A Starting Point to Reawaken the Nation
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at the International Peace Education Center, Dr. Ki Hoon Kim, Continental Chair of FFWPU North America, gave a message expressing True Mother’s thanks for the 7-Day Divine Principle Workshop participants. His full message is transcribed below.
We’ve been waiting for years for this seven-day national-level workshop centering on True Parents, learning the Divine Principle and learning about True Parents’ life and accomplishments here at the International Peace Education Center. All of the lecturers have been wonderful. Thank you so much. True Mother heard about your coming to Las Vegas for the seven-day workshop before the dedication of the International Peace Education Center (IPEC), and True Mother told me, “Yes, that is a good condition, a great idea, great plan and a great start for the sake of reawakening this country.”
How do you like IPEC? This is for you. True Parents prepared this wonderful and gorgeous education center for all of us. Let’s give True Parents a big hand!
You believe in the spiritual world, right? People in the spirit world are really active now, in the spirit world and physical world; do you feel that? Many sisters—I don’t know, maybe sisters are closer to God or spirit world—but many sisters recently have come to me and said, “Bishop Kim, I had a dream yesterday. True Father was watching this seven-day workshop and he had a big smile.” At least five sisters have told me about True Father appearing to them in a dream. True Father is here and grateful. Thank you, America. Thank you, Japanese family members. Thank you, international leaders, for your wonderful support for this seven-day workshop. How many years has it been since you’ve attended a seven-day workshop? When was the last time you went? Someone said, in 1993, which is more than 10 years ago. This is a really great beginning and reawakening for America. How can we awaken this country and the American people?
Downstairs we are having an international leaders’ conference, and this morning 300 Japanese family members were here, and I told them about why True Father came to America in February 1965. God told True Father to go to America and awaken this country. God said, “I prepared this country, America, as God’s nation, and they are falling down now, so I really want you to be in my position for the sake of this country,” and True Father came to this country in 1965. However, if you read the Cheon Seong Gyeong—do you have a copy of the Cheon Seong Gyeong or Pyeong Hwa Gyeong?—True Father said very clearly—around Page 567—“Before I founded the Unification Church in Korea in 1954, already in 1950 God told me to prepare to go to America.”
Before True Father founded our church in 1954, he received this message from our Heavenly Parent. How precious is this message of God for the sake of this country? Without God, this country never would have come to exist. In 1965, True Father came to the United States and sanctified 55 Holy Grounds across the United States within 43 days. All this happened because our Heavenly Parent prepared this nation America. This nation was chosen by our Heavenly Parent, chosen by True Parents and blessed by True Parents. Don’t you think so?
So this seven-day workshop is really a beginning point. The Unification movement has been here for the last 50 years, but from now let’s move on to the perfection stage for the sake of True Parents and for the sake of this country. True Father said that saving this country, saving Christianity, and saving families would be the foundation that he would bring back to Korea and build the unification of North and South Korea upon that. This was True Father’s first speech that he gave on his first day in America in 1965. He had a 40-year plan to do it, and after 40 years True Father came back to Korea to fulfill this reunification of North and South Korea. This is God’s providence.
True Mother came to East Garden last Saturday, and her message was that America does not exist for itself; America exists for the sake of the world and for the sake of God’s Fatherland, Korea. So this is the mission we have to fulfill. How can we fulfill this mission? True Father said very clearly that without understanding the Divine Principle, without understanding True Parents’ life, how can we inherit True Parents’ spirit and vision for the sake of America and the world?
Let us take this mission and let us move on for the sake of this country. Who can you trust these days? Washington, D.C.? Wall Street? Hollywood? No one is really taking responsibility, saving this community, this nation and the world. True Parents had this vision to save this nation through Christianity and blessed central families. We have that mission with us.
There are so many great cities in the United States—Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, and Miami—why did True Parents found IPEC in Las Vegas?
Once again, thank you so much. True Mother is very grateful to each of you, and we will have another chance to meet True Mother before we leave Las Vegas. Let’s give a big hand to True Mother one more time. Without True Mother, after True Father’s Seonghwa, we would have been really struggling, spiritually, and externally. However True Mother really pushed us hard, telling us, “Let’s move forward. What are you worrying about? Are you worried about money? Are you worried about some spiritual battle after True Father ascended to the spirit world? No, I got a new mission from Heavenly Parent, and True Father told me to carry on this mission and move forward.” So, this is how this building came about today.
After Hyo Jin Moon’s Seonghwa (ascension ceremony), True Parents came back to Las Vegas, and they researched many places in the states around the Las Vegas area. It was great to see God’s beautiful creation in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and many other areas. I was traveling with True Parents, and we planned to stay five days in Sedona, Arizona, and stay in a rented house, and we already had paid a certain amount of money, but after one day, the next morning at Hoon Dok Hwe (scripture reading) at 5 a.m., True Father said, “I have to go back to Las Vegas.” True Father already had paid for this house for four more days, but he said: “God told me I have to leave right now. I have to be in Las Vegas at a certain time.”
This kind of thing has happened many times, and on one occasion we were having Hoon Dok Hwe with True Mother and some leaders, and after Hoon Dok Hwe was over I had to leave right away back to Las Vegas. We chartered a private jet, and after the pilot dropped us off, he left that location, and then True Father said, “I have to leave right away.” People told him: “True Father, wait. This pilot is coming here so that you can fly back to Las Vegas.” True Father said, “I cannot wait two hours.” So he came out himself and got in his car and drove back to Las Vegas. Even True Mother prepared the whole package and everything, but True Father said, “I must leave right away.” So later on, a few hours later, True Mother and some of us flew back to Las Vegas, but how how fast did True Father’s car drive? True Father’s car beat the airplane from that other city to come over here. I know police stopped his car twice, but however, this police officer said, “Oh, you go as fast as you want, but you must be concerned about your safety.” So they did not give him a ticket. One brother and I flew to Las Vegas, and we came to Lake Mead; True Father had already arrived there by car. This happened four years before True Father went to the spirit world.
Many things have been happening. Early one morning at 4 a.m. True Father and Rev. Yoo were driving somewhere, and I was sitting in the back seat reporting about church activities, and right away True Father said, “Invite 172 pastors to Korea for a two-week workshop.” So, all these things were suddenly happening, just anywhere—on a boat, in a car, in houses and even in a hotel—and I really felt how much True Father was communicating with our Heavenly Parent, and very seriously sometimes, shouting, yelling, and sometimes we asked, “Why do we have to do it right now?” All this has been happening around the city of Las Vegas.
Once again, thank you. Let us carry on in this country, America, for the sake of Heavenly Parent and True Parents. God bless you.