Establish A Tradition of Hoon Dok Hae and

Establish A Tradition of Hoon Dok Hae and the Family Culture of your Dreams

Table of Contents Ⅰ. 1 st Couple Program 1. Is Our Family Education fine the Way it is? 1) The History of Shema Education Passed down to the Jews 2) The Limitations of the Current Church School Education 3) The family Education that We Seek 2. True Parents’ Words on Hoondok Family Church 1) Family Sanctuary Ⅱ. 2 nd Couple Program 1. How Will we Educate Our Family? 1) Structure of Hoondok Hae 2) Goals to be Achieved Through Hoondok Hae 3) Conversational Skills to lead Hoondok Hae Ⅲ. Creating Model Families and Expanding Through Heavenly Tribal Messiahship

Ⅰ. 1 st Couple Hoondok Program 1. Is Our Family Education fine the Way it is? 2. True Parents’ Words on Hoondok Family Church

1. Is Our Family Education fine the Way it is?

1) The History of Education Passed down to the Jews Centered on the Torah, the Jews establish a relationship with their ancestors and God. The descendants inherit a sense of pride and greatness through hearing different stories about the wisdom of their ancestors, who executed God’s commands very well. They do not read only on special occasions or days but take the time to read and share words together at least once a week. 1) Old Testament Age – “Build the altar” after Noah’s Flood Judgment (Genesis 8: 20) -Sacrificial Offering together with the Family. 2) God chose Abraham, the first ancestor of the Jews. (Genesis 12: 1 -3, B. C. 2091). He went through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob before finally forming the 12 tribes centered on Jacob’s son. About 645 years later, the Jehovah God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob gave the Jews(the Israelites) the Torah, God’s Words, on Mt. Sinai (B. C. 1446).

The 39 Books of the Old Testament are based on the Torah but with added history, wisdom and phrophecies. God told the Jews that they should absolutely pass down the Torah to their descendants. The Jews did this through the ‘Shema’ (Deuteronomy 6: 4 -9). [‘Shema ([m'v])’ means ‘listen’ in Hebrew (Genesis 6: 4)and is a important noun in child education for Jews (Genesis 6: 4 -9) ]. Therefore, Shema is a Supreme Order of the Old Testament that must absolutely be obeyed by the Jews. 3) In the New Testament Age, Jesus often taught his disciples at home. He often stayed at people’s houses such as Peter, Matthew,

The purpose Testament, of Shema, the supreme command of the Old is to teach the essence of family roles centered on the traditional Jews. (Genesis 6: 4 -9) Later on, in the New Testament Age, the purpose of the supreme command changes its focus to the salvation of secular people. (After the Chapter 2 of Acts of the Apostles). After the era of Roman state religion, the influence of the supreme command of the Old Testament, which is to pass on the Shema, weakened. The number of believers grew but it did not expand culturally. The passing down of education from generation to generation within the family was put aside for the This identity and sustainability of this tradition was thus lost. As a greater goal of expansion. result, the vertical family education came to a stop and all efforts were focused on expansion of horizontal salvation. Why did that happen? It is because the Jews believed that when the quantitative propagation of the gospel was accomplished, all salvation ministry would end and the world they dreamed of, the kingdom of Heaven, would reign. Therefore, they probably believed that a quantitative increase would bring total liberation.

This phenomenon would hit even harder when the Industrial Revolution Wave spread all over Europe. All the production processes became mechanized, leaving all the laborers who worked by hand at a loss. They could not get out of poverty even if both the husband wife worked. In this kind of situation, they had no time or energy to spare for family education. during the Reformation much importance on family (worship) services. Despite this, most of the reformers placed Biographers who lived during the era of Luther and others like him, testified that they were enthusiastic about the family service that Luther started.

