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     "True  Parents  and  the  Completed  Testament  Age"

 Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:

 Today, we are at a crucial crossroads of history.  Therefore,  if
 we are to take the road to a bright future, it is essential  that
 we understand God's  original  purpose  for  creating  humankind.

 God's ideal in creating the first human ancestors, Adam and  Eve,
 was that they perfect themselves through true love so  that  they
 could then create a good family of true love, true life, and true
 lineage. Such a good family would have been formed on  the  basis
 of unified heart and mind among family members in front  of  God.

 In general, all people want their loved ones to  be  better  than
 themselves. All  parents  want  their  sons  and  daughters,  for
 example, to look better and achieve more  than  themselves.  This
 tendency comes from God. God wants His children to be better than
 even Himself.

 Similarly, God wants to give limitlessly to His children. God  is
 not content in giving just 100 percent. God's desire is to give a
 thousand times more than what He has. The nature  of  God  is  to
 give love completely and then forget what He  has  given.  Unlike
 some who calculate how much they have given and decide that it is
 enough, for God enough is never enough.

 Moreover, God's purpose in creating the  world  was  to  have  an
 object of love. His purpose in  creating  parents  and  children,
 husbands and wives, and all things in this world in complementary
 pairs was to substantiate  true  love  throughout  His  creation.
 Likewise, parents are to live for their  children,  and  children
 for their parents. Husbands are to  live  for  their  wives,  and
 wives for their husbands. All beings in creation are to live  for
 and give to others.

 If God's ideal of true love  had  been  realized  through  Adam's
 family, that family  would  have  become  the  beginning  of  the
 heavenly kingdom.  It  would  have  expanded  throughout  all  of
 history to the clan, to the  nation,  and  thence  over  all  the
 earth. This would have been the world of true love,  the  Kingdom
 of Heaven on Earth. Furthermore, there would have been a parallel
 expansion  of  the  heavenly  kingdom  in  the  spiritual  world.

 If God's original ideal had been realized, then there would  have
 been no need for a  Messiah  or  for  God's  providence  to  save
 humanity. Adam's family, though it was  merely a  single  family,
 would have been the center of the clan, of the nation, and of the
 world. It would have been the blueprint for all families  in  the
 future. It would have been the model for the realization of God's
 ideal world.

 Because of the fall of the original human ancestors,  God's  work
 of salvation had to begin. Salvation history had to be repeatedly
 extended through the complicated and suffering courses of the Old
 Testament Age and the New Testament Age, culminating  in  today's
 Completed Testament Age. God's ideal of the true family  and  the
 heavenly kingdom, which  He  wanted  to  realize  through  Adam's
 family, was destroyed because Adam and Eve fell  away  from  God.

 Due to the Fall, this present world is far from the good world of
 God's ideal. Today's world is, in fact, a "false" world, in  that
 it is flooded with self-centered love. This  came  about  because
 Adam  and  Eve  became  false  parents   based   on   false   and
 self-centered love with Satan. They multiplied evil  rather  than
 goodness, creating a false family and passing on false life and a
 false lineage to their  descendants.  Thus,  false  clans,  false
 nations, and a false world came into being.

 Therefore, the key goal in God's  dispensation  of  salvation  is
 that a man and a woman, representing  Adam  and  Eve,  should  be
 restored as True Parents centered on God's true love, so that the
 true family can be formed. From them would  eventually  flow  the
 true clan, the true nation, and the true world. In  other  words,
 the seed from which God's true love, true life, and true  lineage
 can grow must be created.

 My dear friends, have you ever wondered how a world  filled  with
 such evil and corruption  could  come  from a  God  of  love  and
 goodness?

 If you read the Bible carefully, you will see that  the  fall  of
 man involves  the  loss  of  Adam's  entire  family.  First,  the
 position of parents was lost through the fall of  Adam  and  Eve.
 Second, the position of children was lost as Cain murdered  Abel.
 God's "blueprint" for an ideal family and  world  perfection  was
 lost. Therefore, to restore the original  family,  God  works  in
 reverse to reclaim the positions of Cain and Abel, and  then  the
 positions of  True  Mother  and  True  Father.  This  pattern  of
 reconciliation of Cain and Abel as the foundation  for  restoring
 the True Parents has been God's consistent formula throughout the
 history of restoration.

