Father walk a strict path of indemnity

Introduction to Restoration I

Father walk a strict path of indemnity

In his search for the principle, Father realized that every principle applies to him first and foremost.

One day, we members went to the Bagun Peak in Bukhan Mountain with Father. While there, Father drew a circle around him with the cane he brought. Then he said, “Even teacher can’t set one foot outside of this boundary called indemnity.”

I was young back then and I did not know what Father was talking about. However, after many years have passed, I began to understand that “Father’s walks in front of us in the unforgiving course of indemnity”

I want to introduce you an excerpt of father’s words regarding this.

“The indemnity needed to become the messiah. is not an easy conditional indemnity. It is an one-on-one unforgiving, thorough indemnity. The Messiah has to pay even more indemnity more than his fair share. Then what did I center on when I embarked on the journey during the course of indemnity? I started centering on God’s Shimjeong. God’s Shimjeong is both mystifying and scary. As the indemnity is paid, centering on God’s Shimjeong, the stepping-stone in the beginning could be small and it is still bearable.

No matter how grand and international something could be, it needs to star from a point and work its way up to become international. When we look at something centering on shim Jeong, a condition for indemnity could be made possible because that one point can be infinitely large. Otherwise, the eternal world will never change following the changes in our internal movement.

In other words, the external world of hyungsang will slowly start to crumble when the internal movement of sungsang stands on a firm standard. Then. The signs of hyungsang begin to appear on this Earth. Also, the sovereignty of the old world begin to crumble as well. That is why communism is in decline. (Father’s Words in Japan in 1967)

This on-on-one indemnity is also explained in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, people were to give life for life, eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. (Exodus 21:23-25)

Our ancestors had to walk a difficult course of painful indemnity for five thousands years in order to receive the Lord sent to this nation by God. Also, the clansmen of Moon had to walk an unimaginable torment of a indemnity course in order to allow the birth of our Father in a Moon family.

Father recently said, “since I’ve sacrificed one daughter and three sons, I have made enough sacrifices.” Father’s second daughter, Hye Jin Nim, passed away only eight days after her birth. Father said that Hye Jin Nim was offered as a sacrifice that represents the entire realm of Eve. Mother shed many tears, years back then. However, Father never shed a single tear and he never expressed his sorrow outwardly.

Then, Hee Jin Nim passed away when he died in an accident, failing from a train while on his way to a witnessing mission. Father, even, then, never shed a tear and only talked about other subject to the members, Father never expressed his sorrow.

Next, Heung Jin Nim died in a car accident in America. I was serving father at that time. Father never cried. Rather he spent his day with an expression of a faint smile. Mother was tremendously sad. Father told her “Heung Jin Nim is being offered to heaven in place of his Father. If you are sad, he can’t be offered as a sacrifice. Please don’t be sad.” Then Father comforted her heart by saying “Mother is going through so many difficulties because she married me, a man with difficult life.”

Fourth, Young Jin Nim died in a tragic accident in America. His body was brought to Korea for the funeral and I was beside True Parents when they lowered the casket into the ground. Mother did not show any expression of sorrow. Hyung Jin Nim was Young Jin Nim’s next younger brother and the two of them were so close. They played around as if they were twins, and Hyung Jin Nim looked sad but he also did not cry. I was serving True Parents while thinking, “Oh, Young Jin Nim is truly gone!” and before leaving the grave after putting all the dirt, Father smiled and said “Young Jin! Good bye!”

I was so surprised. Seeing Father never lose his smile like that. I thought to ask him when I had a chance. The next day, I served Father his breakfast and asked him, “I saw that you smiled at the end when you are sending off Young Jin Nim.” Then Father said, “Yes, I sent Young Jin Nim with the heart of sending of to her marriage.”

Folks, how do you thinks the heart of parents who send their daughter off her marriage it like? We will feel sad about sending away our daughter to another house but in the end, don’t we say, “you go there and live a good life!? So we keep our smile on and send our child away with hope. Father’s expression was exactly that. I though “Father really is different from regular people. The Messiah must walk the unforgiving course of indemnity like this.”

The relationship between fallen human beings and the messiah

Indemnification’ means ‘paying back one’s debt’. ‘Sin’ holds the same meaning as debt so ‘indemnifying’ sins means that you are cleansing yourself of your sins.

‘Restoration’ means that the humanity that have fallen to the satanic world due to the fall are ‘returning to its original position after cleansing themselves of their sins.’ These two concepts join to form the Restoration through Indemnification.

We cannot avoid this course since the Messiah has also walked this course. The only difference between us, and the Messiah is that we are able to walk this course with less hardship thank to the great indemnification made by the Messiah during his entire life course.

According to Father, the relationship between the fallen humanity and the Messiah is similar to a fly who rests on the shoulder of a Korean who travels from his country to America by a plane. Doesn’t the fly only have to remain seated on the man’s shoulder to arrive to America? Father said that that is the relationship between the Messiah and the fallen humanity, and that is the difference between the Messiah and the fallen humanity.

Father also compared the relationship between the Messiah and the fallen humanity to a mother carrying her baby across a mountain infested with tigers. Mother is the Messiah and the baby is us the fallen humanity. The mother will be able to safely traverse through the mountain only if the baby would sleep quietly. If the baby cries, tigers will come and devour both the mother and the baby. Therefore, we must not make any noise as we follow the Messiah.

