Claim. On August 31 — September 1, 1989, in Alaska, SMM declared the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages, which Book08 frames as completing vertical+horizontal indemnity and transitioning the providence from “the era of indemnity” to “the era of restoration.”
Elaboration. The ceremony’s location and date are stated precisely: “Since the vertical and horizontal indemnity, the indemnity of the eight stages was completed, last year, on August 31, 1989, I went to Alaska, the northernmost place in the western world, and conducted the ‘Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages’” (3.3. Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages, 199-157, 1990.2.16). The dispensational shift is explicit: “declared the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages that allowed humankind to shift into the age when indemnity is no longer needed. This means that wherever I or the believers of the Unification Church go, the age of persecution is over… Until the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages was completed, it was still the age of the restoration of the right of the eldest son… Finally, the right of the eldest son has been completely restored” (ibid, 193-204, 1989.10.4). The “global village” rhetoric is tied to this: “the age has come when the history of the global family can unfold on the earth” (ibid, 198-277, 1990.2.4).
See also. restoration, eschatology