Ep 380 - São Tomé and Príncipe The Model For National Restoration Part 1
São Tomé and Príncipe, Model for National Restoration - Sexual Immorality - Absolute Faith & Trials #15
♦ KEY POINTS: The president of São Tomé and Príncipe expressed his “profound appreciation” for True Mother’s vision and blessings for his country and the initiatives she took there and said he wanted to develop a long term relationship with us. He was particularly happy to hear the term “Heavenly São Tomé” and even referred to True Mother as “Mother Moon.” ♦ DP: True Father said, “The current age of free sex, which destroys God’s natural order and plants Satan’s sexual immorality in this world, will reap what it sowed.” In God’s eyes a double-minded person is an adulterous person. God cannot come to him. God’s providence always starts from the separation of Satan from God. God is an extremely good God. He cannot deal with anyone evil. We need to completely separate the evil mind from the original mind. God’s providence was a history of separating good from evil by dividing them from each other. Then he could deal with the better side. Satan wants to destroy God’s ideal system centered on the number three, centering on three generations. The Last Days is a time of widespread incest. The order of love will be completely destroyed under the name of free sex. Satan abuses the word “freedom” promoting it as free sex. But with freedom comes responsibility. Also, freedom must be inside the Principle. Otherwise it is simply self-indulgence and evil. Freedom allows us to produce joy through true love. Satan’s command is “Have sex!” while God’s is “Do not eat!” We need a sexual revolution of Absolute Sex which will be World War III. We need to educate our children so they will not be influenced by the sexual environment with its omnipresent temptation. ♦ When there is a trial, those with absolute faith do not feel as if there is a trial because it has nothing to do with them. The hardship feels like a blessing and like God's love. Fallen man is changeable, is easily influenced by the environment and has up and down emotions depending on external events. We need to keep our internal integrity and sincerity. Our public and private behavior is the same. Holiness means being the same inside and outside. We need to be grateful for the lessons contained in a scolding, uncomfortable as it may be. Ordeals allow us to inherit faith, grow spiritually and multiply good results. Through trials God seeks to bless us. They are God’s love. ♦
Today I will go to Hawaii. Now I have one state left. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for your incredible support and prayer. Yesterday we gathered at the Peace Arch Park at the U.S. and Canadian border with Canadian members, and we prayed together. It was very, very beautiful. I could see our Canadian brothers and sisters, and I stepped into the land of Canada. I made a small condition. Kambashi and other leaders joined us. It was a really great moment. Thank you so much for joining our Holy Ground Tour prayer condition. We had a group photo with our Canadian brothers and sisters.
We had a lunch meeting with the Billingham Family Church members. They prepared a beautiful and delicious lunch. Yesterday I was so impressed to see this beautiful community. Our third generation, 14 or 15 years old, small kids, relate very much to family, father-in-law, son-in-law, and relate to parents. Wow! I felt overwhelmed! Do you know why? I could see such a heartistic community, really loving each other, caring for each other. I realized the meaning of the small kingdom of heaven. They created such a heart culture, a beautiful environment. I really appreciate our local leadership and Rev. Larry’s couple and David Ryan’s couple and all the leadership for creating such a beautiful community. I hope all communities can be like that. How great it is! How joyful Heavenly Father is!
I finally met Larry and Akemi Krishnek. I have wanted to see them for a long time. I was very happy. Also, I finally met my relative, Kai(?), my son-in-law’s elder brother. David Ryan’s couple always supported us and guided us, together with the Kevin Johnson couple. Thank you so much!
Today I will fly to Hawaii to conclude the 50-state tour.
Today I would like to speak about “São Tomé and Príncipe, Model for National Restoration.” from the contents of True Mother’s memoir.
