earth would visit even compete to be among the first to get there. When have we as people of faith who work hard for the dispensation taken a vacation? I have made the foundation for you to have vacations in the warmer areas when it is cold, and in the colder areas when it is hot. The time has come now to do so. This is what is referred to as the hobby industry. I have climbed up to this position by receiving much persecution, but you will not be persecuted. Father Moon has prepared a foundation in South America. You can take responsibility, and take your tribe there and train them.  All fo the families in that country and their ancestors will come based on that foundation. All the families and the ancestors in spirit world can unite based on that kind of tribal foundation. I am preparing sites in Alaska and in Texas, and trying to make fishing areas and hunting grounds in 160 countries. Fishing and hunting are hobbies. They are hobbies of the upper class, of the people who live well. That is why I am promoting the hobby industry. I am going to lead it directly, by making a tourism organization. This is not just a dream, but if we are thinking of achieving God's dream of a heaven on earth, the hobby industry is the best industry to bring this to reality. We will connect these sites to the tourist industry that is already established around the world in order to create a people that can harmonize with one another. If you can influence the people, you can influence the world.  Instead of living within a small circle of relationships, you should live as champions of the diplomatic world who can relate with prominent people. All people need to have a hobby. In the future, people will no longer have global food problems.  In this future world of enjoying the creation, would you spend your time in fighting one another? Of course, when God created the world He did not envision disunity and suffering, but he had dreamed that we would all enjoy life having fun. You should be able to ride on the river on a boat with friends fishing and diving in the world of water.  Yet, majority of the world has yet to do these simple activities. This is why the hobby industry is necessary to broaden. We do not spend our time enjoying casinos, but we will organize a group and visit the casinos for two or three days. Historically, casinos are considered evil because of the crime rings that have secretly controlled them in Las Vegas. Those who have lost tens of thousands of dollars have brought ruin to their families, so if a person was to receive a lottery ticket worth 30% of that amount they can turn that misfortune around.  Those who visit the casinos should be given ideological education for a third of that time. The Messiah has turned the casinos into instruments that are able to draw on the dreams of others by centering it on the hobby industry. Those who are not turned in the right direction, they will continue to gamble even if their own fingers were cut off and even after making a determination not to gamble. Academic education represents the mind, while physical education represents the body. The hobby business was opened to lead the future direction toward the perfection of love. The world went in the wrong direction due to the wrong use of love and in the future we will enjoy our lives with fun activities. The world of the ideal family has evolved into the hobby industry. You can view everything of creation as a hobby. When you go where there are mountains, where there are rocks and trees, those are all of great interest.  For whom was all of this world created? God created so He would be able to embrace everything.  God created an environment for us that was an ideal place to live. The entire world today is a world of science, in which through the best technology, people are moving the world. For this reason, people take a serious view of the production process, calling it the hobby industry, whereas I call it the hobby life. There are several kinds of hobbies: the hobby for your eyes, for your nose, for you mouth, for your ears, to touch, for your body, for your mind, your love and so on. The ocean, land, animal preserves -  all of these will be connected to the hobby business.  Instead of killing animals in the wild, we will raise them. This foundation will become the blood, the body and bones of God's true son. As fallen men, we are like thieves robbing everything for our own blood, bones and skin.  This has to stop in this new era of living for God. The hobby business will be able to unite the original love in accordance with the highest turning point in history which is the blessing marriage of 3.6 million couples. The value of the arts continues to exist.  The hobby business is external because of this. Families should be fun as well. We are able to continue to live because of joy.  A hobby refers to certain conditions of joy. Fun is something that is possible to take root in the ideal love between a subject and an object partner. Have you ever been able to have fun all by yourself?  If you are able to do so, then you are out of your mind. There must be a subject of love.  God created everything in relationship within the realm of love. God created everything in order to be the fuel for the Subject of love.  This is why you must love all things of creation. We have come to live in an environment of pollution and contaminated food.   We need to create an environment where the individual can live with everything necessary to grow healthy. Five family members can do their own farming and eat the food you have worked to harvest. You will be able to grow your own vegetables and crops.  Otherwise the world will perish due to pollution. The time will come when the biggest issue is to develop the tourism industry. The distribution channels of the tourism industry will move quickly and circulate all the time. It will expand to stretch to include all places.  Everything is being prepared for the distant future to make all of this possible for a better world. When you think that one hundred years ago, our ancestors and forefathers were dreaming of a world where it was easier to go from either side of the the country or world and to be able to take care of themselves with better medicine. What we dream will be the norm in a hundred years as well, but we have to put in the work of recreation of this world. Unfortunately, there are not many people who have such a futuristic way of thinking. Return for Tomorrow's Post: Why Did God Create Night/Day, Seasons? This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeon, Book 12, Chapter 2, Section 2

