3) The Significance of Today

Leaders have to understand what kind of time it is right now. Then they have to know the mission that we have to do at this time. When you carry out your responsibility, you are not to go about it in a random way. You have to have a clear and deep understanding of your purpose. Moreover, no matter how perfect your understanding of the purpose is, if I tell you to go this way, you must not feel any opposition. (24-227)

So, what kind of time is it today. This is the time when on the world level, that which is external and that which is internal are completely separated, having a head on collision to decide upon life or death. In this time the democratic world and the Communist world, materialism and spiritualism, are conflicting. Therefore, if you follow the ways of the world you will be increasingly be pulled into the satanic world. On the contrary, if you deny this world and delve deep into religion you will increasingly enter the side of God. (102-231)

The era of Jesus is a vertical era. Now, my time is the horizontal era. Would it be easy to usher in this new era? So, we have to pray for more than seven years horizontally. Until now people had to exert themselves and pray for more than twenty years to meet with Jesus, who is in the spirit world. This was unavoidable. These days, you listen to the Principle's words and all of you pledge, "For the sake of True Parents..." In this way, you will enter the realm of heart within a week. When you realize after hearing the Divine Principle that you have to become the true children of True Parents, then you will enter immediately. How close is that? You have to understand how close True Parents are. (131-158)

The era is more and more nearing the point of resolution. History is flowing toward it, and religion and ideology are also approaching it. In order to solve this kind of problem, there are conflicts here and there, and there are lamentations here as well as there.

In this time of confusion, just as, at the time when people had lost faith and things could not be brought to some kind of resolution Elijah appeared to express a new kind of heart. Isn't there some new voice that reveals the heart of God that could not be found in history? You have to think about this kind of thing. (6-35)

What kind of time is right now? It is the final stage. Accordingly, everyone is as in a coma, in the hour of death that they cannot deal with by themselves. Here, if there is a God, the issue that he can deal with is the question of how to save them. (126-112)

Now, our time has come. We are entering the moment that God has been wishing for. Arriving before our door step is the era which countless people in history have longed for, the time of hope for which numerous sages have paved the way by their blood. This depends on our own era.

The way that things are right now is very much the feeling that we have become the bait that gives out the scent so that there circles around a big fish with tail flapping around. I hold on to that bait until the big fish bites, and then I will pull it in. This is how it feels. So, when would we have the time to be tired or linger, and have trivial thoughts? Would you say after a week of fasting, "Fish, if you want to bite then bite and if you don't want to bite then forget it?" When this kind of thing takes place, you will be wide awake. Even if your bone marrow were to melt down, it is very exciting. (40-22)

The time of material culture based on unlimited energy is approaching us. At first, there was an era of eating food raw, and then there was the era of eating cooked meals, and now the era of eating seafood, in other words, the time of taking in nutrition from water, will come. In the future, the time will come when we can maintain our health with laboratory-produced food. We will jump over the time when man's effort is needed. (4-20)

What do you have to do to walk the path of the will of God? In order to walk the way of the will of God, you have to walk the path of the providence. Next, there is the period of material rights, the period of human rights, the period of God's right, and the period of love's right. This is how it is.

In biblical history we find the meaning of the period of material rights. It is the period of sacrificial offerings. An offering is a dispensational thing. You need it for the process of the restoration, and there is no need for it in the world of God's will.

The period of material rights is the period of material offerings. The period of human rights is the time of sacrifice through service. The period of God's right is the period of forgiveness. Finally, there will be the period of the ideal of love's rights. This ideal is what is desired. The first is the Old Testament Age. The second is the New Testament Age. The third is the Completed Testament Age. I believe that the historical courses whose purpose is for people to accomplish the will of God can be summarized in this way. (118-167)

This is not the time when we can fuss over who is what now, how the area leader, or the regional leader is, what so-and-so in the IFVOC is like, and so forth. We have to unite single-mindedly and, focusing on a direction and a goal that the nation needs, fulfill the responsibility of the whole nation on whose foundation the Korean people can obtain sovereignty and establish the ideological basis. You have to understand that in the near future, the time will come when you have to conduct these kind of activities. Do you understand? [Yes] (67-303)

Do not miss or lose the opportunity or you'll have your task be taken away. The only way that you can retain it is the two methods that I have told you. You are to become a person who loves other people... If you can put into practice these two things, then you will never lose it. This is the only thing there is. I found that this is the only way. (94-143)

The more you come near the destination, the more exhausted you will be. If God was in your shoes, then he would take the most difficult path, the steepest valley that neither Satan, evil people, nor anyone for that matter, can follow. This is for certain. So, those who have the greedy ambition to become a hero for themselves will all fall down. All those who are greedy will fall down. Do you understand? (94-24)