When are the Last Days? Since the evil world began, whenever a man on God's side appeared and tried to destroy it and return the world to goodness, whether on the level of the individual, family, clan, tribe, nation or world, those were the Last Days. In other words, one central figure comes to end the evil sovereignty, to liberate people from the fallen world and from all of Satan's accusation, and to establish the world of goodness. If he goes over the family level, those are the family-level Last Days; if he goes over the clan level, those are the clan-level Last Days; and the same for the tribal and national levels, up to the world-level Last Days.

Therefore, the Last Days means one era passes and a new era arrives. If in the Last Days, because of Satan, God destroyed the sun and the earth which He himself created, He would be a God of failure. The sun and the moon are already resentful enough that they have had to shine on evil humankind up until now. If God destroyed them in the Last Days, how pitiful that would be! Because of human disobedience to God's words in the Garden of Eden, death crept in. To restore this God must find a person who believes in Him absolutely, to move into the realm of life.

If you ask what the Last Days are, I would answer that they are the moment to decide the new fruit of history, the new center of the present, and the proud new era of the future.

What are the Last Days? They are not the time in which God's call is limited to one nation or to one family. They are the time when an individual is called in relation to the world. They are the time when a family is called in relation to the world. This time not predetermined, but is moved to meet God's will. That is the time of the Last Days.

When is the end? It is the time to soar upward, after cleansing and renewing the entire course of history and setting up one victorious point as the consummation of human history.

The words that promise the coming of the Last Days are words of blessing. The word OjudgmentO is not a bad word, it brings good news. The Last Days are the time when thousands of years of resentment and sorrow, buried so long in the hearts of the children, are dissolved. So the Day of Judgment must come. As the Supreme Judge, God must proclaim the Day of Judgment. This is good news.

The Unification Church has been expecting the Last Days. History through indemnity must come to an end. In this ending time, the paths of good and evil must cross. From this point good will ascend and evil will decline. Therefore only the way centered on God is the road to true glory.