Ep 431 - Suffering at Danbury and Heung-jin nim's Seonghwa
Suffering at Danbury and Heung-jin nim's Seonghwa #66 - December 30, 2021
Today I’d like to talk about “Suffering at Danbury and Heung-jin nim's Seonghwa” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I would like to ask all of you to have a movement of true repentance before Heaven. This day, July 20, 1984, is a day I truly would like to erase from history forever. From the very moment Father departed for Danbury, he encouraged you and tried to inspire you with hope. Departing from East Garden at 10:00 p.m. on July 20, I accompanied him to Danbury Prison. Biting my lip, I held firm to my resolve to be strong, yet I could not hold back the tears that flowed even without my realizing it. During that ride, Father was not the least bit concerned about what would happen to him. Even as he thought about America and God's providence, his only concern in that moment was to comfort me. When I saw that, I was overwhelmed; I did not know what to do. When Father walked into Danbury Prison, the guards said, “This guy was caught in a trap. I'm sure he was trapped.”
When (how?) can I recognize that person? You can tell by how he behaves when he is faced with the most difficult position or situation. True Father went to Danbury Prison at the age of 64, the same as my age, but he did not blame anyone. Rather, he said that the indemnity of the world ends through Danbury Prison. When True Father went to Danbury Prison, he saw us and told us not to cry for him, but to weep over the country and God’s will. On the contrary, True Father worked very hard to comfort True Mother and True Children. That was our True Father’s behavior and attitude. That’s why he is the one who truly consoled and comforted God when he was in Heungnam Prison. He never, ever prayed for himself. He was just concerned about God and God’s will. Did he really worry about himself and cry for himself? He knew how much God worried about him. That’s why he could not cry for himself. Rather, he prayed and comforted God and his will.
Father kept saying, “I came to this place to liberate the prison, liberate hell. So, Mother, you must not cry for me. Cry out for the mission, for the fulfillment of God's Will. That's what you should do. Don't worry about me. I came to fulfill a glorious mission, the liberation of hell in prison.” In giving you this message today, I have one purpose, and one purpose only: that you now become responsible leaders. You must conduct yourselves, conduct your mission with utmost responsibility, as you never have before. You are living in the time contemporary with our True Parents—breathing the same air, walking in the same space, drinking the same water, sharing the same food. Whatever you do, it is a unique opportunity in history, and your deeds shall be recorded in history. What kind of statement can you make to our posterity? I think most of you here are blessed family members. You must reflect within yourselves, re-examine yourselves. Let us repent totally and renew ourselves and approach Heaven with a clear heart.
(1984.07.22, East Garden)
I believe you have also heard True Father say many times that he will perish without a foundation. The path followed by True Father from the position of the Parent on behalf of Heaven is the path where he must embrace the world, and it is a path of suffering and the path of the cross, for he has to walk this path unprepared because his children have failed to make everything ready. This path, however, is also the path of love. During this time, before anything else, you need to sincerely repent and unite. Of course, for individuals, it is important for them to become one centering on the Will at the place where their minds and bodies are united. From your viewpoint as the children, it may be difficult and troublesome for brothers and sisters to unite, but it is something that we must all do. Therefore, if three people in a trinity unite completely centering on True Parents in a place where they have dominion over their own selves, and work to expand the foundation, the providence will surely be realized.
True Mother is also speaking about the importance of the trinity. She says when three people become one, the foundation will be established and God’s will will be accomplished further(?). The path of faith begins when three people become one. There were three sons in Adam’s family and three sons in Noah’s family. Jesus and True Parents raised three disciples to expand God’s will. The reason Jesus went to the cross without fulfilling his will is because his three disciples did not become one.
In that sense, without three spiritual children in your life of faith, your life of faith cannot be settled. You need to have three central figures, three Abel’s figures who can act as parents for you and guide your faith. And you need a trinity centered on you and able to interact heartistically with you, front and back, and left and right. You also need three spiritual children to follow you and respect you. I always emphasize this again and again. God’s kingdom of heaven begins from the trinity. This trinity relationship is very crucial.
When I look at our brothers and sisters, some are really suffering. When I check their background and situation, they don’t have a clear foundation of the trinity. If you don’t have a trinity relationship, your life of faith cannot settle properly. That is why we need to understand True Mother speaking about this point.