The Homeland the True God Desires

Have you ever thought that God has a dream just as we have been given one?  If we are made in God's image and likeness, then He should too have dreams for a better future for creation and humanity, correct?

When we look through the events of history from God's point of view, we see God's handiwork through His people to restore the world through their works.

Jesus came to establish God's homeland.

Prophets and patriots of history worked hard as well in order to build this same dream of a Godly homeland.

Each generation tag teams in order to see a better world come.  In order for us to establish heaven on earth, a perfect man like Jesus must appear and complete Jesus' mission of bringing heaven on earth, not just in spirit world.

This man must be recognized by heaven and earth beginning with establishing a heavenly family through having children and establish a tribe, a people and a true nation.

He must reverse the fallen relationship of the brothers Cain and Abel and engraft them to His pure lineage.  Then, build the true homeland where God has dominion in the world and evil must flee.

Prophets, saints and patriots of history all had the same desire to see a world exempt of evil - an Utopian or heaven on earth.

However, they were not able to build this heaven on earth where individuals, families, nations and world could be connected as true brothers and sisters centered on God.

Therefore, we must abandon the path along which humankind is headed in the wrong direction and go in God's direction.


Q. What if Adam and Eve had followed God's direction and did not fall?

Adam would have become the true leader of his tribe.

He would have been the leader of his people.  In addition, he would have been the representative of the nation.

Adam would have become the first true king.

Thus the world would have automatically have been united without a trace of conflict or wars.

They would have operated under one philosophy set by Adam.

Any other trivial and worthless philosophies and doctrines would have been cast aside.

Unfortunately, this did not happen.

We currently live where myriads of doctrines have brought about great confusion to the world.  This problem must be exposed at the root and eliminated.

Humanity's process of thought should have been based on the unfallen, perfect Adam.

Our language would have been Adam's language, our cultural would have been set based on Adam's culture, our tradition should have been Adam's tradition, our lifestyle would have been Adam's way of living and our political systems would have been Adam's systems.

Everything should have come under the system of thought of Adam's nation. 

The philosophy behind a true Adam is called Godism.

Everyone must become one with God, centering on His heart. It was suppose to be the only philosophy humankind would have lived by.

Everyone has a longing to live in the heavenly kingdom in heaven and on earth.

Do you think there are boundaries within heaven with heavy walls and sections?  Do they have many different languages?  No.

What does the heavenly kingdom look like?

Since all people were born in the bosom of God, then God sees us as His sons and daughters, brothers and sisters in the family of God.

From heaven's perspective, we are one people, all citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Our goal is to build a unified world and one nation under God. 

Our goal is to build a nation with one sovereignty, one people, one land, and one culture that is connected to God's lineage through the True Parents who appeared and reversed the first parents' fallen mistake.

In that nation, everyone is determined to inherit God's realm of heart and fulfill the biblical idea of 'love your enemy."

The world God created cannot have national boundaries or problems between races. 

People believe that evil and darkness is eternal and is a necessary part of humanity and the creation.

Even teaching that evil is necessary and was created by our good God to balance out and be the opposite to goodness.

Even though evil was created and is in the world, does not mean it was intended or created at the beginning of creation.

If we followed God's command at the beginning, there would be no need for the struggle between good and evil.

We grew up in a world where borders divide the nation and there are problems between people of different races.

There are even barriers between husband and wife, parents and children and between siblings.

There is a struggle between good people and evil people.

How can we continue to believe that this is part of a creation that God would create for His own children?

What father would create anything bad for their children?  If God is the beginning and end, wouldn't He only create a beautiful environment that would ripen for His own people?

