God's Hope for the Blessed Land

Sun Myung Moon June 23, 1957 Excerpt from: Let Us Be Strong and Bold and Restore the Lost Land - Selected Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Volume 2 Seoul, Korea Unofficial Translation

What will take place on earth when you are triumphant with strong and bold hearts in the showdown battle against enemies; at the risk of your life, representing the 6,000 years of the providential history? Then, for the first time, we will welcome a day when heaven and earth are harmonized, and the resentments and anguish of our ancestors, who appealed to Heaven by shedding blood for many thousands of years, will be liberated. The joy of the Creator will be manifested. Tens of thousands of saints will rejoice within the realm of God’s eternal and unchanging love. So will it be for all humankind on earth. God will boast about you in front of Satan. Your ancestors will be also proud of you. All of you will be boastful of each other as brothers and sisters.

First, among you, one person who is qualified to ask God, “Please love him since he is your son,” must appear. Without the person with this truth appearing on earth, the joy of human beings, spirit world, God, and heaven and earth, cannot be fulfilled. You should keep this firmly in mind.

Today, if we had cleansed the resentments and anguish of the sinful history of 6,000 years filled with grief and pain, and if we had become the individuals who can say, “Dear Heavenly Father, please rejoice with me. Please be liberated from all of your grief through me. Please put out of your mind all the lamentations built up throughout the past 6,000 years; and receive a day when You can finally smile for the first time since the creation.” And that if we had become such individuals who can also say, “Our ancestors in the spirit world, as Heaven is rejoicing, please rejoice with us,” the blessed land of Canaan on the worldwide level will be restored. You should become the people who can introduce God’s love to all humankind, after transferring the resentments and anguish caused by the 6,000 years of the fallen history to the satanic domain.

Only when you become such people, can we represent Jesus Christ in the worldwide blessed land of Canaan, and represent the seventy disciples of Jesus, and thus become the sons and daughters whom God desires. Then you can create a family that God can rejoice in, and expand to the people whom God can trust, and restore a nation that God can trust. This is where the garden of eternal happiness and the blessed

land of the ideal will be established. You should know this clearly.

Today, this is the time when 6,000 years of providence of restoration should be consummated. With the final bold initiatives, you must march forward to the fulfillment of God’s will. You should not be ones to look back. At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the wife of Lot could not let go but yearned for her old lifestyle, neighbors and situations and habits there. She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.

The Israelites, who had followed Moses from Egypt, missed their life in the past as soon as they faced difficulties in the wilderness. Thus, they could not enter the blessed land of Canaan but fell to death on the way. When they did not have shelters or foods in the wilderness, they resented Moses and complained to him, saying, “Had we remained in Egypt, we could have eaten cakes and even meats every so often.” At that time, the people who complained remembering nostalgically of the past were the wealthy people and rulers over others.

Therefore, today you should not follow the same footsteps of the Israelites. Then what should you look for at this moment? Is it a house in which you are now living? Is it friends whom you are now associating with? Your house or friends should not be what should seek. If you have a house, it will be in a barren land. If you have friends, they are brothers and sisters who are wandering in the wilderness.

In order for you to go the path for God’s Will, from the levels of an individual, a family, a society, a people, and a nation, you should purify them by separating yourself from all the worldly things and abandoning them. Then, you should replace them with heavenly things. I should abandon my worldly self and be replaced by a heavenly self. I should restore a secular family into a heavenly one, and a worldly tribe into a heavenly tribe. Further, we should abandon the secular people and nation and restore a heavenly people and nation. In order to restore these, you should be bold and strong to march forward with all your hearts and all your minds.

Once you become such a person, you will be grateful even if a person whom you are trying to bring back collapses, or the people and nation that you are working to restore may perish. You become such a son or daughter of God.

Today you should fight an individual, family, nation and world battle with such a determination to command Satan to move away. You should prepare such a courageous heart.

If there is anyone who proceeds with loyalty toward heaven until the end of life, even if he or she dies, that individual will be resurrected and enjoy glory in the blessed land. If not die, this individual as the second Israelite will live in the garden in the blessed land. Please keep this firmly in mind.