Jesus (John 1: 14), who is the physical embodiment of the Word, is This signifies that the Gospel itself is the living Word. Furthermore, God’s people will not perish but be born again through the living and the life and Gospel(1 Peter 1: 25). enduring word of God (1 Peter 1: 23). The word of God is not only necessary for the salvation of it is also spiritual food for the saved people everyday. (Psalms 1: 1 -3, 33: 6 -9; Romans 10: 17). Only then humankind but can the spirit live. (Psalms 19: 7). In this way, the word of God is not only a declaration for the it is spiritual food for parents and children in the family. Through studying the expansion of human salvation but word everyday, they can keep their identity and vertical value as children of God. Furthermore, human salvation begins with the word(Genesis 1: 3 -31; Joel 1: 1 -3). Through this, God gives fallen humankind a way to receive eternal life. Thus, we see that the expansion of witnessing involves embodying the word ourselves, being inspired and enthusiastic about establishing the nation of God and of this model in the family. completing the ideal The passion of that family should then spread to other families around.

How Israel Inherited and Developed their Faith Israel (Judaism) Faith inheritance and Development For 4200 years, from the time of Abraham until now, the faith has been inherited and passed down in the family from generation to generation ! Expansion of horizontal foundation and Propagation of Holy words in order to save secular people ?

2) The limitations of the Current Sunday School The Start of Sunday School Robert Raises (1735∼ 1811) first used the word ‘Sunday School’ in the 1780 s in England. Sunday School did not begin inside of the church. Rather, it began outside of the church. With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, the spinning and weaving machine and the steam engine were invented, causing rapid industrialization and urbanization. The laborers who were left in poor condition threatened the social order. They were in a situation where, not just the husband wife, but the whole family would have to work for over 15 hours a day in order to survive. Furthermore, not only family education but education it was difficult uphold faith education in the family at school in general became difficult. Therefore to expect Jews to based on Shema, with the exception of a small part of the Israel community.

At this time, Professor Rakes was employed to teach writing, Bible stories and doctrine to young children who could not afford to go to school. At first, this received a positive response. When the churches heard about this, they came to believe that if this method can be systemized and a curriculum developed then it could become an even more effective method. Soon they launched Sunday School in every church. However soon enough, this Sunday School education began to face the same problems faced by education today. The parents believed that if they simply sent their children to school, they would be taught basic character education and develop a sense of morality. However they realized too late that the school education cannot merge with the family education. Similarly, parents also expected that if the children were sent to learn faith education at the Sunday School in church then they would grow according to God’s plan and develop basic character. However, youth education which lacks the parents’ input will fail to nurture children into developing faith.

The Decline in America’s Family Service and Sunday School According to Kerry Pateck, the family service held during the Reformation in America slowly began to see a decline in the later half of the 17 th century and rapidly declined in the mid 19 th century. This is due to the influence of the Sunday School which became popular in the family education simply passed on their responsibility to the church, leading to a sharp decline in family services. (Pateck, 2003, 141 -169). the 19 th century. Parents who felt burdened by There is a need to investigate whethere is some degree of connection between the decline in family service and rapid rise in Sunday school education. However, Kerry Pateck thinks that it is a dangerous sign that the Christians are passing up on their responsibility to educate their own children to the Sunday School and therefore give up on education in the family.

3) The Family Education that we Seek Comparing the Supreme Command in the Old Testament. New Testament. Completed Testament Classificationㅊ God’s Goal Supreme Command’s Goal Old Testament Supreme Command New Testament (Jesus) Supreme Command To save fallen humankind and recreate them as human beings that resemble God’s original nature. Pass on the word from generation to generation Make disciples in every clan over the Establish God’s nation and its people world (Matt 28: 19 -20; Acts 1: 8) (Gen 18: 19; Deut 6: 4 -9) Supreme Command’s Focus on perfecting the individual purpose completion (family perfection) Goal Focus on expanding the whole purpose Begins after Chapter 2 of the Acts of The start of the supreme command Cheon Il Guk Supreme Command Begins from Abraham’s family , the father of faith and first family ministry the Apostles (Eg: Jerusalem Church) when the word was propagated to save secular people as well Harmony between the individual(family) and whole purpose Begins at the time before Adam and Eve fell, in the original garden at the time of Creation Establish harmony between the vertical Vertical transmission of the word about Horizontal propagation of the word at chosen people in the family church Place of education Family sanctuary Church sanctuary (building ) Close roles of family and church Professor(Pastor) Parents in the family Pastor in the church Homegroup leader and parents Education content Old Testament Bible New Testament Bible Direction of salvation and horizontal in resemblance of God’s characteristics Old Testament+New Testament+Completed Testament To lead a life of practice and realize Professor’s duty To nurture the children through the word To propagate education through the word the model family ideal through the in the family at church tradition of reading the 8 Great Textbooks Advantages of education Traditional education worked out well but Transmission of family education could expansion of gentile mission failed not keep up with church expansion Family education connecting the vertical and horizontal + not able to transmit church education First of all, in order to establish identity through family and church, the parents should uphold the supreme order '(Gen 18: 19; Psalms 6: 4 -9) by nurturing their children to become disciples of the word and along with that, uphold the supreme Ideal church duty order (Matt 28: 19 -20) of conveying the gospel horizontally to the ends of the earth. We should realize mutual harmony between the individual purpose and purpose of the whole in this era of Cheon Il Guk, and become true owners of Cheon Il Guk who practice true love in resemblance to our Creator, the Heavenly Parent