 The separation of fallen mankind into a Cain-Abel division occurs
 over and over again in Judeo-Christian  history.  Therefore,  God
 first of all separated fallen mankind into two "brotherly"  sides
 of Cain, symbolizing Satan, and Abel, symbolizing  God,  to  work
 out the hatreds resulting from the Fall. God used the  method  of
 having Abel be hit first and sacrificed. As a result, Abel  could
 stand on that very foundation to embrace  Cain  and  recover  the
 blessing given to the elder son. For example, the  religion  that
 most advances the purpose of salvation  always  receives  Satan's
 most severe persecution. It walks the path of constant opposition
 yet continues its sacrificial effort to save  the  sinful  world.
 Likewise, good people always  stand  in  the  position  of  being
 struck first and sacrificed.

 Looking almost anywhere in our fallen world, it is easy to notice
 struggles between good and evil, similar to the struggle  between
 Cain and Abel. These struggles start in the conflict between each
 individual's mind and body. The mind, which represents  the  Abel
 side, struggles to overcome the body, which represents  the  Cain
 side. The struggle within individuals has expanded to the family,
 nation, and world. As a result, humankind has always been divided
 into two opposing camps, one good, or Abel-like,  and  the  other
 evil, or Cain-like, locked in struggle at  every  level.  It  has
 always  been  God's  intention,  however,  that  both  sides   be
 restored, not that  one  triumph  over  and  destroy  the  other.

 Some examples of this division are: the thief on the  right  side
 of Jesus on the cross, representing Abel, and the  thief  on  the
 left, representing Cain, and  South  Korea  versus  North  Korea,
 which represents the last conflict between right  wing  and  left
 wing on the world level. Moreover, there is the  Christian-Muslim
 conflict in the Middle East. So the key issue in  God's  work  of
 salvation has always remained how to unify  such  divided  sides,
 based on His ideal, in order to build a foundation  on  which  to
 reclaim the True Mother and True Father.

 Ladies and gentlemen, if a family is not centered on God's  ideal
 of love, there will be conflict among the members of that family.
 Without God's love as an  absolute  center,  such a  family  will
 ultimately breakdown. Moreover, a nation of  such  families  will
 also decline. Because illicit,  self-centered  love  invaded  the
 first family, selfishness and greed have  continued  to  dominate
 human history from the individual to the family, society, nation,
 and world. For this reason, God's work of restoration  begins  at
 the individual level. Since Satan  knows  this,  he  focuses  his
 efforts also on the individual level.

 It is not by chance that self-centered individualism  has  become
 the dominant  way  of  life  in  these  last  days.  People  feel
 increasingly alienated from those around them,  and  bear  little
 sense of responsibility for  the  well-being  of  their  country,
 society, or even their own families.  Rising  divorce  statistics
 indicate that  husbands  and  wives  feel  little  responsibility
 toward their marriages; parents do not  take  responsibility  for
 their  children;  individuals,  devoid  of  any  sense  of  human
 dignity,  fail  even  to  take  responsibility  for   themselves.

 America has seen such phenomena at work beginning with the  youth
 movement  of  the  sixties.   Idealistic   youth   rejected   the
 materialism around them in order to seek love and peace,  but  in
 the process, they also  abandoned  morality  and  responsibility.
 Unable  to  attain  the  true  love  which  they   sought,   many
 disillusioned young people resorted to suicide, drug  abuse,  and
 free sex.

                     True Love vs. Free Sex

 Of all these, what pains God most is free sex. A  world  of  free
 sex is absolutely contrary to the will of God.  Love  comes  from
 the stimulation of unblemished emotion, but free sex  is  totally
 devoid of purity or true  emotion.  How  many  of  us  have  been
 touched by the cruelty of infidelity and divorce? Where is God in
 all the one-night  stands?  What  about  the  nightmares  of  the
 children who are sexually abused by a parent? Is free  sex  worth
 the price of a broken child? Where there is  homosexuality,  free
 sex, drugs, and alcoholism, the world of true love is  far  away.

