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GOD’S MODEL IDEAL FAMILY AND NATION,
AND THE PEACE KINGDOM
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
April 28 – Aug. 30, 2006
120 Nations

Distinguished world leaders, ambassadors for peace and blessed family
members who have come from all parts of the world in hopes of bringing about
the realization of world peace, and building the ideal hometown in heaven
and on earth:
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for coming
together in the midst of your busy schedules to take part in this rally to
expand and elevate the Family Party for Cosmic Peace and Unification to a
global level, so that it may be reborn as the Cheon Il Guk House for Peace
and Unification; to make the Universal Peace Federation a model UN-type
organization; and, to make Cheon Il Guk the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world through the concerted efforts of all the nations of the world.
As you may know, this year marks the eighty-seventh year since my husband,
Rev. Moon’s birth. On this remarkable occasion, as a co-founder of the
Universal Peace Federation, which is to open wide the era after the coming
of heaven, I would like to convey to you the essence of the truth of Heaven
that my husband and I have taught throughout our lives. This message is
entitled, God’s Model Ideal Family and Nation, and the Peace Kingdom.
Ladies and gentlemen! On looking back, Rev. Moon’s life has indeed been like
a dream. At the young age of sixteen, with nothing but the buoyant spirit
and aspirations of youth, he was called by Heaven and began to live for the
will of God. This left no room in his heart for any worldly ambitions he may
have cherished. It has never been an easy path, but he has followed it for
more than eighty years, looking nowhere but straight ahead. This was the
life he was fated to lead, with no choice but to shake off the embrace of
his beloved parents, and brothers and sisters, who clung to him, wanting him
to stay with them.
They endured great self sacrifice and walked a thorny path of dreadful
suffering for his sake.
It has been a journey through the wilderness that no one among the 6.5
billion people living on earth could ever comprehend. Even when he
persevered through the hardships of prison life six times, he never let go
of the key to the providence; such has been Rev. Rev. Moon’s life, God’s
Heartfelt Sorrow.
This was all because Rev. Moon came to know only too well how anguished,
aggrieved and full of bitter sorrow was the heart of God as He waited for
thousands of years to find us. He realized that if God, who is the origin of
billions of people and the creator of everything in the universe, was not
relieved from His sorrow, human life would remain completely without value.
When, where and how did God come to carry such agonizing sorrow in His heart?
Who on earth could inflict this grief upon Him, the absolute and omnipotent
Being? God created Adam and Eve and established them as the first ancestors
of humankind. He committed Himself one hundred percent to raising them as
His son and daughter, connected to Him through love, life and lineage, for
the parent–child relationship is the highest and most important of all
relationships, and the lineal relationship between parent and child is the
only way through which His lineage can be bequeathed and made to last
forever.
However, this parent–child relationship, more precious and important than
life itself, was severed through the Fall of Adam and Eve. As God’s own
flesh and blood, and as His eternal, only-begotten son and daughter, Adam
and Eve formed a blood relationship with His enemy Satan, and became Satan’s
children instead. In the face of this, God’s heart has been crushed and
wounded with grief and sorrow throughout history. This still remains the
most mortifying and harrowing anguish, which no one before in history could
know or resolve.
In this way God’s ideal of creation to establish a true family in that first
generation through Adam and Eve, a family through which He could eternally
pass on His lineage, was frustrated. The only way to relieve His sorrow is
to restore and establish a true family unrelated to the lineage of Satan.
Herein lies the reason why all of us need to establish true families, which
is God’s ideal of creation. Herein also lies the fundamental object and
purpose of the founding of the Universal Peace Federation.
God’s Purpose for Creating Adam and Eve
Genesis 1:27 of the Old Testament tells us, “So God created man in His own
image; male and female He created them.” From observing God’s creation as
expressed in this passage, we can conclude that God is a being who comprises
the essence of one man and one woman. Having these attributes, God could not
enjoy a solitary life. Therefore, He created the universe as His object
partner. That is, He created all things in the universe in the position of
an object partner in image, and in the midst of this environment He created
human beings as His object partners in substance.
In this manner, the first masculine representative created by God as His
object partner in substance was Adam, and the feminine representative He
created was Eve. God had an objective in mind when He created human beings
as separate beings, one man and one woman.
First, God, who exists as an incorporeal being— though He is the Subject
being with dual characteristics in harmony—needed to assume a physical form
through which He could relate with the entire world of substance, and not
only the body of the man or that of the woman. Embodied within both Adam and
Eve, He intended to communicate and work freely in relation to the entire
universe, the world of substance. This is because the incorporeal God,
without a physical body, meets certain limits in dealing with the corporeal
world of substance.