<How the Jewish educate and develop their IQ> The first method to developing their IQ is reading with their parents. It has become a way of life for the Jewish parents to read books to the children before they go to bed. The second way to develop the IQ is question-style education. This was an important tool in raising children up to become geniuses for thousands of years. It is here that they discover truth and wisdom. The third method to developing both sides of the brain is debate-style education. (1) They debate on diverse topics with their parents during meal times (2) Refute the iniquities of different perspective through question and answers. (3) If the other person’s weak point is exposed, it is continuously attacked- the responder should prepare counter-arguments as much as possible (4) Debating is very intense so it may seem as if they are fighting (5) Respect the other person’s way of debating and return to original state after debating (6) Distinguish between right and wrong while debating and learn to

2. True Parents’ Words on Hoon. Dok Hae

What is the standard for Hoon dok hae? True Parents came to the earth to indemnify all the history of the world, prepare the foundation and then realize the ideal of the family. This completed family is not an individual family. Adam is an individual but also has to become the king of his family. They are the representative family who can become the king of their tribe, race, nation, world, cosmos and inherit the kingship of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven (288 -108 hoondok hae) should do hoon dok hae at 6 am for 1 hour. Through that their families can become settled. (287 -187 hoondok hae) Blessed families

You should now set up the hoondok hae study tradition in your family using the book I have mentioned. That is the tradition three generations of a family start each day by reading Heaven’s word, and lead a life practicing what they read with a new heart. where Let’s create a world where people in the spirit world and the earthly world attend True Parents at the same time, and read the no matter how hard Satan may try to worm his way in and infest your lineage, when he encounters the hoondok hae tradition he will have no room to move. words about the heavenly path together. Once this happens, If the blessing of God does not come to the family that is living the standard of high noon, where no shadow is cast, who then could possible receive it? When such heavenly families fill will become the heavenly kingdom on earth and in the eternal spirit world, fulfilling the vision of one family the earth, the world automatically

If I only work with glorious families who have not fallen, then everything will go well. They can realize a family, couple, children and parents and inherit all the victories of the True Parents and the absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal characteristics of God. Blessed families have become ideal families who can represent God. Therefore, this kind of absolute authority can be exercised in our families. In order to achieve that, we must acquire the 4 Great Attributes of God. In other words, you must become absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal parents, children, couples and families. Heavenly fortune will protect such families. (294 -328, 1998. 09) The family church signifies Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden before the fall, perfecting their love and becoming completely one with each other centered on God. This is how the family church starts, then develops into the tribal and national church and becomes one global church through accomplishing the global family ideal. (102 -230, 1979 01 01)

<4 Core Attributes of God> Sept. 5, 1999, Belvedere: the perfection of True Love is the completion of heaven on earth and in heaven. God is love and has 16 attributes Internal External Absolute Unique Unchanging Eternal Absolute Creativity Unique Creativity Unchanging creativity Eternal creativity Subjectivity Absolute Subjectivity Unique Subjectivity Unchanging subjectivity Eternal subjectivity Relationship Absolute Relationship Unique Relationship Unchanging relationship Eternal relationship Unification Absolute Unification Unique unification Unchanging unification Eternal unification Creativity Absolute faith, love, obedience (Conscience) (Centered on partner) (optimism) 1. 2. 3. 4. Absolute : Means order within the law and principle Unique : The unique love that exists between God and me Unchanging : The essence of love lies in what does not change Eternal(omnipresent) : I am omnipresent within my partner to the extent of my actual love towards him/her.

