1. The Division and Significances of the Ages

1) The Division of the Historical Periods and its Explanation

The number of today's date, July seventh, is 7.7; it corresponds to the second seven year course.

As you have learned in the Principle, there has to be the number 21. For creation, it is 21 years.

Passing through the two thousand years from Adam and another two thousand years from Abraham, God tried to lay the perfect foundation through Jesus.

The two thousand years after that is a history of prolongation. The significance of the two thousand years is that in that period history has to be rectified.

When the year 2000 comes, there will be great changes in Korea.

Centering on this two thousand years, I have been paying indemnity during the sixty-, forty-, and twenty-year history.

The year 1960 is the year when the two-thousand-year period was brought to a conclusion and the forty-year period began. It is:

sixty years from 1920 to 1980

forty years from 1940 to 1980

twenty years from 1960 to 1980

sixty years from 1940 to 2000

When we look at the history, it is the time to pay indemnity again. In the twenty years are three two-thousand-year periods: altogether six thousand years must be indemnified.

The first seven year course is indemnity for Abraham. The second seven year course is indemnity for Jesus. The third seven year course signifies the indemnity for perfection.

When we look at the history of the Unification Church, it can be divided into three stages. The period before Abraham was the period before the providence for restoration, and even in our Unification Church such a period of preparation also existed. Next, there was the period of total indemnity. Jesus worked providentially in the Age for the completion of the providence, and the Unification Church does the same thing.

These correspond to the first, second and third courses. As you know, the second period is the period for indemnity of Christianity. This is the historical course of indemnity.

Judaism did not recognize Christianity as a religion. Therefore, Christianity developed revolving around the peripheral peoples, and Christians were treated as strangers. Israel had expanded the domain of God while being rejected. At that time, Israelites were at the top. However, in reality it was not the Israelites who were at the top but it was the will of God pertaining to them that was at the top. You have to understand this ideology as a tradition.

The Israelites became negligent about the will of God while they fell in love with themselves, and Christianity neglected the will of God while it was trying to promote Christian culture.

From now on, even in our Unification Church, we should be concerned primarily not about the new culture, but about God who gives rise to the cultures.

Even though cultural and national foundations undergo change, God remains unchanging. It is because Christianity forgot about the will of God that it is withering away.

The movement carried out by the Unification Church goes through the Old Testament Age-the formation stage, the New Testament Age-the growth stage, and the completion stage which is equivalent to the Completed Testament Age. This contains the six-thousand-year history, which has to be condensed into sixty years.

When you examine it, centering on me, there is a twenty-year difference between the sixty years until the year 2000 with 1940 as the starting point and the period between 1920 and 1980. The sixty-year period between 1920 and 1980 was a period of indemnity.

The final third stage completes the indemnity for all history. This is the first, second, and third seven year courses.

In the period between 1980 to 2000, we are entering the era of the restoration of the Garden of Even, when everything is indemnified fully. In other words, the Will of God will be fulfilled. We have to set out with one nation. When that time comes, even Communists will adore us. The democratic world will also enter a phase of disintegration, and we will be the only ones that remain united.

We have to indemnify everything on the global level by the year 1980. You have to understand the reason why in the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 there have been such rapid changes. Who was this caused by? It was because of us. We have to pave the way from below the ground to the sky-meaning that the path must be laid from hell to Heaven. Such a thing did not take place in history before.

You have to resurrect all in this twenty-year period. For this reason, we have to conduct a campaign of liberation for the spirit world and liberate the present of the world of earth. We have to liberate both the past and the present. After liberating them, we have to initiate a new worldwide movement. In the twenty- year period from 1980 to 2000, we are to form a worldwide cultural sphere. We have to make this world into a new world in the eighty year period between 1920 and 2000.

Comparable to the eighty years of Moses, in this eighty years the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth must be built. We have crossed over the number seven to enter the realm of number eight. (1974, 7.7. Belvedere Training Center. 69-2)