God has been toiling for seven thousand years, while Christianity has been toiling for two thousand; so next, we as individuals must walk the course of seventy years. How can you get married when you are supposed to offer service for seventy years? In the Unification Church, it is seven years. For God it was seven thousand, for Christianity seven hundred years, for those who believe in Christianity it is seventy years, and for members of the Unification Church it is seven years. The number is decreasing. After serving for seventy years what can people do once they get to Heaven-they are already so old. If they go at that time, even if they get married, it is of no use. Can they bear children? Therefore, because it is seven years for us in the Unification Church, we can build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. (96-119)

When you look at formation, growth and perfection each as taking seven years, it becomes 21 years. Therefore, in order to establish a standard of perfection you need a period of seven years. Thus, when someone comes into the Unification Church, he inevitably has to go through a seven-year course. We must, through this seven-year course, inherit True Parents' heart and at the same time establish a condition for the restoration of everything that was lost. Adam and Eve lost all things as a result of the Fall; their being was tainted because of Satan, and they were robbed of heart. All this has to be restored through indemnity. That is, we need to bind together completely, centering on God, the problem of all things, the problem of being, and the problem of heart, centering on God, and in this way pass through the completion stage.

After receiving the Blessing, we must restore all things, restore being, and restore heart, in a period of seven years. When we look at this horizontally, all things are the formation stage, being is the growth stage, and heart is the completion stage. This is the content for indemnifiying horizontally the entire historical, vertical providence. The standard of all things corresponds to the Old Testament Age, the standard of being corresponds to the New Testament Age, and the standard of heart corresponds to the Completed Testament Age. These three have to become completely one. In the Old Testament Age indemnity was paid centering on all things; in the New Testament age being was indemnified through God's only-begotten son. By that becoming the victorious result, a heartistic standard was to appear.

By parents' making mistakes, a standard of hardship was imposed upon humankind. But because Father has completed his responsibility in the position of parent, you who are standing in the position of children can surpass all the standards of persecution and accusation. This is the purpose of the seven-year course.

Everyone, no matter who, has to go this seven-year course. Proud and distinguished people or ugly and unfortunate people, no matter who they are, have to go this course. Anyone of fallen descent has to go this course, no matter who he or she is, or else they will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

God has toiled for seven thousand years, and I am to persevere for seventy years. For you, seven years is sufficient. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes] God has toiled thousands and ten thousand times harder than I and I have toiled a hundred and a thousand times harder than you. In this way the indemnity was paid. Do you think I have gone through such a course of suffering? [Yes] (80-112)

We are not to die along with Jesus in order to cross over the hill of Golgotha but live and climb over it. In this way, we are to pay indemnity horizontally for the vertical history. The six thousand years of history corresponds to this seven-year course. The six thousand years are supposed to be indemnified in seven years. The seven thousand years--the six thousand years plus a thousand years-- are to be indemnified in seven years. Because this is the formula, every fallen person must go through this seven-year course. After fulfilling this time period, everything will go smoothly for you. This is the reason why if revival groups last more than seven years their material becomes empty. This seven-year period is the time that is needed to horizontally indemnify the vertical history. (21-211)

Everyone, what is the seven-year course? It is the path to restore all the stages beginning from the position of servant of servants all the way up to the position of the direct heir. Therefore, during this seven-year course, you must go into the position of servant in order to love Cain. For this reason, we are to go out to the villages and other such places to do witnessing. We are trying to love people centering on the Principle from the perspective of heart. We are not trying to do this as son and daughter of someone's lineage but as people who have found the common focal point with the heart of God that can be linked to the heavenly compassion. Moreover, we are trying to find a point of union for our lifestyle and hope. Centering on God, we are trying to bring unity to our heart, actions, and hope. (34-60)

What is the seven-year course? What is to be done? Through the Fall, man has also caused all things to fall. This has brought about the realm of sorrow for all things. Two realms of sorrow, one of the human world and the other of the world of all things, have come into existence. In the created natural world, all the environmental factors are formulated centering on man. In other words, owing to the fall of man, all things are thrown into the realm of sorrow, and as descendants of the Fall, humanity dwells in the realm of sorrow.

For this reason, the creation must first be liberated. Since in the process of creation all things were created first and then man was created, in the process of re-creation, the same course will be undertaken. The course for restoration, through indemnity, in other words, the course for indemnification must be walked. The realm of sorrow for all things must be liberated. Didn't God create man on the foundation of the realm of all things? God created man through all things. There was no Fall back then. There was no realm of sorrows. (172-49)

We are to find all the conditions for the creation and offer them to God. This is the three-and-a-half-year period. During the seven years, since through the number seven God created the universe, three-and-a-half years are set aside for reclaiming the creation. During the three-and-a-half years, you must exert yourself to the utmost, pouring out your heart and body to the fullest.

This is the seven-year course, and with three-and-a-half years as a unit, it must be divided into two stages. Spending three years and then another three years, centering on sons and daughters and joining efforts with them, you must restore what has fallen on the level of the family in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven on the family level. You have to understand that the three-and-a-half years is the period of bearing the cross for the sake of the family.

However, one thing that you have to understand is that originally this is supposed to take fourteen years. Seven years here and climbing up to here takes seven years, all together it is fourteen years. Moreover, with seven years here it takes 21 years; but we are to complete the whole course in seven years. (speaks while writing on the blackboard) Do you understand what this means? It is the 21 year course of the Unification Church. Who is to bear this burden? "I" am the one who has to do it. It is I. Do you understand what I am saying? (133-160)