The Time When Heaven Will Act

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Ruth 1

Then she told them, “Don’t call me Naomi any longer! Call me Mara,^[e]because God has made my life bitter. ²¹I had everything when I left, but the Lord has brought me back with nothing. How can you still call me Naomi, when God has turned against me and made my life so hard?”

Richard: In life, many times we don’t know when something is positive or negative in the long run. We could ask “is this good or is this bad?”. On face value, it might be bad, but it good be good in the long run. We just don’t know (at least for some time we won’t realize it). The story of Naomi’s and her daughter Ruth is such a story. It’s better to have a grateful attitude even if things seem difficult.

Isaiah 22

When all of this happened,
the Lord All-Powerful told you
    to weep and mourn,
    to shave your heads,
    and wear sackcloth.
¹³But instead, you celebrated
by feasting on beef and lamb
    and by drinking wine,
because you said,
“Let’s eat and drink!
    Tomorrow we may die.”

¹⁴The Lord All-Powerful
has spoken to me
this solemn promise:
“I won’t forgive them for this,
not as long as they live.”

To Whom Do You Belong?

Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

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God is the Master of Material Things

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Hosea 5

Israel, your pride
testifies to your guilt;
it makes you stumble,
and Judah stumbles too.

Daniel 4

⁴I was enjoying a time of peace and prosperity, ⁵when suddenly I had some horrifying dreams and visions. ⁶Then I commanded every wise man in Babylonia to appear in my court, so they could explain the meaning of my dream. ⁷After they arrived, I told them my dream, but they were not able to say what it meant. ⁸Finally, a young man named Daniel came in, and I told him the dream. The holy gods had given him special powers, and I had renamed him Belteshazzar after my own god.

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

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Possess the Heart of Jesus

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CSG 2164

From this viewpoint, what kind of
stance do you all need to take in meet-
ing this new age? Your conviction for the
dawning of the homeland must be burn-
ing in your chest more passionately than
any other thing. In other words, you have
to feel pride in becoming a flag bearer
who builds the homeland that God has
longed for six thousand years. You have
to take pride in bearing the responsibili-
ty for this incredible pioneering mission
as a member of the crack troops stand-
ing on the front line. Many people in the
past hoped for this mission, but even so,
it was not available to them. You have
to have a very solemn sense of responsi-
bility for having taken on this one-time-
only privileged mission.
So every aspect of your lifestyle, eat-
ing and sleeping, coming and going, has
to be for the establishment of the home-
land. How much do you think God has
been longing for you to step forward
and cheerfully, coolly declare you will
carry out this mission as an emissary
dispatched especially by God Himself?
Up until now, God has been mercilessly
pushed aside, heartlessly chased away.
He needs to establish the will of Heav-
en, the will He has never been able to
unfold, a will that presents its entire con-
tents on the basis of a complete national
foundation, the Will that can establish
the homeland. He has never been able to
fulfill this will even once.

CSG 1187

Alaska, where the ceremony of The
Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight
Stages was held, is becoming famous. The
last time I came here I said I would build
a church at the North Pole. If the Sovi-
et Communist Party opposes it, I will
take the responsibility. I will build the
Unification Church at the North Pole.
You have to spend your life in order to
build the foundation of blessing for all
people of the world, but before you die,
come to our Church at the North Pole
and offer your devotion for forty days
and then you can die. Think about this.
An ideal city will be created in a world
of icebergs. Then, even though it will be
thousands of miles away, everything can
be supplied by the air. You should try
living like this. It would be a wonderful
thing. With the power of science today,
that would be nothing. We can use pre-
fabricated systems. So we will build an
airfield and try to live there, so what
problem could arise? We are creating
a base in the tourist area of Kodiak…
think about it. It will become a gate-
way unprecedented in history. (193-217,
1989.10.4)

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

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Become a bride of Christ with Enmity Toward Evil

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Luke 7

7 After Jesus had finished teaching the people, he went to Capernaum. ²In that town an army officer’s servant was sick and about to die. The officer liked this servant very much. ³And when he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish leaders to ask him to come and heal the servant.

⁴The leaders went to Jesus and begged him to do something. They said, “This man deserves your help! ⁵He loves our nation and even built us a meeting place.” ⁶So Jesus went with them.

When Jesus wasn’t far from the house, the officer sent some friends to tell him, “Lord, don’t go to any trouble for me! I am not good enough for you to come into my house. ⁷And I am certainly not worthy to come to you. Just say the word, and my servant will get well. ⁸I have officers who give orders to me, and I have soldiers who take orders from me. I can say to one of them, ‘Go!’ and he goes. I can say to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes. I can say to my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he will do it.”

⁹When Jesus heard this, he was so surprised that he turned and said to the crowd following him, “In all of Israel I’ve never found anyone with this much faith!”

¹⁰The officer’s friends returned and found the servant well.

Richard: We need faith like this army officer. We must know assuredly that God’s Will will be done as we have faith in the Will.

Proverbs 4

Keep looking straight ahead,
    without turning aside.
²⁶Know where you are headed,
    and you will stay
    on solid ground.
²⁷Don’t make a mistake by turning
    to the right or the left.

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

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God’s Heart Towards Humanity

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CSG 1998

Thus, the Kingdom of Heaven on
earth would be built, and at the same
time we would become united with
God. We need God to come down to the
earth. We need to attend Him as the sub-
ject figure of the Kingdom of Heaven,
and thus establish one unified Kingdom
of Heaven on earth and in spirit world.
You need to understand that this is the
mission to be fulfilled by Unificationists.
On such a foundation, we would final-
ly become one with the Parent and be
able to live peacefully in the Kingdom
of Heaven. (79-83, 1975.6.1)

Isaiah 66

²⁴My people will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who turned against me. The worms there never die, the fire never stops burning, and the sight of those bodies will be disgusting to everyone.

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

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To Whom Do You Belong?

Sun Myung Moon March 16, 1958

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon March 16, 1958

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon March 16, 1958

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon March 16, 1958

To Whom Do You Belong?

Rev. Sun Myung Moon March 16, 1958

Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
March 16, 1958