The Victory of the 1975 Foreign Missions

[Charles Kamins]

In 1975 when True Parents sent 360 missionaries to 120 nations he gave one specific and primary responsibility. Stay in the nation for three years.

Naturally, it was understood our purpose included the work to witness and build a foundation for the Messiah in each and every country and thus, expand God's territory to the world-wide level.

The Historic Heart of Restoration

However, the most central task was for three former enemy nations to unite and create a foundation of trust and love first and foremost and to remain in country. In my own case, my mother passed away during this period. When I asked permission to return to the United States to attend the funeral, my request was denied. I was pained by this and struggled to understand. We all know the story of the disciple who asked Jesus' permission to return to his village to bury his father. I am sure that all missionaries experienced similar things that paralleled the historical heart of restoration.

It was only many years later that I came to understand the meaning of the three year condition. 

Father said many times that he did not come to found another sect but to unite Christianity. However, when the representatives of Christianity rejected him, the entire 2,000 year foundation of Christianity which was prepared was lost and Father had to rebuild it from scratch starting in 1954. To represent Christianity, Father founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, HSA-UWC, also known as the Unification Church. 

Mission of the Unification Church

From the period starting in 1954 until 1975, Father slowly rebuilt the foundation of Christianity on the family, tribal and national levels. The purpose of HSA was to restore the failure of Christianity to unite with the central figure of the age. By sending representatives to 120 nations, True Parents laid the foundation for the restoration of World level Christianity. 

By uniting in heart with Father's direction, the 360 missionaries providentially were able to restore the lost foundation. In reality, Father claimed this victory two years early so that in 1976 he was able to hold the Washington Monument Rally, in the central capital of the central Christian nation, the United States which, from a parallel providential viewpoint represented Rome at the time of Jesus.

The Victory of Washington Monument Rally on September 18 was not merely a public relations stunt but the most crucial milestone in the history of God's providence up until that point. It was after Washington Monument that Father was able to proclaim the advent of the Home Church providence. For the next several years, Father spoke of virtually nothing else. Furthermore, the Washington Monument victory was connected to another event which became known as the 'Victory of Heaven,' on October 10.

The beginning of Home Church

From the time of Jesus crucifixion until the Washington Monument rally, the providential gate of Home Church was closed for all humankind. Jacob was the first providential figure to practice Home Church as did Moses, Jesus and True Parents. The declaration of the Home Church providence meant that now, all Blessed Central Families could walk the same course of restoration that allows us to restore our original status as God's original children of His original lineage. 

Although Father spoke about this continually for years, virtually no one understood the incredible providential advance this represents. Today, there is a growing revival in the practice of Home Church or, as I prefer to call it 'Home Religion.' 

In the most basic sense, 'Home Religion' means that blessed central families can bring the living God to become the center of our families and our homes and, as well, each one of us, by reaching out to 360 homes, can accomplish the same standard of restoration as True Parents. In other words, for the first time, we can each restore our status as true sons and daughters, true Adams and Eves.

Why is this significant? Some people ask "are we not already restored as true sons and daughters thru the blessing?" The answer is no. The blessing is the beginning of our family level course of restoration, not the end. The blessing means we can begin to practice Home Church. Since before the creation of man, the universe was created and guided by angels. Because of the fall, angels have dominated humankind for thousands of years. To this very day blessed families are still dominated by the angelic world. The Principles of Restoration are very precise. There is zero flexibility in the requirements to accomplish the goals of restoration. Likewise, the Principles of Home Church are simple, yet they cannot be approached in a haphazard manner. We cannot merely sweep the street in our neighborhood or make friends with our neighbors or serve the community although we will do all those things. To accomplish the goals of Home Church we must achieve very specific milestones of restoration. Do you remember how, at the blessing, we were told that the blessing was conditional? Well, guess what it is conditional on? It is conditional on getting a victory in Home Church, which final goal is to become a 'Tribal Messiah.'

