A. People of Grief Who Have Undergone a Miserable History

The Korean people are a people of grief who have undergone a miserable history. Korea has been poor for a long time and could not stop facing the difficult path of persecution and humiliation by powerful countries. We have been under the pressure of the Han tribe, the Manchurian tribe, and the Mongolian tribe, and the Japanese occupation. Whenever we were attacked by others, so many people had to shed many tears and suffer the pain of humiliation. Even under these circumstances, the Korean people did not by any means forget about God. The Korean people accepted the miserable period as their destiny and prayed unto the altar with tremendous heart. We should not forget about our ancestors who pass down their spirit, which holds the people as one.

In undergoing this misery, the many tears these people shed were not only for themselves; they were for the sake of the nation. Furthermore, while they shed these tears, not only they did not lose their hope, but they kept enduring with a strong faith of realizing their hope. OSome day we will have the glorious day of beginning a new ideal nation."

Today, our country has become dependent on America. However, we cannot completely trust America. It is not just America we don't completely trust, but all the Allied nations. Under the circumstances, we cannot stop worrying about our country, which is located among powerful countries.

For a long time, the Korean people received invasions and persecutions from other people, but even under these circumstances, they did not forget about God. What kind of future was waiting for them? Nothing has changed, we still have to live with the threats of powerful countries.

I think there's only one way that the Korean people can survive. That's the way of establishing an altar of prayer and offering that no other people have ever established in history, the way of serious life God can long remember. Only by taking this way should we be remembered by God. Finally, God can give salvation, and then this people can have the day of celebration of everlasting glory.

Korea is now facing the moment of truth after the long 5,000 years of history. Make sure you know this clearly. In the history of humankind, no other people has worked harder than the Korean people, no other people has been weaker than this people. The Korean people always faced devastation under the pressure of powerful countries. There was not even one day the people stopped crying for survival under the knives and guns of invaders. What miserable people!

Korea has been proud of its long 5,000 years of history, but there's nothing we should be proud of. It was a history of misery, a history of bloodshed, a history of intrigue and slander, and a history of invasion. However, among those who were miserable but trying to adapt to the circumstances, there were ones who shed sweat and tears and prayed to God, OOh, mighty God! Please open our way to the bright future." This was the ideology of attending God. This is what made these people survive.

Although Korean history is miserable, it will not end miserably. We just were in the downhill side of human history. There will be an elevation of history that makes us different.

In the past, all Korean people were poor and had a hard life. That's because it was a part of God's plan. It would be the exception if it was not like that. If there is one who pigs out and pads his big belly and selfishly thinks just of himself, this kind of person becomes corrupted. He will soon go down. He will break down.

I think that now Korea is in the position to show the standard of the law of God's love and heavenly law. Therefore, people who are exceedingly rich are the exception. Then what is usual? Korean people don't eat well and must be full of worries; if you survive today, then you must worry about how to live tomorrow. It seems very unfortunate, but if you overcome, then you will naturally be very happy.

If the Korean people had sorrow in the past, it was for the sake of the day of victory today. This victory not only compensates for the past, but relates to the present. How is it so? There must be a new movement, a revolution. This should be the foundation of hope. This movement would be the resurrection of the past, the beginning of the present, and the origin of the future. This is God's idea in finding us, who should be in this position. Therefore, you must realize clearly the purpose of founding the Unification Church.

B. A Nation of God's Heart

The Korean people are proud of thei 5,000 years of history. As the Korean people, we have received countless invasions and attacks. However, this people has the heart God can sympathy with. The tragic moments in Korean history are the same as the tragic moment of Cain killing Abel. There is the Parliament tragedy, which no other country had, which represents the indemnity of the battle between Cain and Abel in the course of world restoration.

With that in mind, our country, in providential history, is closer to God than any other country. Therefore, we became the people God cannot wait to love.

American young people listened to God's words through me and had a revolution of personality. Once you listen to God's words, which came down to the land of Korea, you canOt help but have a personality change. From being the most egoistic-minded, they come to want to sacrifice for the sake of the world. They want to free people from being slaves to drugs, to free them from adultery. They become people of nobility wanting to serve their parents and their nation, and to offer their lives to God. Furthermore, they recognize Communism as the enemy of God and are equipped with the compassionate ideology that can overrule Communist ideology.

Why would God show the final ideology, for the salvation of all humankind, through Korea? What kind of qualifications does Korea possess to deserve to be chosen by God in the Last Days? In a word, the Korean people can listen to God and understand God's heart.

In the past, people always thought of God as a God of happiness; there was no one thinking of God as a God of sorrow. God is a parent who lost His children at the beginning. Even if you were a king of a country, if you lost your children, you would be miserable and pitiful. In the history of humankind, God was a miserable father. For the miserable father, a child who can share the father's pain and sorrow would have the best filial piety. The Korean people have such filial piety; hence, they were chosen.

C. Korean People Have Found the Bond of Parents God Set Forth

The only way for the Korean people, who are in a miserable situation, to survive is to make a relationship with the Master of Heart. We became naked, with nothing to show for it. Everything has been taken away. We have lost parents and spouses and children. Since the land is divided in half, everything I have possessed was lost and taken away. All relationships were broken. We became blind to our parents, our brothers and sisters, and our relatives. We were just born in this land. However, we know that there is heavenly destiny, liquidating the old history and starting a whole new history. Let's not worry about what to eat. Let's not worry about being miserable. There is the way for the survival: We should build the strong bond with our parents as God had planned. Should we become that kind of people, we will dominate the world.

