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True Father‘s Life

True Father‘s Life. Part I. True Father‘s Life (Part 1). Intro Father‘s Childhood prior to his Encounter with Jesus Father‘s Encounter with Christianity Encounter with Jesus Discovering the Principle Studying in Japan Returning Home & The End of WW II The First 7-Year Course

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True Father‘s Life

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  1. True Father‘s Life Part I

  2. True Father‘s Life (Part 1) Intro • Father‘s Childhood prior to his Encounter with Jesus • Father‘s Encounter with Christianity • Encounter with Jesus • Discovering the Principle • Studying in Japan • Returning Home & The End of WW II • The First 7-Year Course • The Founding of the HSA-UWC

  3. The Mission of True Father “The mission of the Lord of the Second Advent is to bring the Truth, the Word of God.“ • Spiritual Medium (Korea) “The most important thing God wants me to do is to resurrect, re-create or reform the hearts of the people and make them Heavenly People.” - True Father (USA, 1965)

  4. The Mission of True Father “I came to bring about the REVOLUTION OF THE HEART. With the Principle, by the Principle my mission is to make New Hearts. My mission is to change the hearts of the people, so Satan has no one to accuse before God!” - True Father (USA, 1965)

  5. Father‘s Birth

  6. Father‘s Birth Date of Birth: Jan 6, 1920 (lunar calender) Place of Birth:Jeongju-kun, Pyeongan-Pukdo • The Korean people paid indemnity for the birth of the LSC. • Before Father‘s generation the 2nd sons in his lineage had always become sacrifices. • Father is the 5th child and 2nd son in his family.

  7. Father and Mother‘s Name 文… Mun= Truth 鮮… Seon= Fish & Lamb (=Christianity) 明… Myeong= bright, light  „The Light of Truth has come to the Christians!“

  8. Father and Mother‘s Name 韓… Han= Korea 鶴… Hak= Crane 子… Ja= Child  „The Crane Child of Korea!“

  9. Signs • 3 YearsbeforeFather‘sbirth, golden birds (mandarinducks) wereseen in front ofhisparents‘ house (=birdsrepresentinggoodfortune). • Relatives receivedrevelationsthroughdreams. E. g. a golden dragonthatenteredthewombofFather‘smother. Father: Grandfather: Elder Brother: „Read mypalm. Itshowsthat I will give tothebestchild in theworld.“ „He will become a greatperson in thefuture, so youshouldhelphim in whatever he desires.“ „Myyoungerbrotherismoreprecious thantheworld.“

  10. Map of Korea

  11. Comparison between the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Israel Israel Korea • 430 years slavery in Egypt • 1948 Independance • 4300 years history of suffering • 1948 Independance Christianity Korea 400 years persecution under the Roman Empire 400 years Japanese occupation (1905-1945)

  12. A. Father‘s Childhood prior to his Encounter with Jesus • Father‘s Character and Special Episodes (1920-1935) • Chinese Caligraphy • Drawing • Love for Nature: Weasel, Conquering mountains, fishing (eels, carp), catching a bird while flying, etc. • Character: adventurous, energetic.

  13. A. Father‘s Childhood prior to his Encounter with Jesus 2. Father‘s Keen Power of Observation and Spiritual Intuition • Felt good and bad places in the mountains. • Often predicted rain. • Felt symptoms of other people‘s sickness. • Felt people‘s spiritual presence before arrival. • Fortune teller about marriage. • Strong sense of justice (sumo wrestling).

  14. A. Father‘sChildhoodpriortohis Encounter with Jesus 3. Father‘s Heart as a Boy • Delivered food to others. (Serving attitude) • Cried for 3 days after reading an article about the suicide of a young man. (Heartistic and tearful) • Boss of family and other children. (Leadership)

  15. A. Father‘s Childhood prior to his Encounter with Jesus „I could grasp the outline of what I am destined to accomplish; that is to liberate humanikind from all its unhappiness, tragedy, turmoil and sinfulness. Someone must take responsibility for this!“ - Father

  16. B. Father‘s Encounter with Christianity • Father‘s uncle was healed through the prayer of Christian missionaries. • Father‘s family converted to Christianity (Presbytarians) in 1930. • Why should the LSA have roots in both oriental religion and Christianity? In order to reconcile/unify Oriental and Western Thought. • Dr. Flasche (German Theologian): „Rev. Moon‘s Unification Theology has the potential to bridge the gap between East and West. He may be remembered as the Luther of the 20th century.“

  17. B. Father‘s Encounter with Christianity • Father studied the Bible from 12 years on. • He prayed to God for more wisdom than Solomon, greater love than Jesus and greater faith than St. Paul. • He discovered that Christianity is the core of all religions. • Father taught Sunday School at age 15.

