Ep 393 - Beginning Of A Heavenly Unified World, Raising The Banner Of Victory In Oceania Part 2
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I am very strong. Only my voice is a little gone. I am very strong.
Yesterday morning, I went to Greater Louisville Family Church to have breakfast together with brothers and sisters. This breakfast meeting was also a victory celebration for the Saturdays’ Marriage Blessing Summit, so we also cut a victory cake. I asked each member to share their reflection about the Summit. State Leader Rev. Norm Presley also shared his testimony how he brought Bishop Bernie Wade and his family to the summit. While listening to members’ reflections, I received a lot of new inspirations, and I shared with members there. Despite many challenges, the first trip of my 2nd 50-state tour was successfully completed in Kentucky. I really appreciate our subregional leaders, three leaders, (especially) Takami’s couple, beautiful leadership. All leaders were really united with Rev. Takami and created beautiful unity and harmony. And also I personally appreciated our state leader, Rev. Norm Presley.
Today, I would like to speak with the title “Beginning of a Heavenly Unified World, Raising the Banner of Victory in Oceania” from the contents of True Mother’s memoir. Yesterday I shared a part, and today I will share another part.
<Mother of Peace, Pages 332-333> “The following day, December 10, attendees of the Asia Pacific First Ladies Summit 2019 gathered at the Ngarachamayong Cultural Center. The opening ceremony began with an address by the first lady. Then my emissary and daughter-in-law, Women’s Federation for World Peace International President Moon Hoon-sook, read the founder’s message on my behalf. Through her, I conveyed my love not only for Palau but for all of Oceania, the starting point of the Pacific civilization. In the past, Father Moon proclaimed the advent of “the Pacific Rim Era” and emphasized the providential importance of the Asia-Pacific region. In 1992, he wrote in his calligraphic Chinese characters, “The Unified World Will Begin in Oceania,” and offered prayers and other spiritual conditions for the restoration of Oceania to God.
The 40-day Cosmic Canaan Course for the Settlement of Cheon Il Guk created the foundation for an “Asia-Pacific Union.” I gained national-level support in November at the Cambodia Rally of Hope and the Taiwan Rally of Hope, which connected with Chinese communities across the globe. At the Africa Summit in Niger, I won the support of Africa on the continental level. Palau’s Rally of Hope Summit and Blessing Ceremony was the capstone of the Asia-Pacific Union.
The first ladies attending the Asia-Pacific First Ladies Summit resolved to address the fundamental problems of the world with a maternal heart. They called it “The Day of Women’s Liberation” established by the True Mother of humankind. It was a true women’s day for another reason also—in contrast to summits held elsewhere, it was women who were in charge of the preparations, assisted by men.
The next day, December 11, the government-sponsored Blessing Ceremony took place. Historic events always hit bumps in the road, and this one was no exception. As midnight approached on the day before the ceremony, the president’s secretariat informed us that our schedule conflicted with a state budget meeting, so the president would not be able to attend. It was a bolt out of the blue that left us all deflated.
Our spirits were revived, however, when, as the first lady of Palau and the other first ladies entered the Blessing venue the following morning, the emcee joyfully announced that the president had arrived and was making his way to the stage.
Palau’s First Ladies Summit and Blessing was a milestone in God’s providence. It marked Oceania as the starting point of the Pacific civilization, which unfolds around the maternal heart of giving and giving again. The Pacific Ocean is known as a symbol of peace and womanhood, especially motherhood. The victory was due not just to the leaders and people of that beautiful island nation, but also to my two daughters-in-law and Asia-Pacific Family Federation members, who united in earnest prayer offered with the heart to move heaven.
We are one family and one Holy Community of Heavenly Parent. With the conviction that “to stop is to fail; to persevere is to succeed,” I keep moving forward undaunted, no matter what difficulties come. I need to be a mother of love and benevolence who can overlook faults and embrace all circumstances with a maternal heart as wide as the ocean. That is why, even today, I stay awake at night with the heart to cover all the world’s children with blankets while they sleep.”
Today in connection with yesterday's content, I would like to share with you some of the content I reported to True Mother for the Palau First Ladies Summit.
