Chapter one
The Family Pledge:
Declaration and Preconditions
Section 1. The Background to the Family Pledge
1.1. This is the age centering on families, not on individuals
Until
now, in the Unification Church, we recited My Pledge focused on the individual.
The Christian cultural sphere should have served the Lord at his Second Advent
as his bride on the worldwide level. The Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in
heaven was to have started from 1952, but all ended up in failure. This is the
reason why the providence was prolonged for forty years and the Unification
Church had to go through a historical course of atonement. (260-181, 1994.5.8)
Have
you ever heard the expression family pledge? It has appeared for the first time
in history. The Family Pledge was established because a man and a woman lost
their family. Unless we reestablish the original standard of the model family
acceptable to God before the Fall, God cannot rejoice or establish the heavenly
kingdom where He can dwell on the earth and in heaven. It was inevitable that
this pledge would come about. (274-114, 1995.10.29)
The
Family Pledge was created forty years after the founding of the Unification
Church. The Family Pledge never existed before in history. Now that the Family
Pledge has appeared, satanic families living in the physical world have no
place where they can dwell in the future. The Family Pledge represents the fact
that I indemnified four thousand years of history, and the victorious foundation
made during World War II which had subsequently been lost. On this forty year
foundation, the Kingdom of Heaven could now begin on earth. What is the first
element of the Family Pledge? It is “Our family... by centering on true love”.
Our families must live by centering on true love. What is true love? True love
means we should be one with the unfallen love of God and True Parents. We
should be connected to true life and true lineage based on true love. (266-143,
1994.12.22)
Forty
years after the founding of the Unification Church, the Family Federation for
World Peace and Unification was established representing completely restored
families. Individuals in the restored families have united their minds and
bodies centering on the original mind. Husbands and wives are united and
parents and children are united. These families must learn the Family Pledge by
heart.
You
cannot recite the Family Pledge when your minds and bodies are in conflict or
when husbands and wives are fighting. You cannot recite it without having any
children. The unity of mind and body, husband and wife, and parents and
children, should be centered on God’s love. This is the place where true
harmonious families can enter the heavenly kingdom. Only those who are united
in true love can recite the Family Pledge, which has appeared for the first time
in history. (264-339, 1994.11.20)
Forty
years after the establishment of the Unification Church, we founded the Family
Federation for World Peace and Unification. In order for the Family Federation
to succeed, we must have an absolute regulation, something like a
constitutional law. This is the Family Pledge. The expression Family Pledge never
existed until now. It is the Family Pledge of going forward to, and establishing
the Kingdom of Heaven. If you carefully study the Family Pledge, you can see
that its contents explain that total liberation will be granted based on restoration
through indemnity. Those who memorize it do not belong in the family realm of
the fallen world but in the family realm of completion. The family can be
established based on true love. Mind and body that were separated because of
false love can now be united. This is why, without uniting your mind and body,
you cannot learn the Family Pledge by heart. (264-244, 1994.11.3)
Why
do we need the Family Pledge? Unification Church members must show True
Parents’ family tradition to the world. It is our family motto. The time will
come when it will be absolutely necessary. We are preparing for that coming
time.
In the
Pledge, you can see how families in God’s ideal of creation should live. The
whole world must follow the Family Pledge. The seven verses within the pledge
represent the entire providential history and act as a protective shield for
True Parents’ victory. Even if one does not understand the providence of the
Old and New Testament ages or the Divine Principle, it is possible to go to
heaven if one passes through with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute
obedience centering on God. (272-181, 1995.10.5)
Until
now, Christians have thought that only Adam and Eve fell. They did not know
that Adam’s family fell. Christians did not know that Adam and Eve’s children
also fell when Cain killed Abel.
How
should the members of the Unification Church pledge? You should pledge
centering on your families. You do not need anything else. Happiness, freedom,
peace, and even the entire cosmos, all started from a family. We need the
pledge centering on families. You must not lose the families. Once we create
the unified family, we can unite the world as well as the Kingdom of Heaven. (260-152,
1994.5.2)
We
must send out tribal messiahs or there will be great troubles. The paths along
which those tribes will be born will be blocked. By being tribal messiahs, you
will be horizontally connected to the foundation Adam could have reached had he
not fallen, the foundation Jesus could have completed had he not been killed,
and the national foundations. The eight stages from individual, family, tribe,
people, nation, world, cosmos, and God, can be completed on earth. They are the
horizontal foundations. By indemnifying all of this, you can freely go to any
home in the individual, tribal, and national level without interference from
Satan. Families can begin to live with God, and the Kingdom of Heaven will
begin on earth. Because such a time has arrived, the Family Pledge was created.
You must live according to the Family Pledge. (264-191, 1994.10.9)
The
family can be both amazing and frightening. You should never forget that the
content of the Family Pledge is a cosmic grand declaration. Starting from last year,
I have been declaring in my speeches that people should have families. This is
an absolute principle. The time to hold the Blessing Ceremony for liberating the
spirit world is coming. After the 3.6 Million Couples Blessing, we will begin holding
the Blessing Ceremony for the spirit world. The time has come when you can call
your departed spouse to be bound together with you. Even hell can be liberated.
(283-90, 1997. 4.13)
We
have been unable to settle until now. We have been pushed away. We have been
floating here and there like clouds. The Christian cultural sphere did not have
both the spiritual and physical foundations and could not settle on earth.
However, since the settlement of the Completed Testament Age and True Parents,
people can now be given the right of inheritance. What can one inherit within
the settlement? You inherit a family. You must understand this. That is why we
have the Family Pledge. We must thoroughly teach the Family Pledge. (268-226,
1995.4.2)
Until
now, we recited My Pledge, but now we are reciting the Family Pledge for the
first time. There had not been any Family Pledge before in history. This is an
amazing fact. The forty year restoration course through indemnity has passed.
Now the time has come when the world can move, led by me. That is why the
Family Pledge could be born. After World War II, the worldwide unified
Christian cultural sphere was destroyed, but now it has been conditionally
restored on my victorious worldwide foundation. (263-110, 1994.8.21)
The
seven year period should have been the seven years from 1945 to 1952. But it
was extended into a forty year period between 1952 and 1992. Focused on the
Unification Church, this took us forty years. We were then able to proclaim the
family declaration in May of 1994. It was a historic event. We are restoring
human history based on numbers. (265-293, 1994.11.27)
Centering
on the settlement age of True Parents, you must establish the family completion
age without shame before God. So, we needed the Family Pledge. We need it. We
will need it. Which one is it? We need it! That’s the way it is. It will be the
motto for thousands or tens of thousands of years. It’s amazing! You must be
grateful for the fact that you can recite the pledge due to your liberation by
the removal of the mask of false religions. I have gone through such bitter sorrow
and shed countless tears through the years to bring you to this point. I have offered
my own blood to lead the Unification Church until now. If you cannot go beyond
the sacrificial altar, you can never go to the heavenly kingdom. You must make
this altar. (261-98, 1994.5.22)
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