Claim. True Father frames his life-course as a personal compression of 4,000 years of providential history into 40 years — the cost imposed when post-1945 Christianity failed to unite with him.
Elaboration. SMM ties the compression timetable to the missed providential opportunity at the end of WWII: “What began with Jacob, the pioneer of the victorious realm of Israel, and continued through the history of Christian culture, created a foundation that took 4,000 years to build; yet it ended in failure. As I had to restore this all within my lifetime, and since I could not spend 400 years on it I had to reverse and restore everything through indemnity within 40 years, no matter how much humiliation I had to endure” (2.1. What our attitude should be in following the course of indemnity, 149-59, 1986.11.2). The seven-year alternative is given counterfactually: “If Christianity and America had become one forty years ago, if they had embraced Korea and supported the Unification Church, the restoration of the world would have been accomplished within seven years” (ibid, 137-38, 1986.1.1). The compression entails personal liability: “I was like an orphan. From this point, everything had to be restored within forty years” (ibid, 143-176, 1986.3.18) — restoration through indemnity is here autobiographical, not just doctrinal.
See also. indemnity, true-parents