Fallen characteristics (Manifestation of Lucifer’s nature i us) Comparison, jealousy What’s with him? Complaints/ I come first Wants everything without making efforts Crimes and the shifting of responsibility It’s because of you Excessive desire Wants to steal it Enmity / Self. Justification Spiritual death Crimes and fall/ fear Pangs of conscience / I did not want to go this far Build one’s world Becomes Satan

Opening the Gate to the Age of Re-creation is the greatest blessing 1. There is no completion in ignorance. (August 1, 1996) – In search of the origin 2. Completion of human responsibility starts from 'knowing' 3. To believe, to know, and to live together (September 14, 1997, Belvedere) [Let us believe, know, live together with True Parents, create unity of heart with True Family and commence the kingdom of heaven on earth. ] 4. God's eight textbooks and teaching materials: result of the 7 deaths and resurrections 5. Blessed families are not descendents who are below average level. 6. That is because True Parents are supporting blessed families from below. (July 14, 2010)

Providence of Re-creation and the Human Responsibility The owner of re-creation is ‘my family and I’ May 1, 2003 1. My true self and our family (October 29, 2001) 2. ‘My true self and us' includes God 3. 'Our family' in the Family Pledge includes God 4. My family and I are under God’s direct dominion

Mission of the blessed families in the Age of Re-creation (October 25, 2003; September 12, 2005; June 13, 2006; July 8, 2010) 1. Ideal family centered on true love: Let's become parents of heaven, earth and humankind. 2. Expansion of ideal family: Let's complete tongban –gyukpa. 3. Secret of completing the process (7 generations) of restoration of the original human being in one generation 4. Lessons learned from the engraftment of the false olive tree to the true olive tree. 5. Significance of 430 couples: Lord of creation 6. Education: Let's proclaim Hoondokwae and the Word

While doing hoondok hae, hold the bone marrow of love in your hands and hope that this love will stay with you for ages and become the prince and princess who cannot run away. People in the realm of fallen lineage whose minds and bodies are fighting cannot go to heaven, even if they may be a pastor or even an evangelist. You without experiencing true love by uniting your mind and body. (289 -295) cannot got to heaven Your heart will be moved whenever and wherever you read the word. The mind and body will resonate because I speak at the point where the vertical and horizontal meet. The body can be moved because the mind and body are united. If the heart is moved, the body change. will go through a great revolutionary It has this kind of power.

hoon (訓) in hoondok The Chinese character is made up of eon (言) meaning “words” and cheon (川) meaning “stream. ” Water is an element of all living things. Water creates green zones across the earth and clouds wandering in the sky. Flowing deep or moving high, it brings balance to the earth. (290 -154) The character dok (讀) consists of the character eon (言) meaning “word” and mae (賣) meaning “to sell. ” In other words, the word must be sold. It would be a disaster to keep it to yourself. If you are not selling it, you should give it away. If you store up goods and let them spoil, you be punished. (289 -295, 1998. 2. 1) will

1. Family. Church – The Centre of Faith Education 3 Great Subjects True Parent True Teacher True Owner Shimjeong/love Standard /responsibility freedom/rules Resembling Character Resembling Creation Resembling Identity Emotional Ideal Education perspective(dream) Material Perspective Character Professionalism Political Perspective Education Occupational Social Perspective Etiquette perspective (customs) Heavenly Parent’s Education Method: Setting an example (resembling the lifestyle)

If you return to the Garden of Eden, you stand in a position where God This is why I began hoondok hae in order to inherit the tradition of the parents. (289 -307) can have direct dominion over you. In every family, when the children can shout to the heavens that their mothers and fathers are true mothers and true fathers, and when their parents can do the same, saying their sons and daughters are true sons and daughters, then Satan’s realm in this earthly world will come The problem started in the family, and the problem must be resolved in the family. (208 -344, 1990 11 to an end. 21) Through hoondok hae, you can know exactly what position your family is in, comfort God and the