 In this world, Satan openly tells  people,  "Drink!  Smoke!  Take
 drugs! Have sex!" Those who do God's Will,  on  the  other  hand,
 live a  lifestyle  that  is  180  degrees  different  from  this.
 Throughout history, those who chose to walk a spiritual  path  of
 self-sacrifice have been bitterly opposed and persecuted  by  the
 rest of the world. It is only God's love and blessing which  have
 allowed the Unification Church, despite worldwide opposition,  to
 prosper. The fact that our church has  risen  from  obscurity  in
 war-torn Korea to become a world-level religious movement in only
 38 years testifies  to  God's  continued  guidance  and  support.

 There are those who continue to oppose  the  Unification  Church,
 spreading wild rumors or trying to  prevent  our  teachings  from
 being heard. Again, Satan's way is always to attack that which is
 most precious to God. Yet those who go against the  will  of  God
 can never prosper. The principle holds true that those  on  God's
 side, who can endure unjust persecution, will win  the  right  to
 take back the blessing. God's strategy is always to be hit  first
 and then take back what is rightfully His.

                      Restoring True Love

 Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible teaches that Eve first  disobeyed
 God and entered into a relationship with Satan. Due to the  Fall,
 not only Eve, but  also  Adam  and  their  sons  Cain  and  Abel,
 inherited Satan's lineage, based upon selfishness and false love.
 As the descendants of the original couple which  was  compromised
 by Satan, we have all inherited a satanic lineage.  This  is  why
 Jesus said in John 8:44, "You are of  your  father,  the  devil."

 The Old Testament described a process of restitution according to
 the formula "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."  In  the
 Divine Principle, we refer to making restitution for a  wrong  as
 "paying indemnity." To make restitution for  her  wrong  actions,
 fallen Eve needed to take the entire responsibility upon herself.
 She should have  reversed  the  actions  of  the  Fall  and  made
 spiritual and physical restitution for each  step  of  the  Fall.

 It was God's Will that Eve assist her younger son, Abel, to unite
 with the Will of God. We know from Genesis that  Abel's  offering
 was accepted by God. However, this was not all that was  expected
 of Abel. Through Abel's love, Cain was supposed to recognize Abel
 as God's chosen person and unite with him.

 If Cain and Abel had united, the second of the  two  problems  of
 the Fall could have been solved. God would  then  have  addressed
 the problem of Adam and Eve. Eve was meant to stand as the  first
 mother of humanity. She should have united  Cain  and  Abel,  and
 worked to establish a foundation for True Parents. Eve,  however,
 did not fulfill this mission in her lifetime, and history had  to
 wait for another woman who would pay  fallen  Eve's  restitution.

                     Rebekah:  A Model Case

 In the Bible, one of God's great heroines is Rebekah, the  spouse
 of Isaac. As the mother of Jacob and Esau, Rebekah held the  same
 position in Isaac's family that Eve held in Adam's family. Unlike
 Eve, however, Rebekah understood God's providence and helped  her
 second son, Jacob, representing  Abel's  position,  to  gain  the
 blessing destined for the first son, Esau.

 Just as Cain killed Abel, Esau wanted  to  kill  Jacob  when  the
 blessing went to his younger brother. But  with  Rebekah's  help,
 these brothers eventually reconciled in a  warm  embrace,  rather
 than resorting to violence.

 This reconciliation was a major victory for  God.  This  victory,
 nevertheless,  was  not  complete,   since   the   reconciliation
 represented only a symbolic purification of  blood  lineage.  The
 substantial purification of blood lineage had to be  accomplished
 in the womb. This is the reason  for  the  paradoxical  story  of
 Tamar.

 By understanding that Tamar, like Rebekah, was in the position of
 fallen Eve, it becomes possible to understand why Jesus was  born
 of her lineage, the tribe of Judah.

 I am sure that many of you have read the story about the birth of
 her twins. She conceived with Judah, her father-in-law, the twins
 Perez and Zerah. The Bible tells us that the two  sons  struggled
 even in the womb for the position of first-born.  During  Tamar's
 labor, Zerah's hand emerged and the  midwife  tied a  red  string
 around his wrist. Then, Zerah's hand disappeared  back  into  the
 womb and Perez, the younger, was born as  the  elder!  Thus,  the
 positions of Cain and Abel were restored even before  birth  took
 place. It was from this point that the  Israelite  people  became
 the nation chosen to receive the Messiah.