Therefore, if Adam and Eve had attended God in their hearts and become one
with Him, then married on the basis of having perfected themselves, had
children and created a family, they would have become the external and
horizontal true parents in substance, while God would have been the internal
and vertical true parent in substance. If only this had come to pass, Adam
and Eve would have resembled God one hundred percent, both in their inner
nature and outer form. If Adam and Eve, as a perfect resemblance of God, had
become the true parents of humankind, human beings in their daily lives
would have perceived, through
their experience of them, the true reality of God.
Second, God created Adam and Eve for the fulfillment of love. He intended
for Adam and Eve to reach perfection and become the embodiments of love in
complete union. On that basis, He would have come and dwelt with them and
become the Parent of true love for all humanity. Adam and Eve, standing in
the position of the parents of substance in the image of God, would have
established an ideal family, and consequently an ideal world, through having
their own children and multiplying. If this had come to be, the spirit world
and the earthly world would have been linked through human beings. We can
conclude that God created us with the purpose of our being the connecting
point between the spiritual and physical worlds.
By coming to dwell in Adam and Eve based on true love, God could remain as
the True Parent, the parent in substance of humankind. Moreover, when the
time came for them to end their lives on earth and pass on into the spirit
world, even in that world He could take on the spirit bodies of Adam and Eve
and manifest as the True Parent through their form. However, due to the Fall
of Adam and Eve, God has not seen that ideal fulfilled.
God does not need money, knowledge, or power. Since He is the absolute,
almighty being, He does not need such things. Though modern science may be
accomplishing spectacular advances, these are all part of the process of
discovering new facts and truths within the realm of God’s creation. The
vast expanse of this universe operates in accordance with laws following an
order that cannot be fathomed by human thought or science. In this sense,
God is also the absolute scientist.
God’s Ideal of Creation
Then what would have been the ideal that God hoped to achieve through the
creation of humankind? It was to fulfill the four-position foundation. The
four- position foundation signifies Adam and Eve in a state of complete
union with God. This makes it impossible for them to separate from God’s
realm of love, no matter how hard they may try. In other words, it refers to
the foundation of a family with God as its center, established when the
husband and wife have achieved complete oneness not only with each other but
also with God, and when they have become an ideal couple and given birth to
ideal children. When the family four-position foundation is thus completed,
that family becomes a family of the ideal of creation desired by God.
Generally speaking, a family is formed through the coming together of
husband and wife and of parents and children. At the center of that family
group there must be God’s love. At this point, the husband represents heaven
and the wife earth. Although they are two separate beings, when husband and
wife have become one, horizontally speaking, their union symbolizes the
unity of heaven and earth. Simply put, when husband and wife are in unity
based on God’s love, the way to bring unity in the universe opens up.
Ladies and gentlemen, God created the world to receive joy from it. Since
even the absolute being, God, could not feel joy while alone, He needed a
partner with whom He could share the giving and receiving of love. This is
because joy cannot be learned all by oneself, but can only be experienced
through a partner.
To put it in another way, God created this world in order to feel joy from
seeing humankind and all things of the creation become one through His love,
forming a harmonious and peaceful world of love. On such a basis, human
beings were meant to form true conjugal relationships centering upon His
love, and to establish families, tribes, peoples, nations and a world of
true love. God created this world to participate directly in this process
and to feel joy from it.
We can see that human beings are absolutely essential to fulfill God’s ideal
of love, and, in light of this, we can better understand the concept that
absolute value is derived from an absolute partner.
God, as the Father, and humankind, as His children, were to form a vertical
axis, and this was the purpose for the creation of human beings. If this
axis had been connected perfectly, that is, if a relationship that united
humankind and God as one through true love had been established, that
relationship would have been an absolutely inseparable one, which no force
in the universe could break apart. How could anyone who has been bound to
the original love of God, and who has tasted that love, ever be separated
from it?
With the coming of spring, honeybees wake up from their long slumber and get
the taste for the fresh nectar of the blooming flowers. Try pulling the
abdomen of one such honeybee while it is lost to all else but sucking on
that nectar. You will see that it cannot tear itself from the nectar, even
if its abdomen is pulled off. How about you? Once you really get to know the
taste of God’s true love, you won’t get far from it before you come back and
cling to it once again. This shows that the power of the vertical true love
that connects us to Him is greater than the power of life.
The Value of Family
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason we miss the family we have left behind is
because at home there is love for one another. It is where the love of
mother and father, the love of elder brothers and sisters and younger
siblings, and the love of one’s spouse and children and close neighbors are
all deeply embedded.
It is a place of mutual affection, where all the relationships and
affinities are brought together through mutual love. This makes you want to
cherish each and every member of your family. It is the yearning and desire
of any wanderer who has left his family behind to re-appear before his
family once again boldly, as a liberated being, and to embrace mountains,
streams and trees, love his kith and kin, and sing songs of ecstasy. However,
the situation of humankind, descended from the Fall, has been different:
banished from their original heavenly hometown and destined to wander around
in isolation and defeat,
human beings are unable ever to go back, no matter how much they miss their
family, for they have lost the root of the heart of their original homeland.
