1. THE COMPLETED TESTAMENT AGE IS THE AGE OF ATTENDANCE

1) What Is the Completed Testament Age?

God has been conducting His providence for salvation through three stages during a history of 6,000 years. Through the Old Testament Age, which was the age of the servant, and the New Testament Age, which was the age of the adopted son, we have reached the Completed Testament Age. In the Completed Testament Age, children must appear and prepare a place for the parents and attend them. God has conducted this a history of restoration to the present time. (16-178)

What is the Completed Testament Age? It is the process of advancing to an ideal world on earth centered on a family and the love of True Parents-a new world where Satan can no longer work. From the Principle's point of view, the Completed Testament Age means a realm of parents who have fulfilled the responsibility. A testament or promise is a promise for the fulfillment of responsibility. God promises fulfillment of the responsibility left uncompleted by the Fall. The Old Testament was a promise in the past. The New Testament was a new promise, and now the Completed Testament Age as the age for realizing the promise. To realize that means that all the people of the world fulfill their responsibility. A promise implies fulfilling responsibility. (131-98)

The Completed Testament Age is the age of perfection. What is it? Abel becomes one centered on the love of True Parents, and the brothers unite with Abel as Cain surrenders. Cain has not surrendered until now because there have been no true parents. Therefore, such a tragic death took place. Cain hated Abel because he didn't have true parents, but when he comes to unite with Abel centered on true parents, he will adapt himself. (131-75)

When we look at human history, the Old Testament Age is the age of searching for love, human beings searching for God. The New Testament Age is the age of sacrifice for the sake of attending the parents in the Completed Testament Age. Now the age of the Completed Testament is the age of sacrifice for the sake of attending God, for the sake of God's liberation, centered on True Parents. Therefore, the Unification Church shows today a white cross. The True Parents are shouldering the cross. Because human beings fell at the top of the growth stage, True Father has had to go up again through the way of indemnity for twenty years. (136-307)

\When you say that you are the resurrection of all sacrifices of the Old Testament Age, the resurrection of Jesus' body in the New Testament Age, and the resurrection of the heart of Reverend Moon in the Completed Testament Age, all of Heaven and earth will keep their eyes on you and follow you in a line. They will follow you wherever you go, however difficult and painful a way it may be. (107-216)

2) The Completed Testament Age Is the Age of Love

Today, we regard God as the Lord of hope, faith, and love. God, the Lord of hope, faith, and love, had human beings pass through the Old Testament Age of hope and the New Testament Age of faith. From now on, human beings will meet the Completed Testament Age of love. In the Completed Testament Age, or the age of the Second Coming, what remains as an eternal, unchanging, essential element? God's love remains, the center of all the ideals and all things.(1-90)

As the Completed Testament Age is the age of love, we are allowed to get married. Before now, the age of love had not come to any religion. Higher religions, therefore, did not encourage people to get married. (96-117)

3) The Age of Salvation through Attendance

The fallen era is the era of Satan's dominion. This is not conceptual, but a reality, and you can understand it if you look spiritually at the environmental conditions. Why did Adam fall? It was because he did not maintain faith, good deeds, and attendance. These were the three major conditions for Adam. Thus Adam could not go through the Old Testament Age of deeds, the New Testament Age of faith, and the Completed Testament Age of attendance. Because of Adam's fall, humans have been under Satan's dominion. Therefore, it has become necessary throughout history for humans to search for the original Adam's position. We have to restore Adam's original position through establishing the condition of victory; that is, through setting up the condition for indemnity. Why do we have to seek the righteousness of faith, the righteousness of deeds, and the righteousness of attendance? It is because we cannot separate good from evil without righteousness. What is the standard of righteousness? It is always God, so we have to believe, behave and attend as God does. Why should we do so? It is because Satan cannot accuse those who are righteous like God. When you deal with your environment in the same way that God believes, behaves, and attends, Satan cannot accuse you. When such an environment where God can dwell expands, and the righteousness standard point is raised, Satan will retreat.

This does not mean, however, that the Old Testament Age of deeds and the New Testament Age of faith have passed away and that we are now only in the Completed Testament Age of attendance. In the Old Testament Age of deeds, faith was also necessary, and in the New Testament age of faith, deeds were also necessary. In the Completed Testament Age of attendance, deeds and faith are also necessary. It is because the growth stage is established based on the formation stage, and the completion stage is established based on the growth stage. They cannot be separated.

The age of attendance refers to the age of the Kingdom of Heaven in everyday life. The history of restoration is aimed at the realization of God's ideal of creation. (161-218)

For what purpose does our Lord come on the earth? He comes to realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? Those who have managed to prepare for attendance and those who have managed to lead a life of attendance can enter there. \Thus, it is the kingdom where we can be eternally proud to the whole universe of our preparation and our practice of the life of attendance. (8-307)

We are taught that today salvation is received through attendance today. You therefore have to attend the True Parents, and you have to establish conditions which God can remember, whatever sorrows and pains may happen to you. You should establish such conditions as will please God, however small they may be. (13-310)