Evil was created when His first children delved into a part of creation before it was ripened. If you have ever tried to eat an unripened fruit such as an apple or banana, you understand how undesirable it is or inedible it is for human consumption.

This is the understanding of the symbolic 'fruit' in the garden of Eden.  We know it to be the sexual organ - the fruit of God's children where the seeds of children are planted.

The returning Lord's task is to transcend racial problems and create one nation without borders, unite the divided families and bring the kingdom of peace to this world where good and evil are fighting.


Q. Where is the original land, original homeland of our unfallen ancestors?

Will it be logical that this homeland will be established based on the standard of one specific nation?

What is the homeland which God and humankind have been searching for, the answer is.... the whole of planet Earth.


Q. How can we create this Godly homeland?

Earth is the homeland which we have longed.  Our ancestors and past generations walked the path of sacrifice, so what was it they desired and begged from Heaven the most to achieve?

This was their cry: "Please quickly bring the era of the Godly Homeland without a trace of evil!"

To establish a nation of God, we establish on earth the peaceful Kingdom of Heaven that places good as the standard above all else.

This eliminates evil and judges its ringleader Satan, who has been the enemy of Heaven.

Please understand that this is has been the desire of our ancestors who have contributed enormously to the course of the providence as well as Jesus and God.

Don't you desire to have a nation where God is ruler, a heaven on earth, or have you settled for this Kingdom of Hell perpetrated from the beginning by Lucifer?

There must be a country that is able to encompass a family a tribe and a people.

Six thousand years of history and God has followed countless nations, longing and seeking this one country where He could establish the heavenly nation on this earth.

He also has been searching for His loyal subjects and virtuous men and women to build such a nation.  We must reorganize families, people, and nations with God as humanity's center.

Our responsibility as people of faith is to bring about this day of liberation, the restoration of our homeland.

The mission of religious people in every religion has been the creation of this homeland.

Yet, ironically, often the selfish desires within people of faith to achieve their own personal salvation has prevented them from uniting on this purpose from across the spectrum of the different religions.

We have set the standard on the individual level, a people and a nation, so now we mobilize and seek the day of freedom, equality and happiness for all God's people.

We seek the day of the restoration of our God-given homeland as well.

Inevitably we must go this way, but, through difficulty.

This is my perspective and the standard that God is seeking. It was this standard that Jesus was trying to establish up until the time of his death.


When we move forward in the process of restoring our homeland, we will suffer and sacrifice in the process.

We will stand on the frontline, the time will come when everyone will say it cannot be done without our working in faith for the goal.

We must work hard for three years to set that standard.  We have to establish this heavenly tradition through shedding blood, sweat, and tears until all people inherit everything from us.

We have to clearly understand that there are still conditions of indemnity to be offered.

God isn't sitting in glory on His throne, He is a miserable God, a lonely God and an unspeakably sad God.  What father could idly watch his children suffer as he ate a king's meal?

God's joy begins when His children become soldiers on the front line, who have the conviction to fight and restore our homeland even if we are bleeding and fall down from the loss of blood.  Even if we have to lose all worldly possessions in the process.

When the ranks of these brave soldiers who fight to restore our homeland and unite the world increase, then God's true joy will begin.

Do you know about God's providence to the present time?

The first goal is to have the foundation on which we can bring about the restoration of God's homeland in heaven's nation and liberate God's Kingdom on earth.

This must be accomplished even if you have to sacrifice your time spent with your family.  Even if you end up as a refugee, a gypsy, this must be done.

We have to set up a country that is under the dominion of God. 

When we look at how communist countries force unity and loyalty to the government - think of this being given freely by the people centered on God?

We are at the time where those of genuine authority and dedication to God work alongside the Messiah and offer their financial foundation necessary for the restoration of our homeland on earth.

This foundation will bring about the nation that will bring world unity.



I should not help you either as a group or as individuals with the money from my own wallet. We have to follow the will of Heaven. Korea must be responsible for Korea; Japan must be responsible for Japan, and America for America. Providentially, these three countries are one. They are the countries of the parents and the eldest son.



We must create an impetus for one unified language.

We Must Find Our Homeland

We long for the nation of God, because it is the place of love.

God's nation is a place where, instead of temporary, corrupted love, we have an eternal love transcendent of time to continually exist.

