Claim. Every blessed family is appointed as a tribal-messiah — responsible for restoring its own parents, siblings, and clan as the second Adam restores the first — and this mission is the necessary intermediate stage between the family and the national level of restoration.
Elaboration. SMM proclaims the tribal-messiah mission as a substantive office: “I proclaimed tribal messiahship at 2:30 pm on January 3, 1989” (2.3. Blessed families are the elders of the tribe, 185-238, 1989.1.8). Two reasons are given: “The first reason is that you must save your parents. Your parents are in the position of the first Adam, and you are in the position of the second Adam. You must complete the mission of Adam by restoring and re-creating your parents. The second reason is that you need a hometown” (ibid, 244-211, 1993.2.7). The structural rationale is settlement: “A family cannot find settlement without a tribe. Your tribe serves as a fence to protect you and your family” (ibid, 56-311, 1972.5.18). The pattern is name-based: a Kim member becomes messiah of the Kim clan, organizing twelve branch tribes parallel to the 12-Couples organization (ibid, 31-276, 1970.6.4; ibid, 155-265, 1965.10.31). True Father sends them “as a representative of Heaven… the tribal messiah is in the vanguard and guides his tribe to their historical hometown within his lifetime” (ibid, 102-264, 1979.1.14). The implication: providence delegates restoration outward through family-rooted clan leadership.
See also. tribal-messiah