However, with the ushering in of the era of a new heaven and a new earth,
human beings have been pulled out of the swamp that was sucking them down,
and the way has been opened for them to return to their hometowns—hometowns
that they could not forget even for a moment—and meet with their true family.
Could there ever be a day of greater blessing for humanity? The time of
heavenly power and fortune has now come, making it possible for us to
reestablish the original family that was lost through the Fall of Adam and
Eve.
A Family of Three Generations Living in Harmony
When seeking after the lost original family, you should set out from the
position of the perfected Adam, the position of the perfected Jesus, and the
position representing the perfected Second Coming of the Lord. God will
dwell in such a family. That family would be one of three generations—grandparents,
parents and children - living in harmony. Parents and children live in
service and attendance to the grandparents as the historical root of the
ancestors.
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The family
wherein parents and children love and respect each other, husband and wife
are grounded in mutual trust and love, and brothers and sisters trust and
rely on each other, and all live together as one, is the model ideal family.
This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true
love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
In such a family the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom
of heaven extends into it. It is in such a family that the kingdom of heaven
on earth takes root. It is also where the everlasting root of kingship is
firmly planted. The roots of the past, present and future are represented by
the grandparents, parents, and grandchildren, respectively. The root of the
past represents the spirit world; the root of the present is the palace
representing
the world today; and the root of the future establishes the grandsons and
granddaughters as princes and princesses. Through such a family we erect the
palace of peace, representing the harmony of the two worlds, the spirit
world and the physical world.
In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and
grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the eternally
existent God. You should know that to seek after and establish such a family
of Cheon Il Guk, God’s kingdom, is the responsibility of tribal messiahs,
the mission of the Ambassadors for Peace, and the desire of God.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He
has been away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as a
parent visiting His children. This is what it means to live in service to
God. To such a family, God becomes the subject of our conscience, acting
vertically.
Following that vertical subject, your mind stands in the position of the
vertical subject of yourself, and brings your mind and body into unity. That
is
where parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love - in
short, the fourrealms of love or the four realms of heart—are perfected.
Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and
right be connected as one and circular motion continue. This leads to God’s
everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom.
The Purpose of Marriage
Ladies and gentlemen! Why should we get married? It is to restore the
position of an owner. A man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole.
That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners
of the reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of the wife’s
reproductive organ is the husband, and the owner of the husband’s is the
wife. Only when each is rooted in love for the other can they stand in the
position of the owner of their spouse. We marry to secure this position of
the owner.
Then what are we trying to achieve by restoring the position of the owner?
It is to fulfill and embody God’s love from that position. God is the
subject of the three great loves. As the Owner of the universe, He is the
teacher, owner and parent of true love. This is the genuine
three-great-subject-thought- system. All such teachings and truths are
created based on the life of true, model families, and once they expand, the
society, nation, world and even heaven and earth can be transformed into the
peace kingdom of the model ideal family.
Distinguished leaders, you are now living in the most blessed and exalted
time in history. I now proclaim the launch of the era of a new heaven and
earth, an era after the coming of heaven, long-awaited and yearned for by
billions of your ancestors in the spirit world who have come and gone in
history: this is the era of the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World. Not
only the four great religious founders but also billions of good ancestors
have come down to earth at this point to guide you on the heavenly path. The
age in which the Fallen and corrupted world plays havoc on humanity,
allowing those who are evil to live better than others, is passing away.
Rev. Moon, who received the seal of heaven, has come as the True Parent of
humanity and the King of Peace. He will be true to his promise to heaven. He
will bring to fruition the era of the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World
on this earth, without fail. Therefore, please bear in mind that all of you
gathered here today are the central figures in establishing the Kingdom of
the Peaceful, Ideal World on this earth, in attendance to the King and Queen
of Peace, the True Parents.
Under the banner of the Abel-type UN, let us sweep away the absurdities and
the evil of this world through true love power. Let us become the proud
“peace kingdom police” and “peace kingdom corps” of the Universal Peace
Federation, and protect the blessed families of the world. Let us fulfill
our roles as the sentinels watching over this blessed land that is our
planet.
I pray that the blessings and grace of God may be with all of you leaders
representing different areas of responsibility, whose presence has elevated
this historic occasion.
I ask you to devote your best efforts, as True Parents have, toward the
development and success of the Universal Peace Federation, and toward
creating God’s ideal family, ideal nation and the peace kingdom.
Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live together
with God, the eternal peace king, as the true parent of humanity. Let us
each live up to the standard of a true filial child, a patriot, a saint, and
a member of the family of divine sons and daughters of God, in order to
create the peace kingdom for all eternity.
May God’s blessings be with you, your family and your nations.
Thank you.

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