We should just forget about being miserable and praise God for giving us this strong bond of heart and thank God and say, "God, we are still grateful that, at least, we stand on the land." We should just be grateful that God has not forgotten about this miserable people and is trying to realize his Will through this people.

Our people are the miserable people of the world. However, you should realize that God would not just let our people stay in this miserable situation, but would take them to the place of starting a whole new history. There is no ideology that did not start in a miserable environment. JesusO whole new history of heart and love exploded in Israel.

D. Korean People Can Become the Eldest Descendants of God

We should become God's descendants at last. In order to become God's descendants, we need ancestors who have thousands of years of history. We need to be able to undo the mistakes of Adam and Eve, compensate for the fact that Abel was falsely accused and killed by Cain, and restore God's plan of carrying out His Will through the eight members of Noah's family. Furthermore, we must resolve the resentments of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus. Therefore, we must become the tribe they ultimately need.

Historically, many people in many nations have come and gone. They also need to choose a nation where they can place their descendants. Which country is it? Should it be America, or Korea? [It must be Korea.] Because you are Koreans, you would definitely say it should be Korea. But, if you ask Americans, by all means, America should be it. Historically, Americans have been superior to any other people in the world and have no need to be blessed; hence America should be it.

Furthermore, the Korean people are outnumbered by 6 to 2 by the American people. There are 120 million Christians in the United States today. God is always thinking about numbers. God needs many people in order to save the people of the world. God would want to work with the more numerous people prepared in America if America were in the same position as Korea. We would think the same way.

So, can Korea be the one? Korea is the Han nation, because there's a lot of Han (resentment). People would think it's the Han nation because it's one nation, or the nation of one group of people. But, that's not it. It's the Han nation because there's a lot of Han. It's not just the aggrievement for not having enough money, but the resentment of losing parents. You are orphans.

E. Let's Become the People Who Can Comfort God's Heart

The Korean people, who bear a lot of han, have played the roll of all the humble figures of the Bible: OBe hungry, be naked, be homeless." In the past, those who worked for God were like that. In the Last Days, there is God's Will in which he wants to establish the global-level Israel. In these Last Days, there must be an offering nation which is persecuted and suppressed by others. This is the time when you can hear the crying voice, crying for survival. There must be a group of homeless people who have nowhere to go. ArenOt the Korean people like that? We are homeless. We just have to beg others for survival; there's nothing we can do. We have been ill and starving. We have been imprisoned by other countries.

If God looks upon us, God would want to train this people as an army of heaven and show them to the world. What should the Korean people do facing this opportunity? No matter how small you are, you must comfort God with a desperate heart as a pitiful filial son or a filial daughter, and as a loyal servant. Then, you should be able to find a way to survive.

You, people! DonOt be discouraged. We were suffering not only for ourselves; we were starving not only for ourselves; we were homeless not for ourselves; we were ill not for ourselves.That was all for the sake of the world. For these people, there is a clear path. Let's not be discouraged for being hungry, being naked, being ill, or being imprisoned. Throughout the 6,000 years of restoration history, people who walked the same paths of suffering course tried to find God, and God, who has been trying to save all humankind, also worked hard. That's why the Korean people must become filial people who can comfort God, and ease his pain and sorrow.

How glorious will it be if we pave the roads where God will walk, build a house where God will reside, and decorate the land where God will celebrate? Even under the circumstances of being starved and naked, we have to pioneer the land of the father. No matter how miserable we may be, we must forget about our situation and work hard to comfort God, thinking of His being more miserable. We must comfort the aching heart of God, looking at this world of corruption, and share His pain and sorrow. If we do that, we will never perish.

God will come to this country for sure; but, where, particularly, is he looking? He comes down to a starving person. He would never come to the place of a party, but comes as Father of the starving person. This is so because that is the course God has walked. God will come to find the ill and the sick. That is where he can share his heart. You must understand this. God is a Father who is striving for the original heart, heavenly heart, and heart of people.

You people, don't be discouraged by Korea being in such difficulty. It is OK being poor. The world's going to come to an end anyway. Just take a look at America today. It is highly advanced, right? But where can I go to find such a heart? Somebody once asked me, ODo you want to live in America?" I said, ONo." Why? I miss people who have the same way of life, people who have concern about their neighbors. At the least, the people of Korea have a chance to work for the future and to realize the hope of tomorrow. But others are far away from God. You people, don't be discouraged. DonOt be discouraged.

Is fortune going to untie her package in front of rich persons? No. Where is the final destination for Western culture to settle, according to the trend of the world? It is Korea. It is only Korea. Korea has received many natural benefits. Korea has many natural benefits given by Heaven. This is why Koreans are to live well in the future.

Korea is a small country. Korea is a good country to be picked as the number-one dating place. Let's say there is a daughter whose family has had no sons but only one daughter in each generation for five generations. She was raised as extremely precious in a hidden back room. Her parents have been seeking for the most ideal spouse for her. In this situation, Korea will be best place for them to go for dating. When a couple meets for the first time, would they go to a coffee shop? They will seek a place for dating. Korea is beautiful place where the couple will seek to go.

I have lived in Japan. However, Japan is very humid; it is very sticky. When we go to Taiwan, it is the same. Hong Kong and mainland China are the same. I have traveled almost everywhere in East Asia, including Thailand and the Philippines, but I have not found any place better than Korea. Korea, this country so-called Korea, is such a good country to live in. In spring, sometimes we feel little exhausted. When we feel little exhausted, we take a nap. When we walk out and take in the fresh air after awakening from a nap, don't we feel so good? What about the taste of the breeze before the sunrise? It is indescribable! What about the taste of hot noodle soup in a hot summer day? (25-154)