Cheon Il Guk is the Ideal Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace

The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon delivered on the occasion of the Entrance Ceremony for Cheon Jeong Peace Palace and the Coronation of the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, on June 13, 2006, at the Peace Palace in Korea.

The highest leaders of all the nations of the world, honored guests of Heaven who have gathered from every corner of the earth to celebrate this treasured, historic, and providential day, and people of the spiritual and physical worlds who are being reborn as citizens of Cheon Il Guk.

In the name of all humanity in the spirit world and physical world, numbering more than 300 billion souls, I offer boundless gratitude and glory to God, the Creator of all things, the eternal True Parent of humankind, and the great King of heaven and earth.

I ask you to raise your voices high in praise for the victory of the True Parents of Heaven and Earth, the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and Earth. They have personally completed the entire course of restoration through indemnity to save humankind, who, as descendants of the Fall, would otherwise be eternally destined to wander in evil and suffering, ever sliding down the path to hell.

You stand today in the venue of a tremendous event in the history of God’s providence. This event is unprecedented and will never be repeated. It is the day when the King of Peace finally ascends in glory.

Please recognize that, although they may not be visible to you, thousands and tens of thousands of good ancestors of blessed families have come here. They are above your head now, joining with you in celebration of this wonderful moment. All nature is rejoicing, and heaven and earth resound with choruses of “Hallelujah!”

If you truly understood the infinite value of this day, you would not be able to sit still. You would go throughout the world singing hymns of joy and dancing in ecstasy.

Do you know the significance of January 13, 2001? It was the day of the Coronation Ceremony for God’s Kingship. For countless years, Heaven had been waiting for that event in eager anticipation. It was the greatest and most exalted celebration humanity had ever witnessed.

On that day, Reverend Moon, who had received the anointing as the True Parent of all humankind and traveled a path of indescribable suffering and pain until he gained the final victory, offered his entire foundation to Heaven.

For tens of thousands of years, God had endured an existence full of lamentation and grief, even as He conducted His providence with a parental heart. When that coronation ceremony was offered to Him, it marked the moment of His long-awaited liberation and inner freedom.

On that providential day, we declared to all heaven and earth that we would attend God as the vertical True Parent and Great King of Heaven and Earth, that we would unfurl and raise high the banner of Cheon Il Guk, and that the new sovereignty of Heaven had begun.

For the next three years, we, the True Parents, held firmly to the helm while the winds of heavenly fortune swirled around us like a typhoon. We dashed forward as though each day was worth a thousand years. Then, on the foundation of True Parents’ victory, we declared May 5, 2004, the day of Ssang Hab Shib Seung.

On that day, the True Parents brought to a close the era before the coming of heaven with its long years of grief, and opened the era after the coming of heaven, the new age when we can build a new heaven and a new earth. This marked the beginning of a great and historic revolution to return the earth to God as a substantial reality.

Beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, today you are receiving amazing grace. You are participating in the coronation ceremony of the substantial King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, and you are being registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Not only you, but also your ancestors by the tens of thousands will thank you throughout eternity for the grace they are receiving along with you today.

The Bible says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness.” Today, you are witnessing the miracle of miracles: the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, the substantial sovereignty in the era after the coming of heaven.

God truly works in mysterious ways. By the first day of the new millennium, God had already laid out the land for Cheon Il Guk. Who could have imagined, though, that they would see the day when the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth would ascend to his throne? You thought it was just a dream, but you are witnessing it in your lifetime.

Citizens of the kingdom of heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory. Now, as the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, I will declare, on this thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon Il Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every citizen of Cheon Il Guk should understand and live by as they walk the way of Heaven.

First, as God is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will establish the realm of three generations in your family, perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity.

Further, you will inscribe on your heart the need to uphold the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, who is the horizontal True Parent, and to live with absolute obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. You will make a living for the sake of others, which is the practice of true love, the standard for your life. You will establish a true family and raise true children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God’s lineage and bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.

Second, no matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united. In my case, as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven’s path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: “Before you desire to have dominion over the universe, you must first gain dominion over yourself.”

God has given you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts.

Your conscience knows all these things about you before your teacher or pastor knows. It knows them before your parents do. It knows them even better than God knows.

So if you place your conscience in God’s position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of “high noon settlement” whereby your life casts no shadows, it is certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body and perfect their harmonious unity.

Third, for citizens of Cheon Il Guk, the unification of the spirit world has been completed. The issue now is the 6.5 billion people living on Earth, in their physical bodies.

They struggle in agony amid sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon Il Guk.

You should educate everyone to understand that all human beings, without exception, are descended from the Fall and must change their blood lineage through receiving the Holy Marriage Blessing from the True Parents.

You must continue the work of engrafting people onto the True Olive Tree by having them participate in the grace of intercultural marriage until the day when all humankind, numbering more than 300 billion souls, is restored to God’s lineage.

Fourth, you are created to spend nine months in the womb, perhaps one hundred years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You should understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for a healthy life after birth, you must devote your earthly life to preparing yourself for the next stage of life in the spirit world.

Never forget that all the time and everywhere, and regardless of what you are doing, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live in agreement with the spirit world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world with sincerity and dedication, so that you may become perfected in your spirit self while you are living on the earth.

Fifth, your talents and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon Il Guk. Therefore, cut away and cast off your mask of selfish individualism now. It is but a remnant of the era before the coming of heaven. To belong to Heaven, you must change ownership by participating in the Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering everything you own to God, and then receiving it back from God.

In addition, all citizens of Cheon Il Guk will provide funds for the well-being and peace of humanity, not by taxation but by voluntary contributions. They will demonstrate the model of offering the first three-tenths of their income for public purposes. This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.

Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, in the era after the coming of heaven I, it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Fall. God created everything in the universe as our natural environment; these are needed for human prosperity.

Human beings and nature are meant to share a realm of mutual resonance, with humans as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner, thriving under human management and beautified by human creativity. We can no longer tolerate actions that destroy nature and pollute the environment.

As citizens of Cheon Il Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete inner freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature, the human character can blossom into perfection.

The flowers of a true culture of the heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where God, human beings, and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature.

If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.

Seventh, the era after the coming of heaven that God and True Parents have opened is a time of dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon Il Guk, you have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory.

Therefore, please become Heaven’s emissaries, fulfilling the dual missions of the “peace kingdom police force” and “peace kingdom corps.”

Serve humanity under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the position of the “Abel-type United Nations.” Worthy countrymen and women, if not you, why will you nurture and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has given us?

Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your vertical True Parent, for He is the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting peace kingdom by attending the King of Peace in Heaven and on Earth and fulfill the way of a true, devoted child, a patriot, a saint, and a member of the family of God’s sons and daughters.

Beloved people of Cheon Il Guk, I hope you will truly celebrate and enjoy this precious and holy day. Brush off all your cares and worries and celebrate this day in joy while attending your Heavenly Father and True Parents with all your heart.

The sincerity and dedication expressed by each of you bring even more glory to this day. The beautiful mountains, streams, trees, and flowers here in the vicinity of Cheongpyeong Lake are showering their blessings upon you as you prepare to embark on your ambitious journeys.

Your descendants, too, will take pride that you participated in this long-awaited day, and they will honor and praise you forever.

I pray that the abundant grace and blessings of God in heaven may be upon you and your Families. Thank you.