In the four position foundation, which can be said to be a miniature of the world, the horizontal number is the number three. When three horizontal people of the four position foundation are united, it becomes that much easier to bring the world into oneness. This also means that, from the broader viewpoint of the world, the world can be said to be an expansion of the four position foundation created by three people in complete unity. When you look upon this world, you see some people who boast of their intellect, or authority and power. In addition, financial power cannot be disregarded either. We could even say that these three kinds of power dominate the world. In the smaller sense, these powers can also be found within an individual, and from this viewpoint, if you were to understand, love, and cooperate with one another through dialogue, I see no reason why you all cannot make unity.
(1984.10.24, Belvedere Training Center)
Today we are going to study about True Father’s suffering at Danbury Prison.
<Chambumo Gyeong P. 710> during the time of his suffering in Danbury, American ministers supported him. Their unity with True Father despite decades of persecution from the Christian churches was indeed a miracle. Moreover, True Mother was completely united with True Father as he went through the painful course of Danbury, and they walked together and led the global providence.
<Chambumo Gyeong P. 803> While True Father was incarcerated in Danbury Prison, he prepared educational materials and sent them together with his own letter dated February 28, 1985, to more than 300,000 American clergy. In his letter, he urged them to stand for religious freedom and religious tolerance. Each minister received a copy of Divine Principle, a Divine Principle lecture video, and a copy of God ’s Warning to the World. Father also set up seminars for 7,000 Christian leaders, inviting them to Korea and Japan to study the Unification Principle.
Before establishing ACLC, our True Father made an incredible foundation from Danbury Prison. We need to remind ourselves of the substantial effort and sacrifice our True Parents made in order to educate Christian ministers. That is why whenever we focus on ACLC, think of True Parents' effort and sacrifice. This nation is a nation of Christianity. Without establishing a strong foundation centered on ACLC, we cannot go forward. That’s why the ACLC foundation is very important. Through the ACLC foundation we can make a strong and great spiritual foundation, and finally we can influence the political world. Internally we need to unite together centering on our spiritual leadership. That’s why all our American brothers and sisters are focused on ACLC, and through ACLC we are expanding the UPF foundation, Women’s Federation, and the foundation of all our affiliated organizations. Let’s focus next year also, and let’s make an incredible and substantial foundation centering on ACLC.
<Chambumo Gyong P. 807> At dawn on February 1, 1985, True Father telephoned True Mother at East Garden from the prison at Danbury, and through her, he proclaimed the Day of Opening the Gate to Heaven. It was a proclamation that opened wide the gate between the spiritual world and the physical world. He then said that through this, he established a highway for spirits to ascend from hell to the heavenly kingdom.
<Chambumo Gyong P. 813> By willingly going to Danbury, I (True Father) made a condition of total indemnity on the world level. Going to Danbury was equivalent to bearing the cross on behalf of the entire earthly world that opposed me. My purpose for bearing this cross was for the sake of unity in the spirit world and the liberation of the earthly world. Unity was my purpose.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 9 - Life of Give and Take Action 1
Recently I have been speaking about the life of give-and-take action.
• Through the agency of universal prime energy, the subject and object elements of every entity form a common base and enter into interaction. This interaction, in turn, generates all the forces the entity needs for existence, multiplication, and action.
• The interaction generating these forces through this process is called give and take action.
Life of True Love
1. Principle of True Love: Always give first and then receive later.
2. Unprincipled Love: Take first and then give or even forget to give back.
I’d like to remind you again and again: give and receive is principled. However, receiving and giving is unprincipled. We always need to remind ourselves of this. When we try to give and serve others, this is the way of the Principle.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study more in detail from True Father’s word.
Absolute Condition for Every Aspect of Existence
<18-323>There has to be give and take action before energy exists. What must we do to perform give and take? One can never perform give and take alone. This cannot be denied. Therefore, to perform give and take action, an object is absolutely necessary. This is an absolute condition for every aspect of existence. Without an object, give and take action cannot be performed.
Man and woman can also only exist through mutual give and take. If man says I don’t need woman and woman says I don’t need man, the world will be destroyed in one hundred years. For humans to exist, in other words for give and take action, an object is necessary. This is why man and woman have loved each other and built families. Consequently, love is the driving energy of give and take action. It is the energy of give and take between man and woman.
There has to be give and take action before energy exists. What must we do to perform give and take? One can never perform give and take alone.
