Destinations and Outcomes
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In the midst of lightning, all kinds of animals are revealed in their true forms. So too, illuminated by My light, man has recovered the holiness he once possessed. Oh, corrupt world of old! At last, it has toppled over into the filthy water and, sinking below the surface, has turned to mud! Oh, all mankind, of My own creation! At last they have come back to life in the light, received the foundation for existence, and ceased to struggle in the mud! Oh, all things that I hold in My hands! How can they not be renewed as a result of My words? How can they not, in the light, give play to their functions? Earth is no longer deathly still and silent, heaven no longer desolate and bleak. Heaven and earth, no longer separated by a void, are united as one, never to be sundered again. On this jubilant occasion, at this moment of exultation, My righteousness and My holiness have extended above and throughout the universe, and are unceasingly extolled among all people. The cities of heaven are laughing with joy, and the kingdom of earth is dancing with joy. At this time, who is not rejoicing? And who is not weeping? Earth in its primordial state belongs to heaven, and heaven is united with earth. Man is the cord uniting heaven and earth. Because of man’s holiness, because of man’s renewal, heaven is no longer concealed from earth, and earth is no longer silent toward heaven. The faces of all people are wreathed in smiles of gratification, and hidden in all their hearts is a sweetness that knows no bounds. People do not quarrel or come to blows with one another. Are there any who, in My light, do not live peacefully with others? Are there any who, in My day, disgrace My name? All direct their fearful gaze toward Me, and in their hearts, they secretly cry out to Me. I have scrutinized their every action: Among the people who have been cleansed, there are none who are rebellious against Me, none who pass judgment on Me. My disposition permeates through all people. All are coming to know Me, are drawing closer to Me and looking up to Me. I stand fast in the spirit of man, am exalted to the highest pinnacle in man’s eyes, and flow through the blood in man’s veins. The joy in man’s heart fills every place on the face of the earth, the air is brisk and fresh, dense fogs no longer blanket the ground, and the sun shines resplendent.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Words to the Entire Universe, Chapter 18
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The kingdom is expanding in mankind’s midst, it is forming in mankind’s midst, and it is standing up in mankind’s midst; there is no force that can destroy My kingdom. My people, who are in the kingdom of today, which of you is not a member of the human race? Which of you lies outside the human condition? When My new starting point is made public, how will people react? You have seen with your own eyes the state of the human world; have you not yet dispelled the thought of living forever in this world? I am now walking among My people and I live in their midst. Today, those who have genuine love for Me—such people are blessed. Blessed are those who submit to Me, they shall remain in My kingdom. Blessed are those who know Me, they shall wield power in My kingdom. Blessed are those who pursue Me, they shall escape from Satan’s bonds and enjoy My blessings. Blessed are those who are able to rebel against themselves, they shall be occupied by Me and inherit My kingdom’s abundance. Those who run around for Me I will remember, those who expend themselves for Me I will accept, and to those who offer up to Me I will grant things for their enjoyment. Those who enjoy My words I will bless; they shall be the pillars of My kingdom, they shall be enriched beyond measure in My house, and no one can compare with them. Have you ever accepted the blessings that were prepared for you? Have you ever pursued the promises that were made for you? You shall, under the guidance of My light, break through the stranglehold of the forces of darkness. You shall not, in the midst of darkness, lose the guidance of the light. You shall be the masters of all things. You shall be overcomers before Satan. You shall, at the downfall of the country of the great red dragon, stand amid the myriad people as proof of My victory. You shall stand firm and unwavering in the land of Sinim. Through the sufferings you endure, you will inherit My blessings, and you shall radiate My glorious light within the entire universe.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Words to the Entire Universe, Chapter 19
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As My words become complete, the kingdom is gradually formed on earth and man is gradually returned to normality, and thus there is established on earth the kingdom in My heart. In the kingdom, all the people of God recover the life of normal man. Gone is the frosty winter, replaced by a world of cities of spring, where spring lasts all year. No longer are people exposed to the bleakness of the world of man, and no longer do they endure the cold chill of the world of man. People do not fight with each other, countries do not go to war against each other, no longer is there carnage and the blood that flows from carnage; all lands are filled with joy, and everywhere teems with a warmth between people. I walk throughout the world, I enjoy from atop My throne, and I live among the stars. The angels offer unto Me new songs and new dances. No longer does their own fragility cause tears to run down their faces. No longer do I hear, before Me, the sound of the angels weeping, and no longer does anyone confide their sorrows to Me. Today, you all live before Me; tomorrow, you will all exist in My kingdom. Is this not the greatest blessing that I bestow upon man? Because of the price you pay today, you will inherit the blessings of the future and will live within My glorious light. Do you still not wish to engage with the essence of My Spirit? Do you still wish to slay yourselves? People are willing to pursue the promises that they can see, even though they are ephemeral, yet none are willing to accept the promises of tomorrow, even though they will last for eternity. The things that are visible to man are the things that I will annihilate, and the things that are impalpable to man are the things that I will accomplish. This is the difference between God and man.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Words to the Entire Universe, Chapter 20
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In My light, people see the light again. In My word, people gain things for their enjoyment. I have come from the East, I have set out from the East. When My glorious light shines forth, the myriad nations are lighted, all is illuminated, not one thing remains in darkness. In the kingdom, the life that God’s people live with God is happy beyond measure. The waters dance with joy at the blessed lives of the people, the mountains enjoy with the people My abundance. All people are striving, working hard, showing their devotion in My kingdom. In the kingdom, rebellion is no more, resistance no more; the heavens and the earth depend on each other, man and I draw close in deep feeling, living sweetly together, leaning against one another…. At this time, I formally begin My life in heaven. Satan’s disturbance is no more, and the people enter into rest. In the universe, My chosen people live within My glorious light, blessed beyond compare, not as people living among people, but as people living with God. All people have gone through Satan’s corruption, and drunk the bitter and the sweet of life to the lees. Now, living in My light, how can they not rejoice? How can they lightly forgo this beautiful moment and let it slip away? Ye people! Hasten to sing the song in your hearts and dance with joy for Me! Hasten to lift your sincere hearts and offer them up to Me! Hasten to beat your drums and play joyfully for Me! I radiate My delight from above the universe! To the people I reveal My glorious face! I shall call out in a loud voice! I shall transcend the universe! Already I reign among the people! I am exalted by the people! I drift in the blue heavens above and the people go walking along with Me. I walk among My people and they surround Me! The people’s hearts gush with jubilation, their resounding songs shake the universe, cracking the empyrean! The universe is no longer shrouded in fog; there is no more mud, no more sewage gathering. Holy people of the universe! Under My inspection they show their true countenance. They are not people covered in filth, but holy ones pure as jade, they are all My beloved, they are all My delight! All things come back to life. The holy ones have all returned to serve Me in heaven, entering My warm embrace, no longer weeping, no longer worrying, offering themselves up to Me, coming back to My home, and in their homeland they will love Me ceaselessly! Never changing in all eternity! Where is the sorrow! Where are the tears! Where is the flesh! The earth is no more, but the heavens are forever. I appear to the myriad peoples, and the myriad peoples praise Me. This life, this beauty, from time immemorial till the end of time, shall not change. This is the life of the kingdom.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Words to the Entire Universe, Rejoice, All Ye People!