It is also a place where you can elevate yourself and become 100 percent of your value.

God's nation is where you are eternally happy.

This is why all people are yearning for the heavenly nation.

You should go to the spirit world only after bringing giid results under the realm of God's dominion on earth.

This is the original standard of creation.

Instead, not only do we fear death, but we go after planting many bad seeds and enter into an ungodly realm for eternity.  This is far from God's original plan.  He did not create hell, our ways created it.

If you are unable to restore a heavenly nation on earth during your lifetime, when you go to spirit world, you do not have the value to belong to a heavenly nation in spirit world.

What is bound on earth is bound in heaven.

Our faith's goal is to become citizens of God's country. 

A person without a country, a homeland is always attacked.

Such a person stands in a miserable position.  He may often feel hopeless after suffering an affront.


Q. So, where can we find the country God desires?  

Which nation can become God's foothold?

God's eternal Kingdom on earth will be established based on our bloody sweat we shed for these people and country.

Such a country will create the blessed land that can be praised by our descendants in the thousands of years and generations to come.

God's country is composed of His direct blood descendants who receive Heaven's command and in His place will govern under God's kingship.  This was God's original Homeland before the fall.

There would be neither communism nor democracy in such an ideal country.  Once established, that nation will remain forever.

When we imagine such a nation, we should feel mortified that we are unable to be a citizen of such a heavenly country at the present moment.

We should lament that we have not become such a heavenly person, living in such a nation.

We must grieve over the fact that we do not have such an unchanging sovereignty.

During this process of building sovereignties, nations and territories, the human race has established sovereign nations.  We must remember and honor the fact that during this process millions died, many were sacrificed, many nations fell and sovereignties changed hands.

All these people who sacrificed, died, shed blood, and sad people did so to see a heavenly nation and world on earth.  They want to see such a nation come.

In this era, God sent His beloved true son and true daughter to the earth to establish one, absolute nation.

Until the present time, He could not prepare the foundation after Jesus' death to restore one nation.  This attempt has failed every time.

Thus God has worked throughout history to send His people to earth to manage, advance and accomplish this work.

It is sad to be a citizen of a country with no sovereignty. 

Jesus was concerned about this point.

He told others not to worry about where their food, drink, or clothes would come from.

He said that these small matters are what the ungodly worry about.

"Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things. Instead, above everything else, be concerned with His Kingdom and with what He requires, and He will provide you with all these other things."

Jesus said to save your nation first.

The nation that God is seeking.  Jesus waits in paradise, not heaven.  Paradise is the waiting room to go to heaven. You enter heaven only with your family, not as an individual.

Jesus was unable to stand before God on the basis of establishing a national sovereignty that had the power to communicate directly between heaven and earth.

You cannot go to heaven alone.  Heaven is designed as the place where if Adam and Eve had not fallen, their sons and daughters would have gone to live together eternally as a family in heaven.

Why has it been so difficult until now for religious people to preserve their lives and had to sacrifice?

It was because they did not have a heavenly nation as a protective foundation.  There was no family, society, or nation that would help religious people.

If they had only found a nation with a sovereign, heavenly leader that would stand up and shout "Hey, you good for nothing, this is the right way!" then the people would respond, "Yes sir".

However kings and leaders who were centered completely on the heavenly law did not come forth.

There has been no heavenly leader or nation.

That is why these problems have occurred.

Religious people who hold the standard of the heavenly kingdom could not establish a nation and go beyond their own individual selves and problems.

Without a nation, no matter how good or happy your family is, evil people can destroy it. 

This is why we need to create or find a nation on which to stand.

Religious people have not been able to understand this.

We must find a nation of goodness.  This is the purpose of religion.

If you do not have a country that can uphold the standard of God, then there is no basis upon which to register.

We have to have a new registration after becoming one people centered on God's standard.

We need to establish heaven's nation on earth. 

Then, as victorious sons and daughters who are the citizens of that country, we must live together and care for our families and clans.

We become people who love that country and its people, and who receive the lineage of the Messiah.  This is how we enter heaven in spirit world.

This is the way of the Principle.

We need such a nation in order for the blood, sweat and tears we shed and our tradition to be bequeathed for the first time to our descendants for thousands of generations to come.