<Mother of Peace, Page 318-320> Following the inaugural Africa Summit held in January 2018, various nations throughout the African continent expressed a desire to host Summits and Blessings. After nearly four decades of mission work and on the foundation of the previous year’s activities and World Summit 2019, the government of São Tomé and Príncipe expressed a strong desire to host initiatives throughout the country, including a Summit, a Blessing Festival and a Youth and Students for Peace Festival.
I sent my representative to São Tomé in the Spring of 2019 and, after he met the President, His Excellency Evaristo Carvalho, the Prime Minister, His Excellency Jorge Bom Jesus, and the President of the National Assembly, His Excellency Delfim Neves, a memorandum of understanding between UPF and the government of São Tomé was signed. Hearing about São Tomé’s willingness to work together on several key initiatives, I was determined to bless it and lay the foundation for a Heavenly nation there, and I announced that I would hold the 2019 Africa Summit and the Hyojeong Family Blessing Festival in São Tomé and Príncipe.
This is a beautiful equatorial island nation in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa. It gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. After we had traveled for more than 40 hours, including two layovers, the government of São Tomé offered an extraordinary welcome. Cabinet ministers welcomed me warmly at the airport, and the next day His Excellency President Evaristo Carvalho welcomed me at the Presidential Palace for a private meeting. Following our cordial meeting, the presidential honor guard escorted me to the National Assembly building to open the Summit.
More than 800 leaders from São Tomé and throughout Africa were in attendance. The National Assembly had generously offered the use of its premises for the Summit and Blessing, and by 9:00 a.m. the main hall and surrounding overflow rooms were full. In addition to His Excellencies President Carvalho, Prime Minister Jorge Bom Jesus and President of the National Assembly Delfim Neves, there were hundreds of parliamentarians, dozens of government ministers, hundreds of religious leaders and leaders of civil society, as well as several former heads of state from throughout Africa in attendance.
The Summit, Blessing and YSP festivals were all broadcast live on national television and the feedback from the viewers was overwhelmingly positive.
The Summit began, and after inspiring addresses by current and former heads of state, His Excellency Goodluck Jonathan, former president of Nigeria and the Africa chair of the International Summit Council for Peace (ISCP), introduced me. During my keynote address, I proposed that São Tomé and Príncipe work together with me in realizing the model of a heavenly nation. I blessed São Tomé and Príncipe as “Heavenly São Tomé,” a nation blessed by God. Hearing this, the audience cheered.
Following my address, President Carvalho expressed his gratitude, sharing his profound appreciation for the various initiatives undertaken in the nation as well as the vision I had laid out during my address. President Carvalho also expressed a strong desire to forge an even stronger relationship and continue our work over the long term. He was particularly happy to hear the term “Heavenly São Tomé” and even referred to me as “Mother Moon.”
That evening, President Carvalho invited me and other heads of state to a state dinner in a beautiful seaside restaurant reserved for state functions. The gentlemanly President Carvalho guided me as we made our way along the sumptuous buffet, recommending delicious local dishes. I was moved by the sincere desire of the São Tomé government to develop their nation in a gracious and principled manner.
Today I would like to introduce...
True Mother’s Opening Address at the 2019 African Summit
(National Assembly Building of São Tomé and Príncipe 9/5/2019)
There are around two hundred countries in the world today. In Africa alone are many big and small nations. Up until now, people lived here in an environment in which they could not unite. However, thanks to True Parents, through the families that received the blessing, the people of Africa can now become one. Through the blessing that we will hold tomorrow, by receiving True Parents’ blessing, you will be in a position of true children that God can embrace and to whom he will manifest all his love. Heavenly Parent has longed to see this day for the past six thousand years; it is the day Heavenly Parent will say, "Now you have finally become my sons and my daughters." He fills his children with his love, shedding endless tears of joy. This is that blessed day.