Yeon-ah Nim, Hoon-sook Nim, and the Women's VIP and WFWP delegation to attend the summit paid a courtesy visit to the president.
President Thomas Remengesau Jr., despite his long trip, expressed his gratitude to the guests who visited Palau and showed respect and longing for True Father and the peace movement. He also emphasized the role of women in the peace movement and the importance of the younger generation in the future, and said he hoped everyone would make good memories during their stay in Palau.
Moon Hoon-sook, chairman of the Women's Federation for World Peace, then expressed True Mother’s regards, said Palau was like a role model of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and that True Father really loved Palau and spread the peace movement here. She expressed thanks for cooperating with this meaningful work now that the Asia Pacific First Ladies Summit is starting in beautiful Palau.
In the afternoon, we had time to meet WFWP representatives, including Palau First Lady Debby Remengesau, Yeon-ah Nim, and Hoon-sook Nim.
That time, First Lady Debby Remengesau said,
"I am a blessed family blessed by the late President Sun Myung Moon in 2005. It is a huge honor that President Sun Myung Moon blessed me during his lifetime, and in particular, I was the only current leader to attend his Seonghwa Ceremony. Palau has the culture of an island country. All women, politically influential women, are the main characters of creating peace. It is important that peace begins with me, and it is important that it begins with the family. My term of office expires next year. After I resign from the presidency, I will do my best as a wife and grandmother of my grandchildren. I also established the Remengesau Foundation. This is because I met President Moon and realized what is needed for a peaceful world and to pass down to the younger generation in the future, and I learned what I have to do. I hope you make good memories in beautiful Palau during your stay and come back again with your family."
At dinner time, the president spoke, and he was an amazing speaker. He said, "I'm the president of this country, but I attended this banquet as a guest. It was because my wife, host, and first lady invited me." So everyone laughed happily.
The president continued, "The first lady is the bridge between the government and society. That is connected to youth, families, schools, religious organizations and communities. Therefore, the first lady must be part of the solution to the problems facing today's society. First of all, women must participate in solutions that all countries around the world face."
The Palau First Ladies Summit was really an incredible event, and True Mother was so inspired to see such a beautiful event in Palau. Now our witnessing headquarters is promoting the First Ladies Association for World Peace. Let’s support our Women’s Federation for World Peace in America and Canada and organize the future First Ladies Summit very well in America.
Living Divine Principle: Section 1 - The Dual Characteristics of God and the Created Universe
♦ How can we know the divine nature of the invisible God?
♦ One way to fathom his deity is by observing the universe which he created.
♦ Thus St. Paul said in Rom. 1:20: “Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
His deity is by observing the universe, which He created” How can we know the divine nature of the invisible God?
One way to fathom his deity is by observing the universe which he created.
1. Fathoming His deity by observing the universe means we can know God by looking at ourselves. This is because we are the substantial manifestation of the universe. (Human beings are a microcosm).
2. St Paul said in Rom.1:20 : “Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
3. We have a mind and body, in our mind we have intellect, emotion and will. Additionally, just as we have a heart and love, the God who created human beings has the same characteristics because there can be no result without a cause.
4. Therefore, by researching the self, our own self, one can know God.
5. John14: 8-10: 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
This is really an incredible expression. He said, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?” “I am the son of God. If you see me, you can guess who my father is.” Jesus continuously talked to his disciple about, “Who I am. Who you are.”
6. Jesus is not a fallen man. Jesus is God's substantial object partner. Therefore, when fallen human beings are restored, there is no one who can deny that God exists in me like Jesus did, and that I exist in God.
7. So what is the conclusion? How can we know God? It means that we can know God through me, the center of creation. Children resemble their parents. I am a resultant being. This means that the existence of me eventually resembles the character and appearance of God, the Creator. If children do not resemble their parents, who will resemble their parents?
Very clear.
“Ever Since the Creation of the World, His Invisible Nature, Namely, His Eternal Power and Deity, Has Been Clearly Perceived in the Things That Have Been Made. So, They Are Without Excuse.”
1. God’s power and divinity are apparent in human beings and all creation.
> Human beings and all things are a textbook for knowing God.
