1) What Kind of Strategy Will God Carry Out?

What must we in the Unification Church do? In order to enable the people of the Republic of Korea to live, the Unification Church should be sacrificed! This is the way of our church and the way of goodness. Do you understand? If we do this until the nation is saved, until evil disappears from the nation and until the last day, Korea will follow even if the Unification Church tried to get away. Such a time will inevitably come.

Look. That is why the Unification Church will not be destroyed through persecution, but has developed while being struck. Do you understand? The strategy of Heaven is to be struck, and then take over. Satan dominates by striking, but when we are to take from him, he repays us for the loss. This is wonderful. We did not know this in the past. Evil will strike first, and when it loses, it will make complete reparation for the losses and return everything. Isn't that so? If we violate a good person, we must repay the losses. Similarly, evil must strike first, dominate, and must return everything. When returning, it must attach all compensation.

That is why God has raised up the religions, caused them to be struck, and them redeemed everything. Rome struck Christianity, and in the end was overcome by it. Isn't that so? Korea at first struck Christianity, but the first government of the Republic was established on the basis of Christianity. That is how everything will turn out.

You must know this. The strategy of the good side is to be struck and gain, while the strategy of the evil side is to strike, dominate and then lose everything. This is why evil is meant to be destroyed and good to prosper. You must understand this. Is it clear?

God is the king of wisdom, knowing all of these things, and planned everything unerringly. Therefore, the final victory will be gained by Father. Does that feel good, or bad? [Good!] Who has the final victory? [Father.] After Father wins, what next? Learning from the secret of Father's victory, "I" can also win. All of the historical saints up till today did not know this secret and could not win; thus all the saints who couldn't find victory will have to learn from us. (1972 May 14, Su-tek Li)

What will happen to the Unification Church as it is opposed? Speaking of God's strategy and Satan's strategy, Satan has been striking first and losing, while God has been struck and regained. You must know this. Where the good and evil sides battle, you must know how God's plan and Satan's plan differ. This world does not know that. The evil side strikes and loses as they try to dominate, while the good side dominates through being struck. The opposite, complete opposite. While being struck, while becoming a sacrifice without sin, they regain. They pay indemnity, ask for compensation of the losses and expand. These two strategies are deployed.

Before their parents, isn't that so with siblings as well? The bad child is the one who hits first. This is the formula. God's strategy and Satan's strategy are different; Heaven plans to be hit first and then regain, while Satan plans to hit first and then loses. (1978 Feb. 22, Belvedere Training Center)

What about the Unification Church from now on? Until now, everything about the Unification Church was criticized. It was worse than the Communists, worse than the democratic world, worse than hippies and yuppies. What was that? We should know that it was a strategy on Heaven's side to protect us. It was a plan to keep the good side from being influenced by the bad, and on Satan's side it was a warning. We must know that. Two plans will be developed. (1983 Mar 20, Belvedere Training Center)

God, backed by our blood, sweat and tears, is struck and regains. He uses the tactics to be struck and gain back. This is the strategy of Heaven. If I were told to fight with a sword, do you think I wouldn't be able to? Had I fought that way, I would have wiped everything out. Even as I was dying, I would have done so. However, that is not the way. I must be hit to gain.

That is why the Unification Church has been struck until now. When being struck, you as individuals were not struck, not as family units. When I of the Unification Church was struck, I was hit for the Republic of Korea. I was hit for heaven and earth. I was hit for the cosmos. As such a universal foundation has been built, Satan is now doomed to retreat. You are among the happiest of the happy. We must deal with this situation now. The satans who are dispersed in this world are like defeated soldiers. (1963 Nov. 15, old Headquarters Church)