Happy Holiday! We Hope that you have a great celebration of the Declaration of the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth.

Today we have a special reading for the holiday.

At the Kuri Training Center outside Seoul, at seven seconds past seven minutes past seven on the seventh day of the seventh month of 1997, True Father prayed to offer up the victory of meeting the 3.6 Million pre-blessing goal, and creating a new holy day. The official title of the holy day has not yet been established in English, but it will be something like the title below. (Later, in the subsequent conferences, True Father set the new goal of us achieving the 36 Million within 8 months, by next April, and the 360 Million by January 2001. At the time of the declaration, there were over 8 Million Couples who had received the pre-blessing, with Korea leading with a total of 1.05 Million, followed by the Philippines with 950,000, Nigeria with 750,000 and Ghana with 650,000. They received prizes as the top four: $400,000, $300,000, $200,000, $100,000, and True Father said these prizes would be multiplied by 10 for the top four winners in the 36 Million Blessing. No specific country or continent goals were set). Throughout his prayer, True Father was overcome with tears. Afterwards, he told Chung Hwan Kwak that he was crying so deeply that it completely overwhelmed his mind. All the participants (whom True Father estimated were 7,000 in all, representing the whole world) were moved by the great emotion True Father showed in his prayer. Clearly this was no ordinary occasion, but one of cosmic moment. True Father also said later that this was the most important proclamation he had ever made. The content of his prayer was summarized by a translator later. Christianity should have embraced True Father in 1945. Because they did not, he had to go the seven-year course to indemnify their failure, and then restore all things through all levels in the 40-year course. Now, through the victory of the 3.6 Million Couples, we have the national foundation to protect the tribe, family, couple and individual, for the first time in history. Thus, it is now possible to declare the realization of the cosmic realm of rest for the True Parents. The goal was achieved through the cooperation of the spirit world and the angelic world. Now we can go ahead to achieve the blessing of 36 Million and 360 Million Couples, and thus the whole world, liberating all families in the world from Satan. This is a day of thanks and celebration, and the declaration of victory. After the prayer, the ceremonies of a holy day were performed, with bows, the recitation of the pledge, the prayer of True Parents and the cutting of a cake.

At 10 am, True Parents’ returned and True Father delivered a speech in which he explained the significance of the day and the proclamation. Unofficial notes from the simultaneous translation of Lyn Kim follows.

Proclamation of the Cosmic Realm of Rest for the Parents of Heaven and Earth The idea of True Parents existed before the creation. The ideal of creation was for all things to exist in pairs, and for humankind in couples, so that true love could flow. In puberty, men and women are drawn to each other, attracting God, who dwells in the unity of man and woman. When they are one, they transcend themselves to become like God. The internal nature of God was expressed in Adam; the external in Eve. Hence, the unity of Adam and Eve brought together the internal and external aspects of God. They did not realize this; they did not understand how frighteningly important their relationship was. They should have been one in God, realizing Heaven. The fall prevented the realization of the ideal of True Parents. Men and women need to experience love but in order to experience an object you must have senses. Likewise, if there is no object there can be no existence. Therefore, God had to create, and He created us with five senses so that He could relate to us. People don’t know how much God seeks love. God as all- knowing and all-powerful is superseded by God as the center of love. Christianity is working for the salvation of individuals because Jesus was single and could not establish a family. Individual salvation, however, represents only the angelic level. We are the religion of the Completed Testament Age, centered on saving families. We need to get Satan out of the foundations of everything, which he has occupied and dominated. Once Satan is out, we can create the family of God.
In the past, various people tried to use the True Parents. For example, former president of Korea Chun Doo Hwan. But he betrayed me and now he is ruined. I told his predecessor, President Park, to do the Sae
Maoul (Village Renewal) movement. He took the ideal from me. President Noh Tae Woo is also useless. I am prospering while all of them are declining. Kim Young Sam is dominated by Christians. He promised them that he would destroy the Unification Church. All those who have not fulfilled their promises to me have fallen into disgrace. The True Parents should be the center of the world. I know all the presidents of South America. If I call them, they will come. I don’t need money, power, only God’s true love. We need a family that is one, ending Satan’s rule. You are like thieves who cannot be forgiven; you use
the animal and vegetable kingdoms for yourselves, when they are from God. You take them as if they were yours. You cannot imagine what God went through to establish the True Parents, the family and lineage. Korea is the only country in which only the man establish the lineage. Korean women have suffered more than any other women. Korea has made all the conditions to restore history. It’s a country in which parents are
honored more than anywhere else in the world. God needs filial piety and fidelity, and therefore He chose Korea.
We now have 8 Million Couples, so we can achieve 36 Million by November 29.
In South America, we can become one with Christianity, for this purpose we have been working with George Bush and Gerry Falwell. We do not have a sectarian doctrine, just principles of God. In the past, there were no families in the spirit world. Now, through the blessing, we are making families that can continue in the spirit world. There is no place that cannot receive the blessing now. Stop hiding. Go to the leaders and ministers of your country and tell them this is the way to reverse the fall. Ours is a religion for families, not individuals. Thus, it is of benefit to society as a whole.
True Mother has done a 16-city speaking tour, including addressing the Moon and Han tribes. Through her life of faith and sacrifice, True Mother has become the Holy Mother. Heaven is empty. We need to fill Heaven with families. Through the fulfillment of conditions on earth, God should be able to move back and forth between heaven and earth, without facing barriers.
This is the day on which God and True Parents can rest. The conditions to create a realm of rest for God are accomplished in eight stages: individual, couple, family, tribe/ancestors, nation, world, cosmos and God. True Parents have accomplished this, but all families must achieve it through restoration.
We need fidelity and absolute sex. We need true love. Without true love, there is no fidelity and true family. A true family must have fidelity and purity.

