Today We Members of the Unification Church Are Living In a Messianic Era

God created Adam and Eve to be the parents of mankind, and He blessed them saying: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” God created man for the fulfillment of these three major blessings expressed in Genesis 1:28. The first blessing is the perfection of man. The second blessing is that of the divine marriage of perfect husband and wife to create the family. The third is the lordship over all creation.

Mr. Bo Hi Pak giving this address at the International Blessing of 74 couples

If Adam and Eve had been totally obedient to God and had united with Him, they would have become the first temples of God through their individual perfection. It was God’s plan then to bring perfected Adam and Eve into heavenly matrimony, and as husband and wife, they would create the first family of man on earth. As they multiplied children, their posterity would have filled the earth, and they would have been given Lordship over all the earth. That would have consummated the three blessings of God and the joy of God would have been abundant throughout heaven and earth.

Through disobedience, however, Adam and Eve separated themselves from God and could not achieve perfection. Therefore God could not bless Adam and Eve in heavenly matrimony, and human history started with a Satanic lineage. It is truly heartwarming, though to know that in the long 6,000 years of Biblical history, God’s total goal has been the restoration of mankind into His own family. He has been longing for the day of the first heavenly wedding ceremony…

It is incredible and astonishing to realize today that we members of the Unification Church are living in another Messianic era. We are privileged people who are allowed to see God, not in a mirror dimly, but face to face. We are privileged people who have been experiencing the very heart of God.

Reverend and Mrs. Moon officiate over the dignified ceremony. Seventy-four couples from nations around the world are jointly married in the Terrace Room of the former New Yorker Hotel, New York

Today we see 74 chosen pairs of men and women who have been handpicked by God to be blessed into heavenly matrimony. This historical event which we are about to eyewitness will unite the entire heaven and earth in these men and women, creating heavenly families which shall be admitted into the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven.

Although our work and the media are quiet today, the billions of citizens in the spirit world know that today another important cornerstone of the Kingdom of God on earth is about to be laid here in America. The entire spirit world is enviously looking upon these privileged men and women from 11 different nations of the World…

As members of the Unification Church International from all over the world, we bring our heartfelt congratulations to ·you selected champions of our movement who are participating in today’s honor and glory. We extend our heartfelt congratulations upon your blessed marriage.

We pay our hearty respect and admiration to you who, through your long-standing loyalty and absolute devotion have won today’s honor to be selected as blessed couples. We know that many of you have gone through untold tribulations and persecution. You have victoriously gone through severe tests of God in personal tragedies, and you have withstood the worst temptations. Today, you are here as victors of heaven… you are shining examples of Church members throughout the world. You have been the pacemakers of our movement, and you have set a beautiful tradition to be followed. Yet, today is the real beginning for you. All heaven and earth will watch what you do after this blessing. We still have ground to cover to reach perfection. But I am sure you will come out final and eternal victors.

I would like to end by quoting the words of Reverend Sun Myung Moon in his message on September 11, 1974: “What is our purpose? To become true men. We will create the true husband and wife and become true parents to give birth to children who experience love among themselves and from a loving brotherhood. And those children and parents together will create one heavenly family. That family will expand into a true society. That true society will expand into a true nation. That true nation will expand into a true world.”

God bless you all. Thank you.