Since God created the universe to last for eternity, for only a father and mother to receive the blessing does not suffice. The children too need education so they can enter Heavenly Parent’s bosom. In the past, the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, did not prepare well and fell during their growth period. Children of the blessed couples receiving the blessing tomorrow must keep their chastity until the day God can finally say, “You too have grown up well; you are now ready.” Only then can you become precious sons and daughters whom God can embrace. Therefore, I plan to bless this country’s president and its government’s personnel. I will give Sun Moon University scholarships to three people that the government chooses as future leaders of this country.
When True Parents have blessed all humankind, the world will become a place of blessings where Heavenly Parent can directly commune with humanity. If all blessed families fulfill their responsibilities, we will be able to see that day during our time on earth.
As blessed families, work to create heaven on earth; if all the nations here become one, it will not only become heaven on earth but will also create the road to pass freely into the eternal kingdom of heaven in heaven. All of you here today can bring São Tomé and Príncipe to attend our Heavenly Parent and become heavenly São Tomé and Príncipe. If all its citizens become blessed families and blessed children whom Heavenly Parent embraces, this nation will become heaven on earth.
I want to say this again: Responsibilities are always present when you receive blessings from Heaven. Heavenly Parent has blessed São Tomé and Príncipe as heavenly São Tomé and Príncipe. So, when you are able to fulfill your responsibilities on earth and realize Heavenly Parent’s dream, you will be able to proclaim to the world that São Tomé and Príncipe has become a model of heaven on earth. That will be a day of glory, blessing and endless joy. Will you do your best to make this happen? I would like to particularly thank the president of São Tomé and Príncipe and all cabinet ministers for their cooperation and support in making this day possible. Let us determine to make São Tomé and Príncipe heaven on earth.
As you all know, God’s, our True Parents’ and our last wish is to build Cheonil Guk through God’s sovereignty, God’s people and God’s land. From now on the key is how to secure the majority centered on the blessed family. I hope that North America will become the center of the world and help a lot of countries with potential for Cheonil Guk. I really appreciate all the leadership and our brothers and sisters. Now North America is starting to help some of the representative nations which really have the potential to become Cheonil Guk. Sooner or later we are going to support them on a monthly basis. Thank you so much for your great effort, sacrifice and dedication.
Today I would like to talk about ...
Living Divine Principle: Introduction 4 “Solution to Sexual Immorality”
Based on our True Parents words. First of all, let’s study the Divine Principle.
『The actual situation of today's Christianity』
● Conventional Christianity stands powerless to carry on God's providence to save humanity in this present age.
● Although Christian doctrine teaches that all humanity descended from the same parents, many citizens of Christian nations who profess this doctrine will not even sit together with their brothers and sisters of different skin colors.
● This illustrates the actual situation of today's Christianity, which has lost much of the power to put the words of Jesus into practice.
● There is one social vice that human efforts alone can never eradicate. That is sexual immorality. Christian doctrine regards this as a cardinal sin. What a tragedy that today's Christian society cannot block this path of ruin down which so many people are rushing blindly!
● This is evidence that conventional Christianity stands powerless to carry on God's providence to save humanity in this present age.
Based on this EDP, let’s study True Father’s regarding this.
It is a lie to believe in religion and live well physically. We must strike the body. Why? Because we must pull out Satan’s blood. The devil’s life, the devil’s love must be pulled out. This is why God cannot intervene in the affairs of fallen humanity. His beloved one was snatched away and bore children. Could He visit such a place and love them next to that devil? These are not empty words. Thus, Rome was destroyed through immorality, and America will now also perish through immorality. If you go to Pompeii, there are still traces of such immorality, traces of incestuous relationships over three generations. In America, 30 percent are that way. This is meant to be destroyed.
The Present Age is the Time for Harvesting Satan’s Seed of Sexual Immorality
<235-195> Then, what is salvation? It is to recover from this sickness. Deny all of this and achieve the opposite path. It is simple. Because it started with Satan's love, in the last days season of harvest it becomes a world where Satan’s love becomes hell. You reap what you sow. Consequently, it is the time when the current age of free sex, which destroys God’s natural order and plants Satan’s sexual immorality in this world, will reap what it sowed. Utter chaos will follow where the granddaughter and grandfather, daughter and father, mother and son will have a lewd relationship. The order of love will be completely destroyed.