  18. C. Encounter with Jesus April 17, 1935 (Easter Day) • During Father‘s prayer Jesus appeared and explained: „My mission is to build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is not yet accomplished. You are chosen to complete this mission!“ • Father rejected initially, but later gives his promise to Jesus and God. • His life changed completely and he became very serious. • Thus, he started his QUEST FOR TRUTH (9 years) • Speech at the high school graduation ceremony (March 1938) • Studied at KyeongSeong (Seoul)

  19. C. Encounter with Jesus April 17, 1935 (Easter Day)

  20. D. Discovering the Principle The Crown of Glory When I doubt people, I feel pain. When I judge people, it is unbearable. When I hate people, there is no value to my existence. Yet if I believe, I am deceived. If I love, I am betrayed. Suffering and grieving tonight, my head in my hands Am I wrong? Yes, I am wrong. Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. Wipe your tears away and welcome with a smile Those who know nothing but deceit And those who betray without regret. Oh Master! The pain of loving! Look at my hands. Place your hand on my chest. My heart is bursting, such agony! But when I loved those who acted against me I brought victory. If you have done the same thing, I will give you the crown of glory. Sun Myung Moon (1936)

  21. D. Discovering the Principle • Nine years of searching the Principle (1935-1945) • Father prayed walking along the Han-River or while walking on a mountain, desperately struggling to discover the TRUTH. • When he mediated about Jesus and God‘s situation he just could not keep from weeping. Sometimes in the morning his clothes were soaking wet from crying all night. • Sometimes his face was so swollen from crying that even his neighbours could not recognise who he is.

  22. D. Discovering the Principle 2. Father‘s Questions to God • „Heavenly Father, show me how to save the world.“ • „If you are God, what is your intention? What is your purpose? What is your Will? What is man? What is the relationship between you and man?“ • Heavenly Father replied: „The Parent-Child-Relationship!“

  23. D. Discovering the Principle 2. Father‘s Questions to God • „How was the parent-child-relationship destroyed?“ • „Was it Satan? Who created Satan? Why did Satan become Satan?“ • „If you are almighty, how can you allow evil to exist? Why can‘t you destroy evil? Are you an incapable God? Why, why, why?“ • „Who is responsible to solve the problem of evil? God, the Messiah?“ • „Why did Jesus not create the Kingdom of Heaven?“

  24. D. Discovering the Principle 3. Learning from Experience • Living in a boarding house (1/3), then a lodging house (2/3). • Serving the Poor (=preparation and practice for future witnessing). • Loving the people, shedding tears for the nation. • Begging to understand a beggar‘s heart. • Living in the slums. • Coal mining (=most difficult manual work). • Visiting bar maids in Seoul. (Father avoided temptation of women by dressing himself poor and dirty.)

  25. D. Discovering the Principle 4. Preparation for Witnessing • Witnessing for 3 years (in a park in Seoul). • Street preaching at a train station (Father was so serious and desperate that people got afraid and ran away). • Friends and teachers also got afraid of Father. He had to learn in front of a mirror how to smile again. (Being Messiah also means to be a mediator between God and man.) • Engagement in the Anti-Japanese Movement. (Someone who cannot love his own country is not fit to love God and humanity.)

  26. E. Studying in Japan

  27. E. Studying in Japan • Father‘s Determination to go to Japan (1941-1943) • Departue to Japan: Kyeong-Seong 7h by train to Pusan  by ship to Tokyo (Course in Electrical Engineering at Waseda University) • Father shedding tears in the train on the way to Japan. • Old Japanese lady was trying to comfort him. (March 31, 1941) • Not humanistic or selfish tears but tears of love and concern for God and country: „I prayed to God to protect Korea!“ Main purpose of going to Japan: Not to study electrical engineering but to fulfill God‘s expectation to prepare for his mission to save humankind.

  28. E. Studying in Japan 2. Father‘s Activities in Japan (1941-1943) • Search for the Principle – The Fall and Human Responsibility was most difficult to discover. • Training, study Bible and philosophical books – Father read simultaneously Korean, Japanese & English translations of the Bible. They looked worn out, with red marks on every page and full of comments and reflections. • Engagement in the anti-Japanese undergorund movement – Acquaintance with Duk Moon Eom, Korean student, and Ku Kim, head of the exile government in Shanghai. Interrogated by the police almost every month. • Debating with Communist students.