In Korea, the first son inherits the role of the parents, not other relatives, such as uncles. Koreans talk about dying a lot. Korea has in its folk songs the things about life which concern God. The FFWP [Family Federation for World Peace] was formed so late. Already there are so many other religions. Many of the existing religious organizations have attacked us, but we have come out stronger. The ideal of the realm of rest for us is to have the peace to be able to have the wife at home and to be able to spend time with her, to be able to relax and enjoy all things together. There will be unchanging heaven and earth in peace. If you want, you will be able to sleep during the day. You will be able to be like a flower, living in harmony with your surroundings. The wife can take care of the children while the husband can dominate the whole world and take care of the family. The True Parents have shed more tears than anyone. We must become true parents, true teachers and true lords. North Korea’s Juche doctrine denies the value of people, whereas our teaching values all people and seeks to bless them. Even if you die for your mission, your children and grandchildren will follow you and bring it to
completion. If we die on the way to God, we will be in His eternal embrace.
Everyone said 3.6 Million Couples was impossible. The fact that we made the goal shows that it was God’s will. By getting so many couples, people have to bow down before us. Now that we have achieved the goal, are you going to sit around eating, or be unfaithful to your spouse? Now is the time to rush forward to complete the mission.
The father has to be big and strong, like the sky; the mother has to be close and detailed. When God created, he needed a form that would enable Him to be the father of a family and the world. And God needed a body for the female side.
Adam and Eve should have observed the behavior of animals and known what to do themselves. If the Archangel had waited, he could have participated in the joy of Adam and Eve. Perhaps the Archangel held Eve close to him to put her to sleep. Being that close, a sexual feeling could have developed, leading
eventually to the fall. Eve went to Adam to be saved, but God could not accept their relationship and they were cast out of the garden. After what they had done, the consequences became inevitable. So we lost true love at the very beginning. I have a foundation which is frightening, enabling me to proclaim God’s rest. I don’t seek to please anyone. I scold leaders of business groups, anyone. The head of Samsung, for example, is just a leader of a business group. My foundation is worldwide. Who would you follow? I fight with the rod of God’s truth. Our truth must go out to the whole world, to all mankind. It is not just the doctrine of a small church, I am a king of the world, including the academic world.
God has had no place to rest on earth because all things were separated after the fall. Can we have world peace if mind and body are disconnected and husband and wife are fighting? True love is the most important thing to God. You must know this. When Adam and Eve fell, husband and wife and the whole world were lost. God had lost what could not be lost. Everything came under Satan. There nothing left to love for God. Now humanity has fallen to the level that grandfathers have
relations with their granddaughters, brothers with their sisters, and so on. Satan has claimed everything precious to God.
Adam fell at the age of 16. At 17 or 18, he could have been blessed by God with Eve. When the Fall reached as far as Adam (from the Archangel through Eve), God had to the very beginning. This has been
the course of restoration. God could not forget what He had lost, the very thing that could not be lost. There was no one He could love. Everything was Hell. He could not touch His own creation, the clouds, the universe, because it had been claimed by Satan. However, at the same time He could not discard His own creation. He had to take responsibility for those
he had created. He had to love those He could not love. He had to sacrifice those close to Him, His own sons and daughters, for those He could not love.
God has had to overcome obstacles higher than high and deeper than deep in order to restore True Parents. The Old Testament era failed, so did the New, but God went on. He had to start again and again, with so much suffering and shedding so many tears. God chose Israel, but it was lot. It is incredible to be
able to participate at this historic occasion, the establishment of a true family through the realization of cosmic rest for the parents of heaven and earth. At the fall, even the animals went to Hell.