The Providential Victory

The victory of the 1975 missionaries is that we helped Father to open the gate of Tribal Messiahship. But to open a gate is not the same as to walk through that gate. We were so young then. Now, our children are the age we were when we flew off to Africa, Asia, South America, Oceania. Still, like Father at 93 years old, we cannot retire. We still have much work to do. What we do not complete during our physical lives, our children will inherit and we will have to help them from the spirit world. For this reason, it is essential that we teach these principles to our children.

By the grace of God, the realm of Home Religion and Tribal Messiah is expanding. Here below is an introduction to the Principles of Home Church. More essays and insights as well as special revelations can be found on the site where this is posted. I invite one and all to share these essays with your friends and families. Above all else, I implore you to inherit the pioneering spirit, the missionary spirit of 1975 to your children. There remain vast regions yet unexplored for "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few." (Matt 9:37)

Home Church Remembered

This page is part of an ERW course: Home Church.

By John Eagles, January 30, 2010.

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Home Church is a dispensation in God's Providence of Restoration, historically given to and through Rev. Sun Myung Moon ^[1] . Home Church is a system to serve people connected to you or in a neighborhood. It goes far beyond the normal concept of what serving means, because by fulfilling the demands of Home Church you are able to restore yourself to a position that you can become a model for others to follow and to find God.

Contents 1 Home Church is a Dispensation given by God 2 What must be accomplished to inherit the blessings of the Dispensation of Home Church? 3 Conclusion 4 References

Home Church is a Dispensation given by God

What is the meaning of 'dispensation?' A dispensation is a special gift from God given in the history of God's Providence of Restoration. A dispensation is given on the basis of fulfillment of a course gone by a central figure and other people connected. Through a 'dispensation' God can dispense certain gifts, share specific blessings with people who fulfill the conditions to inherit in the dispensation. For example, starting with Moses as central figure, God once installed a Dispensation to build God's Nation centered on the people of Israel.

Home Church was given by God to Rev. Sun Myung Moon based on the fulfillment of the Washington Monument Rally in 1976. The meaning of this was that Rev. Moon had fulfilled to announce to the world the coming of a new age, the coming of a Savior for the world in this time of the Last Days. By having done that, restoration went back 2,000 years to the time of Jesus who had received the mission of Messiah in his age. Jesus had not been accepted as Messiah by the people of his time and therefore had to fulfill the mission that was actually originally given to John the Baptist, which was to announce the coming of the Messiah and to prepare the people to repent and after their repentance to receive the Messiah.

Connected to the more external accomplishment of the Washington Monument Rally was the spiritual reality that Rev. Moon had rallied behind him the 12 main central figures in spirit world of the major religions of the past. This victory is known as the Victory of Heaven, celebrated on October 10. Based on Rev. Moon's accomplishment in the world, these central religious figures in spirit world such as Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha and eight others had pledged to support Rev. Moon's mission and all those who would take upon them the mission of Home Church.

What must be accomplished to inherit the blessings of the Dispensation of Home Church?

The principles of how to conduct Home Church have been revealed by Rev. Moon. I shall not speak about the details here of how to do Home Church. The fulfillment of Rev. Moon meant that he had successfully gone the course in the position of John the Baptist up until the worldwide level. It also meant that there was opened again the road for the Messiah to come and fulfill his mission. Everyone putting himself in the same position could inherit from this victory and go the course of restoration of Adam, like once Jesus had to go and also, still earlier, Jacob.

It is another matter how much Jacob and Jesus each have accomplished in their courses, but to understand more of the meaning, both Jacob and Jesus had to go a course as Adam and they had to restore the families they were born from and the families that came or would come out from them. The environment for Adam to establish himself as central and First Adam was the world. In Home Church the world is symbolically represented by 360 homes. Furthermore, in restoration, there are two main families that must be restored and these are the ancestral families of Adam and the ancestral families of Eve. For Jacob his own family was that of Abraham and Isaac and the family of his wives Leah and Rachel was that of his father-in-law Laban. The family of Laban stood in Cain's position to Isaac's family which was the Abel family. I am simplifying here because of course Jacob had more wives than only the daughters of Laban. 

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