The Responsibility of Blessed Families Living in the Era of Cheon Il Guk

What is the current responsibility of our blessed families who are living in the Cheon Il Guk era, the time for the completion of God’s providence? The Creator, the center of the universe, had a dream. God created the natural world, and finally created the first man and woman in the divine image, giving them a growing period, a span of time during which they should mature.

For 6,000 years, human history has seen a constant cycle of war and conflict. Through human ignorance, even this beautiful planet Earth—which Heavenly Parent created for us—is being destroyed. Scientists are saying that at this rate there is little hope for the future of humanity or for the future of our planet Earth.
What do you think is the mission of the Second Coming Messiah? What was Jesus’ hope? Why did he say he would come back? He indicated he would return to meet the Only Begotten Daughter.

As I said earlier, Heaven must surely bring the providence to completion. In order to fulfill the providence, the Only Begotten Daughter had to be born. In 1943, at last, the Only Begotten Daughter was born on the Korean Peninsula.

In 1543 Calvin’s ideas for the Reformation were established and, after he submitted his writings to the Holy Roman Empire’s Imperial Diet, the church system was restructured. Four hundred years later, the Only Begotten Daughter was born. She had to be born on a Christian foundation. Through the Spirit-led movement of that time, many miraculous works occurred, and finally the Only Begotten Daughter was born. Yet the Korean Peninsula was divided North and South.

At that time I was in the North. My family believed that the advent of the Messiah would occur in Pyongyang. Because young men who stayed in the North were being conscripted into the North Korean Army, they were all trying to go to the South.

From the moment I was born, I endured an exceptionally difficult childhood and adolescence—far beyond what is considered normal in the course of human life. I lived through the harshest of times, caught in the midst of a battlefield where democracy and communism were fiercely at war. Today, also, people talk of the many problems besetting our youth. Even in the midst of such harsh conditions I could always feel hope because I knew God was with me.

My resolve to realize Heavenly Parent’s dream on earth during my lifetime remained unwavering. Thus, at the time of the Holy Wedding in 1960, I thought, “If not me, then who?” and resolved, “I will do it.” As a result, True Parents were established, and from that point on blessed families appeared.

After going through a long wilderness journey of 53 years, almost 60 years, I declared Foundation Day, and achieved the firm settlement of Cheon Il Guk. No one could help me with this. As you have heard earlier, I had the heart like someone trying to find a single needle in a desert engulfed by a blinding sandstorm.

Because they know Heavenly Parent’s hope, True Parents must live their life in the kingdom of heaven on earth attending Heavenly Parent, and they must show this to others. To do so, I had to step forward myself, starting from nothing.

I first spoke about the only begotten Daughter in front of Christian pastors in the United States, after Father’s Seonghwa. Those ministers said, “Why did we not know this truth? How could we have missed something so obvious?” and they expressed gratitude.

The providence has advanced. The Unification Church began with Father, but it was when I stepped forward that True Parents emerged.

Heavenly Parent’s dream and hope must be fulfilled while True Mother, True Parents, are on earth. Therefore, I have spent ten years building HJ Cheonwon to demonstrate, “This is the image of Cheon Il Guk, the heavenly kingdom on earth that we must see and embrace in the future.”

So, the blessed families living in the era of Cheon Il Guk must take responsibility. I showed you everything and created the environment for you. Then what should you do?

Here today are Shin-chul and Shin-heung. I intend to send the UPA graduates out to witness throughout the world. I also plan to train our second-generation blessed children and send them out to the world to witness. Should we not let people know about True Parents and Heavenly Parent? And not only the people of Korea but all eight billion people of the world! That is why, going forward, we plan to create a system by which, after graduating from university, young people serve in a public mission for one or two years before returning to continue their studies or the career of their choosing.
I have a deep interest in our second generation. They are second generation blessed families, the center and blossoming flowers of our future. I hope you will bloom beautifully all over the world.