Thanks on behalf of the International Conference Participants

Thank you so much for all the efforts you are making on behalf of the International Conference Participants. I know you have sacrificed a great deal to be here, family friends, work, etc. Also, while the entire movement prepares for the grand entrance into the Heavenly Palace, we are here together in a sacrificial role taking care of guests and focused entirely on the public work at hand.

Rev. Kwak, knowing our situation, offered to share the Holy Wine Ceremony with our staff members on the evening of June 10th just after the Opening Banquet of the conference.

This same wine ceremony was shared with all the members in Korea on June 6 and drew, from conservative estimates, about 100,000 people to the Cheong Pyeong area!

Before conducting the ceremony, Rev. Kwak provided some simple guidance. Below is a transcript, slightly edited for clarification purposes, of what he said:

On the 6th of June True Father did a Holy Wine ceremony for church members here in Korea. Many thousands came to Cheong Pyeong. Originally man was supposed to live under the dominion of God’s true love. However due to the fall of our first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, mankind came under the dominion of Satan. However, even though man fell, God is still God. He simply lost his object. God wants to have man return back to the position of His object again, but the problem is Satan. Satan came to be involved with human beings dominating them through false love and unfortunately man is not capable of escaping by himself. In order to help fallen man escape from Satan’s dominion, our True Father, the Messiah, created Holy Wine.

After giving the Holy Wine to mankind he also blessed them. As you know the Blessing movement began from just a few couples and then grew and grew to many thousands and even millions of couples over the last 40 years. Now the conditions to give and receive the Blessing are much lighter, but in the beginning it was a life and death battle to claim even one couple from Satan’s dominion. The Holy Wine is a condition that contains 21 materials including 3 types of wine, ocean, earth, space, and the basis for love, life and lineage among other elements.

Even though God wishes to bless us, if we remain under Satan’s dominion, the blessing will not work; therefore we first need to move from Satan’s dominion to God’s dominion for God to give us the Blessing. We need to move from Satan’s love, life, and lineage to God’s love, life, and lineage. In front of True Father Satan does surrender and give up our couple, but he does so conditionally and is always watching and waiting to find another condition to accuse and claim us back again. Do you remember in August of 2003 with the proclamation of the era of the 4th Israel? We all received the Holy Wine again. Think about it, it’s actually a shame to take it again. Basically we should clean up and take the Holy Wine only one time in our life, however because we are so unworthy, we had the take the wine again. In other words, even though we were forgiven and cleansed by taking the Holy Wine the first time, we made bad conditions and needed to be claimed back again from Satan’s dominion.

In this incredible time of historical grace, through the invisible God and visible True Parents we can once again receive the Holy Wine and be cleansed, forgiven, and prepared for the coming historical moment when the Providence of heaven and earth will be turned upside down through the opening of the Heavenly Palace in Cheong Pyeong…so once again we can receive the Holy Wine, even though unworthy, we should be so grateful, however please remember that it is conditional grace and we have to live in obedience to God and True Parents with filial piety and not make any more mistakes.

This period from June 6 to June 13 is so important for our purification and preparation…lets have the ceremony now…