3) True Parents and the Gate of Heaven

What is the mission of the Unification Church? The Unification Church is different from other religions from the past, which emphasized individual salvation. The Unification Church wants to build the original ideal world as before the fall. When people perfect themselves and marry centered on God's love and multiply by giving birth to children, they can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It is the original ideal world.

How can we say it is the Kingdom of Heaven if the father goes to hell while the mother goes to heaven, or if the parents go to heaven while the children go to hell? The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where everyone goes--parents and children, tribes, peoples, and nations. Because false parents created all the barriers, True Parents must appear to open the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven. Even God will not open the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven. If He would, why did He not do it since He is omnipotent? It is man himself who fell. That is why man, who committed sin, has to receive punishment. In other words, man has to find the Kingdom of Heaven by himself, because it is he who forfeited it. It is in his attempt that restoration has taken has taken 6,000 years.

To open the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven, what do we have to do? God has to elevate the person who is in the position of servant of servants through giving him the special privilege to reach that of the son of God's direct blood lineage. Who is the son of God's direct blood lineage? He is Adam before the fall. Who is the adopted son? He is the archangel before the fall. Originally, an adopted son, as an archangel, is in the position of servant, so he cannot receive love directly. (42-286)

If there had been no fall, all people would have been able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world on the foundation of uniting with the core of the True Parents' love, centered on God. Instead, all has been delayed. People are in hell and Paradise, but nobody is in the Kingdom of Heaven. The only people who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven are True Parents. If I say the Kingdom of Heaven is empty, people will think I am demented. But Jesus could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You cannot go there alone.

If our original ancestors had grown into adolescence and had established the positions of three objects of love, which is the ideal of love centered on God, they would have been the parents who could leave the seeds of true love. The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where such parents enter first. But until now there was no couple who were able to leave the seeds of true love, and also there was no foundation for the descendants to inherit. So the Kingdom of Heaven is empty.

Due to the Unification Church, the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven has been opened. But because Father did not go there yet, there is no one who has entered. Even Heung-Jin is waiting to enter while he goes here and there with Jesus. I am not just making up a story and trickily telling this to you. After I checked and checked--even worthless things--and researched and ran through everything, I found that there is only one way to go directly. That is to go through the family, tribe, people, nation, world and spirit world and up to the heavenly throne. On the way, you have to give others directions with a signal of love to guide them. You cannot Communicate with any other signals, or you cannot go. Do you have confidence to go to the Kingdom of Heaven? Do you have confidence? [Yes.] Can you go by driving a love car? If it happens that an angel of love can give signals to the love car, it can guide you to the Kingdom of Heaven. Even though this road is winding, it is a highway.

In 1985, Father at Danbury and Mother at East Garden finally opened the gate to connect heaven and earth. Ancestors who went to the spirit world many thousands of years ago came down to their descendants. If you enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you have to descend on earth through hell. If you want to go to the Kingdom of Heaven, you have to win over hell. Only persons who win over hell can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Paradise is like a waiting station before you enter the Kingdom of Heaven after having gone to the depths of hell.

When you look at humanity, you have to look at them as one man and one woman. "Two billion people among the four billion people are women, and two billion people are men. If you say two billion, that is a man with two billion cells, and a woman with two billion cells. With that mind, I will love those two people." You have to think that way. With what kind of name? With God's name. When Heavenly Father recreates humanity, he plants 4 billion people and recreates the historical Adam and Eve.

That means that God chooses one representative man among the 2 billion men and one representative woman from the 2 billion women to be His first loves. These representatives are the fruit of the love of humanity. If you make the determination that you are going to love the 2 billion people of humanity more than the father and mother who gave birth to you, and you become a person who can love the 4 billion people more than you love your father and mother, then you have nothing to do with Satan because you are totally one with the realm of God's love according to the standard of the Principle and you are in the position of loving humanity in oneness with God. Isn't it simple?

Who can be the representatives? They are the True Father and True Mother. If you can love humanity more than you love the True Parents, everything will be okay. Do you understand? The gates of hell in the spirit world and on earth can open immediately. Wherever you go, it will be a highway. However, you have to pay the price for gasoline. You should not ask your father and mother for the expense of gasoline. I gave you a car, so you have to drive the car at your own expense. "Well, parents have to drive for me." You cannot say that. In the original world, angels would have led the way to the Kingdom of Heaven, not True Parents. It is right that you come to see the True Parents, to greet them, rather than the True Parents coming to you and leading you. That is not the way of the Principle. The True Parents paved the way, so if you love the True Parents, you can automatically follow that path. Everything will go well when you love humanity more than you love the True Parents, with the attitude of following their footsteps and loving the True Parents. You must follow the mainstream of heart which can be directly connected to the highway. Therefore, you can directly enter the Kingdom of Heaven from the earth. (applause)

Well, am I a man or a woman? [Man] How about Mother? Is she a man or a woman? [Woman.] Right. I am a man. Mother is a woman. When you look around this world, there are these two kinds of people, and there are male and female animals. Because of the fall, some men and women are just like animals, are they not? You can enter the realm of heart with a mother's heart which goes beyond the Satanic world. If you have made bad conditions in front of Father, then you have to try again. Throughout my life, as a parent, I have prepared the way for my children to go, through taking all responsibility.

If you stand in the place where you love humanity with the same heart as you love the True Parents, you will become one with the True Parents and stand in the same line horizontally with True Parents. If you can do this, Satan cannot influence you, because your heart is much higher than fallen man's. You can connect to heaven directly. Do you understand? [Yes.] To accomplish this, I declared the Day of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven. (140-45)