 In terms of conventional morality, the  stories  of  Rebekah  and
 Tamar would be questionable at best. Why God blessed  them  was a
 theological mystery until today. As we now  see,  God  needed  to
 reclaim His lineage from Satan  so  that  Jesus  could  be  born.
 Purified, true-love blood lineage was the point  from  which  the
 Israelite nation started expanding. The word  Israel  also  means
 victory. Their victory was the  purification  of  blood  lineage.

                   Mary's Life-Risking Course

 The lineage of Judah developed for generations, expanding to  the
 levels of tribe, society, and nation.  From  this  same  lineage,
 Mary   was   born   in   Israel   two   thousand   years   later.

 Mary had the responsibility to unite Cain and Abel figures on the
 family, clan, and  national  levels  through  paying  appropriate
 indemnity and restoring elder sonship. Mary  responded  to  God's
 call and conceived Jesus even though, in the eyes of others,  she
 had betrayed her parents and Joseph, to whom she was engaged.  At
 that time, it was customary to  stone  to  death  any  woman  who
 became pregnant out of wedlock. However, Joseph, standing in  the
 position of Adam, courageously protected his fiancee and resisted
 abandoning her.

 Because of Mary's faith, and the work of Rebekah and Tamar, Satan
 could not claim sovereignty over Jesus in Mary's womb. Jesus  was
 born in the position of a true son under God's  complete,  direct
 lineage. He is the first true son of God after  the  purification
 of the fallen blood lineage. That is why Jesus is  the  saint  of
 all saints and the ancestor of the true blood lineage. His  birth
 represented the conclusion  of  the  Old  Testament  Age  at  the
 national level and the dawn of  the  New  Testament  Age  at  the
 worldwide level.

 Mary, in the position to restore fallen Eve, had to build a unity
 between Jesus, who was in the position of  Abel,  and  his  elder
 cousin, John the Baptist, who was in the position of  Cain.  This
 unity was essential for the people of Israel to identify Jesus as
 the Messiah.

 John was the elder. He  had a  great  following  and  was  widely
 respected. As Jesus explained to his disciples, the  ministry  of
 John was the fulfillment  of  the  Old  Testament  prophecy  that
 Elijah the prophet would return to "make straight the way of  the
 Lord."

 But did John fulfill his role in God's providence? The Gospel  of
 Luke tells us that John came "in the spirit and power of Elijah."
 John, however,  denied  that  he  was  Elijah,  and  doubted  the
 Messiahship  of  Jesus  even  after  he  had  received  a   clear
 revelation at the Jordan River at the  time  of  Jesus'  baptism.
 John was a well-respected religious figure, while Jesus was  seen
 as only the illegitimate son of a  poor  carpenter.  Without  the
 support of John, it was  impossible  for  the  Jewish  people  to
 believe in and follow Jesus. Alone, Jesus undertook the difficult
 path of proclaiming himself.

 John the Baptist should have helped  Jesus  reach  the  religious
 leadership of Israel.  If  John  had  fulfilled  his  role,  then
 Judaism, in the position of Abel, and the nation  of  Israel,  in
 the position of  Cain,  could  have  united  centered  on  Jesus.

 This would have laid the foundation for the Marriage of the Lamb.
 Jesus would have stood as the True Father of  humanity,  and  his
 bride  would  have  stood  as  the  True  Mother   of   humanity.

 In less than  seven  years,  his  teaching  would  have  expanded
 rapidly to the worldwide level, winning Asia and Rome to his side
 before he was 40. Eventually, Jesus  and  his  bride  would  have
 achieved  the  individual  heavenly  kingdom,   family   heavenly
 kingdom, clan heavenly kingdom, and  national  heavenly  kingdom.

                      A Dream Unfulfilled

 However, this glorious destiny could not be realized. It was  the
 religious people themselves who rejected Jesus' words and  called
 for his crucifixion.