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I have done much work among you and, of course, have spoken a number of words as well. Yet I cannot help feeling that My words and My work have not entirely fulfilled the aim of My work in the last days. For in the last days, My work is not for the sake of a certain person or certain people, but to reveal My inherent disposition. Yet for a myriad of reasons—perhaps a scarcity of time or hectic work schedule—people have not gained any knowledge of Me from My disposition. Thus do I embark upon My new plan, My final work, and open a new page in My work, so that all who see Me shall beat upon their breasts and weep and wail without cease on account of My existence. This is because I bring the end of mankind to the world, and from this point on, I lay bare My entire disposition before mankind, so that all who know Me and all those who do not may feast their eyes and see that I have indeed come to the human world, have come onto the earth where all things multiply. This is My plan, and My sole “confession” since My creation of mankind. May you give your undivided attention to My every move, for My rod once again presses close to mankind, to all those who go against Me.
Together with the heavens, I begin the work I wish to do. And so I thread My way through the streams of people and move between heaven and earth. People have never perceived My movements or taken notice of My words. Therefore, My plan continues to progress smoothly. It is only that all your faculties have become so benumbed that you are oblivious to the steps of My work. But there will surely come a day when you will realize My purposes. Today, I live together with you and suffer together with you, and I have long since come to understand the attitude that mankind bears toward Me. I wish to speak no further of this, much less do I wish to bring shame on you by bringing up further instances of this painful subject. I hope only that you remember all you have done in your hearts, so that we may tally our accounts on the day when we meet again. I do not wish to falsely accuse any one among you, for I have always acted fairly and reasonably, and with honor. Of course, I also hope that you can be open and honest, and do nothing that goes against heaven and earth or your own conscience. This is the only thing that I ask of you. Many people feel restless and ill at ease because they have committed atrocious wrongs, and many feel ashamed of themselves because they have never done a single good thing. Yet there are also many who, far from feeling disgraced by their sins, go from bad to worse, completely unmasking their hideous features—which had yet to be fully exposed—to test My disposition. I do not care for, nor pay any heed to, the actions of any one person. Rather, I do the work that I ought to do, be it gathering information, or traveling the land, or doing something within My interests. At key times, I proceed with My work among man as originally planned, not a second too late or too soon, and with both ease and succinctness. However, with every step of My work, some are cast aside, for I loathe their flattering ways and their feigned subservience. Those whom I find disgusting will certainly be abandoned; no matter what people think, in any case I will make all whom I loathe stay far away from Me. Needless to say, I will not spare the evil who remain in My house. Because the day of man’s punishment is near, I do not hurry to cast out all those loathsome souls from My house, for I have a plan of My own.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Prepare Sufficient Good Deeds for Your Destination
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Now is the time when I determine the outcome for each person, not the stage in which I began to work man. I write down in My record book, one by one, the words and actions of each person, the course of their following Me, their inherent attributes, and their ultimate manifestations. In this way, no matter what kind of person they are, no one shall escape My hand, and all shall be sorted according to their kind based on My allocation. I determine the destination of each person not on the basis of age, seniority, or amount of suffering, much less on how pitiable they are, but according to whether they possess the truth. There is no other choice but this. You must understand that all those who do not follow the will of God shall be punished without exception. This is something that no person can change. Therefore, all those who are punished are so punished for the righteousness of God and as retribution for their numerous evil acts. I have not made a single change to My plan since its inception. It is simply that, as far as man is concerned, those to whom I direct My words seem to be diminishing in number, as are those of whom I truly approve. However, I maintain that My plan has never changed; rather, it is the faith and love of man that are ever changing, ever waning, to the extent that it is possible for each person to go from fawning over Me to being cold toward Me and even casting Me out. My attitude toward you will be neither hot nor cold, until I feel repulsion and loathing, and finally mete out punishment. However, on the day of your punishment, I will still see you, but you shall no longer be able to see Me. As life among you already has become tedious and dull to Me, so, needless to say, I have chosen different surroundings in which to live, the better to avoid the hurt of your malicious words and steer clear of your unbearably sordid behavior, that you may no longer fool Me or treat Me in a perfunctory manner. Before I leave you, I must still exhort you to refrain from doing that which is not in accordance with the truth. Rather, you should do that which is pleasing to all, that which brings benefit to all, and that which benefits your own destination, otherwise the one who suffers in the midst of disaster will be none other than yourself.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Prepare Sufficient Good Deeds for Your Destination
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My mercy is expressed toward those who love Me and forsake themselves. The punishment visited upon the evil, meanwhile, is precisely proof of My righteous disposition and, even more, testimony to My wrath. When disaster comes, all who oppose Me will weep as they fall victim to famine and plague. Those who have followed Me for many years, but who have committed all manner of evil deeds, will not escape paying for their sins; they too, will be plunged into disaster, the like of which has seldom been seen throughout millions of years, and they will live in a constant state of panic and fear. And those of My followers who have shown undivided loyalty to Me will rejoice and applaud, praising My great power. They will experience an ineffable mood of carefree happiness and live amid joy such as I have never before bestowed upon mankind. For I treasure the good deeds of man and abhor his evil deeds. Since I first began to lead mankind, I have been eagerly hoping to gain a group of people who are of the same mind with Me. Those who are not of the same mind with Me, meanwhile, I never forget; I always hate them in My heart, awaiting the chance to make them answer for their evil deeds, which is something I shall relish to see. Now My day has finally come, and I need no longer wait!
