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UnificationUnification NewsNews $2 Volume 22, No. 11 T HE N EWSPAPER OF THE U NIFICATION C OMMUNITY November 2003 God’s glory revealed in Israel: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land RALLY FOR SHALOM, PEACE AND SALAAM Peace Under One God: Mission of Peace & Reconciliation by Rev. Michael Jenkins in Jerusalem. 260 brothers and sisters from Europe, that just days earlier there was an attack Brothers and sisters from 7 nations Korea, and Japan, so our core group on American citizens which claimed gain we saw the power of walked directly under the guidance of of over 400 Blessed Central Families, three lives in Gaza, the same area that God open up all gates and our True Parents, marking a covenant having gone through 40-day course, we traveled to one month earlier, and remove all walls and barri- with God here in the Holy Land in a were united as one. Archbishop Stallings, the very place where we traveled again ers every step of our jour- rally where 2,000 gathered from Islam, Rev. Jesse Edwards, and many chair- today. Because of that reality, many ney on the 3rd pilgrimage Christianity and Judaism. In one of the men of the ACLC fearlessly returned to did not come with us on this journey. toA the Holy Land, October 22, 2003 . most tense cities on earth, we proclaimed the Holy Land for the third time, pledg- Some of those who did come because This time not only were the sons of that peace is now inevitably coming to ing to God that with True Parents’ love they felt the call of God were still nerv- Abraham in the vanguard to bring lib- the Middle East because the sons of and guidance we will solve the prob- ous and concerned, yet with our open- erty and reconciliation, but also rep- Abraham have experienced the love lem of the Middle East. ing night of prayer in which Archbish- resentatives of the 7 former enemy of God and also understand the call We were also joined by Taj Ham- op Stallings preached the word of God, nations that worked for 40 days in New of True Parents to build true families mad, Frank Kaufmann, Andrew Wil- the atmosphere became one of feeling York to establish the Abel UN also and end the divisions of history. son, Michael Mickler, and many oth- God’s anointing and Holy Spirit all marched side by side through the old Over 140 clergy, imams, ers, each having prayed sin- around us. Rev. Jenkins also brought city of Jerusalem. Their presence togeth- and Blessed Central Fam- cerely whether this really a message calling on everyone to be er proclaimed that God’s Kingdom is ilies from the US came to was their time to come clear in their minds about their deci- coming on the earth now that the inter- the Holy Land. They here. Many had to sion. He said, we cannot guarantee any- nal causes of division between these were joined by over consider the fact one’s safety here. We are in a spiritu- nations have al war, the NEW FUTURE PHOTO now been outcome solved of which through the deter- 40-day mines course which how concluded quickly with the God’s rally Kingdom see GLORY on page 12 Unification News FOUNDER’S DISCOURSE ON UNIFICATIONISM Let Us Perfect the Peace Kingdom This was the Keynote Address given one-way path to the Kingdom of God That is the reason that humankind has to take God’s people, make them his at the Inaugural Assembly of the Head- on earth and in heaven, without any always languished at the crossroads of own and control them. He is a shame- quarters of the Interreligious and Inter- confusion or disorder. The fate of two paths until this day, with one path less criminal that kidnapped someone national Peace Council (IIPC), October humankind, after losing sight of this leading to prosperity and the other to else’s child, turned that child into his 15, 2003, Seoul, Korea. one-way path as a result of the Fall, ruin. own, and then tried to claim legitimate however, has been to drift down the Human beings have a dual struc- ownership of that child. Now he is wor- herever we look today— river of history as something good at ture. The mind is a “positive” (plus) ried that all his sin may be exposed and ahead or behind, left times while evil at other times, rising standing on the side of Heaven, and that he will lose everything, so he sits or right, to the east or at times while falling at other times. the body is a “negative” (minus) stand- blocking the plans for the future that west, south or north— Why would a path that human beings ing on the side of Satan. Mind and body God, the author of Creation, is being we see a world of hope- traveled in goodness suddenly start to were originally intended to form a com- led by His conscience to carry out. In lessnessW filled with war and disease, go downhill? We did not want to go plete oneness automatically, but this so doing he is blocking the liberation racial conflict and religious struggle, downhill, yet went down nevertheless. did not happen because of the Fall of of God and humanity. He has occupied and immorality and corruption. With This is the issue. We wanted goodness our original ancestors. Instead, the body the bodies of all human beings, and more than 200 countries, large and to continue, but we went down. Why attempted to take the position of anoth- has completely spoiled love, which God small, scattered across the five oceans would goodness decline? When human er positive, and this brought mind and considers of such importance that He and six continents of the world, and life violates the absolute, fundamental body into mutual contradiction. Ulti- treats it as His first ideal. The free sex struggling against each other, which principles of goodness, it will deterio- mately, this led to Satan conquering that you see in the world today is an country could possibly solve the prob- rate. What does this mean? It indicates the human body. By means of the Fall, example of this. The Devil creates con- lems humanity faces today? What has an intersection of good and evil. All Satan took the bond of love, connect- fusion on the path of love, and prevents happened to the United Nations, which kings and presidents in this world live ed humanity to the satanic lineage, and us from exercising total control over set out some fifty years ago as a model without any knowledge of when their let human beings multiply themselves. our consciences. These are two of Satan’s for peaceful world governance? It has sovereignty will rise or fall. All sover- This is the problem. This struggle between strategies and tactics. become a forum only for people suf- eigns want things to be good forever. mind and body has become a chronic Ladies and gentlemen, free sex is fering from extreme selfishness who Any sovereign who is not in harmony ailment more terrible than cancer or Satan’s trap. People in the world who are slaves to political power relation- with or aligned with the standard of AIDS. That is why we must, no matter have a lot of money are falling into the ships and are frantically pursuing the true goodness, however, will certainly what the cost, push the body back into trap Satan dug for them because of interests of their own countries. It has be defeated and perish. the position of negative. By the law of their riches. These people enjoy sen- become so crippled that it is incapable Who, then, is in charge of good and the universe, poles with the same charge sual pleasures, but they are dying. To of taking even one step forward. It is evil? We know that even the most pow- repel each other. When a pair of sub- establish his defensive line, Satan gives not just incapable of bringing about erful royal dynasty cannot influence ject and object partners forms a com- material blessings to evil people, so that world peace; the United Nations can good and evil by its supremacy. In other plete oneness, however, they receive they can never escape from the quag- neither present solutions nor offer hope words, no sovereign, on his or her own, heavenly fortune and the universe auto- mire of moral decadence. You need to in response to the totally unpredictable can adjust good and evil according to matically protects them. understand that alcohol, tobacco, drug situations confronting the world today. his or her own wishes. We cannot deny If there is an absolute subject enti- abuse and free sex are Satan’s four Ladies and gentlemen, as I stand that good and evil are determined by ty, an absolutely objective entity that main weapons. Satan uses these to put here today, my heart is filled with excite- some unseen power lying in the back- is a partner to that subject entity, will people into a stupor of carnal satis- ment and inspiration. Let us all first ground. come into being. This can be seen in faction, and then he has them board give thanks to God. A new day of hope Each nation has its own laws. Nation- the course of my life. America and the the train to hell. This is the reason I is dawning for humanity. The dawning al laws exist to establish goodness.