Therefore, to perform give and take action, an object partner is absolutely necessary. This is an absolute condition for every aspect of existence. A subject and object partner are absolutely necessary conditions for each other. Having a dual character relationship, the subject and object partners are inseparably close.
The wife is absolute before her husband for give-and-take action. And the husband is absolute before his wife. Parents are absolute before their children. Human beings are absolute before God. And God is absolute before human beings.
No one can exist outside of this principle. Then, how do I relate and live with the relationship between the subject and the object, which are such absolute beings? We must treat each other with absolute respect. We must treat each other like God.
In that sense, human beings cannot live without God. Also, to Heavenly Parent, human beings are absolute beings just like God.
Who is the God of Heavenly Parent? Heavenly Parent’s God is human beings. Without human beings he cannot have give and take. You need to understand this. God’s absolute partner is human beings. In order to have give and take, he needs to have an object partner. God’s object partner is human beings. Also, human beings are resultant beings. We need to have a causal being who is God. That is why human beings, no matter what, absolutely and necessarily need God. We need to cooperate with him, have give and take together with him. This is a cosmic, universal principle. Subject partner and object partner, definitely they need each other. The subject partner alone cannot have give and take. Without the subject partner and the object partner how can they have give and take? We need to know that the object partner and the subject partner definitely and absolutely are a necessary condition for each other.
In that sense, God is not a being who can just choose to save human beings or not. No matter what happens, it is God’s destiny to save fallen human beings and make them object partners to Him. Human beings must also absolutely return to God because God is the subject partner to human beings.
Because of this, love is the energy that causes give and take action.
What kind of world is a world of Hell? A world without an object partner is a world of Hell.
When I was in the army, there were no women. We could not see any woman all day for a whole year. Our give and take was only between man and man. Wow! I felt that that was hell. Without women it was hell.
1. To men, being without women is hell.
I really experienced this. All my friends and colleagues and all the officers were talking about women all day.
And to women, being without men is hell.
2. To parents, being without children is hell as well.
3. To children, being without parents is hell.
4. In a parents’ experience, being without an object partner is hell.
5. To God, not having human beings whom He can have give and take of the heart is hell.
6. Therefore, there is nothing happier than having an object partner.
Without an object partner, without a subject partner, we cannot have give-and-take action.
7. The reason the object partner exists is to complete myself.
The Reason We Need an Object Partner
The entire universe is all in a pair system:
Where there is a subject partner, there is an object partner. This is a dual characteristics relationship. Everywhere there is a pair system. As long as there is a pair system -- subject partner and object partner -- it needs give-and-take action.
1. We need an object partner in order to exist.
We cannot exist alone.
2. In order to have give and take eternally.
When you give, your object partner returns more to you. Then I am excited and can give more. Then my object partner returns more to me than before. Continually my give-and-take action becomes bigger and bigger and larger and greater and finally reaches the world, the cosmos and heaven. Continuous give and take. Give first, then more than I gave returns to me. Wow! Through giving we can exist eternally.
3. In order to create joy, happiness and love of object partner
You cannot create joy and happiness alone. You need to have give and receive. Without the object partner, you cannot have joy and happiness.
4. For the completion of object partner’s true love
In order to complete myself, I need to become a man of true love. In order to become a man of true love, I need to have give and take. I need an object partner.
5. In order to follow the order of cosmos (pair system)
The system of the cosmos is the pair system, subject partner and object partner, and we need to have give-and-take action.
> The world of hell is a world without an object partner
That’s why for those who live alone, it is very dangerous. This is completely against the universal law. You need to have give and take.
> The family life of 4 position foundation is the kingdom of heaven because there is an object partner.
I can have give and take with my grandparents. I can have give and take with my parents, with my spouse, husband or wife, with brothers and sisters, with my children. That is why the family life of the four position foundation is the kingdom of heaven because I can have give and take with all kinds of people. That is the family.
Let’s study True Father’s word more.
The Motivation for Give and Take Action
<18-323>Will the objective condition, the minus(-), act for loss or for gain? If a person goes somewhere to suffer a loss, that is not a normal person. A normal person is one who goes somewhere when there is a condition for gain, or plus(+). Therefore, when performing give and take with an object, there is absolutely no one who acts to suffer loss. Even when looking at the elemental components of substances, we can find the fact that two elements seek to combine only when it brings a result better than before uniting. Consequently, only when discovering a value that will help the self will there be give and take action.
