Hear the Call!

(What follows is Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon's address at the Prudential Center, New Jersey on January 28, 2019)

Dear Members of the Clergy, Dear Leaders!

The completion of Heaven's providence is Cheon Il Guk ["Nation of Cosmic Peace and Unity"]. One World! One family under God! It is the hope of all 7.6 billion people of humankind. However, when we look at the world today, we can see that this is not easy to achieve. God, the original Creator, made all of creation in His image. Finally, he created a man and a woman who were to become the first human ancestors. He gave them a growth period and waited for them to grow and mature beautifully. However, they did not do so; and this resulted in today's fallen humankind. Until now, human history has been a series of wars and conflicts. Even though the conscience has sought for goodness, the environment could not back that desire for goodness, resulting in the many difficulties within history. However, God is eternal. His beginning and end are the same.

Ultimately, God will bring that which He has begun to its conclusion. God gave human beings the character to take dominion. He therefore led a historical providence so that a person from the fallen world could be elevated to the position of having no relation with the fall. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah happened around 2000 B.C., within the 6,000-year [Biblical] history of humankind. God planned to annihilate Sodom and Gomorrah. However, Abraham pleaded with God, 'If there are 50 righteous people or even just 10 righteous people, can this catastrophe be avoided?' God said He would permit that. However, there were not even 10 righteous people. Only Lot's family could escape. The Bible tells us that Lot's wife still had a lingering attachment and she looked back, and she turned into a pillar of salt. That's right. God's providence is advancing. It is going forward. This means we should not look back.

For 2,000 years after that, God chose the Israelites as the chosen people, and could finally send Jesus Christ after 4,000 years. The Messiah, who was long awaited and who was God's only begotten Son, with whom God could relate, finally came but the people, the Jewish leaders and even Mary who gave birth to Jesus did not understand Jesus' true essence. God toiled for a very long time, 4,000 years, to send His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who was to govern in the position of the True Parent, the True Father. How could people drive such a person as Jesus to the cross?

On the path to the cross, Jesus said that he would come again. We all know about the indemnity that the people of Israel, who drove Jesus to the cross, had to pay for 2,000 years. Christianity began with the resurrection given by the Holy Spirit, and with the apostles’ writing of the Bible. However, Christianity and Christians of today do not know the true essence of Jesus. They do not know what kind of being God, the Creator, is. Jesus clearly said that he would come again and hold the Marriage Banquet of the Lamb. Hence, Christianity should have not formed many denominations. Instead, they should have watched closely for where the only begotten Daughter, Jesus' partner in marriage for the Marriage Banquet of the Lamb, would appear. God could not send His only begotten Daughter through the people of Israel, who did not fulfill their responsibility. Therefore, He had to select a new chosen people and carry on the providence. Two thousand years have passed since Jesus's death on the cross. To this day, Christians believe that they can be saved through the blood of Jesus on the cross. How mistaken and incomplete a view this is.

Jesus came as the True Father of humankind. He came as the True Father, so he was to meet the True Mother. God chose the Korean people and in 1943, he sent the only begotten Daughter. Words cannot describe the effort God had to make to send the only begotten Daughter. Korea was liberated in 1945. Due to the actions of the world's most powerful nations, Korea was divided into north and south. It was divided into democracy and communism. According to God's principle of Creation, human beings are given a period of growth. The only begotten Daughter, who was born in 1943, also had to go through a growth period. However, the situation in Korea was very tense. Democratic South Korea was not prepared for a fight with North Korea. In this situation, in 1950 the Korean War broke out. Heaven carried out its responsibility. How is it that soldiers from 16 UN nations came to shed their blood in a war in Korea, a nation that was largely unknown at the time? How earnestly our Heavenly Parent longed to find and embrace fallen people that, through His providence, He had spent 6,000 long years searching for. Jesus Christ said he would come again.

As I knew Heaven's providence, I was blessed in marriage with Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, who came to continue the mission of Jesus, in our Holy Wedding in 1960. The Christian foundation should have become a supportive environment for the True Parents. Heaven stood by the Puritans, who came to America for religious freedom in their determination to attend God, giving rise to the "heavenly United States." For 200 years, God worked with the Puritans. There were native peoples here in this nation. Yet God had to create a foundation for the Messiah who was to return through Christianity. This is why He raised this nation to be a representative nation of democracy. However, America did not know God's Will. God did not bless America just for its own sake. He blessed America for the sake of the world. In the 1970s, however, the United States faced family breakdown, youth problems, drug problems, and was unaware that the communist ideology was infiltrating its shores right under its nose.

America, which was blessed by Heaven, was creating an environment that could only bring about its own collapse. So, as the True Parents, we set off on a tour of all 50 states to awaken America's people. We preached that America was on fire, and that we had come as its firefighters; that America was sick, and that we had come as its doctors. However, the politicians of this nation did not know God's providence. True Parents knew that God's will was to save the world by raising up this nation blessed by Heaven and that is why they invested more than 40 years of the golden years of their lives for this country.

The youth who came to know of God's will went out as missionaries to the world in 1975. For more than 40 years, they invested in their mission countries and thanks to their sincere devotion, God could work through righteous, prepared people in Africa to hold the Blessing with the potential for the restoration of the continent of Africa. I want to believe in you. Members of the clergy who have gathered here from all over the world in particular! You are the righteous people prepared by Heaven in this age. What is the mission of righteous people? You should be able to embrace the nation and the world with true love living for the sake of others, instead of living only for yourself.

This is what the True Mother, the only begotten daughter is doing. I am guiding fallen people to become Heavenly Parent's children through the Blessing. You must know that this has been the long-awaited hope and dream of humankind for 6,000 years; and it is also our Heavenly Parent's desire. True Mother, the only begotten Daughter, is guiding a new era and a new providence. This is the 7th year of Cheon Il Guk. Now you must take the lead. When we think of the 7.6 billion people of the world, we cannot turn a blind eye to the children whom the Heavenly Parent wants to embrace.

I sincerely hope that you become the righteous people, clergymen and clergywomen, and leaders who can guide people to become Heavenly Parent's children in the shortest possible time. In so doing, please remember that the founding of the World Clergy Leadership Conference, which will bring your individual foundations into unity, is the way to realize Heavenly Parent's dream and humankind's hope in the shortest time. I pray that you will all become the righteous people and clergy standing in the vanguard, and that will not look back, but run forward. [end]

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     On July 15, 2017 Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon addressed a nearly overflow crowd at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Her speech, while relatvely short, is profound in its implications for the nation. Read it here: Peace Starts With Me. Afterward, take the time to indulge the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's landmark 1974 MSG address: The New Future of Christianity.) These important moments inform America of God and True Parents' dream for humankind, and the meaning of the Completed Testament Age.

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