Heavenly Tradition – Part II
Reverend Sun Myung Moon – January 20, 1973
From this point of view we can realize at what point we will meet the Latter Days or the Close of the Age. The war began between Abel and Cain because of the Human Fall, so, as long as that type of war continues, we cannot call it the Close of the Age. In other words, at the Close of the Age, the Abel-type must win over the Cain-type. But on the other hand if the Cain-type wins over the Abel-type, the sinful age cannot come to a close. They will struggle on to win over the opponent, but as long as they continue their war, we cannot see the end of the world. The Communistic and Democratic world have long been fighting each other. First they went through heated war, then cold war and now they are in the stage of having a peaceful war — or war of appeasement. This fact is telling us that we do not fight with our fists and weapons alone. If we went on fighting against each other with weapons and fists alone, both would be corrupted, ruined. By doing that both the Democratic and Communistic worlds will be weakened and there will be rupture between those two. If they are weakened or diminished to be smaller and smaller, then they will both have been strengthened and multiplied and made bigger and bigger but now they are going to be weakened by the long war against each other. At that point they will not go the reverse way, but will go over the peak of the thing and both will be destroyed.