Where does all being’s motivation of give and take action lie? It is for each other to gain true love. However, in order to truly experience and gain true love, one must first follow the universal law of giving first and doing it for the sake of others.
You need to keep this universal principle of giving first all the time.
<18-323> The dialectics which conflicts this fact is wrong from the origin. The young people in Myeong Dong street may seem to be walking around aimlessly, but they walk around because there is a condition of plus(+) for them. They are walking around to save even as little as 100 won per day, not because they want to suffer a loss.
Human beings, the lord of all creation, are like this, and all creation also follows this formula. God’s creation of Heaven and Earth was also to discover a condition for plus(+) and thus He shared joy and happiness. Just as there is no one who exists to suffer loss, for energy to exist, an objective condition is necessary. This objective condition absolutely has to become a plus(+) for the action to come about. This is an ironclad rule.
There is no being that interacts to seek a loss when having give and take action. Even God’s purpose for creating human beings was to gain love. However, for that gain in love, I must follow the universal law of giving unconditionally, sacrificing unconditionally, and investing unconditionally for the sake of the object partner.
<67-48> What is the purpose of give and take action? It is to become one. What must be done to become one? We must go through a 3 stage process of formation, growth, completion. Then, will becoming one be done vaguely? It has to be so that not only God and I can take delight, but the whole has to be able to take delight. The purpose of the individual, family, and world will seek to come here.
It doesn’t end when I become one with God. This simply becomes the motivation for an even bigger development.
The purpose of give and take action is to become one. And in becoming one with each other, you develop, grow, and multiply for a greater cause. Furthermore, the final purpose of give and take action is for the realization of true love.
That is the main purpose and motivation.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Moses and His Faith Journey - Principled Analysis of the 10 Plagues
Recently I have been continually speaking about Moses and his faith journey. Today I would like to speak about the “Principled Analysis of the 10 Plagues.”
1. Let's look at Moses' 10 plagues from a principled point of view.
2. First, let’s look at the incident where Aaron struck the Nile River and the water turned into blood. The river signifies fallen human beings, and blood symbolizes the chosen people of Israel. Therefore, turning this river into blood is a declaration that these chosen people must definitely be saved. In this way, starting with the first disaster, these plagues end in the tenth where the firstborn son and cattle are killed.
3. Then the Pharaoh said, "Get out of here. Do as you wish." In this way, all the Israelites departed. The fact that the ten plagues ended with striking the firstborn child means that according to the principle of the restoration of indemnity, the Abel realm could strike the firstborn child with the resentment that the second son was murdered in history in Adam’s family, thus reversing it. Accordingly, the Exodus from Egypt began on the foundation of the providence that completely separated good from evil.
4. What we realize through Moses' ten plagues is that Satan resists to the end. Satan surrenders only when he is in the last moment where he can no longer escape.
Why was God’s providence delayed and delayed? Satan surrenders only when he is in the last moment when he can no longer escape -- on the edge of the cliff. Only then does he surrender. Satan cannot run away so simply.
Jacob's uncle Laban deceived Jacob 10 times for his wages. Heaven gave wisdom to Jacob, who had been deceived ten times, so he could escape from his uncle with his family and wealth.
5. God said that Abraham's descendants would suffer for 400 years in Egypt because he made a mistake in offering the three sacrifices. Even though they had already suffered for 400 years, Satan extended it by 30 years with his last efforts, so they ended up suffering for 430 years. From this point of view, we can see that Satan never simply steps down. It means that he acts desperately until the last minute.
When I think about the North Korea situation, Father said, “Any communism, any evil thought, any evil theory cannot survive more than 70 years.” After that it should collapse. However, North Korea established their own government in 1948. 70 years later (it should have fallen). Now is already 73 years, so it is supposed to collapse. Father said that Satan does not want to surrender until the last minute. That is why now True Mother invests so much effort to unify North and South Korea.
Already the North Korean government is on the edge of a cliff. It cannot go on any more. This is the current situation. Why is Satan’s side still resisting? What is the reason? If the Abel side completely unites together, we can overcome the other side completely. I feel that we still do not have enough jeongseong, enough effort. Even though True Mother wants this so much and is working very hard, we need to reflect on not just ourselves, but on how we can make an incredible foundation for the external way. That is why True Mother has asked North America to help the Korean Peninsula providence. Now UPF brothers and sisters are working very hard to support the Korean Peninsula providence.