My final work is not only for the sake of punishing man, but also for the sake of arranging the destination of man. Even more so, it is for the sake of getting all people to acknowledge My deeds and actions. I shall make each and every person see that all I have done is right and an expression of My disposition, that it is not man’s doing, and much less is it nature that brought forth mankind, and that it is instead I who nourish every living being among all things. Without My existence, mankind will only perish and suffer the scourge of calamity. No human being will ever again see the beauteous sun and moon, or the verdant world; mankind shall encounter only the dark, cold night and the inexorable valley of the shadow of death. I am mankind’s only redemption. I am mankind’s only hope and, even more, I am He on whom the existence of all mankind rests. Without Me, mankind will immediately come to a standstill, without Me, mankind will only suffer devastating catastrophe and be trampled underfoot by all manner of ghosts, though no one takes heed of Me. I have done work that can be done by no other, and hope only that man can repay Me with some good deeds. Though but a few have been able to repay Me, I will still conclude My journey in the human world and begin the next step of My work that is about to unfold, because all My rushing to and fro in man’s midst these many years has been fruitful, and I am very pleased. What I care about is not the number of people, but rather their good deeds. In any case, I hope that you prepare a sufficiency of good deeds for your own destination. Only then will I be satisfied; otherwise, none of you can escape the onslaught of disaster. The disaster originates with Me and is of course orchestrated by Me. If you cannot appear as good in My eyes, then you will not escape suffering the disaster. In the midst of tribulation, your actions and deeds were not considered entirely appropriate, for your faith and love were hollow, and you only showed yourselves to be either timid or strong. Regarding this, I will only make a judgment of good or bad. What concerns Me is still the actions and deeds, and all the manifestations, of each one of you, on the basis of which I shall determine your outcomes. However, I must make this clear: Toward those who showed Me not the slightest loyalty during times of tribulation, I shall be merciful no more, for My mercy only extends so far. I have no liking, furthermore, for anyone who has once betrayed Me, much less do I like to associate with those who sell out the interests of their friends. This is My disposition, regardless of who the person may be. I must tell you this: Anyone who thoroughly breaks My heart shall not receive leniency from Me a second time, and anyone who has been loyal to Me shall forever remain in My heart.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Prepare Sufficient Good Deeds for Your Destination
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In the vast expanse of the world, oceans silt into fields, and fields flood into oceans, countless times over. Except for He who holds sovereignty over everything among all things, there is no one who is able to lead and guide this human race. There is no “mighty one” to toil or make preparations for this human race, still less is there anyone who can lead this human race to move toward the destination of light and to break free of the injustices of the world of man. God laments the future of mankind, He grieves at the fall of mankind, and is pained that mankind is marching, step by step, toward decay and the path of no return. No one has ever given thought to this: Where might such a mankind, who has thoroughly broken the heart of God and forsaken Him to seek the evil one, be headed? It is precisely for this reason that no one tries to sense the anger of God, that no one seeks the way that pleases God or tries to draw closer to God, and even more so that no one tries to appreciate God’s grief and pain. Even after hearing the voice of God, man continues on his own path, continues turning away from God, evading God’s grace and care, and shunning His truth, preferring to sell himself to Satan, the enemy of God. And who has given any thought to, should man persist in his obduracy, how God will treat this mankind that so utterly disregards Him? No one knows that the reason for God’s repeated reminders and exhortations toward man is that He has prepared in His hands catastrophes like never before, those that will be unbearable to the flesh and soul of man, not merely a punishment of the flesh, but those that target the soul of man. You need to know this: What kind of anger will God unleash when His plan falls through, and when His reminders and exhortations are not repaid? It will be like nothing that has ever been experienced or known by any created being. And so I say, these catastrophes are without precedent, and will never be repeated. For God’s plan is to create mankind only this once, and to save mankind only this once. This is the first time, and it is also the last. Therefore, no one can appreciate the painstaking intentions and fervent anticipation with which God saves mankind this time.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God Is the Source of Man’s Life
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Man has some understanding of the work of today and the work of the future, but he does not understand just what destination mankind will enter into. As a created being, man should perform the duty of a created being. Man should follow God in whatever He does; you should proceed in whatever way I tell you to. You have no way of managing things for yourself, and you have no mastery over yourself. All must be left at the mercy of God’s orchestration, and everything is held within His hands. If, in His work, God provided man with an outcome, a wonderful destination, ahead of time, and if God used this to entice man and cause man to follow Him—if He did a deal with man—then this would not be conquest, nor would it be to work the life of man. Were God to use man’s outcome to control him and gain his heart, then in this He would not be perfecting man, nor would He be able to gain man, but instead would be using the destination to control him. Man cares about nothing more than the future outcome, the final destination, and whether or not there is something good to hope for. If man were given a beautiful hope during the work of conquest, and if, prior to the conquest of man, he were given a proper destination to pursue, then not only would the conquest of man not achieve its effect, but the effect of the work of conquest would also be influenced. That is to say, the work of conquest achieves its effect by taking away the fate and prospects of man and judging and chastising the rebellious disposition of man. It is not achieved by doing a deal with man, that is, by giving man blessings and grace, but by stripping man of his “freedom” and eradicating his prospects, and thereby coming to see how loyal he is. This is the essence of the work of conquest. If man were given a beautiful hope at the very beginning, and the work of chastisement and judgment were done after, then man would accept this chastisement and judgment on the basis that he had prospects, and in the end, the unconditional submission to and worship of the Creator by all His created beings would not be achieved; there would only be blind, ignorant submission, or else man would blindly make demands of God, and it would be impossible to fully conquer man’s heart. Consequently, it would be impossible for such work of conquest to gain man, much less for man to bear witness for God. Such created beings would be unable to perform their duty and would only strike bargains with God; this would not be conquest, but mercy and blessing. Man’s greatest difficulty is that he always thinks of his fate and prospects and idolizes these things. Man pursues God for the sake of his fate and prospects; he does not worship God because of his love for Him. And so, in the conquest of man, man’s selfishness, greed, and the things that most obstruct his worship of God must all be dealt with. In doing so, the effect of conquering man is achieved. As a result, in the first stages of the conquest of man it is necessary to first purge the ambitions and most fatal flaws of man, so as to reveal man’s God-loving heart and change his knowledge of human life, his view of God, and the meaning of his existence. In this way, man’s God-loving heart becomes pure, which is to say, man’s heart is conquered. But in God’s attitude toward all created beings, God does not conquer only for the sake of conquering; rather, He conquers in order to gain man, for the sake of His own glory, and in order to recover the earliest, original likeness of man. Were He to conquer only for the sake of conquering, then the significance of the work of conquest would be lost. That is to say, if God only conquered man, and after doing so washed His hands of man and paid no heed to man’s life or death, then this would not be the management of mankind, nor would it be for the sake of his salvation. Only gaining man after conquering him, and ultimately taking mankind to a wonderful destination, are