The world wars were to pay indemnity to restore the world. Now the world is beginning to bow before conscience. At this time, God is making a foundation even for Christians to come back into the providence. We offer three cheers of Mansei on this day, but the time must come when the whole world offers three cheers of Mansei. We have to love all the creation, the air, the animals, the plants, centered on God. For this reason, True Parents go to nature, to inform the creation how happy it will be to return to God. Nature, for its part, is delighted to meet the representatives of God on earth, the True Parents. We need to develop the leisure industry that can enable people to enjoy the creation. We will create natural areas where people will be moved by the beauty of nature. They will learn about God through nature. Nature has suffered at the hands of people, who in their ignorance have exploited it. Because of the fall, nature could not receive
love through people. The purpose of creation is to be one with God. Man and woman must be one with each other and one with nature. Everything was separated from God and from everything else through the misuse of the sexual
organs of Adam and Eve. Now all things must be restored through absolute sex.
God protects the Unification Church because the purpose is absolute love. Your mind and body must become one, centered on true love. You need to reach the point where you can be naked and still centered on God. A women dreams of having a husband who will not hurt her. God has looked for this standard of husband,
too. Arirang is a song about the search for the peak of love. We have passed 12 peaks through the blessings: 3, 36, 72, 124, 430, 777, 1800, 6,000, 30,000 took the blessing to the world level in the formation stage, 360,000 in the growth stage and 3.6 Million in the completion stage. No one believed we could achieve 30,000 couples. Likewise for the 360,000 and 3.6 Million. If you have absolute faith and
obedience, even if you go to jail, its ok in trying so hard to release God’s heart.
There is no one as pitiful as me. I have no family, no brothers, only God. I gave up resting and playing. I worked and prayed while others rested and slept. Those who opposed me have now come into the Unification Church. I had to go the lonely way to be the son of God and restore the sins of the world. I
have been betrayed so many time, but I have had to keep going.
There will come a day when women will beg to be restored, so that they can be freed from their course of suffering. Mother and I have tried to make it possible for Korea to be blessed as the chosen nation. We need to bring the dominion of God. We are now building planes and boats and we are developing 400
square miles of land in South America. We will be able to feed the hungry people in Africa. We need to prepare an age in which I can go anywhere in the world. We have to have the heart to reach all people on earth. We have to go to the person who is our greatest enemy to heal the heart. Husband and wife must love each other so much, not like the enemies of the past but in a relationship in which God can dwell. Man
must be able to bring woman back to God. You must have dominion over your body so that it brings a climax to your partner and no one else. You must not get involved in gambling. If you do, cut off your hand! You must not get involved in things in which Satan can get involved in. You have to be loving with your wife. If you go to someone else, you are inviting the punishment of heaven.
Are you going to follow spiritual or physical love? Women must keep purity until marriage. God cannot rest until couples become one. This is such a difficult moment in history. There is a great battle between the realms of heaven and hell. You must offer devotion. If you are at a meeting of the most beautiful people on earth, you should not be interested in them for yourself, only in your spouse. Even if your mother-in-law and husband are difficult, you have to go that way, until you reach the beauty, the port of
glory and victory. All my life I have gone the opposite direction to the general flow of humanity. In this way, I have been able to make progress more quickly. I have tried to go beyond the mountain of opposition.
If parents fight, it creates a problem for the children. Parents have to make the way for God to come into the family. No people are that way yet. You are all failures. You must make a place for God to rest in your couple. You must be one for 1000 years or 10,000 years for God to be able to rest in your couple. I think we have 7,000 people here so I will take your agreement as representative of the agreement of all
humanity. From family to tribal level, you have to forget what cannot be forgotten, to invest in what cannot be invested in. Through creating unity through the eight stages, all will become one. The order of love has
been broken because Adam and Eve fell. The collapse of the contemporary world has occurred to open the way for the spread of the foundation of the individuals, families, tribes, nations, the world and cosmos. Get the 3.6 Million Couples to find ten couples each and we will reach 36 Million. Get people in your lineage to do likewise. Focus your prayers and efforts on your 160 tribal blessed couples, not on the large figure of 36 Million. You can do 10 families in 2 days. I have cried a lot because you have not followed the way of God.

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