That is why True Father said when he discovered the Divine Principle that some content of the Bible is very confused. Of course, he discovered (the Principle) based on the Bible, but most of his content, God’s eternal truth, he discovered through nature. Human beings and all things are the textbook for knowing God. Human beings and all things resemble God the most.
> To know the symbolic God, observe all things.
> To know God’s image, observe human beings.
2. When True Father discovered the Principle, He learned many things from nature. Nature is the museum of humankind’s love.
3. How lamentable that ignorant human beings cannot know the power and divinity of God by looking at nature!
4. Fallen humans cannot feel God’s intellect, emotion, will and love through nature.
That is the fall.
5. Through heartistic relations and oneness with nature we can reach a mystical trance-like state.
Buddha and many saints and sages said that when they become one with God and really discover his reality, our Divine Principle really logically and scientifically explains God’s existence.
♦ Just as the invisible nature of the maker is concretely displayed in his works of art.
♦ Everything in the created universe is a substantial manifestation of some quality of the Creator’s invisible nature.
♦ Just as we can come to know the character of the artist through his works, so we can understand the nature of God by observing the diverse things of the creation.
“Everything in the Created Universe Is a Substantial Manifestation of Some Quality of the Creator’s Invisible, Divine Nature”
1. I resemble God’s divinity and am His substantial object partner.
a. You need to know that we are God’s greatest masterpiece.
b. Because humans are God’s greatest masterpiece, all of God’s characteristics are within us.
c. You should know the fact that each entity in the entire creation is God’s masterpiece.
d. How grateful are we when we see God’s masterpiece?
I am God’s masterpiece because I am a child of God.
> Then what is my greatest masterpiece? It is my child.
Who I am is amazing! I am God’s greatest masterpiece. Who is God? He is my eternal parent. If we know this fundamental relationship between God and me as parent and child, we can solve any issue, any problem. How can we teach God’s existence, God’s dream, God’s hope, God’s purpose of creation? This is our homework: to teach (this) to all mankind.
2. Intangible characteristics are expressed through a visible substantial form.
3. Consequently, God’s invisible characteristics are all expressed through us.
How we express our heart and mind, even though we cannot see our invisible heart and mind, is through our body. How can you know you are angry or not? (Because) we can see your emotion, your face and action; we can know that. That is why, even though God is invisible, we can know (him) through his human being. That is why he expresses (himself) through the visible, substantial form, through all things, through each human being.
God has intellect, emotion and will. That is why we also have intellect, emotion and will. We are the same as God. I may be very upset about something. God also can be very upset when he sees evil things. He has intellect. He has the power of the will. Without the power of the will, how would he have created all things, created human beings? That is why what I have -- intellect, emotion and will -- and love and heart -- actually God has the same things because we are the ones who resemble God. That is why the Divine Principle says we can know God’s deity and power. You have everything in you; that is why through you one can know God. It is very clear. Through you one can know God. Why are you looking for God? You are a masterpiece of God. You are children of God. Children resemble whom? They resemble their parents. Wow! Many people are looking for God in the sky or somewhere else. What is the best way to know God? Through me, through my character, through my heart, through my emotions, through my intellect. The Divine Principle guides us really clearly.
Today’s Youth Ministry: The Three Great Pains of Abraham
1. Abraham’s family faced many trials due to having to inherit all of the historical courses of victory on the 3rd generation, with Adam’s family as the 1st generation and Noah’s family as the 2nd generation.
2. Abraham faced three trials, or three types of great suffering. He first experienced the pain of leaving his parents’ hometown that he was attached to. The second pain was being forced to give his wife to a foreign king. The third pain was having to sacrifice his only son Isaac as an offering when he was 100 years old.
3. The most difficult pain of them all was having to sacrifice his only son Isaac. Sacrificing Isaac as an offering was a pain greater than that of sacrificing himself in front of God. There is no record of whether Abraham told his wife Sarah of God’s command to sacrifice Isaac as an offering.
The Bible doesn’t talk much about Abraham’s suffering. The Bible doesn’t talk much about Abraham’s heart(?). The Bible doesn’t talk much about how Heavenly Father deals with Abraham’s family. The Bible did not clearly describe when Adam and Eve fell, how God’s heart was so painful! It did not mention these things.