at the heart of all the work of salvation, and only this achieves the aim of man’s salvation. In other words, only man’s delivery to the wonderful destination and his entry into rest are the prospects that should be possessed by all created beings, and the work that should be done by the Creator. If man were to do this work, then it would be too limited: It could take man to a certain point, but it would not be able to bring man to the eternal destination. Man is not able to decide man’s destiny, much less is he able to ensure man’s prospects and future destination. The work done by God, however, is different. Since He created man, He leads him; since He saves man, He will thoroughly save him, and will completely gain him; since He leads man, He will bring him to the proper destination; and since He created and manages man, He must take responsibility for man’s fate and prospects. It is this which is the work done by the Creator. Though the work of conquest is achieved by eradicating man’s prospects, man must ultimately be brought into the proper destination prepared for him by God. It is precisely because God works man that man has a destination and his fate is assured. Here, the proper destination referred to is not man’s previously eradicated hopes and prospects; the two are different. What man hopes for and pursues are the things he yearns for during his pursuit of the extravagant desires of the flesh, rather than the destination due to man. What God has prepared for man, meanwhile, is the blessing and the promise due to man once he has been purified, which God prepared for man after creating the world, and which is not tainted by the choices, notions, imaginings, or flesh of man. This destination is not prepared for a particular person, but is the place of rest of the whole of mankind. And so, this destination is the most suitable destination for mankind.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination
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The Creator intends to orchestrate created beings. Whatever He does, you must not try to escape it—you should obey Him and not be rebellious toward Him. When the work He does ultimately achieves His aims, in this He will gain glory. Today, why is there no talk of you being the descendant of Moab or the offspring of the great red dragon, no talk of chosen people, and only talk of created beings? This was man’s original designation, his original identity—that of a created being. Names vary only because the periods and phases of work vary; in fact, man is an ordinary created being. All created beings, whether they be the most corrupt or the most holy, must perform the duty of a created being. When God carries out the work of conquest, He does not control you using your prospects, fate or destination. There is actually no need to work in this way. The aim of the work of conquest is to make man perform the duty of a created being, to make him worship the Creator; only after this can he enter the wonderful destination. The fate of man is controlled by the hands of God. You are incapable of controlling yourself. Even if man always rushes and busies himself on his own behalf, he remains incapable of controlling himself. If you could know your own prospects, if you could control your own fate, would you still be called a created being? In short, regardless of how God works, all His work is for the sake of man. It’s just like how the heavens and earth and all things were created by God to serve man: God made the moon, the sun, and the stars for man, He made the animals and plants for man, He made spring, summer, autumn, and winter for man, and so on—all these were made for the sake of man’s existence. And so, regardless of how God chastises and judges man, it is all for the sake of man’s salvation. Even if He strips man of his fleshly hopes, it is still for the sake of purifying man, and the purification of man is done for the sake of man’s existence. The destination of man is in the hands of the Creator, so how could man control himself?
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination
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After the work of conquest has been completed, man will be brought into a beautiful world. This life will, of course, still be on earth, but it will be totally unlike man’s life today. It is the life that mankind will have after the whole of mankind has been conquered, it will be a new beginning for man on earth. For mankind to have such a life will be proof that mankind has entered a new and beautiful realm; it will be the beginning of the life of God and man on earth. The precondition for such a beautiful life must be that, after man has been purified and conquered, he submits before the Creator. And so, the work of conquest is the last stage of God’s work before mankind enters the wonderful destination. Such a life is man’s future life on earth, the most beautiful life on earth, the kind of life that man longs for, the kind that man has never before achieved in the history of the world. It is the final outcome of the 6,000 years of work of management; it is what mankind yearns for most, and it is also God’s promise to man. But this promise cannot come to pass immediately: Man will enter the future destination only once this final stage of work has been completed and he has been completely conquered, that is, once Satan has been utterly defeated. After man has been refined, he will be without a sinful nature, because God will have defeated Satan, meaning that there will be no encroachment by hostile forces, and no hostile forces at all that can attack the flesh of man. And so man will be free and sanctified—he will have entered eternity. Only if the hostile forces of darkness are held in bondage and man is free wherever he goes, will man be without rebelliousness or opposition. Satan has but to be held in bondage, and all will be well with man; the current situation exists because Satan still stirs up disturbance everywhere on earth, and because the entire work of God’s management has yet to reach its end. Once Satan has been defeated, man will be completely liberated; when man gains God and comes out from under the power of Satan, he will behold the Sun of righteousness. The life due to normal man will be regained; all that should be possessed by normal man—such as the ability to discern good from evil, and understanding how to eat and clothe oneself, and the ability to live normally—all of this will be regained. After man was first created, even if Eve had not been tempted by the serpent, man should have had this kind of normal life. He should have eaten, been clothed, and led the normal human life on earth. Yet after man became depraved, this life became an unattainable illusion, and even today man does not dare to imagine such things. In fact, this beautiful life that man longs for is a necessity. If man were without such a destination, then his depraved life on earth would never cease, and if there were not such a beautiful life, then there would be no conclusion to Satan’s fate or to the age in which Satan holds power over the earth. Man must arrive at a realm unreachable by the forces of darkness, and when he does, this will prove that Satan has been defeated. Thus, only when there is no disturbance by Satan, and mankind is in the hands of God Himself, and the entire life of man is in God’s grasp and under His control, can this be called the defeat of Satan. Man’s life today is mostly a life of filth; it is still a life of suffering and tribulation. This cannot be called the defeat of Satan; man has yet to escape from the sea of affliction, has yet to escape from the suffering of the life of man, or the influence of Satan, and he still has but an infinitesimal knowledge of God. All of man’s suffering was created by Satan; it was Satan that brought hardship to the life of man, and only after Satan is placed in bondage will man be able to completely escape from the sea of affliction. Yet the bondage of Satan is achieved through the conquest and gaining of the heart of man, by making man the spoils of the battle with Satan.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination
Daily Words of God Excerpt 591