Thus, when it is established, a monument that will celebrate Heaven's efforts and glory will be erected on this ground.

If we are unable to establish such a nation, then all our efforts to restore the world will be in vain.

Because this nation has not been fully established, then the Christian world and all civilizations will be sent down the river and burned up.

Aren't you seeing such a trend among the religious foundations that have been established for thousands of years?  How effective have they been toward a world of peace?

This is how they have succumbed to Satan's game.  You must understand that the issue here is to establish a heavenly nation.

We will not find such a homeland in an existing nation which already has established its traditions and cultures centered on the fallen, material ways.

The nation which we seek is fundamentally a different dimension.

In order to qualify to inherit such a nation, we have to embrace an ideology that enables us to take on the subject role.

The underlying thought that will govern such a place has to be perfectly aligned with the absolute thought of the Creator.

God desires a nation whose citizens desire to unite under its sovereignty.  

Each citizen must have these characteristics and embody the form and shape of that nation to be a citizen.

To form a nation, there needs to be a territory, a people and a sovereignty.

Q. What is a sovereignty? 

It is the creation of a relationship with the original God.

The leadership of the nation must connect with God and then conduct the work of governing the nation.

When America could follow God's law it flourished above other countries in its infancy.

The sovereign leader must completely unite with the citizens of the nation.  There is no dictatorship in this nation.

By becoming one with the people, the sovereign leader can no longer think of anything as being for his own sake alone.

He must instead see everything as being for the sake of the nation.

Once this standard of leader is achieved, that nation will prosper and flourish.

To form a heavenly nation, you need a people, a territory: in place of the sovereignty is the parents, in place of the people are the sons and daughter, in place of the territory is the nation.

It is absolute principle that all these elements have to be present.

To establish a nation, there must be a sovereignty.

All people are included in this nation.

Q. Therefore, who will be the owner of heaven and the sovereign ruler when this heavenly nation on earth is established?

Without a doubt, God is the sovereign ruler.

Where will this territory be?  Will it be in heaven?

It will be built on planet earth.

All of your activities should be for the sake of seeking such a nation.

You should focus on being its founding loyal patriots, and restore our homeland.  Your mindset should be to shoulder such a mission.

You should think that you are part of the secret envoys of Heaven who receive such instructions to come to this evil world to fulfill this mission of building a heavenly nation.

If you do not do this, you will not be able to establish your prestige or dignity as a citizen of the nation we have been seeking.

Even though Satan sees that he is losing ground everyday on earth, do you think that he will just give up and turn around and automatically bow his head toward God's people who have passionately fought for God?

He has been playing havoc with God for thousands of years, he is not going to retreat easily.

He will doggedly fight to the end.

This is why we must not be distracted in these last days and stay focused on the central point.


If I, Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, stray from the center, I will be broken. If you do not set the right direction, there can be no development.


We must go out with barefeet if necessary to create the homeland.

Your left over resources are not enough to save this nation.

You do not save this nation by focusing on what food you are going to eat, what clothes to wear and what car to drive.

Therefore, we determine to pioneer with our bare hands and feet.  That is the type of work our church is doing.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook -  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 13, Chapter 1, Section 1, 2

The Way to World Peace

If fallen man understood that humanity went in the wrong direction causing a constant war going on within each of us, the restoration of the world would be faster.  

As a consequence of the Fall of Man, there is a continuous struggle and conflict within ourselvess between mind and the body.  Between the desire for good and the desire for evil.

 

Originally, our mind and body were to be operate as one in unity, not struggle.

 

Our mind represents God's mind.

The human body is a container to accommodate the mind.  Separation came between these two when the fall occurred.

Thus the body dominated the good mind based on Satan or selfishness.  Thus, tragically, the human body has become the servant of Satan.

On the other hand, the human conscience is the agent of God in the individual person.  Our conscience was not created to benefit oneself.

It is planted by God for the sake of righteousness.

Yet the body rebels against this conscience.

The body only seeks after comforts and tends to act selfishly, going after carnal desires.  The conscience in turn is trying to chastise the body and direct it toward the godly mind's desires.

This is why there is always inevitable conflict and struggle within one's self.

This is the reason why the traditional religions of the world all teach the principle of chastising the body through fasting, prayer, and other disciplines.