This morning by chance I was watching YouTube. Many Christian people still oppose us, but today I saw many Christian youth leaders who are really thinking about our big Rally of Hope in which President Trump participated. He delivered a very wonderful speech. Most of the top leaders are talking about our Father Moon’s activity and the Universal Peace Federation’s great achievement. Those who opposed the Unification Church are saying with their own mouths, “Look at the reality.” President Trump came and really appreciates Mother’s effort. Many are sharing about that. I think our situation is really changing so much now. That is why I really understand how important the role of America is. I would like to once again really appreciate all the effort our American brothers and sisters are making, especially our UPF leaders, Dr. Jenkins and Larry Moffit and all the leadership. Thank you for your hard work. Now we can have a big impact on the Korean Peninsula providence.
6. But there is no doubt that God conducts the providence numerically. The heart bears fruit mathematically, and crime also manifests mathematically. If complaints or dissatisfaction passes a certain number, that person will be punished. Who is not punished for committing a crime? After a certain number passes for anxiety and pain from a committed crime, something certainly happens, such as losing property or getting sick. This is the law of the universe. This is also the case in terms of numbers.
(For example,) that guy complained and complained and expressed dissatisfaction. I’m telling you, after a certain period of time, after a certain number of (units of time like days), something will happen to that guy centered on numbers -- sometimes within three months or twelve or 21 or 40 months, centering on numbers mathematically. Definitely it will bear fruit on the good side or bad side.
7. We can think about Moses’ 10 plagues by dividing them into four types: the case where Moses and Aaron conducted the plague together, the case where only Moses did it, the case where only Jehovah did it, and the case where Moses, Aaron, and Jehovah did it together. This means that when we try to do God's work, God is someone who sometimes works with us and He sometimes does it alone. So we can learn that just because Heaven entrusts us with something, doesn’t mean that we do everything.
I love the word co-creator, the power to create through the co-creator. Between God and me, our common position is co-creator.
8. God's purpose of creation is achieved by combining God’s portion of responsibility and human’s portion of responsibility. That means God’s purpose of creation is accomplished through God and human beings’ teamwork.
This is the first time I have used this word “teamwork” between God and human beings.
God alone cannot do it and human beings alone also cannot do it. Since they both need each other, they are co-creators. The failure of Adam and Eve was the failure of teamwork between God, Adam and Eve. That is why when we do something. We must always attend God and do it together with God.
Why? Because God is the co-creator. You may want to do something by yourself alone and you decide everything by yourself not including God. That is against the law. God and I are co-creators. We cannot ignore God; God cannot ignore human beings. We need to work together with teamwork. Adam and Eve did not know how to do teamwork.
Fallen human beings fail because they try to do things excluding God. Also, God does not entrust all work to humans, but God wants to work with humans as well. The Four Position Foundation of the Family refers to teamwork within the family. Teamwork between husband and wife, teamwork between parents and child, and teamwork between brothers and sisters is important. Of course, we must not forget that the center of family teamwork is God.
Between God and us, what is our common position? We are co-creators. Therefore, whatever I do in order to be successful, I need to invite God. When we invite God as co-creator, wherever we go, always inviting God in, working together with God in teamwork as a co-creator -- this is a secret -- wherever we go, we can gain great victory.
Why do we fail? Because human beings always exclude God. Human beings … (From the fall of) Adam and Eve until now, 6,000 years, human beings have ignored God and have not included him, what is the outcome? The world became worse. The relationship between husband and wife, parents and children, man and woman became worse and worse. Why? You ignore the universal principle. What is it? Teamwork between the invisible God and visible human beings. Teamwork together. Participate together. Discuss together. Report together. That is the way we can make great success. We need to do teamwork with God. Do not forget. Our central point is what? God. (We need to) work together with God. Teamwork. Wow!
Adam and Eve did not know what teamwork means. Why did Noah fail? He did not know what teamwork is between husband and wife. Why? Teamwork. We cannot go alone. If you want to go by yourself, you will not be able to get any great victory. I love the terms “teamwork” and “co-creator” between God and human beings. We need to always invite our God as our central figure and work together as a team. Then guaranteed, we can definitely gain victory.♦
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