The Messianic Identity The following is drawn he wonderful tribute on True Parents' Birthday last year consisted of many different cele­ from the core content brations. We invited leaders from all the major religions to celebrate with and honor True Parents. They did not come only to observe. This was the key. of Hyung-jin nim's T Last year's festival was the first. This year, the celebration will be bigger. You may January 21 speech to have heard about the parade that we're planning. This is the first time for us to hold a parade on the national leaders at True Parents' birthday. This is not just an internal parade in which we are walking through our church grounds. This will be held on the street. We had to fight with the government, because the National Leaders they didn't want to give us permission. World Assembly, held Gwanghwamun is the main street in the center of Seoul. The Carnegie Hall1 of Seoul (Sejong in Korea immediately Performing Arts Center) is there. The big hotels are there. And there is a big statue of King Sejong that they've just erected. He is the king who democratized the Korean language; he gave the prior to the Cheon people the ability to read by creating the alphabet, hangul, moving the language away from just Bok Festival and Holy the Chinese characters that only the aristocrats could read, so that the national language could be Day celebrations at the written and read by everyone. beginning of the third If we march in Seoul, we want to go right into the center. We want to do a parade that every­ body will recognize every year. We want everyone to know that each year children of God come year of Cheon-gi. to the fatherland to celebrate one thing: God's fundamental presence in the world. That's huge. We have edited the We had to fight a little bit for it, but through the grace of God and True Parents, we were able original transcript for to get permission. I don't think they would have given permission to any other religion, so it is CON TINUED ON PACE 13 .... /NTERNATIONAL PRESIDEN T' S MESSAGE this printed version. 1 A historic New York City concert hall. Performing there is generally regarded as an indication of excellence. At the World CARP Assembly, on 1 .3 (January 25), Hyung-jin nim jogged all around the room as he spoke and asked everyone else to jog in place while listening. No one fell asleep. 2 ~ ~ ~ ~,,. t' ~ ~ li'.; r" I On January 15, True Parents concluded an eight-city speaking tour of Korea. The final Citizens' Rally in Support of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind was held at the vast KINTEX convention center in llsan, a suburb of Seoul. Warmly welcomed to the podium by Hyung-jin nim, Fath~r read his prepared speech, adding impromptu comments. After some time he called for True Mother, who read a lengthy section of the text while Father first sat and then stood beside Mother before reading the final page himself. During this speech, Father uttered the words that inspired Hyung-jin nim1s message (see facing page). TRUE PARENTS. TRUE FAMILY a zero-growth zone. This is how they dealt with what seem ed at True God's Day Midnight Prayer .................................................... 4 first an insurmountable difficulty. Father's Message on True God's Day ............................................. 5 DEVELOPMENTS Toward a World without a Trace of Satanic Influence ................ 6 Cheon Bok Festival II: Greater Fervor, a Louder Voice ............. 18 Father's Life Story: Maturity through Sacrifice ............................ 8 An initiative to impress True Parents' birthday in society's collec­ True Family God's Day Photograph ............................................. 20 tive memory was bolstered by the participation of 1,600 foreign True Parents' Birthday Commemoration (photographs) .......... 25 pilgrims and included several new sensational events. (Photos from the Cheon Bok Festival appear throughout the magazine.) INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT'S.... MESSAGE Father Backs Our College in the Philippines ............................... 26 The Messianic Identity ..................................................................... 2 The nature of this education venture changed utterly when it came to Father's attention that its purpose is based on the dream EXPERIENCES WITH THE TRUE FAMILY of sending Philippine members out as global missionaries. The Singing Evangelist .................................................................... 39 Father assigned a Korean elder to keep our global missionaries LIFE OF FAITH informed. National Leaders' World Assembly 2012 was a good A Life-changing Commitment ......................................................... 29 opportunity for him to speak about True Father's lifestyle. Details about the witnessing mind-set that is being developed in Australia emerge in this interview of a second-generation mem­ REVIVAL OF NATIONS ber who has recently committed herself to mission work. Unificationists around the World ................................................... 32 We bring news of various activities in the countries covered: BRIDGES Azerbaijan, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, Japan, Lithuania, The Sorocaba Factor ........................................................................... 36 Moldova, Peru, Thailand and the United Kingdom. The president of the Atletico Sorocaba Football Club describes a course of events in several countries, including North Korea, that The Australian Church Rebounds .................................................. 30 led to Father heralding the club's providential contribution. Key figures are cooperating to catapult this national church out of C{)'.£.€r Photo: Father and Mother in an official photograph taken on True God's Day and True Parents' joint birthday. Back Cover. 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That victorious world, which could have heavenly calendar. been completed, perfected and finalized between that time God of the Garden of Eden, our 'Creator, accomplishing and now has not yet been perfected. through three successive attempts according to the saying Representing the third attempt referred to in the saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,'' You stated that "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again," we have reached eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and the age of the soul, the power of the spirit self. On this first Evil would _bring eternal ruin. If Your will had been fulfilled, ciay of this twelfth ye~, on the Heaveply Foundation of the. eve,iything in the Garden 9.f Eden Would ha:Ve become perfect, '.tme Parents of Heaven, Earth and Htunankind, I proclaim, in complete and finalized fiom that fus't:fihw ..This earthly wdrld the· name 6£ the True Parents, a new beginning where we can would have been blessed as .th~ heavenly kingdom ot victory, ent¢t the kingdom of .victorious supremacy that .has inherited liberation .and per£edion,. centering on the kingdom oftiue the "$pirit self of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obe­ fove. dience in a new age orliberatiori, perfection and foya1author­ Heaven and earth would have become per{ect and com­ ity, the era of our sovereign Heavenly Father's full authority. plete, becoming one with Your true love and connecting to The victorious and supreme kingship, based on the authority Your tradition and lineage.