1. GOD'S WILL TO ESTABLISH THE SOVEREIGNTY OF A HEAVENLY COUNTRY ON EARTH

What is God's Will? It is to make the people of this earth into his beloved people, to make this earth into his beloved land, and, by bringing the people and the land into one sovereign nation, to create the ideal world. Do you understand what this is saying? Who will come and rule that ideal world? The coming Lord and God will act together to create an eternal, unchanging, ideal, sovereign nation. When that time comes, because people will come to enter the realm of direct dominion they will not say they do not know God; everyone will communicate with spirit world and will be able to feel God.

Until now although God existed, God could not show His sovereign power even once. Until now even though God existed, He was pushed around by Satan's world, sacrificed and chased. Until now He could not be the God who ruled this satanic world or who judged this satanic world. Why is that? Because He didn't have His nation. Because God did not have a nation which was better than the nations of Satan's world, God could not act as the God He is.

He sent Jesus into the world in order to establish one sovereign nation which would be higher than the archangelic nations of the satanic world, one sovereign nation centered on one world-level national standard which can stand above the nations of the satanic world. Only then can Adam rule and God's original dignity be established. But even though God has dominion, when God is working from a position which is less than Satan's nations, or tribe or family, then His honor and position cannot be established. (56-133)

What is the mission of the Unification Church? \Even though we are living in the world on earth, we are paving the way which will relieve all the sorrow centered on the spirit world. When God looks out at the spirit world, the spirit world should be filled up with the ancestors of the history of the cosmos; but in spite of that, none are in the kingdom of heaven. They are all at best in paradise and some are in hell. How sorrowful God must be to see that.

\Therefore when the Day of the Lord comes, from the very bottom of hell to paradise (which is not heaven) we will begin by making a new concept of the ideal. We will find the Cain and Abel connected to the bottom of hell and establish God's new concept of the family. We will establish God's new concept of the tribe, God's new concept of the people, God's new concept of the nation, and God's new concept of the world. All the people on earth have to be restored through indemnity.

Without carrying out restoration through indemnity centered on Cain and Abel, absorbing and digesting everything, passing through the unified world, and for the first time forming on earth what is lacking in the spirit world, we cannot release the will of the hope of God centered on the heavenly country. So Jesus also said, "..whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Without realizing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, will the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world appear? [No.] Without establishing the heavenly country on the earth, the good sovereignty in spirit world cannot be recovered. These are the inherent and awesome origin and circumstances of the matter. (143-29)

1) The Purpose of the Church is to Save the Nation

What is the purpose of the church? Churches exist in order to save the nation. But Christianity does not know this. In Christianity they say the purpose of the churches is to go to heaven. That is centered on the individual. That's why it created so individualistic a country as America. The place which is saying we should pioneer the world anew is the Unification Church.

The Unification Church members' witnessing is not in order to make the Unification Church prosper. It is in order for the nation to prosper. A religion must not just remain within one nation. Because the Jewish religion lost its leading role to be able to save the Israelite nation, it was ruined. Living for the nation is the policy of the Unification Church.

If the Unification Church seeks to unite many religions, it can't do that without loving the members of many churches. We must love other churches more than the members of those churches do. What is the unification policy of the Unification Church? It is love. Without being loved, this evil world cannot be subjugated. What did Jesus say to do if your right cheek was struck? [To offer your left cheek.] Whom did he say should do that? You and I are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. You and I still have remaining before us the road of death which we must go over.

If we love like this, centered on the heavenly nation, we can forgive. Do you understand? You are a person to be pitied, and I am a person to be pitied. Does it make sense for people who are to be pitied to fight with each other? Since all of us are in the pitiful position of not having a nation, we must seek the nation, and if I realize that first, I have the responsibility to find it for everyone even while being beaten along the way. Therefore even if your right cheek is struck, you must find that nation, even if you have to offer your left cheek. (34-330)

What must the Unification Church do? This is important. Religion must lead the nation and lead the world. It must lead the world. Therefore the Unification Church is saying we should save the nation. We must work for the nation, and the view that we must work for the world is clear. (73-119)

What our Unification Church is hoping to do is to find out how to establish one good nation in front of God's Will. On the day that one nation stands in front of God's Will, no matter how diabolical and vicious the realm of Satan's world is, it will submit to the good nation. That is the principle of the original creation of heaven and earth. That's why the Messiah is sent. (75-194)