8) The Period in which Father Selected and Established the Lost Days.

It is our pride that the Unification Church has great holy days--God's Day, Parents' Day, Children's Day and the Day of All Things--which don't exist in the secular world. In order to recover the lost Days, we had to resolve the twisted history, and to celebrate the Days we had to establish the fundamentals of the heavenly family centering on God's love. You have to know that the Unification Church is such a Blessed place.

As you all know through the Principle, if the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, had not fallen, God's Day, Parents' Day and the Day of All Things would have been declared on the day of their Blessing. If that had happened, all those Days would have been established in one day. Due to the Fall, we have had to recover those days through the seven-year course. That is a sad process for the fallen world.

God gave the first Blessing in 1960, with the seven years of the completion stage remaining. Until now, human beings have been under satanic dominion because of the Fall. Because a figure appeared and tried to destroy satanic power, Satan has been desperately attacking that figure and his family. But finally, Father could declare God's Day, Parents' Day, Children's Day and the Day of All Things after the indemnity conditions and undergoing a bloody fight with Satan. These Days were established in the first seven-year course.

Because God restored the days which had been stolen by Satan, He could establish a perfect standard on earth. On the foundation of successfully having driven Satan away, a groom and a bride could meet each other. Receiving the day of that meeting had been God's long-cherished desire and the 2,000-year-old hope of Christianity. The groom represents Jesus and heaven; the bride, the Holy Spirit and earth. The Unification Church is the fundamental driving force which has demolished satanic power and made heaven and earth become one by bringing about the meeting of the groom and bride.

The Holy Wedding Ceremony is a ritual in which God for the first time in human history Blessed an ideal couple, and it is also the historical wedding in which fallen man is endowed with True Parents. Because of that, God's Day, Parents' Day, Children's Day and the Day of All Things were established. We should know that all of these were accomplished through the victory of the first seven-year course.

Having fallen parents has been the root of human resentment. But by establishing Parents' Day on the foundation of the victory of the heavenly side, finally the lineage of the parents who were qualified to stand before God started. Therefore, from this point, Blessed Unificationists were to go forward. What is God's Day? It is the Day to accomplish God's Will and His ideal; and the ideal of man and all things is also to be accomplished on this Day.

God's Day is not only the Day for God, but also the Day for Adam and Eve, all things and the cosmos. So far in the course of restoration, God has first been restoring all things, next children, and finally parents, which means that parents spiritually had to bear the entire cross. Therefore, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been persecuted. This was just for the period of Christianity. In our time, we are to reverse that.

To establish Parents' Day was to go over the growth stage with the cross of Parents' Day, Children's Day and the Day of All Things. After accomplishing those days, finally God's Day could be declared. Through indemnity, parents come into being, and then children exist. Through parents having children, all things are to be dominated. In order to create such a form, Parent's Day, Children's Day and the Day of All Things were made, and when those days become one and are connected to God, they lead to God's Day. Within a seven-year period, Father had to go over the growth and the completion stages.

Parents and children were supposed to subjugate all things and the angels. Because this was not accomplished in the Garden of Eden, such a structural foundation has to be restored. After making a God-centered foundation, we were to enter God's direct dominion. Therefore, the establishment of God's Day on the first day of 1968 was to match the standard of entering into God's original dominion, which should have been preceded by the oneness of parents, children, all things, and God, centering on the family-level foundation in the Garden of Eden. On such a foundation, three stages are formed centering on Father--who is free to enter God's direct dominion--the Blessed families, and the Unification Church.

Father's family, the Blessed families, and the Unification Church, respectively, symbolize the family of the Lord at the Second Advent, the Christian family, and the whole world.

The whole world is the formation stage, Christianity is the growth stage, and the Lord at the Second Advent is the completion stage. In laying such a foundation, Father even extended the providence to the national level during these seven years. To connect the national foundation to the world level is very significant. In the second seven-year course, Father uses the Blessed families to do that.

It is a miracle that Father has dealt with these amazing restorational contents in his lifetime. Then, who is the ancestor of miracles? Moses' crossing over the Red Sea is relatively little. Is there any great meaning in crossing the Red Sea? All the miracles that Jesus performed are relatively little. During the several decades of his life, Father systematized the most precious, the most surprising, the most enormous, and the most universal thought. Has it been simple or complicated?

When Father speaks something new, it sounds casual. But Father has already thought about and investigated it deeply for a long time. Reflect! When Father declared Children's Day and Parents' Day, did you know the meaning? Or that of Father's three children? You knew only when I explained them after the work was done, didn't you? And suddenly the "Day of Heartistic Resurrection," the "Day of Substantial Resurrection," the "Day of All Things" and "God's Day" were declared. Were they wrong? They are organized by the Principle and perfectly structured. Focusing on this structure, Father has been actualizing it.

Father laid a worldwide horizontal foundation with 36 couples, 72 couples, and 124 couples in the first three-year course. The families who are to start the second and third seven-year courses on that foundation are responsible for laying a perfect horizontal foundation for the nation. It is a very sad fact that there's a great distance to go to accomplish this responsibility and mission.

You should establish your own tribal Parents' Day, Children's Day, Day of All Things and God's Day. That is the responsibility of the Blessed families in the Unification Church.