The Blessing is not Blessing the person but Blessing that position.

When I give the Blessing, I first ask, ?f you make a mistake, will you take responsibility for it??Thus it is a conditional Blessing. Why is it a conditional Blessing? When somebody tells you to have dominion over all things, Satan will still accuse you. The Blessing is not supposed to be given to people who can be accused by Satan. The Blessing is supposed to be given to persons who have subjugated Satan. That is the fundamental rule. But since you have not advanced to that standard, a conditional Blessing is given. Thus you have to receive the Blessing once again in the future.

The Blessing is receiving the ticket to the victorious right of dominion. The couples whom Father has Blessed have to pass through not only a three-year course, but also a four-year course; this means that they still have not received a complete Blessing. You should not fail in this 4-year course. But that is still not enough. After that, you must go over the worldwide course completely. You can receive the third Blessing after having gone through that process.

The Blessing I have given you is on a tribal standard. You have received the Blessing representing a nation from the tribal standard. You must receive the Blessing three times. Even if you take a wrong step, that should not affect your children; so Father has to Bless your children. Father can feel safe after going over the second stage.

One thing you have to know is that the place of your Blessing is not a complete one. If there is a cross to be borne across the bridge of a parent, you must walk across that bridge as it is. You cannot fly over it. If in order to reach the top of a mountain one has to cross a bridge, one may be able to prepare an iron girder to reinforce the bridge in order to pass safely through the dangerous passage, but there is no way to escape having to cross the bridge. That is why the seven-year course that Father has walked will remain forever. There is the individual seven-year course as well as the family level seven-year course. This road exists for eternity. Man fell at the completion level of the growth stage; thus, he cannot rise to the completion stage without having established the appropriate condition. Since our ancestors fell at the top of the growth stage, we can remove the original sin only after having gone above that line. It is not removed at the completion level of the growth stage. Isn? that right?

Accordingly, you must know the fact that this stage at which you have gathered together in order to be Blessed is not the completion level of the completion stage, but rather is the completion level of the growth stage. Since, centering on fallen Adam and Eve, all eight members of Adam? family, including Cain, Abel, Seth and their spouses, fell, this is the place where we establish the indemnity condition in front of God and finally enter the completion stage.

In that place, you must feel the parents?love. The origin of life is born through the love of parents. You must pass through the place where you can respect this value of life more than anything in the world, in order to be able to walk a new road. The Principle works this way.

We say that everybody, no matter who, has to go through the seven-year course of the Unification Church. Why is it that way? It is because the completion stage that man has to pass through still remains. In the period of dominion through the Principle, there are three stages of growth, and that period is 21 years until perfection; that is, it is a period corresponding to the number 20. Accordingly, Adam was to grow to perfection centering on the age of 20. However, Adam fell at the completion level of the growth stage, needing seven more years to rise to the completion level of the completion stage.

The growth period has three stages, and each stage corresponds to seven years. In other words, in order for Adam and Eve to climb from the growth stage through the completion stage, they still had seven years to go; thus, the seven-year course still remained. Jacob walked a 21-year course by going through seven years three times because the period representing the starting point for a family-level victory for the will of God was 21 years. In this way it is evident that the period for perfection is a 21-year course.

Then, from now on, what is still left in the course which man must go? It is not having a great victory by welcoming True Parents. Since True Parents have to appear not in the completion stage, but in the completion level of the growth stage, they cannot bring the result of total victory without passing through the process of seven years. This is the Principle. That is why there comes to exist what the Christians insist on, the so-called seven-year tribulation. From this, what should the Unification Church members know? They should know that, like it or not, they have to go through the seven-year course.

If you sit around saying, ?ow it? all over! I?e gotten Blessed! If I just sit quietly, I will enter the Kingdom of Heaven!?you will be utterly destroyed. Receiving the Blessing is not completion . You have learned about the seven-year course, right? No one had known this kind of complicated content and tried to fit the timetable exactly; that is why even the omnipotent God has to be reluctantly pulled by Father.

When you were getting Blessed, some of you thought, ?e have been Blessed according to the Principled rule of God. We are one from today.?But are you one? Again the couple has to recreate. Each has to recreate each other. If the Blessed couples of the Unification Church forget that they have to clean up the historical puddle of resentment of husbands and wives, they will decline. No matter how much I might say that they will not decline, they will decline. The couples are supposed to go through the re-creation process by going toward the goal of the ideal, completely restored husband and wife. Thus in the Unification Church we talk about the perfection of individual restoration and then about the perfection of family restoration.

Within a person? life are the crosses of the individual, of the spouse, and of the children. Even Jesus died before he could fulfill these. Going the road of faith might seem easy, but it is actually harder than dying. Hence, the road of faith is not a part-time occupation. The life of faith is not a part-time job. Today, there are a lot of people who make their faith secondary. They all work for a wage. They will be sold to other places when the market changes. You shouldn? be such a worker. Even if you establish a business, you should first establish yourself. You must occupy a solid place which no one can invade and occupy. When someone says to you, ?an you die in the Unification Church??you shouldn? cower away, saying, ?ow I have to live; I?l die later.?Without dying to your old self, you cannot have new life.