People like us know well how wretched American families are. It is an unbelievable world where the younger sister violates the older brother. It is a world where the older brother violates his younger sister, the father violates his daughter, and the mother violates her son. Women are violated in 3 generations. What cannot be seen in the eastern world can be seen in America.
Wow! Our True Father shared about the current reality of the fallen world. He said, “You reap what you sow. Consequently, it is the time when the current age of free sex, which destroys God’s natural order and plants Satan’s sexual immorality in this world, will reap what it sowed.” A person with two minds dealing with two masters is like one woman serving two men and one man serving two women.
In God’s eyes a double-minded person is an adulterous person. Sometimes they serve their master, Satan. God can only intervene when we have one mind. The reason that God cannot come to me is because I am an adulterous person. As long as I am serving two masters, God and Satan, I am an adulterous person. It is not just because of looking at pornography and committing sexual sin. Not only that. As long as I have two minds, as long as I serve two masters -- sometimes serving God, sometimes serving Satan -- with this kind of double mindset God cannot do anything. God’s providence always starts from the separation of Satan from God. If I compromise, as long as I have two minds, an evil mind and a good mind, as long as I have an adulterous mindset, God cannot do anything with us because he is an extremely good God. He only has attributes of goodness. He cannot deal with anything with evil. Many people ask why God does not intervene. When God sees this kind of terrible situation, why doesn’t he judge them? You do not know about God’s nature. Why can’t God intervene? Because I am an adulterous person. I am an adulterous person, and you are an adulterous person because we serve two masters. One woman serves two masters, has sexual relations with two masters. How can one trust her? Not just two masters. There are many kinds of sexual object partners.
What is the formation stage? And the growth stage? We need to completely separate the evil mind from the original mind. Look at the Old Testament Era. Look at the New Testament Era. How did God start his providence? He needed to divide even doves, cows and lambs. Why did he need to divide them? Why did he need to separate them? Without separating from evil, God cannot do anything. If there is a clear separation between the evil mind and the good mind, then God can deal with this person.
Many religious leaders could not explain this. Why can’t God intervene in my relationship with my husband? With my children? Why can’t God intervene in such a terrible society, terrible fornication culture here and there. Why doesn’t God punish them?
Separation is (?) the human portion of responsibility, my portion of responsibility. In the end Satan will also try to settle based on the number three centered on Satan. Since Satan also tried to settle through the three stages of formation, growth and completion, sexually immoral incidents occur in the family centered on three generations. Satan is also talking about three generations. He wants to destroy God’s ideal system centered on the number three, centering on three generations.
We are in the Last Days. I am talking about incest. Do you understand incest? Incest will happen. There will be sexual relationships between parents and children, grandfather and granddaughter, between brothers and sisters, violating each other. Wow! Centering on the family, centering on three generations. Satan wants to completely destroy God’s ideal system. There are sexual relationships among men, and sexual relationships among women. Oh my God! This is really the Last Days.
The order of love will be completely destroyed under the name of free sex. This is the sign of the Last Days. Satan’s last goal is to create an environment in which people can have sex with anyone in the name of free sex. The last goal of Satan is to claim freedom. That is because he wants to create a world that is sexually free. Why is Satan using the terminology of freedom? He wants to be free. I can have sex with anyone, with my mother, my grandfather, my grand daughter, with my eldler sister or younger sister, with those of my same gender, man or woman. This is really incredible! Adam and Eve committed sexual sin. What is the outcome in the Last Days?