By doing the opposite of what the body desires to do that is wrong, discipline brings the body to the will of the mind.  For this reason, religion which is the training ground where the desire of the body is suppressed, has been the instrument of God to bring men back to God's original ideal.

In order for us to dominate the body, we must unite with God within Himself.

The only power that enables the mind to dominate the body is the same power which generates unity of the mind's wth God's truth and love.

 Mind is subject and body is object. 

God's love and truth has the power to bring the mind and body into harmonious person.  Religion would define such a person as a man of perfection or a holy man.

Men and women that center their whole life on God are called men and women of goodness.

These good men and women may receive God's blessing of marriage and be united into a couple of husband and wife.

This will be the beginning of one ideal family of men on the face of the earth.

This model family is what God wanted to have as a building block of the good society, nation and world.

The Family is the Foundation of Peace

The Orient has a saying that "Once peace dwells int he family, everything goes right."

A happy and harmonious family is a family of peace and the foundation for the heavenly kingdom on earth.  The dynamic of the family is true love.

You must love God first, then love your husband or wife and your children with pure and sacrificial love.  This is the manifestation of true love.

God created love as the supreme force in the universe.

There is nothing greater in the universe than true love which is supreme.

True love, of course, originates from God.

God invested everything, every ounce of Himself in order to bring about the creation of all things and mankind.

 

Love is the only is the only thing in the world when invested fully, returns fully.  

When you invests true love, it will multiply and prosper.

Investing 100 percent of true love will yield 120 percent.  One might think that those who practice true love would become poor and miserable, yet the end result is to the contrary.

Through practicing true love, you will acquire prosperity and eternal life.

This kind of family of true love becomes the foundation for creating a society, nation and world centered on God's love.

That world would become ideal and peaceful.

There you will find understanding and peace and not misunderstanding and confusion.

You will find unity instead of division.

You would find selflessness instead of selfishness.  It would be the world where sacrifices and good service are a dominant virtue which everyone would strive to achieve.

The realization of God's ideal is the way to bring about true peace in the world.



 

The Ideal of True Parents for True World Peace

The Bible states that God sought to create human beings from "His own image" and character.

This means that the invisible God wanted to manifest Himself substantially into a visible, physical form.

In other words, men and women would become the personification of God through their perfection in pure love.

If the first man and woman had realized the ideal of God, they would have become the first visible form of God and created the first family of man of God-centered children, grandchildren who would expand to form an ideal society, nation and world.

In this case the invisible God would thus become the vertical True Parent of man centering upon true love.  Humankind would have centered upon good Adam and Eve who became True Parents by becoming one family eternally fulfilling a true brotherhood.

The Fall of Adam and Eve brought about the lost of not only God's ideal world, but the True Parents of humanity.

We became like orphans whose true parents abandoned them.

Therefore, brothers and sistersturned into enemies.

As a result, nation became antagonistic relationship rather than friendly ones. Accusations, and distrust abound on every level of society.

In the final fulfillment of human history, therefore, God's work of restoration is the restoration of True Parents first, liberating humanity from its orphan status.

Today this is the central dispensation of God - to bring True Parents to earth to guide mankind and create the true family of man centering on God and true love.

Ladies and gentlemen, today's creation of the Federation for World Peace must be different from that of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Most important is that we must found this organization upon the true ideal and philosophy of lasting peace as well as the ideal of True Parents. In the final analysis, peace in God and with God is the newest level of awakening. 


Once humanity reaches this level, it will be a refreshing new beginning toward attainment of peace.  The exclusion of God from human efforts to bring about peaceful solutions, is the core reason why there is constant failure in these endeavors.

Therefore, we should make God the center of this movement.

Historical Gathering

For men and women who are fervently longing for world peace, today's gathering is an historic gathering. There are many presidents and former presidents here today, as well as prominent religious leaders and leaders from every walk of life. This is truly a rare and extraordinary assembly. Furthermore, there are leaders from the East bloc and the West bloc. Until recently, those leaders were mired in the Cold War and locked in a chilling confrontation. In this auditorium, however, there is no East or West. Everyone is gathered together in one spirit of cooperation and reconciliation.

On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down.

Ever since that historical event which was felt around the world, we have been living in a different world.

