General Introduction

1
Chapter 2
The Childrens 21-Year Course (19812000)
2

• The Beginning of the Childrens Age
• and the End of the 40-Year
• Wilderness Course (19811985)

1. Blessings
1982.07.01 --- 2,075 couples (New
York) 1982.10.14 --- 6,000 couples (Seoul)
3
2. The 3-Year Course Concluding the 40-Year
Wilderness Course
1983.03.01 --- Commencement of the 3-year
course The 3 years from 1983 to 1985 were the
last opportunity in which to indemnify
everything that had not yet been accomplished
in those 40 years.
1983.04.03 --- Father gave the speech Total
Indemnity.
4
3. IFVOC Rally in Korea
1983.09.01 --- The Soviet Air Force shot down a
KAL airliner, killing 269 passengers.
1983.10.09 --- 16 Korean congressmen, including
four Cabinet ministers, were assassinated by
North Koreans. (Rangoon, Burma)
1983.12.14-23 --- IFVOC Rally was held in 8
cities in Korea
5
(No Transcript)
6
(No Transcript)
7
4. Heung-jin Nims Sacrifice
1983.12.23 --- Last IFVOC Rally at Kwangju In
spite of strong warnings by spiritualists not
to go to Kwangju, Father determined to go to
the last rally. Just at the time Father stood
on the podium, Heung-jin Nim had a traffic
accident in America (12.22).
8
1983.12.31 --- Unification Ceremony Father
prayed, Please let Gods Will be advanced
through Heung-jins sacrifice. Please let
everything become united. Father gave
Heung-jin Nim as an offering to Heaven. Father
did not pray to save his life.
1984.01.02 115 a.m. --- Heung-jin Nims
ascension to Heaven
9
5. The Day of Victory of Love
1984.01.03 --- Proclamation of the Day of
Victory of Love Love overcame death. Love
transcended the sphere of death and the sphere
of indirect dominion, where the condition for
Satans invasion remained.
10

1. Heung-jin Nim Overcame the Fear of Death

- For the sake of True Parents, Heung-jin Nim
kept an absolute standard of loyalty and filial
piety. - For the sake of his friends, as
representatives of all humanity, he sacrificed
himself, establishing the standard of true love.
11
b. True Parents Overcame the Sorrow of Death
Heung-jin Nim was sent to the spirit world as an
ambassador plenipotentiary (absolute authority)
representing Father, and not because of the
disunity of members with Father. This
established the absolute standard of heart and
love. Fathers primary concern was the offering
of his beloved son for the sake of God and
humanity.
12
1984.01.08 --- The World Seung Hwa Ceremony of
Heung-jin Nim
13
6. The Day of the Love of God
1981.10.15 --- Father was indicted by the US
government on charges of tax evasion.
1982.05.18 --- A New York Federal Court
pronounced Father guilty of tax evasion
charges.
14
1984.05.14 --- The U.S. Supreme Court declined
to hear Fathers appeal. 1984.05.14-16 ---
Corresponding to Jesus 3-day period in the
tomb 1984.05.16 --- Establishment of the Day of
the Love of God
1984.05.20 --- Proclamation of the Day of the
Love of God Initiation of the Il Jeung (One
Heart) Prayer and Il Jeung Fund
15
1984.05.30 --- Rally for Religious Freedom in
Washington, D.C. The Common Suffering
Movement started. After that rallies were held
in New York, Tokyo and Seoul.
16
1984.06.26 --- Father presented his statement at
the public hearing on religious freedom.
1984.07.25 --- Common Suffering Fellowship
17
7. Sixth Imprisonment
1984.07.20 --- Father and Mr. Kamiyama entered
prison in Danbury, Connecticut.
18
1985.02.01 --- Proclamation of the Day of
Opening of Heaven This was the ceremony to
build the highway of light from hell to the
Heavenly Kingdom. Father loved the prisoners as
if they were his own children.
19
1985.07.04 --- Father moved from the prison to a
halfway house in New York.
20
1985.08.20 --- Father was released from the
halfway house.
21
God and Freedom Banquet, Washington, D.C. 1,700
clergy from over 60 denominations welcomed
Father. Unification Church and Christianity
united.
22
(No Transcript)
23
8. The Day of Total Victory
1985.08.16 --- Proclamation of the Day of Total
Victory through the completion of the 40-year
wilderness course
24
9. Other Events
1981.11.10 --- Father proposed the construction
of the International Highway. resolution of
the East-West, North-South problem taking the
role of the circulatory system for the world
25
1982.05.17 --- 1st publication of The Washington
Times, daily newspaper
26
1982.07.0108.22 --- 1st Youth Seminar on World
Religions (YSWR), visiting holy places around
the world
27
1983.12.18 --- 1st World Congress of PWPA
28
1984.11.02-08 --- 1st CARP Convention of World
Students (Korea)
29
1985.041988.07 --- DP seminars for American
clergy (Korea/Japan) More than 7,800
clergymen participated in 38 seminars.
30
1985.08.13-17 --- 2nd International Congress of
PWPA (Geneva, Switzerland) The Fall of the
Soviet Union, predicting and proclaiming the
end of communism
31
1985.11.15-21 --- Establishment of the Assembly
of the Worlds Religions