6) Reason We Should do Fundraising

Now Unification members understand the responsibility of indemnity, right? You should go through the indemnity course. So why do you go fundraising? [Father talks to one person] What education did you receive about this? (It is a practical education in which we can use what we learned about the Principle in fighting against Satan.) Is that how it is explained? Why do you need to do witnessing and fundraising? (It is a condition for the restoration of all things.) What will you do after restoring all things? (We are responsible to restore people in the fallen world, but also to return all things to God.) What is the human responsibility? We need to restore all things because God needs things He can possess as He tries to recreate us. God tries to recreate fallen people but He needs things within his authority. You have not taught them this, right? What does this mean? Because of the Fall, there is no material through which God can recreate you. Everything is given over to Satan. So you return the material to God, and through this you become recreated. By offering the material for your re-creation, you establish the condition for being re-created. Where is this material? It is possessed by all households and all people. All kinds of people, including government ministers and congressmen possess all things. You go to them and receive it from them. Your sincere efforts are expressed in terms of money. You should never keep it for yourself, however. You should return it entirely to heaven. You cannot even touch one penny, although by order you can use some for your lunch. Otherwise, you should not touch even one dollar from your fundraising results. You find all things in the world and bring them to God. This period is three and half years. God created all things in seven years, and restoring all things takes three and half years. So for three years you should invest all your mind and body. There will be all kinds of humiliations and persecutions. You will be shedding tears and have to do all kinds of things. You will want to run away, but you should endure everything. All kinds of things may happen to you. People may even kick and spit at you. Don't you think so? But if a household feels God's heart and receives you, then they will receive a blessing. When they thank you for the thing they buy, they will receive blessing. They will come within the area of God's intervention. When even a few people do this, God can intervene, and the world will become brighter.

So you ask all kinds of people, including menial laborers and beggars, collect their belongings and offer them to God. For the three years, you try to regain, through all kinds of ways, an amount to represent what was lost in the Garden of Eden. God tried to create the original land and me, and yet through the Fall original man and original land were lost. So we should find it with blood and sweat. This is possible because it is the True Parents' order. Since there is nothing with which God can recreate you, you find the material and bring it to God so that He can use it as a soil to create you, the Adam and Eve. He will mold you again out of the soil. You are doing economic activities in order to establish such a material condition. Do you understand it? (Yes) It is not to make money. You have to go fundraising. (133-159)