Becoming an overcomer and being made perfect are the things that man pursues today before he has the normal human life on earth, and they are the objectives that he pursues before Satan is placed in bondage. In essence, man’s pursuit of becoming an overcomer, being made perfect, or being made great use of, is to escape from Satan’s influence: The pursuit of man is to become an overcomer, but the final outcome will be his escape from the influence of Satan. So long as man escapes from the influence of Satan, he can lead the normal human life on earth, the life of worshiping God. Becoming an overcomer and being made perfect are the things that man pursues today prior to having the normal human life on earth. They are pursued primarily for the sake of being cleansed and putting the truth into practice, and in order to worship the Creator. If man possesses the normal human life on earth, a life without suffering or tribulation, then man will not engage in the pursuit of becoming an overcomer. “Becoming an overcomer” and “being made perfect” are the objectives that God gives man to pursue, and through the pursuit of these objectives He causes man to put the truth into practice and live out a life of meaning. The objective is to make man complete and to gain him, and the pursuit of becoming an overcomer or being made perfect is merely a means. If, in the future, man enters into the wonderful destination, there will be no reference to becoming an overcomer and being made perfect; there will only be each created being performing their duty. Today, man is made to pursue these things simply in order to define a scope for man, so that man’s pursuit can be more targeted and practical. Otherwise, man would live amid nebulousness, and pursue entry into eternal life, and if this were so, would man not be even more pitiable? To pursue in this way, without goals or principles—is it not self-deception? Ultimately, this pursuit would naturally be fruitless; in the end, man would still live under the power of Satan and would be incapable of extricating himself from it. Why subject himself to such aimless pursuit? When man enters the eternal destination, man will worship the Creator, and because man will have been saved and entered eternity, man will no longer pursue any goals, much less will he need to worry about being besieged by Satan. At this time, every person will keep their place, and will perform their duty, and even though they will not be chastised or judged, each person will perform their duty. At that time, man will be a created being in both identity and status. There will no longer be the distinction of high and low; it’s simply that each person will perform a different function. Yet man will still live in a destination that is orderly and suitable for mankind; man will perform his duty for the sake of worshiping the Creator, and it is this mankind which will be the mankind of eternity. At that time, man will have gained a life illuminated by God, a life under the care and protection of God, and will live together with God. Mankind will lead a normal life on earth, and all people will enter onto the right track. The 6,000-year management plan will have utterly defeated Satan, meaning that God will have restored the original image of man after creating him on earth, and as such, the original intentions of God will have been satisfied. In the beginning, before mankind was corrupted by Satan, mankind led a normal life on earth. Later, when man was corrupted by Satan, man lost this normal life, and so there began God’s management work, and the battle with Satan to restore the normal life of man. Only when God’s 6,000-year management work comes to an end will the life of all mankind officially begin on earth; only then will man have a wonderful life, and will God restore His purpose in creating man in the beginning, as well as the original likeness of man. And so, once man has the normal life of mankind on earth, man will not pursue becoming an overcomer or being made perfect, for man will be sanctified. The “overcomers” and “being perfected” of which people speak are the objectives given to man to pursue during the battle between God and Satan, and they exist only because man has been corrupted. It is by giving you an objective and causing you to pursue this objective, that Satan will be defeated. Asking you to be an overcomer or to be made perfect or to be used requires that you bear witness in order to shame Satan. In the end, if people lead normal human lives on earth and everyone has been sanctified, will they still pursue becoming overcomers? Are they not all created beings? Speaking of being an overcomer and being a perfected one, these words are directed at Satan, and at the filthiness of man. Is this word “overcomer” not in reference to the victory over Satan and the hostile forces? When you say that you have been made perfect, what within you has been made perfect? Is it not that you have cast off your satanic corrupt dispositions, and have come to love God to the utmost? Such things are said in relation to the filthy things within man, and in relation to Satan; they are not spoken of in relation to God.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination
Daily Words of God Excerpt 592
When man achieves the true human life on earth and the entire forces of Satan are placed in bondage, man will live quite easily upon earth. Things will not be as complex as they are today: Interpersonal relationships, social relationships, complex familial relationships—they bring so much trouble, so much pain! It is so vexing to live in the midst of all this! Once man has been conquered, his heart and mind will change. He will have a God-fearing and God-loving heart. Once all those within the universe who seek to love God have been conquered, which is to say, once Satan has been defeated, and once Satan—all the forces of darkness—has been placed in bondage, then man’s life on earth will be undisturbed, and he will be able to live freely upon earth. If man’s life were without fleshly relationships and the complex matters of the flesh, then it would be so much easier. Man’s relationships of the flesh are too complex, and for man to have such things is proof that he has yet to free himself of the influence of Satan. If you had the same relationship with each of the brothers and sisters, if you had the same relationship with each member of your family, then there’d be nothing to trouble you, and you would not need to worry about anyone. Nothing could be better, and in this way man would be relieved of half of his suffering. Living a normal human life on earth, man will be similar to the angels; though still being of the flesh, he will be much like an angel. This is the final promise, the last promise bestowed upon man. Today man undergoes chastisement and judgment; do you think man’s experience of such things is meaningless? Could the work of chastisement and judgment be done for nothing? Previously it has been said that to chastise and judge man is to place him into the bottomless pit, which means the taking away of his fate and prospects. This is for the sake of one thing: the cleansing of man. Man is not placed in the bottomless pit deliberately, after which God washes His hands of him. Instead, it is in order to prune the rebelliousness within man, so that in the end the things within man may be cleansed, so that he may have a true knowledge of God and be like a holy person. If this is done, then all will be accomplished. In fact, when those things within man that are meant to be pruned are pruned, and man bears resounding witness, Satan will also be defeated, and even though there may be a few of those things which are originally within man that are not completely cleansed, once Satan is defeated, it will no longer cause disturbance, and at that time man will have been completely cleansed. Man has never experienced such a life, but when Satan is defeated, all will be settled and those trifling things within man will all be solved, and once that main problem has been solved, all other troubles will end. During this incarnation of God on earth, when He personally does His work among man, all the work He does is done to defeat Satan, and He will defeat Satan through the conquest of man and by making you complete. When you bear resounding witness, this, too, will be a mark of Satan’s defeat. Man is first conquered and ultimately completely made perfect in order to defeat Satan. In essence, however, along with the defeat of Satan, this is also the salvation of all mankind from this empty sea of affliction. Regardless of whether work is carried out in the entire universe or in China, it is all in order to defeat Satan and bring salvation to the whole of mankind, so that man may enter the place of rest. The incarnate God, this normal flesh, is precisely for the sake of defeating Satan. The work of God in flesh is used to bring salvation to all those beneath heaven who love God, it is for the sake of conquering all mankind, and even more so it is for the sake of defeating Satan. The core of all God’s management work is inseparable from the defeat of Satan to bring salvation to all mankind. Why, in much of this work, is there always talk of having you bear testimony? And whom is this testimony directed at? Is it not directed at Satan? This testimony is made for God, and it is made to bear witness that the work of God has achieved its effect. Bearing testimony is related to the work of defeating Satan; if there were not a battle with Satan, then man would not be required to bear testimony. It is because Satan must be defeated that, at the same time as saving man, God requires that man bear testimony for Him before Satan, which He uses to save man and do battle with Satan. As a result, man is both the object of salvation and a tool in the defeat of Satan, and so man is at the core of the work of God’s entire management, while Satan is merely the object of destruction, the enemy. You may feel that you have done nothing, but because of the changes in your disposition, testimony has been borne, and this testimony is directed at Satan and is not made for man. Man is not fit to enjoy such a testimony. How could he clearly see the work done by God? The one God fights is Satan; man, meanwhile, is only the object of salvation. Man has satanic corrupt dispositions, and is incapable of clearly seeing this work. This is because of the corruption of Satan and is not inherent to man, but is directed by Satan. Today, God’s main work is to defeat Satan, that is, to completely conquer man, so that man may bear final testimony for God before Satan. In this way, all things will be accomplished. In many cases, to your naked eye it appears that nothing has been done, but in fact, the work has already been completed. Man requires that all the work of completion be visible, yet without making it visible to you, I have completed My work, for Satan has yielded, which means that it has been utterly defeated, that all of God’s wisdom, power, and authority have vanquished Satan. This is exactly the testimony that must be borne, and though it has no clear expression in man, though it is not visible to the naked eye, Satan has already been defeated. The entirety of this work is directed against Satan and carried out because of the battle with Satan. And so, there are many things that man does not see as having been successful, but which, in God’s eyes, were successfully completed long ago. This is one of the hidden facts about all God’s work.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination
