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Step into Freedom an Cataclysmic War
Contacting
those who had been loyal
I travelled on foot from Hungnam, on the
east coast, all the way to Pyongyang, near the west coast. Although I sent
people out to all of my followers in Pyongyang letting them know that I had
returned, most of them did not come to see me. Nevertheless, I did succeed in
bringing some people together, even if just a few.
I stayed in Pyongyang for forty days,
though my hometown was only a hundred and ten kilometers from the city. To go
there and back would have taken only a couple of days. Still, I did not visit
my parents or my brother and sisters at home. Instead, I looked for those
people who had earlier responded to God's call. I made a point to visit
everyone who had promised to follow God's will -- every single person, without
exception.
I never made it to my hometown. I wanted
to know what happened to those who had followed me before I went to prison.
Moreover, before I visited my own family, I felt obliged to communicate with
everyone whom I remembered from that period. This is the heavenly way.
Since these people promised to remain
loyal to me before I went to prison and did not notify me they'd had a change
of heart, I was still responsible for taking care of them as their teacher. As
long as I was still chosen by Heaven and as long as the person did not directly
express ill will toward me (in which case Heaven would have no other choice but
to forsake him) I was bound by the obligation of a promise exchanged between a
teacher and a follower. Because of this, I visited all of my scattered
followers. When I could not visit directly, I would at least send Won-pil [Kim]
in my stead. Under the circumstances, was there time left to visit my home? In
some cases, it took a whole week just to find one person. Even if a person had
gone against me, his descendants still have to be saved. The fate of those who
had opposed me hung in the balance and had to be cleared up at the time of my
visit. That is why it took me a whole forty days to complete the job.
I could not help leaving my mother
behind in North Korea, even though I remembered her monthly tearful visits to
Hungnam prison. I had to find all my followers in Pyongyang first. I visited
everyone, even someone well over eighty years old, only to find out that the
person had passed away already. My goal was to call on and bring together every
single person that came to mind, young and old -- everyone who had become a
member or established a providential connection with me.
I would call on somebody and be rejected
at first. I would return and be rejected again. Even until the third time...
This went on until people started to evacuate in masse in December. I kept
sending people out until sunset on December 2, and I continued desperately
offering conditions as expressions of my sincerity until God gave me the
direction to leave.
I could not abandon people. I
accomplished everything I had to do in the North. I had started out in
Pyongyang with a perspective based on heart and before I could leave the place,
I removed the pain in my heart and found the courage to offer this new heart to
God for the sake of His will. This is why I left Pyongyang that night. A leader
needs to be that serious about his responsibility.
You should accomplish your God-given
mission even amidst a life-and-death struggle. Once you have started something,
you should make sure you complete it. Those who move on to do other things
before completing their original mission will realize very soon that their way
forward is blocked. This is why I went out and resolved all the issues with my
former followers so that in front of Heaven and earth I am justified and have
the sympathy of these people's ancestors and descendants.
Since I was aware of such things, I made
sure to complete such a foundation before leaving. When I look back on those
days, I have no regrets or pangs of conscience about anything.
Visiting the "Inside the
Belly" Church
As I was leaving North Korea, I visited
the mother of Huh Ho-bin. Since this elderly lady was the overall leader of a
religious group, I went to visit her and met her for the first time. The lady
had already received a revelation that she should treat a gentleman in
Kyungchang Hamlet with respect. Therefore, all her followers came out to greet
me wearing white clothes.
Even at that time, had this group
exactly followed the directions I gave them, I would not have had to go the way
of suffering. This was a substantial, divinely inspired group. Since the
members of the group had been trained for years to be mobilized at the command
of the returning Lord, they could have been able to advance the providence by
leaps and bounds.
The Holy Lord Church, the Inside the
Belly Church and the New Jesus Church were similar in the sense that they would
have united easily had they been able to accept me. How would that be possible?
Through the Principle. But since these people had become too comfortable, they
did not recognize what was happening. They could not interpret the revelation
given them.
Ministers who had opposed me
When I went to the communist North,
about eighty ministers from established churches came together and signed a
resolution to get rid of Moon so-and-so from the Unification Church. They must
have felt relieved when they heard the news that I had been sent away to a
death camp. Did I die, though? Why should I have? In the end, those who
conspired to kill me got a taste of their own medicine. The communists killed
them all. How ironic that the man who was destined to die in the labor camp
survived while those who put him away ended up with that fate! God is indeed
unforgiving when it comes to His providence. I looked for each one of these
individuals. I was willing to embrace them, offer them a pardon from their past
and a direction for a future they could be proud of. However, my search always
ended with the same result -- those ministers were dead and gone.
In Pyongyang, a church minister whose
last name was Nam was behind my imprisonment. I don't remember his first name.
This minister lost all his children. It went that far. Such is the settlement
from Heaven. In spite of all of this, you should not think, That is the
punishment you deserve.
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