True Mother’s Speech at the 2018 Africa Summit Interfaith & Peace Blessing
The following is an official translation of True Mother’s message from November 24, 2018 at the Cape Town International Convention Center in South Africa during the Africa Summit Interfaith & Peace Blessing.
God, our Creator, the highest and most precious Heavenly Parent, because it was your dream, You created all things in the universe and created Adam and Eve to become the first human ancestors. However, due to the fall of our first ancestors, who were meant to make your dream into reality, as our Creator, God, You had no choice but to begin the providence of restoration through indemnity. How difficult must that course have been, such that it took the long period of four thousand years for You to send Your only son, Jesus Christ, whom you called “My Son.”
However, Mary and the people around him were unable to unite with Jesus and pushed him into a position in which he could not complete his mission. Until Jesus began his three years of public life, how loudly did Jesus cried out toward the walls of Jerusalem that those with open eyes will see and those with open ears will hear? However, in the end, Jesus, for whom the supporting environment was lost, said he would return as he went the way of the cross. He said he would return and hold the Feast of the Lamb. The marriage supper of the Lamb! When he returns, without fail he must meet God’s only begotten daughter, whom You call “My daughter.” Therefore, the Messiah, who two thousand years ago was unable to work as the True Parent, will now, with the presence of God’s only daughter, take the position of the True Parents, and give fallen people the grace of rebirth and resurrection through the Blessing.
May they remember that it is this Blessing that gives them the qualification to become Your children, Heavenly Parent. Before the coming of this day, Heavenly Parent, Your days have been filled with tears, lamentation, and suffering. You have worked so hard and waited so long for the True Parents, who would emerge victorious from among humankind, to be born. Now is the time to see the completion of the providence. The hope of humankind and Your dream, Heavenly Parent, is for one human family, the peaceful Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, centered on You, our Heavenly Parent. However, the walls of war and conflict continue to grow higher and people do not know the direction they should go.
This beautiful Earth that You, our Creator, created is being tormented due to people’s ignorance, and we cannot see hope for the future. You cannot just stand back and watch this reality. Your only daughter, indeed, the True Parents know this. You have raised prophets and righteous people from many nations for this day.
In particular, with the effort and devotions of Prophet Radebe and many other religious leaders, we know that those participating in this event, have, through the True Parents, gained the qualifications as citizens of Cheon Il Guk to realize Your dream, Heavenly Parent. Our Heavenly Parent, You have worked so hard until now. We give our endless gratitude and praise to Heaven as a new history begins through theses virtuous men and women receiving the Blessing here today as part of the 430,000 couples. May these couples become blessed families who fulfill their responsibility and thereby obtain the qualifications to become tribal messiahs, national messiahs, and ultimately global messiahs.
Let them remember that they have obtained a qualification that will enable them to become wonderful blessed families who not only bring blessings on earth, but who can also re-bless and liberate even their ancestors in the spirit world. With the grace of the blessing undoubtedly comes responsibility. This responsibility is not only for oneself, but it is also for one’s neighbors, one’s tribe, one’s nation, and the world. As citizens of Cheon Il Guk who practice true love by living for the sake of others, I pray they will become families that have all the qualifications to become people who take responsibility for future generations and broaden the foundation to create a world of peace and happiness for their second and third generations; and that, as couples who have received the blessing the Blessing today, they become parents who fulfill their responsibilities. I pray and proclaim this in the name of the True Parents. Aju.