That is the noise of complaint. Therefore, no matter how much result we may gain under our belt, we must not complain. Our complaints enable Satan to accuse us. Father explained about the relationship between the Messiah and the fallen humanity using these two examples.

Do not criticize providential central figures when lecturing the principle

The principle of Restoration is not a story that belongs to other people. Everything that happened in the course of Adam’s family, Noah’s family, Abraham’s family, Jacob’s family, and Moses family is also being repeated in our everyday lives and our lives as whole. God picked his central figure to do special mission whenever his principle of restoration was moved to the following stage. As these are a type of model course spearheaded by our ancestors, we are following their courses without even knowing about it.

I often tell lecturers that they should not give lectures with the heart of criticizing the central figures. What I tell them if they really cannot help but to feel pitiful for the failure of their ancestors in the course of restoration, is to think in the position of Adam. Think if you were able to overcome the obstacle wisely if you were put in the same position. We must give lectures with the heart ‘Yes! I will fulfill the work that Adam or Noah was not able to do!’ we must not give lectures to students with a judgment heart, criticizing the mistakes made by our ancestors. As there is an adage, ‘Ghosts come to those who speak their name.’ Noah comes to the lecturer who give lectures about him. Noah will come, listening to the lecture, and think ‘OK, we did our best while we knew nothing about the Principle and when Parents were not alive with us. Unlike us, you know the Principle and you serve True Parents while there are alive, so you must do better than us. We’ll be watching you.’

Father said that in the spirit world, there is Adam’s spirit world, Noah’s spirit world, and Abraham’s spirit world existing separately from each other. When we die and go to the spirit world, we must pass through the spirit world of the Old Testament, then Jesus’ spirit world of the New Testament, and then to True Parents spirit world of The Completed Testament. Here, they will listen to our stories and won’t let us go if they can find a condition to accuse us. If they do not let us through, we cannot go to father’s spirit world.

We must sympathize with their mistakes and try to comfort their heart by telling them that we will carry on the works that they left behind. Then they will be happy and cooperate with us.

Father told us, that when we see news of all sorts of different crimes being committed, we must not think that such crimes belong to the perpetrators alone but we are also connected to them through our common ancestors, and sympathize with such people instead of having the heart of criticizing them.

Principle of restoration is a principle of living

We will now talk about the condition for indemnification needed for ridding ourselves of fallen natures that originated from the Fall.

Who were the main characters in the Fall? It was Adam, Eve, the archangel, Cain, and Abel. They were the main Characters. In other words, we had the fallen Adam, Eve, and Satan, and then Cain and Abel who had to be restored.

The condition for indemnity that we must make in order to create a vertical foundation of faith centering on God is a vertical indemnity condition. The foundation of substance is the foundation that has to be made through the relationship between the children of Eve: Cain and Abel. To put it simply, the foundation of faith is the relationship between God, and me and the foundation of substance is the relationship between you; and me the relationship between Cain and Abel. It is difficult to understand after reading just the introduction to Restoration but the concept begins to seep into our brain when we enter the section of Adam’s family.

It is good to give a lecture on the introduction to restoration and then continue with Adam’s family. It’s difficult to get the feeling of what restoration is just by reading the introduction, but we are able to know clearly what the foundation of faith, the foundation of substance, and the indemnity condition are that have to be made in order to rid ourselves of fallen nature. When we listen to a lecture on Adam’s family, we can have an idea about separating good and evil.

There are small discrepancies when we look at history, but Noah’s family came when Adam’s family failed, and Abraham’s family came when Noah’s family failed. Central families for the providence of restoration keep appearing as such, and we come to have a complete understanding of the foundation of faith, foundation of substance and indemnity condition are by learning this process.

There is one thing I remember from what Father said in the morning of the day he went to Danbury. Even in such a serious moment, Father was worrying about us, and he said “You guys, serve Mother in my place and walk on the course of the Will of God. For that, each of you must unite with your leader. However, that’s difficult because you have fallen natures. In such instances, pray to God repeatedly and tell him what specific fallen nature you want gone from you.”

I felt that jealousy was the strongest fallen nature I had. Trying to read myself of jealousy first, I prayed to God for many months. In those prayers I kept yelling ‘jealousy Satan get out’ ‘jealousy Satan get out!’ Then one day in a dream my chest burst open like a crate and Satan came jumping out from inside. With a painful groan mixed with hints of resentment, Satan jumped out of my body, saying I can’t live inside you anymore because now you know my presence. I’m living your body. I couldn’t see the front side of Satan as he flew upward through the ceiling until he disappeared from my sight. In that moment, I was reminded of Father’s words, “Satan does not reveal his identity.”

I felt so light in the chest after Satan left my body. I was able to remain serene even at instances when I would have become jealous in the past. Another situation happened when I was in America. The common understanding among the people at the time was that they must follow a vegetarian diet and stay away from meat consumption in order to gain good health. One night, a spirit that cooperates with me appeared in my dream and yelled at me, as if he had enough of what I was doing. “People have to eat meat from time to time!” Unlike the Satan that escaped my body, that cooperative spirit revealed his front side and he was so tall that his head was touching the ceiling.

After that dream, I realized that the spirit world has no spatial limit. I came to understand that spirits can resize their body to the size of the building in which they appear.