Daily Words of God Excerpt 593
All those who are willing to be made perfect have the chance to be made perfect, so everyone must relax: In the future you will all enter the destination. But if you are unwilling to be made perfect, and are unwilling to enter the wonderful realm, then that is on you. All those who are willing to be made perfect and are loyal to God, all those who submit, and all those who perform their function in an honest manner—all such people can be made perfect. Today, all those who do not devotedly perform their duty, all those who are not loyal to God, all those who do not submit to God, particularly those who have received the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit but do not put it into practice—all such people are unable to be made perfect. All those who are willing to be loyal and submit to God can be made perfect, even if they are a little ignorant; all those who are willing to pursue can be made perfect. There is no need to worry about this. As long as you are willing to pursue in this direction, you can be made perfect. I am unwilling to abandon or eliminate any one of you, but if you do not strive to do well, then you are only harming yourself; it is not Me that eliminates you, but you yourself. If you yourself do not strive to do well—if you are lazy, or do not perform your duty, or are not loyal, or do not pursue the truth, and you always do things your own way, behave recklessly, fight for your own fame and gain, and are unscrupulous in your dealings with the opposite sex, then you will bear the burden of your own sins; you are not worthy of anyone’s pity. My intention is for all of you to be made perfect, and at the very least be conquered, so that this stage of work may be successfully completed. God’s wish is for every person to be made perfect, to be ultimately gained by Him, to be completely cleansed by Him, and to become people He loves. No matter whether I say you are backward or of poor caliber, this is all fact. However, My saying this does not prove that I intend to abandon you, that I have lost hope in you, much less that I am unwilling to save you. Today I have come to do the work of your salvation, which is to say that the work I do is a continuation of the work of salvation. Every person has the chance to be made perfect: Provided that you are willing, provided that you pursue, in the end you will be able to achieve this result, and not one of you will be abandoned. If you are of poor caliber, My requirements of you will be in accordance with your poor caliber; if you are of high caliber, My requirements of you will be in accordance with your high caliber; if you are ignorant and illiterate, My requirements of you will be in accordance with this; if you are literate, My requirements of you will be in accordance with the fact that you are literate; if you are elderly, My requirements of you will be in accordance with your age; if you are capable of doing the duty of hosting, My requirements of you will be in accordance with this; if you say you cannot do the duty of hosting, and can only perform a certain function, whether it be preaching the gospel, or taking care of the church, or attending to other general affairs, My perfection of you will be in accordance with the function that you perform. Being loyal, submitting to the very end, and seeking to love God to the utmost—these are what you must accomplish, just these three things, and these are the best practices. Ultimately, people are required to achieve these three things, and those who can achieve them will be made perfect. But, above all, you must sincerely pursue, you must actively press onward and upward, and not be passive in this matter. I have said that every person has the chance to be made perfect and is capable of being made perfect, and this holds true, but you do not strive upward. Those who do not achieve these three criteria will still be eliminated in the end. I want everyone to keep up, I want everyone to have the work and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, and be able to submit to the very end, because this is the duty that each of you should perform. When you have all fulfilled your duty, you will all have been made perfect, and you will also have resounding testimony. All those who have testimony are those who have been victorious over Satan and gained God’s promise, and they are the ones who will remain and live in the wonderful destination.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination
Daily Words of God Excerpt 594
In the beginning, God was in rest. There were no humans or anything else upon the earth at that time, and God had not yet done any work. He only began His work of management once humanity existed and after humanity had been corrupted; from that point on, He no longer rested, but instead began to busy Himself among humanity. It was because of humanity’s corruption that God lost His rest, and also because of the archangel’s betrayal. If God does not defeat Satan and save corrupted humanity, He will never again be able to enter into rest. As man lacks rest, so does God, and when He rests once more, humans will, too. A life at rest means a life without war, without filth, and without any unrighteousness. This is to say, it is a life devoid of Satan’s disturbances (here “Satan” refers to hostile forces) and Satan’s corruption, and free from the encroachment of any force in opposition to God; it is a life in which everything is sorted according to its kind and can worship the Creator, and in which heaven and earth are entirely tranquil. This is the life of rest for humans. When God rests, unrighteousness will no longer exist upon the earth, nor will there be any further encroachment from hostile forces, and humankind will enter a new realm—no longer be a humanity corrupted by Satan, but rather a humanity that has been saved after having been corrupted by Satan. Humanity’s day of rest will also be God’s day of rest. God lost His rest due to humanity’s inability to enter into rest; it’s not that He originally had no rest. Entering into rest does not mean that the activity of all things ceases or that the development of all matters stops, nor does it mean that God stops working or that humans stop living. The sign of entering into rest is that Satan has been destroyed, that those evil people who joined it in its evildoing have been punished and wiped out, and that all forces hostile to God cease to exist. God entering into rest means that He will no longer carry out His work of humanity’s salvation. Humanity entering into rest means that all of humanity will live within God’s light and under His blessings, devoid of Satan’s corruption, no more unrighteousness will occur, and all humans will live normally upon the earth under God’s care. When God and humanity enter into rest together, it means that humanity has been saved and that Satan has been destroyed, that God’s work on humans is entirely complete. God will no longer continue to work on humans, and they will no longer live under Satan’s power. As such, God will no longer be busy, and humans will no longer be constantly on the move; God and humanity will enter into rest simultaneously. God will return to His original place, and each person will return to their respective place. These will be the respective destinations of God and humans once God’s entire management is finished. God has God’s destination, and humans have the place they will go. While resting, God will continue to lead all humans to live upon the earth, and while in His light, they will worship the one true God in heaven. God will not live among humanity, nor will humans be able to live with God in His destination. God and humans cannot live within the same realm; rather, both have their own respective manners of living. God is the One who leads all of humanity, and all of humanity is the crystallization of God’s management work. Humans