Dealing with Disaster

Though the fig trees do not blossom,

nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail

and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold

and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord,

I will exult in the God of my salvation.

Habakkuk 3:17-18

With the footprints [heralding] the Messiah, presumption shall increase and dearth reach its height; the vine shall yield its fruit but the wine shall be costly; and the empire shall fall into heresy and there shall be none to utter reproof. The academies shall be given to fornication, and... the wisdom of the scribes shall become insipid, and they that shun sin shall be deemed contemptible, and truth shall nowhere be found. Children shall shame the elders, and the elders shall rise up before the children. The face of this generation shall be [brazen] as the face of a dog, and the son will not be put to shame by his father. On whom can we stay ourselves? On our Father in heaven.

Mishnah, Sota 9:15

I had only heard about you before,but now I have seen you with my own eyes.I take back everything I said,and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

Job 42:5-6

I declared the Day of the Victory of Love. I never had the time to think in terms of my own son dying but rather how this victory would benefit God and hurt Satan's realm. Thus I concentrated upon making many conditions to lead into making the declaration of that Day of Victory of Love.

Father Moon, 15 January 1984

The greatest tragedycan be

transformed into the greatest

victory