 Confronted by the faithlessness in Israel,  Jesus  determined  to
 give his life  to  achieve  spiritual  salvation  for  humankind.
 However, he would have to come again in order to  bring  physical
 or  earthly  salvation  in  addition  to   spiritual   salvation.

 This is why the mind can draw close to God through Jesus, but the
 body continues to be tempted by evil. Even Saint  Paul  anguished
 over the contradiction of  the  desires  of  the  flesh  and  the
 desires of the spirit. Many great Christian evangelists have also
 suffered because of  this  contradiction.  At  the  dawn  of  the
 Completed Testament Age, the crucial challenge is  to  accomplish
 both    physical    salvation    and    spiritual      salvation.

 Because of Jesus' death on the cross, the conflict  between  left
 wing and right wing appeared. This is like  the  separation  into
 Cain and Abel necessitated by Adam's fall.  Likewise,  Islam  and
 Christianity  appeared  and  began   struggling.   Because   such
 separation was caused by the crucifixion of  Jesus,  Christ  will
 work  for   unity   at   the   time   of   the   Second   Coming.

                      The Unity Imperative

 God's preparation for the Second  Advent  required a  world-level
 foundation   of   successful   Cain-Abel   reconciliation.   This
 dispensation was carried out through the events surrounding World
 War II. The Allied countries  of  Britain,  America,  and  France
 represented Christianity and were in the position  of  Abel.  The
 Axis countries of  Germany,  Japan,  and  Italy  were  under  the
 influence of nationalistic militarism and stood in  the  position
 of Cain. This war  represented  the  expansion  of  the  conflict
 between Cain and Abel to the world level.

 Immediately after the Allied victory,  great  strides  were  made
 toward creating a world of peace centered upon Christianity. With
 Britain in the world-level  position  of  Eve,  and  America  and
 France representing Abel and  Cain,  respectively,  these  Allied
 nations stood ready to receive the Lord  of  the  Second  Advent.

 Despite all of  this  preparation,  God's  dispensation  was  not
 fulfilled at that time. God's representative came  to  bring  His
 word and was met with tremendous persecution and almost universal
 misunderstanding. This paralleled Jesus' situation  two  thousand
 years ago. Just as the Israelites  of  Jesus'  time  awaited  the
 Second Coming of Elijah  on a  chariot  descending  from  heaven,
 Christians awaited the Second Coming by expecting  Jesus  himself
 to descend on a cloud from the sky.

 In Revelation, Jesus reveals to the Apostle  John  that  he  will
 come with a new name. This foreshadowed  that  Jesus  would  come
 again  through  another   man,   just   as   Elijah   had   done.

 At this crucial time after World War II, then, God instructed  me
 to bring a new message of truth to Christians  in  Korea.  Korean
 Christian leaders, however, rejected the  possibility  that  I, a
 humble young man, had been chosen  to  bring  this  new  message.
 Because the  New  Testament  Age  is  an  extension  of  the  Old
 Testament Age, they could not  believe  that  the  Second  Coming
 would be born as a man on earth any more than the  Jewish  people
 could believe it at the time of Jesus.

 If I and the Christian churches  had  become  one,  the  heavenly
 kingdom would already have been established on earth as  well  as
 in heaven. During the seven-year period from 1945 to  1952,  when
 the New Testament Age ended, the entire world could  have  united
 in accordance with the providence of God.

                         A Thorny Path

 Instead of uniting with  me,  however,  these  religious  leaders
 became jealous of  the  growing  number  of  my  followers.  They
 blindly opposed me without hearing me out. They even spread  lies
 about me.  Rumors  of  sexual  misconduct  and  greed,  the  very
 antithesis  of  my  teachings,  were  used  to   assassinate   my
 character.

 God  had  expanded  Christianity  and  had  raised  up a   mighty
 Christian nation like America for the purpose  of  preparing  the
 way for the Second Coming. Whether they realized it or not, those
 ministers in  Korea  represented  all  of  Christianity.  Because
 America and worldwide Christianity failed to unite with me  after
 World War II, they began to decline  in  their  power  and  moral
 authority.

