The Lord will Come to those who are Prepared

True Mother Kang Hyun Shil

The Lord will Come to those who are Prepared, February 10, 2017

Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:4 (KJV)

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief

Today I would like to tell you how in the last days we need to find the truth that God recognizes as true. He said the Last Days will not come as a thief. The return of the Lord will separate goodness from evil, falsehood from truth, and that day will be made known to those who are with God.

Those who go into a closet or a quiet place and pray desperately to God in the Last Days will be able to meet the Returning Lord. It says that in the Last Days we should not believe what theologians tell us or what other people tell us.

It also says that no one knows when that day will be, that the angels will not know, that the Son of Man will not know; that no one in the world will know when that day will be. But it says that those who have ears to hear will hear, and that those who have eyes to see will see. Of course everyone has ears and everyone has eyes but it is important that we have ears that can hear God’s words and have eyes that can see what God wants us to see.

Before I met Father I very much wanted to know when the Returning Lord was coming and also I was greedy enough to hope that I would be the first to meet the Lord when he came. Perhaps because I prayed that way, to be the first to meet the Lord, I was the first person in South Korea to be able to meet True Father.

I was singing this kind of a song as I was waiting to meet the Lord. True Mother sings:

“Whether by day or by night I shed tears;

I am waiting for the Lord to come.

When the Lord left us, he promised to return,

When will you come, oh! Lord?

The Lord has been waiting for 1,000 years as if it were a day,

This time you have come as the True Parents.

Those with opened spiritual eyes will meet the True Parents,

And will build Cheon IL Gook on this earth.”

It means that those who are prepared to meet the Lord will be able to meet him; he will come to those who are prepared. But he cannot come to those who have not made preparation. It says that those who are anointed on their heads with oil, and who go into a secret room and pray desperately will be able to meet the Lord.

So, it is not about believing something that someone tells us; it is about making the proper preparation so that we can believe the words that the Lord gives us.

In the early days, at the end of his speeches, Father would tell us, “Pray about this; if you pray about it, God will show you, God will teach you.” And he would add, “It can’t just be a regular prayer; it must be a desperate prayer.”

When I was trying to decide whether to follow Father, I was very frustrated; so I prayed with incredible desperation. Through those prayers, God taught me that this was the path that He had wanted to go for 6,000 years; this was the providence that He had wanted to conduct all that time. Through my prayers God taught me that this was the path that He had been preparing for 2,000 years after Jesus came and left the earth.

Also today, in the last days, when we are trying to find the Lord, when we are trying to find out which path we should take, we cannot discover it simply by sitting around and doing nothing.

We have to pray with great desperation; we have to go to God the Creator of the universe and ask Him which way we should go. Those people who do that will be able to find the true path.

There are many people in the world today that society considers to be heretics, and our Church is also one of those called heretics. We need to uncover the way that God recognizes as the true way. We have to go through this process to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.

In these days now, God and True Parents have told us that they sent their representative body to this earth; they have sent their successor to this earth. They also said that they would send their inheritor to this earth. This is what Father has proclaimed and we need to consider those words very carefully and very seriously.

There are many other religious bodies that declare that the Lord is coming in the Last Days. Buddhists say that the Maitreya Buddha will come; Confucianists have their Lord who is to come and the Chung Do Ryung (The true man from the Korean books of prophecy) is also supposed to come.

But all these actually are indicating one person; all these are pointed to one person, i.e. the Returning Lord of Christianity. We know that the Lord is not to come, but he has already come; he has already been here and he is now in the spiritual world. He said that he would send to us now his successor, his representative body, and his inheritor. These are incredible, fearful and awesome words that he has given to us.

What will happen here is the division between heaven’s side and Satan’s side. The way to go to heaven will be opened to us; it will be separated from the world and opened up for us. It is difficult for a foreigner to come to the United States and become a United States citizen; even that is difficult!

But it is even more difficult for a person living in this hellish world to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. Through appointing his successor, his inheritor, his representative, Father has separated heaven’s side and Satan’s side. Now we need to be very careful; we need to be very serious on how we conduct ourselves in this situation.

Everyone who is gathered here at the Cheon IL Goong today and everyone who around the world is watching this broadcast, please pray to God and understand the meaning revealed in these words. We need to bear the true fruits that God and True Father desire, so that we can accomplish their will.

So, today I have talked about how we need to prepare ourselves, and how we need to pray seriously and desperately so that we may be able to participate in this final providence.

Thank you very much.