4. Consider just how intense Sarah’s pain would have been if Abraham told her of Isaac becoming a sacrificial offering. Or in the case of Abraham not having told Sarah and going through with the sacrifice by himself, consider Abraham’s heart (shimjung)—a heart of solitary pain of having to go through with sacrificing Isaac while being forced to keep this a secret from his wife.
That is why we need to understand the heart of Abraham. That is why our Divine Principle, Part 2, is very powerful and very important. Through the central figures’ courses, we can inherit their heart, their pain, their sorrowful, suffering course. That is the reason we need to learn Part 2 of the Divine Principle. Wow! I love Abraham! Even though he failed to make the offering, (in order) to recover (from) his failure how much he invested his heart, how resolved he was! He had absolute faith toward God.
When he received some kind of command, God asked him to offer his son, Isaac. Maybe he did not talk to his wife, Sarah. And then when he went up the mountain with his son, how was Abraham’s heart? Can you imagine that? He was a human being as well. Even though he received God’s command, he decided to offer his son. How much he loved his son, his only son! But he needed to offer him! Maybe he could not express (his heart) and talk to his wife. On the journey to go to the mountain, can you imagine how sorrowful he was? But he loved God. He wanted to unite with Heavenly Parent. That is why he became the ancestor of his descendants.
I love the name Abraham. Do you know what Abraham means? He becomes the father of all people. Abraham.
5. There is a reason that God told Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice as a condition of greater indemnity, despite having failed in offering the symbolic offering. There is a reason for everything that God does.
6. Thus, there is surely some sort of meaning in regard to the symbolic offering. Surely, God did not choose the dove, sheep, and heifer simply because He liked them as offerings.
God is not that kind of a vague God. He asked (Abraham) to offer three kinds of offering: Doves, sheep and a heifer. There was clearly some kind of meaning (to this). Was it because God liked those kinds of animals? God is not that kind of a vague God. Where there are some kind of symbolic things, there is a very clear meaning.
7. What is the origin of the three great pains of Abraham? The source of the pains must be from Adam’s family. The three pains of Abraham can be seen as an reenactment of the three great pains of God toward Adam’s family.
8. God originally created the beautiful Garden of Eden at the time of creation. However, He experienced the suffering of having to surrender it all to Satan due to Adam and Eve’s fall. This was reenacted in the form of God’s first command, through which Abraham experienced the pain of abandoning his beloved hometown environment and leaving his parents.
Can you imagine this? Heavenly Father created the universe; he created the sun, moon, stars, ocean, everything. It is an incredible universe! For the sake of human beings. But because of Adam and Eve, God lost his property. The Garden of Eden was invaded by Satan. Satan became the king of God’s Eden. God lost his environment. He lost his hometown. That is why the same problems were repeated in Abraham’s family. Abraham in God’s position as the central figure needed to recover that. When he left his hometown, can you imagine that he followed God’s order? He had to leave his father and mother, his brothers and sisters. Abraham was really a filial son to his father, Terrah. That is why leaving his hometown was very painful. We can learn why Abraham had to follow that course.
9. Then came God’s pain of surrendering Eve, God’s daughter and future wife of Adam, to Satan. This was reenacted in the form of Abraham having to endure the pain of being forced to give his wife to a foreign king.
10. Then came the scene of Abraham offering his only son Isaac as a sacrifice, a son borne to him when he was 100 years old. Whose pain is being reenacted here? It can be seen as an enactment of pain in place of God’s sorrow of having lost His only son, Adam.
When God lost his son, first son, Adam, wow! How much God cried! When God lost Eve, taken by the evil archangel, his first daughter Eve, his only son Adam, how painful was God’s heart! How much he suffered!
There were three great pains in Adam’s family. These things had to happen again in Abraham’s family because (God) needs to restore Adam’s family’s failure. God’s heart had to be restored.
11. We can see that the cause of the three great pains of Abraham in the end lies in Adam’s family. To be more precise, the fall of Adam’s family can be seen as the incident which became the source of the suffering of Abraham’s family. This is an amazing discovery.