 After World War II, the United States and Christianity stood on a
 victorious foundation of Cain-Abel unity. The time  was  ripe  to
 receive the Second Coming. However, this  opportunity  failed  to
 materialize and the whole world opposed my work. Therefore, I was
 expelled into the wilderness. I was forced to the bottom and have
 been climbing back up ever since.

 Thus, the Cold War began. The  world  separated  again  into  two
 worldwide spheres of Cain and Abel, just as it had  during  World
 War II. Denying God, just as the thief on the left denied  Jesus,
 communism represented the Cain-type world. Christian democracies,
 which affirmed the existence of God, represented the thief on the
 right, and the Abel-type world.

 It was God's Will that the Messiah of the  Second  Coming  should
 unite the two hostile blocs. That is why I mobilized my church to
 help settle conflicts between the right wing, represented by  the
 free world, and the left wing, represented by communism. We  have
 also worked on behalf of Christianity and Judaism as a peacemaker
 with our Islamic brothers and sisters.

 During the Cold War period, I fought to break  down  barriers  on
 the individual, family, clan,  national,  worldwide,  and  cosmic
 levels in order to rebuild the lost  foundation  to  receive  the
 Messiah. This required a minimum indemnity period  of  40  years.
 Since I cannot live for 4,000 years or for 400 years, I knew that
 I would have to indemnify all of history in just 40 years. During
 this period of four decades, I restored  the  4,000-year  history
 before Jesus, and  the  6,000-year  biblical  history  since  the
 Creation. After this indemnity  was  paid,  the  Cold  War  ended
 through  the  unity  of  Cain  and  Abel  countries.   This   was
 consummated by the Unification Church at the 1988 Seoul Olympics,
 where   160   nations   of   the    world    came    to    Korea.

 For decades, I have  been  completely  misunderstood.  For  three
 years, I was imprisoned in a North Korean communist concentration
 camp. Altogether, I have been wrongly imprisoned  six  times  for
 doing God's work. Moreover, the media have mocked me as a monster
 who brainwashes the young for self-benefit. Can  anyone  disagree
 when I say that Reverend Moon is the  most  persecuted  religious
 leader in the world? My heart is broken when I think of  how  God
 has suffered to see His messengers rejected time and time  again.
 My only desire has been to comfort His heart, yet I find that  it
 is God who always comforts me.

 I have walked a path of indemnity, or restitution,  in  order  to
 restore the failures of the past, including those of the Old  and
 New Testament eras. Korea can be compared to  the  Old  Testament
 Age, while  America, a  mostly  Christian  civilization,  can  be
 compared to the New Testament Age.  For  the  first  20  years, I
 walked the road of indemnity of the Old Testament Age,  centering
 on the Korean nation and the Unification Church, representing the
 positions of the Israelite nation and Judaism,  respectively.  On
 the foundation of this  work, I  established  in  1960  the  Holy
 Wedding of True Parents on the national level. Then, in 1971,  my
 wife and I came to America. Over the next 20 years in the U.S., I
 walked the path of indemnity to fulfill the New Testament Age and
 to begin the Completed Testament  Age.  Thus, I  established  the
 True Parents' family, the origin of true  love,  true  life,  and
 true blood lineage, based on God.

 The  reason  why  America  is  essential  in   the   providential
 dispensation is because of her  close  ties  with  the  Christian
 churches, Judaism, and Israel.

 Even though America has dismissed and opposed my  work,  my  wife
 and I continue to pray for America to  realize  her  providential
 responsibility. It is  our  sincere  desire  that  America  avoid
 repeating her failure. A failure to unite with God's  Will  would
 create the need for further indemnity and would  deprive  America
 of the blessing that God wishes to bestow upon this great nation.

 Rome thought that the world existed only for the  sake  of  Rome.
 She did not realize that God had raised her up for the purpose of
 uniting   with   the   Messiah    and    serving    the    world.

 America faces a similar situation today. People must realize that
 God blessed America not for herself  but  for  the  sake  of  the
 world. America's Pilgrim Fathers did not come  here  for  wealth.
 They came here to attend God. If America fails  to  remember  the
 purpose for which she is blessed, then her  blessing  will  cease
 and she will perish. I desperately want to prevent  this. I  must
 save America.