What is hoondok hae? Hoondok hae, if done minutely, are stories that can move you even if you read them all day long. That is why, no matter how worthless you feel, if you imitate me, you may not attain perfection but you will at least be able to keep up with my shadow. (289 -295) Ladies and gentlemen, in this age of globalization, do you want to raise your sons and daughters to become world figures or national figures? Do you have the confidence to raise them up to be members of Parliament, Ministers or even governors? You do not! Leave it up to me. Try doing hoondok hae with your children for just 3 months. They will all compete with each other saying they will become those figures. (290 -029)

『Through hoondok hae, the people of the Republic of Korea should become one with the True Parents transcending nations and become a nation which can be proud of the victories of all nations!』Amen, amen! We have said amen so you must take the blessing, take in the sunshine of the new morning dawning in Seoul and become the leading intellectuals in all the nations of the world. (290 -172) Every time you eat, you should gather your family members and relatives to do hoondok hae. If I have any free time, I do hoondok hae. If you do that you will continually grow. Similar to bean sprouts that grow well if watered regularly, you will also grow without even knowing it. Love can contract and expand infinitely. (290 -217)

In the future, the parents will have to take the Blessed children and do this. If the father and mother are moved by the grandfather, and next, husband wife are moved by the parents, then there is no way that the child will not be moved as well. From now on, that is how you hoondok hae. In Communism, there is something called dok bo hae (reading on one’s own). Basically, Satan copies what God is about to do. We must reclaim ownership. (290 -220) will set the post. This is Hoondok hae is necessary because there are individuals and entire families who are interested in the Unification Church. In the future, it should be broadcasted on radio too. All over the world, the era of transformation has arrived. Therefore, through doing hoondok hae, you can be in control of your environment and go to one place. We must straighten out the media and education system but in order to do that, we must educate them with an ideological perspective. When that happens, since the spirit, which is the ideological center, is standing strong, it must then be spread to the material world as well. (290 -236)

When the 3. 6 billion couples Blessing is accomplished, the era when parents can bless their children is coming. In order to do that, you must be well versed in all of my teachings. Therefore, you must do hoondok hae and read the God’s word hundreds of time over. Only then will it become a part of you. You must know this clearly. (290 -319)

Water and air will fill up any empty spaces available due to the capillary action. They will fill up Love is like water too. any little crack. The speed of love is the fastest. It is faster than water and activated very quickly. It is the same with seeds. They suck up all the nutrients due to the power of love inside the seed. It is all possible thanks to the power of give and take of love. Therefore, just like water and air, love will spaces. also fill up any empty Do you understand? in the family, the one who loves the most and fills up the empty spaces in the family will become the owner. The owner’s successor must be able to fill up any space. The traces of love should be visible in every corner of the house so the house will light up when the sun shines through. (291 -068) Therefore,

That is why the standardization of love, air and water is absolute. They are the 3 elements of life. The sunshine is the same way, isn’t it? It shines through even the smallest crack. If there is a crack, the light will try everything to shine through. Water is a bluish light. The seawater is blue right? If you look at the earth, there are bluish regions and plants which all resemble the water light right? Do you understand? (291 -068)

Ⅱ. nd 2 Couple Program 1. How Will we Educate Our Family? 1) Structure of Hoondok Hae 2) Goals to be Achieved Through Hoondok Hae 3) Conversational Skills to lead Hoondok Hae

Hoondok Hae Goals and Family Education

Faith Inheritance and Development(Korean Statistics)

Family Sanctuary – Center of Faith Education Palace where the Heavenly Parent and True Parents reside Pal a ce Sc nc Sa ry oo h l tua Realizing a family and church sanctuary that attends the Heavenly Parent Family Perfect the 3 Great Kingships and 4 Great Realms of Heart School of True Love Resemble God and perfect the character The foundation of Heaven av He en

Family Sanctuary – Center of Faith Education 1) Settlement of a culture of attendance Ladies and gentlemen, you should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. He should feel comfortable to visit your home like any parent coming to visit his or her children. This is what it means to live in service to God. (Peace Messages p. 136) Hoondok Hae lifestyle Education on Cleanliness Foundation of sincere devotion