  29. E. Studying in Japan 3. Father Trained Himself • Father experienced everything from the lowest to the highest standard of life, throughout all levels of society. • He confronted a group leader of the factory for exploiting workers. • He studied in a noisy factory and in a railroad yard to improve his concentration ability. • He slept outdoors, wrapped in newspaper during winter. • Father did not buy new clothes for himself until he was 30 years old. • Father was always hungry until he was 30 years old. • He held anti-draft rallies, singing with a loud voice to encourage people. This lifestyle stimulated Father to always stretch the limits of human experience and capacity.

  30. E. Studying in Japan 4. Kindness Remembered • Impartial treatment in Japan – Most Japanese did not treat Koreans well during the occupation, but the lady who was the landlord of Father‘s lodging house treated Father impartially. In 1965 (over 20 years later) Father visited her and gave her a gift of $30. b) Selling coal – Father delivered coal to a housewife. She paid $1 more than agreed. Father cried because of this act of kindness. „After you do something good for others, FORGET about it. But if you are treated well, NEVER FORGET!“ – Father Remembering that, Father always tries to give more than people expect for their work.

  31. F. Returning Home & The End of WW II 1. Return to Korea (1943) • Graduation at Waseda, September 30, 1943. Return to Korea: October, 1943. • Scheduled ship torpedoed & sunk. Almost everyone died. • Father‘s mother shocked, almost went crazy. Run 8 km, lost her shoes. (Father realized the depth of mother‘s love.) • Father however, did not board the ship. Why? God‘s interference: Before Father boarded his feet got heavy – stuck to the ground. Premonition of danger. • He went to Fujijama-san with some friends instead and boarded the next ship, arriving safely in Korea. Father always risked his life for God‘s sake, yet Heavenly Father miraculously protected him in dangerious situations without fail!

  32. F. Returning Home & The End of WW II 2. First Prison Term (1944) • Early 1944: Employment as electrical engineer at Kashima-Gumi. • Oct 1944: Arrested by Kyeong-gi Do police due to Father‘s anti-Japanese activities in Japan. • Father was tortured and interrogated for names of his comrades. He never revealed any name. • Torture methods applied to Father: Pouring water down the throat / A square stick inside the knees / electric shocks / hanging in the air. • They searched Father‘s apartment and found Father‘s notebook with the names of his friends. • Feb 1945: Release. (Father‘s stool was bloody for a year due to internal injuries.)

  33. F. Returning Home & The End of WW II 3. End of WW II (1945) • Spring 1945: Father predicts the end of the war. • August 15, 1945: End of World War II • Situation for 1 million Japanese in Korea very dangerous: revenge! • Father hid many Japanese and sent them back safely to Japan. Father told to a relative: „Persevere for a few more months. In May, Germany will surrender. In August, Japan will surrender!“ Father taught to love the enemy: „Never again beat those who have lost their sovereignty. If you take revenge, God will punish you!“

  34. F. Returning Home & The End of WW II 4. Discorvering the Truth about the Fall (1945) • Severe battle against Satan: The Principle is the culmination of Father‘s battle against and final victory over Satan. • 40 day trial: After Father discovered the Principle, the spirit world initially refused to accept. Father never gave up persuading them. During this period even God kept silent. • The saints did not want to accept the Principle of the Human Portion of Responsibility, since they did not want to admit their failures. • After 40 days: God acknowledged the Principle and Father could thus start the Providence on Earth! Father „If you fight Satan directly, your bones will be crushed! (…) How can you fight against an enemy who has no definite shape, but who comes like dark waves of concentrated hatred over you?“

  35. F. Returning Home & The End of WW II 5. Second Prison Term (1945) • October 1945  „Return to North Korea!“ (revelation) • Korea was divided into N & S after WW II. • Father returned to his home in N-Korea. As he used S-Korean money, he and another relative became suspects. Both were thrown into jail. • Father was released. (The chief of police happened to be Father‘s teacher at elementary school…)

  36. G. The First 7-Year Course The first 7-year course to establish the foundation for the Messiah worldwide – Original Plan • 1948 1952 1954 Korean Independance (President Dr. Sung Man Rhee & Franziska) Korean Unification USA True Parents‘ Blessing in Great Britain!