We need to know the reality. What we must know is that with freedom comes responsibility. Many people don’t know that where there is freedom, there is responsibility. Secondly, we need to know that freedom must be inside the Principle. Without Principle how can we talk about freedom? Freedom outside the Principle is not freedom but self-indulgence, evil and Satan. Finally God’s purpose for granting human beings freedom is to bring absolute, substantial results through my voluntary action and heart. It is producing and giving joy to others through my heart’s content. Why did God give me freedom? Let’s freely bring substantial results of true love without God’s intervention, happily, joyfully, creating the results of true love between husband and wife, between parents and children, between brothers and sisters, with our neighbor, with God and True Parents. We need to produce joy freely. That is why God gave us freedom.
However, we are the ones who misused this freedom. Satan wants to misuse the word freedom. “Everybody is equal. Man and woman are equal.” In some sense he is correct. “Sexually everyone is equal. I can have sex with anyone. Satan’s main commandment is what? He always brainwashes human beings: “Have sex. Have sex. Have sex. Have sex. Have sex. From when you wake up until you go to sleep, he continually brainwashes you. Have sex. Have sex. Have sex.
What is God’s commandment? “Do not eat! Do not eat! Do not eat!” The only solution is absolute sex. The solution is to establish God-centered love for the three great loves (kingships?) and the four great realms of heart. Therefore a sexual revolution centered on absolute sex must arise. A sexual revolution. This is our final battle. This is our Third World War.
As Unification church members and Unification leaders, if this matter is not resolved(?) even the Unification Church will decline. It will surely perish. If this matter is not clear, you will surely decline. Surely you will perish. If this matter is not clear within yourself, you will kill yourself. If this matter is not clear between husband and wife, they will destroy each other. This is why fallen man needs education. If we do not educate our children, they will be influenced by the sexual environment. Everywhere there is temptation.
Today’s Youth Ministry: Absolute Faith and Trials
1. For those who have absolute faith, even if there is a trial, it feels as if there is no trial because it has nothing to do with it. Having an ordeal means that the center has been shaken. Satan's psychology, for example, is when a young child will not touch the stake in the neighborhood if it is strong. But if the stake is a little weak, the child can shake it left and right to get it out.
I had such an experience when I was young. This is important. For those who have absolute faith, even if there is a trial, it feels as if there is no trial because they have nothing to do with it.
2. Satan touches that which he can profit from. If it's disadvantageous, he doesn't touch it at all because he loses. When my lifestyle becomes strong through absolute faith, then even if there are twists and turns, it does not feel that way, and the hardships rather feel like a blessing and like God's love.
3. Noah lay naked because of his children. Their identity was revealed when they saw their naked father because they were children who respected if the results were good and changed their minds if the results were bad. After the flood judgment, the children had high respect for their father, but when they returned to their usual lives and devalued their father’s level, their usual standards of mind were revealed.
4. Seeing his father lying naked, Ham would not have felt ashamed if he had thought, "He was 100% with God until this day, so this was God's work."
5. It is precious to think of an incident as precious, but it is embarrassing to think of it as vulgar. Ham was ashamed of his drunken father.
6. The incident in which Noah was drunk and lying naked was due to the fact that Ham could not inherit his father’s faith in the past. This incident occurred to see whether Ham could keep his heart of respect for his father immediately after the flood even after seeing unbelievable things.
7. Therefore, while dealing with naked Noah, Noah's children would not have changed their respect for Noah if they had thought that he was in God’s position, and that this was God’s work.
What point of view do you have? If you see something from the human point of view, you are easily disappointed, easily become excited. Fallen man is always influenced by the environment. He is easily disappointed or easily gains happiness. He is always up and down and cannot keep a certain standard. He is always influenced by the result. If the result is good, I am happy. If the result is not so good, I am not happy. It is difficult for him to keep his first motivation. This is fallen man: no absolute faith, no absolute standard. If any trail comes, he cannot overcome it.
8. In order to maintain your respect, you should not be heartbroken even in a heartbreaking situation. It is faith when you don’t grieve even when you're in a place to grieve.
This is very important.
9. An honest person does not get angry when they’re in a place to be angry and does not steal when they’re in a place to steal. Those people are people who overcame themselves.