are the ones who are led, and are not of the same substance as God. To “rest” means to return to one’s original place. Therefore, when God enters into rest, it means He has returned to His original place. He will no longer live upon the earth or be among humanity to share in their joy and suffering. When humans enter into rest, it means that they have become true created beings; they will worship God from upon the earth, and live normal human lives. People will no longer rebel against God or resist Him, and will return to the original life of Adam and Eve. These will be the respective lives and destinations of God and humans after they enter into rest. Satan’s defeat is an inevitable trend in the war between it and God. As such, God’s entering into rest after the completion of His management work and humanity’s complete salvation and entrance into rest have likewise become inevitable trends. Humanity’s place of rest is on earth, and God’s place of rest is in heaven. Humans will worship God while they rest, living upon the earth. God will lead the remaining humans while He rests; He will lead them from heaven, not from earth. God will still be the Spirit, while humans will still be flesh. God and humans have their own respective ways of resting. While God rests, He will come and appear among humans; while humans rest, they will be led by God to visit heaven, as well as to enjoy life there. After God and humanity enter into rest, Satan will no longer exist; likewise, those evil people will also cease to exist. Before God and humanity rest, those evil individuals who once persecuted God on earth, as well as the enemies who were rebellious against Him there, will already have been destroyed; they will have been eradicated by the great catastrophes of the last days. Once those evil people have been utterly annihilated, earth will never again know Satan’s disturbance. Only then will humanity attain complete salvation, and God’s work be thoroughly finished. These are the prerequisites for God and humanity to enter into rest.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 595
The approach of the outcomes of all things indicates the completion of God’s work, as well as an end to humanity’s development. This means that humans, as corrupted by Satan, have reached the end of their development, and that the descendants of Adam and Eve have multiplied to the end. It also means that it will be impossible for such a humanity, having been corrupted by Satan, to continue to develop. The Adam and Eve in the beginning had not been corrupted, but the Adam and Eve who were driven from the Garden of Eden were corrupted by Satan. When God and humans enter into rest together, Adam and Eve—who were driven from the Garden of Eden—and their descendants will come to an end. The humanity of the future will still consist of the descendants of Adam and Eve, but they will not be humans living under Satan’s power. Rather, they will be people who have been saved and purified. This will be a humanity that has been judged and chastised, and one that has been sanctified. These people will not be like the human race in the beginning; it can almost be said that they will be an entirely different kind of humanity from that of Adam and Eve in the beginning. These people will have been selected from among all of those who were corrupted by Satan, and they will be the ones who have ultimately stood firm during God’s judgment and chastisement; they will be the last remaining group of humans among corrupt humankind. Only these people will be able to enter into the final rest along with God. Those who are able to stand firm during God’s work of judgment and chastisement in the last days—that is, during the final work of purification—will be the ones who will enter into the final rest alongside God; as such, all those who enter into rest will have broken free from Satan’s influence and been gained by God only after having undergone His final work of purification. These humans, who will have been finally gained by God, will enter into the final rest. In essence, God does the work of chastisement and judgment to purify humanity, and for the sake of the ultimate day of rest; otherwise no members of humanity could be sorted according to their kind, or enter into rest. This work is humanity’s only path to enter into rest. Only God’s work of purification will cleanse humans of their unrighteousness, and only His work of chastisement and judgment will expose those rebellious elements of humanity, thereby distinguishing those who can be saved from those who cannot, and those who can remain from those who cannot. When this work ends, those people who can remain will all be purified and enter a higher realm of humanity in which they will enjoy a more wonderful second human life upon the earth; in other words, they will enter into humanity’s day of rest and live together with God. After those who cannot remain have been chastised and judged, their true colors will be entirely exposed, after which they will all be destroyed and, like Satan, will no longer be permitted to survive upon the earth. The humanity of the future will no longer include any people of this sort; such people are not fit to enter the land of the ultimate rest, nor are they fit to enter into the day of rest that God and humanity will share, for they are the targets of punishment, and they are evil ones, not righteous people. They were redeemed once, and they have also been judged and chastised; they also once labored for God. However, when the final day comes, they will still be eliminated and destroyed due to their evil and as a result of their rebelliousness and incurability; they will never again live in the world of the future, and will no longer live among the human race of the future. Whether they are spirits of the dead or people still living in the flesh, all evildoers and all those who have not been saved will be destroyed once the sanctified among humanity enter into rest. As for these evildoing spirits and humans, or the spirits of righteous people and those who do righteousness, regardless of what era they are in, all those who are evil will be destroyed, and all those who are righteous will survive. Whether a person or spirit will receive salvation is not entirely decided on the basis of the work of the final age; rather, it is determined by whether or not they have resisted or rebelled against God. People in the previous era who committed evil and could not be saved will, undoubtedly, be targets for punishment, and those in the current era who commit evil and cannot be saved will surely be targets for punishment, too. Humans are categorized on the basis of good and evil, not by which era they live in. Once thus categorized, they will not be punished or rewarded immediately; rather, God will only carry out His work of punishing evil and rewarding good after He has finished carrying out His work of conquest in the last days. Actually, He has been separating humans into good and evil ever since He started doing His work of mankind’s salvation. It is just that He will reward the righteous and punish the evil only after His work has come to an end; it is not that He will separate them into categories upon the completion of His work and then immediately set about the task of punishing evil and rewarding good. Rather, this task will be done only when His work is wholly finished. The sole purpose behind God’s ultimate work of punishing evil and rewarding good is to thoroughly purify all humans so that He may bring a purely sanctified humanity into eternal rest. This stage of His work is the most crucial; it is the final stage of the whole of His work of management. If God did not destroy the evil, but instead allowed them to remain, then all of humanity would still be unable to enter into rest, and God would not be able to bring them into a more wonderful realm. Such work would not be completely finished. When His work is finished, the whole of humanity will be entirely sanctified; only in this way will God be able to live in rest peacefully.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 596