Family Sanctuary – Center of Faith Education 2) The Transmission of Faith – Settlement of the 3 Great Realms and the 4 Position Foundation Grand parents God 1 st gen wife husband parents God child Faith transmission childr en Grand childr en Settlement of the 3 Great 2 nd gen wife husband child God wife husband 3 rd gen child If you establish the 3 Great Realms and the 4 position foundation then Satan cannot invade (291 -055)

The Parents’ Spiritual Authority granted by Heaven 3) The parent is the Family Minister Father Mother Chief Priest (the head of the family) Ephisans 5: 23 Helping Spouse (The home of the family) Ephisans 5: 24 Just as Jesus was the head of the church, similarly, the husband is the owner of the wife Just as the church obeyed Jesus, similarly, the wife should obey the husband in all things Represents Heaven as the head of the family/ The Blessing Passage Helps to establish the head of the family’s spiritual authority

The Parents’ Spiritual Authority granted by Heaven 4) Restoring the authority of the word Father Mother Teaching the word (external education) Emotional education (internal education) Ideal domain (thought and philosophy) Emotional domain (lifestyle and order) ideal, individual development, challenge, Vertical tradition, purity, attendance, lifestyle etiquette, cleanliness, horizontal tradition Titus 2: 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed

The Parents’ Spiritual Authority granted by Heaven 5) Restoring the Authority of True Love Father Mother Vertical love-one’s own father 엄친 Horizontal love- love of a mother Someone who leads with heavenly love (establishes the connection to Heavenly Parent’s love) Someone who embraces with human love (mediator who connects the children to the father )

Theory of Hoondok Hae Management Method

1) What is the Hoondok Family Service ? (1) Goal - To have the children resemble the parents just as the parents resemble Heaven - Parents pass down the word and faith from generation to generation centered on hoondok hae - Establish identity and faith-based values in children (2) Target - parents and children, siblings – family unit (3) 3 Great Kingships and the 4 Great Realms of Heart - Attend the Heavenly Parent in the family. Parents and children communicate. (4) Time - Twice a week( within the 1 hour time limit)

2) 4 Great Elements of Hoondok Family Service Who (parent) What (word) Family Service Why (In order to resemble God) Where (from the church to the family)

3) Goals of the Hoondok Hae Family Service (1) Create a pure environment where the Heavenly Parent can be attended (2) Settlement of the Family Service in the family of 3 Great Realms attending Heavenly Parent (3) Fidelity Education where the parents attend the Heavenly Parent and the children attend the parents (4) 1: 1 transmission of the word from parents to children (5) Living a life of change and education of royal realms agreed upon by parents and children (6) Expansion of the family model through tribal, ethnic, national and world education

4) Preparations before starting Hoondok Hae Family Service (1) Establishment of Family Federation Education Theory (Shimjeong education, standard education) (2) Clear vision on Hoondok Education (3) Generalized education on theory of Family Hoondok Method (4) Close ties between the family and church (5) Testimonies on transformations brought about by hoondok hae and formation of the model family (6) Connect the family hoondok hae to homegroups and start a movement to create that process through tribal messiahs

5) Executing the Hoondok Family Service Preparations: 1) If possible, have the family members take turns to do the mc and prayer 2) Prepare the Holy candle, a bowl and a towel that can be used to wash your hands 3) Hoondok Hae Textbook, Holy Song Book and hymnal (1) Light the holy candle (2) Wash your hands (signifies washing the world) (3) Bowing and recitation of Family Pledge (4) Prayer (Take turns) (5) Before starting, ask questions about how the week went (5 minutes) (6) Hoondok reading (10 minutes) (7) Ask questions if there any parts you do not understand (5 minutes) (8) Have an enthusiastic debate on the topic (9) Talk about that you learnt through today’s words and what you would like to put into practice. Also talk about points that you would like to see changed in the family (3 minutes person)

family-Big cleaning Bathing-Body cleanliness Cleanliness education Preparation for Saturday’s Dining Table – holy table Family service altar

Purification ritual Questions and debate Preparation of Hoondok Textbook Substantial family service Lighting the holy candle Benediction

Executing the Hoondok Family Service 6. Hoondok Family Service and Sincere Devotion (1) Attend Heavenly Parent in the family and resemble Him (2) Stimulates the brain (3) Broadens your thinking by nurturing your ability to think (4) Ask questions and resolve the problems through conversation (5) Improves your expression abilities, presentation skills and creativity (6) Social skills develops greatly (7) Stimulates interests and curiosity (8) Improves your way of thinking and judging skills