The world is quickly moving forward to reformation, mutual understanding and friendship.  Everyone today feels that the world is opening up, a new way, to blossoming opportunity of peace.

If you agree that the principles I have expounded are the fundamental criteria for peace, then true peace is reachable and achievable. The industrialized North must reach out to help liberate the South from pervasive impoverishment. The developed nations must reach out with a helping hand toward the developing countries and the new democracies.

During this time of transition and restoration, each nation must change from a selfish one to an unselfish one.

That in itself is a revolution.  Nations can do this when leaders themselves are able to see from the position of parents.

 

The most unselfish and sacrificial love of all is the love of parents. 

 

 

 

From this perspective, we can see that on a worldwide level that all of the nations are brothers and sister nations.  

 

Then a fresh new vision emerges and a new opportunity will open up in front of us to a new dawn.

What should be the priority of those countries that are part of the UN in the days to come?

We have reached the age where colonialism is over.  

 

Where the powerful nations exploited the weakest ones in the past is over.  The law of "survival of the fittest" does not apply in our new world.  

 

The age of the superpower arms race which drove the world and humanity into fear and uncertainty has also passed.  

 

 

 

 

 

Humanity ought to be liberated from the devestating threat of nuclear arms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What time is it on God's timetable of restorating the world?

This is the time that the Holy Scriptures refer to "beating our swords into plowshares."  Do you see it is such a time of human revolution going toward a better world centered on God?

This is the time for developing mutual trust which is based on a high moral standard.

It is a time when all of the members of the United Nations in a relationship of mutual respect and love, should jointly declare one final war against our common enemies.  

 

That would be hunger, ignorance, disease and crime.

This is God's plan.  Even though everyone has a concept of their home country where family lives, in larger sense, the world now becomes "my country" because it is where God, my Father and my brothers and sisters live.  

 

From this point of view, all the advanced nations should seek to share their knowleddge of high technology with developing countries and new democracies.

To do otherwise would be a moral crime.  Things which are good and beneficial must be shared among all nations.  When a new discovery is made, it should benefit all nations.  If something is good for humanity and the world, it should be fulfilled, transcendent of national boundaries.

For a long time, I have been fighting for equal opportunity in the use of high technology by all developing nations.

A Century of Peace

Ladies and gentlemen, your coming to this place is not an accident. Nothing happens by accident. I feel you are ordained to be here. You are chosen by God as champions of peace.  A new era is unfolding. With the cooperation of God and man together the twenty-first century will be a century of peace. 


If we are to see a world of peace happen, we should work tirelesly together for the next nine years.

If we do, we will be able to eliminate all obstacles which might hinder the attainment of peace.

If we are able to push forward, centered on God, we should be able to eliminate all obstacles which would hinder the attainment of peace.

This twenty-first century should be a righteous century full of hope.
Wealth will not be the dominating factor in this era.

Instead, the human spirit and soul will prevail.  The twenty-first centry is the era of unity between God and man.

It should be the era where a new awakening will come to every man.

They will realize that there is more benefit for himself when he serves others and lives for the sake of others.

In this century, selfishness will decline.  Life honor and glory based on unselfishness shall be triumphant.

These are the characteristics of the era for peace is approaching.

Now we have the opportunity for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.  This century shall be hopeful and glorious.

To make this happen, the Federation for World Peace will provide the ideal and philosophy to educate the world's population. The Federation will assist spiritually, mentally and financially in the development of needy nations. The Federation will set a high moral standard and take a dynamic role in building a world of peace.


As you walk this path of restoration, you are the apostles of peace.  The bright new hope as well as a exciting new future awaits you.  We should fervently feel the desire to fulfill this great mission that has been bestowed upon us by God.

In order to achieve this sacred duty and historic responsibility of building everlasting peace on earth, we should dedicate our lives, fortunes and sacred honor with total commitment to this dispensation.

The first item on our agenda is to invite God into our individual hearts and those of our family, society, nation and world.

When God is with us, who shall be against us?

Respected friends, my beloved brothers and sisters, we are called to this sacred mission: to build a world of peace.

Our noble march shall begin today toward that glorious future.  Let us build a true world of peace together with God.

Thank you very much.




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This post was rewritten from the Textbook for World Peace Chapter 2