This standard is very important. If someone is looking at me, I need to prepare to do very well. If someone is not looking at me, I can relax and do my own things. Then you are not sincere. For me, when I deliver God’s word, I am serious. When I am dealing with our brothers and sisters, listening and giving guidance, in such a public situation I am serious. How about when I come back home to my room. Is my sincerity the same as before or not? Sincerity. It does not matter if God is looking at you, or Satan is looking at you, or someone else is looking at you. The most important thing is how sincere you are to yourself.
When I leave the hotel, I check whether I turned off the light or not. I treat the hotel as if it were my own house. I want to save electricity. I don’t want to use many towels. Even though I may stay a few days in a hotel, I want to use just one towel continuously. If possible, I want to save water. I have to be sincere, sincere to myself. If I am not sincere to myself, how can I, how can we be sincere to other people? This is very important.
When you are free and watching pornography and this and that, your own individual life and public life are different, this is a problem. You can hide yourself, but when you go to the spiritual world, you cannot hide anything. The visible world and the invisible world should be the same.
10. In this principle, Noah's children could have inherited his faith if they not only respected him for the flood judgment that resulted from his absolute faith, but if they also continued to respect Noah even in an unrespectable situation when they saw his naked body.
11. When parents love their children, any child can like their parents back, but when the parents scold them, it's really hard for them to like their parents.
When our parents scold us, we need to think, “There is a reason my parents scolded me. I happily and grateful accept.” How many children can be like that? When parents scold their children, the children are very upset. When Abel scolds Cain, then all kinds of fallen nature comes out. Not so many people take it happily, gratefully, thankfully. “I really thank you for correcting me.” When you are upset in some situations, it is difficult and you are upset. Even the secular world is like that. If you are the same as the secular world, then what is the difference between the secular world and your own original world?
Holiness means what? The same inside and outside. Of course, for me I am still far away from this from God’s point of view. We are sometimes single-minded; sometimes we are double-minded. We are an adulterous person. An adulterous person is always changeable according to the weather, according to the environment. That is why it is not easy to have absolute faith.
12. The end of the trial is the inheritance of faith. Second, the ordeal is in making me grow. Thirdly, consider that the purpose and conclusion of the trial is destined to give me good results. So, no matter what trials you face, don't worry. If I overcome trials, glory, victory, and future are guaranteed for me.
Very important. What is the conclusion of the trial? God wants to bless you. Already God has prepared a victory. Glory. Then you need to see what the outcome of the trials will be. God is waiting. He wants to give it all to you. If the conclusion of the trials is very bad and very terrible, then that is a problem. The conclusion of the trial is what? It is incredible glory and victory. My spiritual growth and my future is very promising. How do we deal with our trials?
13. So, do not worry ahead of time when you are faced with a trial. Be grateful for the ordeal itself. The greater the ordeal, the shorter the indemnity process. Think of it as a love that God wants to make you better every time you face trials.
We can learn so many things from Noah’s family. What is the purpose of inheritance? The purpose of inheritance is to develop. Not only just to maintain ourselves. The purpose of inheritance is to develop -- and multiply.
Some people say, “Oh, Father stayed in this house a long time. We need to keep this house.” Keeping houses is not the main purpose. How to develop that property, how to multiply more; then we can keep that kind of legacy continuously. Not the building itself. Of course, sometimes the building is important. The important thing is the spirit, the spirit of the inheritance. How can we inherit, develop and multiply. That is the way we can keep absolute faith. That is the way to overcome our trials.
Thank you very much.
Mother is coming soon. Let’s prepare our heart. This is an opportunity to meet our mother. Can you imagine how many times Mother will come to America? Just a handful of times. Let’s prepare very well, especially watch parties. Let’s invite more people to join our watch party. Let’s expand and convey our blessing to our neighbors.
Thank you very much. Kamsa hamnida.