  37. G. The First 7-Year Course 1. Prepared: Korean Christianity (1945+) • 1952 • Prophecies: LSC appears in Korea, Korean liberation. • Christians: Abel-group / Cain-group • Adam-Type Christian groups - TRUTH: • a) Sect of Restoration of the Garden of Eden • Nam JooBaek: Prophecies and miracles • Yong Do Lee: Evangelist Presbyterian (?) (OT) • b) Israel Monastery (Oct 1945 – Apr 1946) • Baek Moon Kim (NT): „Respect and serve him as much as you respect and serve me!“

  38. G. The First 7-Year Course 1. Prepared: Korean Christianity (1945+) • 1952 • Prophecies: LSC appears in Korea, Korean liberation. • Christians: Abel-group / Cain-group • Eve-Type Christian groups – LOVE: • a) Hyo Bin Heo: Inside-Belly-Church

  39. G. The First 7-Year Course 2. Prepared: Political Circle in Korea (1945+) • 1952 • Pres. Sung Man Rhee (wife Franziska) • Mr. Young Yuk Moon (Father‘suncle!)

  40. G. The First 7-Year Course 3. Result of Christianity‘s Failure to accept the LSA • 1952 • Division of Korea • Korean War (1950-1953) • Failure of worldwide Christian foundation (USA & GB) • Expansion of World Communism • Indemnity Condition: 40 years wilderness course (1945-1985)

  41. G. The First 7-Year Course 4. Third Prison Term in North Korea (1946) „Total darkness! I felt like a cattle being driven to the slaughterhouse.“ – Father Jakob Haran Father  North Korea • Aug 11 – Nov 21, 1946: Imprisonment for 100 days (Tae Dang Police) • Mrs. Ho entered the same prison on Aug 16. • Father‘s message was found: Father tortured, Mrs. Ho died in prison.

  42. G. The First 7-Year Course 4. Fourth Prison Term in North Korea (1948): HUNG NAM • Father‘s tortured body was found in the prison backyard by disciples. A funeral was arranged. Father revived after three days, however with severe internal bleedings. Father continued to teach and fast for his disciples. • Feb 22, 1948, 10 a.m.: Arrested by Ministry of Home Affairs (Communists). Charges: Advocating Chaos in Society. Government was pressured by over 80 letters from angry Christian ministers. Sentenced to 5 years punishment in HUNG NAM LABOR CAMP(Apr 7, 1958). • May 20, 1948: Transferred to Hung Nam.

  43. Hung Nam Labor Camp

  44. Hung Nam Labor Camp

  45. G. The First 7-Year Course 4. Fourth Prison Term in North Korea (1948): HUNG NAM • Workshop • Food, Sweet taste of water, starvation • How Father overcame it • Labor • System, Travel • Spirit World testifies • Prayers to console God • Prayer 3x/day for members • Training – in his mind: God‘s Kingdom! • Wake up at 4 a.m. for exercise & prayer • Sleep • Poorest clothes

  46. G. The First 7-Year Course 4. FourthPrison Term in North Korea (1948): HUNG NAM • Mother‘svisit • „596“ • Witnessingto 12 disciples • Catching Malaria • Mr. Won Dok Kim • Jung Hwa Pak • Gift: Sack of Rice • Stealing: Forgivenss • Reflection: Empty Sheet. • Model LaborerPrize!

  47. G. The First 7-Year Course 7 Kinds ofTorturethatFatherhadtoEndure • Sleep Deprivation • Electric Shocks • Waterhose • Sitting down • Hangingupside down • Hangingwithwriststiedbehind • Beingbeatenacrossthe back

  48. G. The First 7-Year Course Father‘s Course of Subjugating Satan • Satan requires from Father to throw away his mission as the Messiah. After the Fall, Satan seized the Right of Parents and the Right of Kingship from Adam and Eve. In order to regain and restore the Right of Parents and the Right of King of kings, Father must pay the price: torture and martyrdom.

  49. G. The First 7-Year Course Father‘s Course of Subjugating Satan • In order to liberate all of mankind who are captured in Satan‘s prison camp, Father has to pay the price: torture and martyrdom. • After paying the price Father should receive a permission from Satan (certificate of a signed agreement) in which Satan gives up the Right of Parents, the Right of the King of kings and the Right of Dominion over all of humankind to Father. • The most wicked torturer confessed and repented to Father! By restoring the most evil torturer and winning 12 disciples, Father can subjugate Satan, the archangel, as the Messiah.

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