1) The Reason for Opening the Gate of Heaven

Why do we need the Day of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven? God took full responsibility for all the mistakes which Adam and Eve made since the fall. He has to open the gate under His jurisdiction. He has to open the gates from the individual level to those of family and tribe. All of those gates have also been blocked. The doors for peoples, nations and the world have also been blocked. All of those doors have to be opened. By what? By Unification Church families. Rev. Moon has to open them. Do you understand? [Yes.]

God's strategy is to prepare small steps for achieving victory, from the individual to the family, tribe, nation, world and universe and even to the spirit world. Have they been blocked by heaven and hell? By whom have they been blocked? If Adam and Eve had become True Parents, the whole cosmos could have been united. But because of false parents, through the fall, the Kingdom of Heaven and hell have been blocked. Who can break down this historical world of grievous resentment?

True Parents have to do it. When they do it, they are not doing it from the position of a king or that of an imperial throne. Because humanity lives a suffering life in hell on earth and in the spirit world, the gate of hell first has to be opened on earth. Then the gate of hell in the spirit world has to be opened. Through that, the pathway is opened on earth for the individual, the nation and the world. The highway connecting earth to the spirit world has to be constructed. They have to connect to the mainstream. With the standard of unity between mind and body, we have to go beyond family, tribe, people, nation, world and spirit world to break down all the barriers. Everything has to be broken down.

The worst and last problem is to open the gates of hell and heaven in the spirit world which have been blocked. We have to go to the depths of hell on earth and open the gate of hell on earth. We have to go to the first gate of hell in spirit world and open it. Otherwise, nobody can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only the person who wins over hell can open it. How can you win? Not by a prayer, but by God's love. Unless you can do this, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the reason why Rev. Moon paved the way from earth to heaven by opening the gate of hell on earth and in spirit world, centered on God's love. The name of the International Highway came from this. Do you understand? This is to break down the wall which has been blocking us.

The reason that Jesus became the prince of heaven and had the authority as God's only son was that he was able to love not only the Satanic world on earth but also the spirit world. The spirit world has been blocked by boundaries, such as between the sphere of Buddha, the sphere of Confucius. All of the barriers have to be broken down by a higher standard of God's heart than theirs. From the high throne of heaven, all the walls must be broken down, from the highest level to the lowest. The barriers of ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago, many thousands of years ago, many hundreds of years ago, and the barriers of ancestors of only many years ago have to be broken down on earth and pave the way to connect to hell. Otherwise, the opening of the gate of heaven cannot come about. It is complicated. (140-43)