Ⅲ. Creating Model Families and Expansion of Tribal Messiahship

1) Reasons we should do the family service and tribal messiahship activities You need to unite with the victorious Messiah and sow the seeds of true life. After indemnifying the disunity of Eve, Cain and Abel in the garden of Eden, you should plant such seeds. The family needs to create an environment for such seeds, and that is the mother and the brothers and sisters. This is where we can declare the starting point of the ideal love and ideal life of the original Adam and Eve who have nothing to do with the Fall. In order to create such a family, I declared tribal messiahship. (235 -111, 1992 08 29) All of you have parents, children and belongings. Because Adam fell, he lost them all. We must recover them and offer them to God. We should recover what was lost and offer them all at one time to God through True Parents. We have to do this. Then once God owns all this and gives it to True Parents, since they are our Parents, we ought to inherit it from them. Only if you do this will you be entitled to possess your own house and claim your own world. The basis for this is Home Church. (101 -339, 1978 11 12) 55

2) Restoration of indemnity for the ideal of the family, which is the substantiation of the worldwide indemnity First of all, Home Church is the way for children to inherit the world-level indemnity course of True Parents, who paid the indemnity in order to resolve the failures of history. Second, Home Church is to indemnify the realm of the tribal messiah lost at the time of Jesus. Thereby it opens the way to the realm where we can be tribal messiahs and then go on to the national and world levels. You cannot go forward without indemnifying these two levels. To do so, you need to do Home Church activity. Without it, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. You have to shed blood and sweat for your Home Church. You have to shed tears and you have to experience mistreatment. Through these experiences you must come to know about the efforts that the True Parents have made. My hope is that, in the future, the persecution will cease and people will want to learn the Principle of the Unification 56 Church. It is my desire not to leave behind a path of suffering

3) Each tribal messiah is to embrace two clans, Cain’s and Abel’s—that is, Cain’s family and his or her own family. Jesus should have embraced Joseph’s family and Zechariah’s family. The disunity between these two families set the stage for Jesus’ death. This is the background of the Home Church and tribal church of today. Jesus was to stand on the united foundation of Joseph’s family and Zechariah’s family. The Messiah, based on these families’ attendance of the tribal messiah, was to lead to national restoration. In the same way, your Home Church is a Cain-type church foundation of your tribal messiahship, and your family and relatives are an Abel-type church foundation. You are to unite these two. After accomplishing this, you will complete your mission as a tribal messiah. Now there should be no problem to bring unity in your tribe. Furthermore, the time has come when nothing in the larger world will create problems for us. Nevertheless, my appointment of tribal messiahs does not mean that the Home Church will disappear. Even if all humanity were saved, the Home Church remains 57 important. Just as the mind and body need to unite and the entire world

4) The stages to realizing Family Church and Tribal Messiahship 1) Me(Individual Model)-Family(Family Model)-Tribe(Tribal restoration)Nation(National Restoration)-World You should stand as the center of your Home Church, then of your family and then of your tribe—three stages. This is formation, growth and completion. Without tribes, a nation cannot be established. This is why we started using the term “tribal messiah” when we inaugurated the Home Church movement. Thus the Home Church movement is the beginning of the heavenly nation, namely, the kingdom of heaven. So when can you meet the Parents? Only when you go to your Home Church. (124 -043, 1983 01 16) Where is the kingdom of heaven? We can conclude, “It is in my heart and in me. ” Yet, after having heaven in your heart, you need to have the heaven of the body. Only after having the heaven of the body can you actualize heaven in your family, which is your own Home Church. In that heaven, Satan cannot accuse you; he cannot even live there. It is a place where Satan’s activities are not permitted. Hence unless you can become a person who can say heaven is in your heart and body, you cannot establish a heavenly environment. Your Home Church refers to a heaven that includes the environment. What kind of base does your Home Church make? Your Home Church provides a base for you to receive the approval of Heaven. Once you set up that environment in your Home Church, it 58 connects you to the nation and the world. (110 -258, 1981 01 01)

May you become Great Families of Faith! Thank you