 For twenty-one years I have struggled in this country, trying  to
 bring God's message to the  American  people.  American  leaders,
 prominent Christians, and other leading figures of the world have
 only a faint idea of the forces that shape the future. Therefore,
 they can offer little insight, hope, or guidance to their people.
 In these chaotic times, humankind is longing for a true direction
 and purpose, yet America  and  the  churches  have  no  confident
 answer. God  has  granted  me  an  understanding  of  the  forces
 involved in His providential history. Thus, I know the  direction
 that humankind must go, and I, with the help of  God,  will  lead
 the world there.

               What the Unification Church Offers

 The truth which God has revealed to me is contained in the Divine
 Principle. Looking at the history of humankind and the stories of
 the Bible from the providential viewpoint, the  Divine  Principle
 unlocks the answers to questions unsolved for thousands of years.
 Those who have sincerely studied its contents have found it to be
 a true gift  from  God,  providing  the  only  solutions  to  the
 problems facing our society today. Even in the formerly communist
 C.I.S., Soviet leaders and thousands of young people  have  found
 their lives  renewed  through  their  studies  of  my  teachings.
 Finally free from the oppression of communist ideology, they  are
 hungry for the spiritual truth to guide  their  nations.  Russian
 classrooms where our members are teaching "Godism," or "Head-wing
 Ideology," are overflowing.

 There are countless other testimonies to the power of the  Divine
 Principle to give hope and new life to young people.  Last  year,
 in Korea, we held a wedding celebration for 30,000  couples,  all
 dedicating their lives to one another, to God, and to the  world.
 In most families today, parents cannot  effectively  guide  their
 children,  especially  on  such  intimate  matters  as  love  and
 marriage. Yet, my wife and I brought together young  people  from
 131 different nations and realized their most cherished dreams of
 love in a historic way. This was indeed a great  miracle  of  the
 modern world. In the future, as people  come  to  understand  the
 value and quality of these precious families, millions will  seek
 such marriages. Through them, God can  restore  the  family  that
 Satan has destroyed. Such restored, God-centered families are the
 very  building   blocks   of   an   ideal   nation   and   world.

 My dear friends, when Jesus taught the coming of the Messiah,  he
 told the parable of the virgins who were awaiting the arrival  of
 the bridegroom. According to the book of Revelation, Christianity
 is portrayed as a bride. America, representing Christianity,  can
 also be seen as a bride nation.

                      Women's Crucial Role

 Therefore, America must take  the  responsibility  of  creating a
 foundation for worldwide unity  upon  which  the  bridegroom  can
 finally be  received.  This  signifies  the  restoration  of  the
 original positions of man and woman, restored Adam  and  Eve,  to
 the realm of true equality. At this turning point in the  history
 of restoration, a woman in  the  position  of  True  Mother  must
 prepare   the    world    to    receive    the    True    Father.

 When Christianity failed to meet her bridegroom the  first  time,
 God's dispensation had to be delayed 40 years until 1992.  During
 this time, I have worked and prayed to bring about the  unity  of
 Korea, Britain,  America,  France,  Japan,  Germany,  and  Italy.

 That is why, in April 1992, my wife  and I  founded  the  Women's
 Federation for World Peace. Last year my wife,  as  True  Mother,
 visited these seven countries, as well as Russia and Oceania. She
 gathered together the women of these countries to  form  chapters
 of the Women's Federation for World Peace. With these events, the
 nations that had been the worldwide Cain and Abel countries since
 World War II united together  to  receive  the  True  Mother  and
 prepare  again  the  foundation  for  meeting  the  True  Father.

 Based upon this foundation, my wife  and I  can  now  stand  on a
 worldwide foundation as the first  True  Parents.  As  the  world
 enters the Completed Testament Age, we will live with God  again.

 At this historical turning point, we  have  to  practice  on  the
 worldwide level the principle that an individual's mind and  body
 must be united centered on  God.  To  facilitate  this,  we  have
 founded  two  organizations  working   for   world   peace.   The
 Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace represents  the  world
 mind, and carries out the internal mission  of  uniting  all  the
 world's religions on the basis of God's love. The Federation  for
 World Peace, on the other hand, represents the  world  body,  and
 pursues the external mission of building up ideal societies  with
 leaders in the fields of politics,  economics,  media,  academia,
 and science.

