Claim. The messiah, as the perfected Adam, holds original rights of ownership over individual, family, tribe, people, and nation through true love — rights that would have spread to Rome and the world had they been established at Jesus’s first coming, eliminating the need for a Second Advent.
Elaboration. SMM constructs a counterfactual: ‘if the original love of the Messiah had been established from the individual to the nation, and its waves had reached Rome and the world, there would be no need today of a philosophy heralding the Second Advent’ (6.2. True Parents are our source of enormous pride). The fact that Christianity still awaits a Second Coming is itself evidence that Jesus’s mission did not complete the rights-of-ownership transfer.
The assessment of the present: ‘is America a country belonging to the realm of God’s love? No! There is no country on earth that has passed through such a course. Countless churches in the Christian sphere do not come under the ownership coinciding with God’s principle of love. They absolutely do not. The heavenly kingdom does not exist on earth.’ This is a sweeping negative judgment on existing Christendom — including the country (America) often associated in mid-20th century discourse with God’s blessing.
The rights-of-ownership concept is structurally important: it claims that ownership flows downward from Messiah → nation → tribe → family → individual, the reverse of bottom-up democratic political theory. The Messiah’s true love grounds legitimate ownership; without that grounding, all existing political and ecclesial ownership is provisional or fallen.
This sets up SMM’s later providential work — building up the True Family from individual to tribe to nation to world — as the working-out of this rights-of-ownership recovery. Critics from political theology will press on whether the framework collapses spiritual authority into temporal ownership in problematic ways (theocratic risk). Defenders will note that the framework conditions ownership on true love rather than power, which is a substantive constraint. Worth pairing with atomics on the ‘three great kingships’ and the family-to-cosmos providential structure.