Noah’s family had to(?) connect to Adam’s family. Everything that happened in Abraham’s family was connected to Adam’s family. You need to know that. Why did Abraham have to go through these three great pains? Because these happened in Adam’s family. He had to restore them through an indemnity course.
12. This means that we must inherit the suffering as done by Abraham’s family of the suffering God experienced through Adam’s family if fallen human beings are to seek God by having discovered this truth. It is easy to view God as a cruel God if we are unaware of this aspect of the Principle. How else could God do something as severing the bond between Abraham and his wife? How else could God bless Abraham with a son while at 100 years of age, only to command him to stab and kill Isaac moments later?
Many people say God is a very cruel God; God is a God of judgment. Many people misunderstood this.
13. Then came God’s pain of surrendering Eve, God’s daughter and future wife of Adam, to Satan. This was reenacted in the form of Abraham having to endure the pain of being forced to give his wife to a foreign king.
14. Then came the scene of Abraham offering his only son Isaac as a sacrifice, a son borne to him when he was 100 years old. Whose pain is being reenacted here? It can be seen as an enactment of pain in place of God’s sorrow of having lost His only son, Adam.
Wow! Everything is an expression of God’s suffering, God’s hardship. We need to know about this. How can we restore God’s heart? This is the issue, Right? In order to understand someone’s heart, we need to understand his background, his pain and his sorrow. Without understanding his sorrow, his pain and difficulties, we will never understand that person’s heart.
What does the fall mean? It means that we lost God’s heart. In order to understand God’s heart, we need to understand Adam’s family. God lost his children, his only son, Adam, his only daughter, Eve, he lost all his property, all the universe taken by Satan. God lost everything. He lost Adam, his son, and (Eve), his daughter; he lost all his property in just one day. Can you imagine how much God suffered!
God is more sensitive than anyone else. Because God is a God of love, he is very, very, very sensitive. When he feels pain, we cannot imagine his pain, how great it was. Nobody understands that. How can we liberate God? Without understanding his suffering, how can we understand God. How can we build a heartistic relationship with God? That is why we can see in (?) Abraham’s family what God’s pain was in Adam’s family.
15. We can see many examples of this in the fallen world of today. We come to witness cruel incidents at times. However, upon further examination, we come to understand that such cruel individuals have ancestors (who) met with unjust incidents in the background. People become more cruel the greater their resentment and injustice faced. Cruelty is not an issue for those with accumulated resentment.
16. God of Han (Bitter heart) experienced when He lost Adam and Eve cannot be expressed in words. An external view of fallen human being’s path of seeking and arriving at God can be seen as a cruel one. The experience of such injustice cannot be understood unless one is met with the exact same experience. Likewise, in the case of alleviating God’s suffering, God cannot be liberated from His suffering unless human beings undergo the same course of suffering.
17. Because of the Fall, humans not only inherit the heart of God, but also inherit his pain, suffering, and sorrow in order to become true children. Parents and children need to connect with their hearts and minds. How can a child establish a parent-child relationship if he or she does not know the sorrow and pain of the parent? Heaven is the place where the heart and the heart communicate.
Without heartistic communication between parents and children, how can they know each other?
18. Therefore, think of the suffering I encounter as the suffering of meeting God's suffering. And think that the way to solve the pain you encounter is the way to release God's pain. Abraham had the responsibility to inherit the sufferings of Adam's family and eventually release God's sufferings. Therefore, we need to understand and release the suffering around us as God's suffering and the suffering of the nation as God's suffering and the suffering of mankind as God's suffering.
Without understanding God’s suffering, we cannot build the relationship between parent and child. As a child, as sons and daughters, we need to know our parents’ heart. Without knowing God’s heart, without knowing God’s suffering, how can we really see him, how can we liberate him, how can we accomplish his will?
That is why any suffering that comes to us, we need to appreciate. It is the way to meet God’s suffering. Then I can more deeply understand God’s heart. “Thank you, Heavenly Father, for giving me that kind of suffering. Through this opportunity I can understand you more, I can have a closer relationship with you. Heavenly God, I love you, no matter what! You are my eternal father; you are my eternal parent. I am a child of God.” If we have that kind of attitude, we can overcome any suffering. Through the suffering, we can liberate God’s heart.
Thank you.