                Completing the Family Foundation

 During  the  last  40  years, I  broke  down   all   of   Satan's
 obstructions,  traveled  into  various  parts  of  not  only  the
 physical but also the spiritual world, crossed  over  many  world
 and national barriers, and have now reached  the  present  family
 stage.

 Through the law of indemnity, all the problems of the world  will
 be solved by establishing the family ideal centered on God's true
 love.

 Looking at the vertical perspective of love, Adam and Eve  should
 have related directly with God by developing  in  themselves  the
 four  types  of  love:  children's  love,  brother-sister   love,
 conjugal love, and parental love.

 Therefore, Adam and Eve should originally have gone  through  the
 four spheres of the heart,  centering  on  God's  true  love,  as
 completed children, completed brother and sister, loving  couple,
 and perfected parents. In this way, they would have achieved  the
 completed family.

 Adam and Eve should have become the role models for all in  their
 family. Their children would have  looked  to  their  parents  as
 ideal role models. They would have become  brothers  and  sisters
 who loved each other as their parents loved them. Then they would
 have  become  married   couples   resembling   the   husband-wife
 relationship  of  their  parents.  Finally,  with  the  birth  of
 children,  they  would  have  established  their  own   completed
 families,    identical    to    that    of    their      parents.

 By setting  up  ideal,  unbreakable  families  that  fulfill  the
 vertical and  horizontal  unity  between  parents  and  children,
 brothers and sisters, and husband and wife, we can finally  build
 the eternal basis for God's  kingdom  on  earth  as  well  as  in
 heaven. Thus, all the families in the world originating from  the
 same God-centered ancestors, Adam  and  Eve,  would  have  equal,
 divine value.

                Extension of the Messianic Ideal

 Ladies and gentlemen, at the dawn of the Completed Testament Age,
 the time has come for  each  family  to  take  up  the  messianic
 mission of completing the work of salvation all over  the  world.
 After restoring your family, the next step  is  to  restore  your
 community, tribe,  and  nation.  We  call  this  process  "tribal
 messiahship." In the Completed Testament Age, the  mother's  role
 will be crucial. She must unite her children and her husband, and
 link her family with the True  Parents.  Already,  we  have  sent
 thousands of Tribal Messiah missionaries around the world.  Soon,
 the original ideal of the  family  will  be  achieved  worldwide.

 In the completed family, grandparents will be in the position  of
 kings and  queens  representing  God.  Parents  will  be  in  the
 position of kings and queens representing present  humanity,  and
 children will be  in  the  position  of  princes  and  princesses
 representing all future descendants. When all  three  generations
 are united, past, present,  and  future  will  live  together  in
 harmony.

 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege to announce to you
 the establishment of the  first  True  Family.  My  wife  and  I,
 together  with  our  13  children  and  24   grandchildren,   are
 absolutely dedicated to serving  God  and  humanity.  With  three
 generations in one family, we have achieved, on the family level,
 the central root, the central trunk, and the central bud  of  the
 "Tree of Life" mentioned in the Bible. It  is  our  sincere  hope
 that you will symbolically graft into this lineage by joining  us
 in our efforts to create an ideal nation and  world.  This  marks
 the    beginning    of    the    Completed    Testament      Age.

 The Completed Testament era is the age to live together with God.
 Realizing this, we must accomplish the unification  of  our  mind
 and body, parents and children, and husband and wife. Then we can
 establish   ideal   families   centered    upon    God's    love.

 Based on this foundation, we should try our utmost to realize the
 ideal clan, the ideal nation, and  the  ideal  world.  From  this
 point, the world of  true  freedom,  peace,  and  happiness  will
 spring forth.

 It is my hope that all Christians, and people of all faiths, will
 understand this message with a deep heart  and  an  open  mind. I
 sincerely pray that, by upholding the Will of  God,  we  can  all
 reach the place of God's blessing.

              May God bless you and your families.

                      Thank you very much.

        Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon