1. REVEREND MOON'S BIRTH

I was born in 1920. In those days, the situation in Korea was miserable. Korea was under Japanese rule. It was a miserable period, a period of historic change. Thus, I was born into and have been living in an age of tribulation. Korea as a nation was suffering under Japanese rule. The year 1920 was just one year after the Sam-il Independence Movement of 1919, and it was also a year with a bad harvest.

While I was in my mother's womb, people allegedly ate pine tree bark to avoid starvation. When I think of all those things, I ask why God, who seems to love Rev. Moon today, had to put me through such historical difficulties and make me suffer in the deepest valleys of tribulation. When I was born my tribe also suffered difficulties. All this was the work of God. Since I know the law of indemnity, I can understand these things, otherwise I would say they are all lies. (141-30)