People nowadays are still unable to let go of things of the flesh; they cannot give up the enjoyment of the flesh, the world, money, or their corrupt dispositions. Most people go about their pursuits in a perfunctory manner. Actually, these people do not have God in their hearts at all; even worse, they do not dread God. They do not have God in their hearts, and so they cannot see clearly all that God does, much less are they capable of believing the words He utters. Such people are too much of the flesh; they are too deeply corrupted and lack any truth whatsoever, and even worse they do not believe that God can become flesh. Anyone who does not believe in God’s incarnation—that is, anyone who does not believe in the work and words of the visible God, or who does not believe in the visible God and instead worships the invisible god in heaven—is a person who does not have God in their heart, someone who is rebellious and resistant to God. Such people don’t have humanity or reason, to say nothing of the truth. For these people, the visible and tangible God all the more cannot be believed, yet they consider the invisible and intangible god to be most credible and most gladdening. What they seek is not the actual truth, nor is it the true meaning of life; much less is it God’s intentions. Rather, they seek excitement. Whichever things can most enable them to fulfill their own desires constitute their faith and their pursuit, without a doubt. They only believe in God in order to satisfy their own desires, not to seek the truth. Are such people not evildoers? They are extremely self-confident, and they do not at all believe that God in heaven will destroy such “good people” as themselves. Instead, they believe that God will allow them to remain and, moreover, will reward them handsomely. This is because they think they’ve done many things for God and displayed considerable “devotion” toward Him. If they were to also pursue the visible God, as soon as their desires were not met, they would immediately strike back against God or fly into a rage. These people are all base individuals who are just seeking to satisfy their own desires; they are not people of integrity in pursuit of the truth. Such people are the so-called evil ones who follow Christ. Those people who do not seek the truth cannot possibly believe the truth, and are all the more unable to see clearly humanity’s future outcome, for they do not believe any of the work or words of the visible God, nor do they believe what humanity’s future destination will be. Therefore, even if they follow the visible God, they still commit evil and do not at all seek the truth, nor do they practice the truth that I require. Those people who do not believe that they will be destroyed are, conversely, the very ones who will be destroyed. They all believe themselves to be so clever, and they think that they themselves are people who practice the truth. They cherish their evil deeds as the truth. Such evil people are very self-confident; they take the truth to be doctrine and take their evil deeds to be the truth, and in the end they can only reap what they have sown. The more self-confident people are and the more arrogant they are, the more they are unable to gain the truth; the more people believe in the god in heaven, the more they resist God. These people are the ones who will be punished.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 597
Before humanity enters into rest, whether each sort of person is punished or rewarded will be determined according to whether they seek the truth, whether they know God, and whether they can submit to the visible God. Those who have labored, yet neither know the visible God nor submit to Him, don’t have the truth. Such people are evildoers, and evildoers will undoubtedly be objects of punishment; furthermore, they shall be punished according to their evil deeds. God is for humans to believe in, and He is also worthy of their submission. Those who only have faith in the nebulous and invisible god are people who do not believe in God and are unable to submit to God. If these people still cannot manage to believe in the visible God by the time His work of conquest is finished, and continue to rebel against and resist the visible God who is in the flesh, then these “nebulousists” will, without a doubt, become objects of destruction. It is the same among you—all those who verbally acknowledge God incarnate, yet cannot practice the truth of submission to God incarnate, are ultimately to be eliminated and destroyed. And all those who verbally acknowledge the visible God and eat and drink the truth expressed by Him, and yet pursue the nebulous and invisible god, will even more so be objects of destruction. None of these people will be able to remain until the time of rest that will come after God’s work has finished, nor can a single individual like this remain until that time of rest. People who are of demons do not practice the truth; their essence is one of resistance and rebelliousness toward God, and they do not have the slightest intention of submitting to Him. Such people will all be destroyed. Whether you have the truth and whether you resist God depend on your essence, not on your appearance or how you might occasionally speak or act. Whether or not an individual will be destroyed is determined by their essence; it is decided according to the essence revealed by their behavior and their pursuit of the truth. Among people who all perform work and do the same amount of work, those with good essences of humanity who possess the truth are the ones who will be allowed to remain, while those with evil essences of humanity who rebel against the visible God are the ones who will perish. All of God’s work or words related to humanity’s destination will deal with people appropriately according to each individual’s essence; not the slightest error will occur, and even more so, not a single mistake will be made. It is only when people do work that human feelings or ideas enter the mix. The work God does is most appropriate; He absolutely does not bring false claims against any created being. There are currently many people who cannot see clearly mankind’s future destination and who do not believe the words I utter. All those who do not believe, as well as the ones who do not practice the truth, are demons!
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 598
Nowadays, those who pursue and those who do not are two types of people, whose destinations are different. Those who pursue knowing the truth and practicing the truth are the ones to whom God will bring salvation. Those who do not know the true way are demons and enemies; they are the descendants of the archangel and will be those that perish. Even those who are pious believers of a nebulous god—are they not also demons? People who possess good consciences but do not accept the true way are demons; their essence is one of resistance to God. Those who do not accept the true way are those who resist God, and even if such people endure much suffering, they will still perish. All those who are unwilling to forsake the world, who cannot bear to part with their parents, and who cannot bear to rid themselves of their own enjoyments of the flesh are rebellious against God, and all will be objects of destruction. Anyone who does not believe in God incarnate is a demon and, even more so, will perish. Those who believe but do not practice the truth, those who do not believe in the incarnation of God, and those who do not at all believe in God’s existence will all be those that perish. All those who can remain are people who have undergone the suffering of refinement and stood firm; these are people who have truly gone through trials. Anyone who does not acknowledge God is an enemy; that is, anyone who does not acknowledge God incarnate—whether or not they are inside or outside this stream—is an antichrist! Who are Satans, who are demons, and who are God’s enemies? Are they not those resisters who don’t believe in God? Are they not those people who are rebellious against God? Are they not those who claim to have faith, yet who have no truth? Are they not those who merely seek to obtain blessings while being unable to bear witness for God? You still mingle with those demons today and treat them with conscience and love, but doesn’t this amount to extending kindness toward Satan? Are you not in league with demons? If people have made it to this point and are still unable to distinguish between good and evil, and continue to blindly be loving and merciful without any desire to seek God’s heart or being able in any way to take God’s heart as their own, then their outcomes will be all the more wretched. Anyone who does not believe in the God in the flesh is an enemy of God. If you can treat God’s enemies with conscience and love, are you not devoid of a sense of justice? If you are compatible with those which I hate and which I oppose, and still treat them with love or show them personal feelings, then are you not rebellious? Are you not intentionally resisting God? Does such a person actually possess the truth? If people treat God’s enemies with conscience, demons with love, and Satan with mercy, then are they not intentionally disrupting God’s work? Those people who believe only in Jesus and do not believe in God incarnate during the last days, as well as those who verbally claim to believe in God incarnate but do evil, are all antichrists, without even mentioning those who do not believe in God. All these people will be those that perish. The standard by which humans judge other humans is based on their behavior; those whose behavior is good are righteous, while those whose behavior is abominable are evil. The standard by which God judges humans is based on whether their essence submits to Him or not; one who submits to God is a righteous person, while one who does not is an enemy and an evil person, regardless of whether this person’s behavior is good or bad and regardless of whether their speech is correct or incorrect. Some people wish to use good deeds to obtain a good destination in the future, and some people wish to use fine words to procure a good destination. Everyone mistakenly believes that God determines people’s outcomes based on their behavior or their speech; many people therefore wish to take advantage of this to finagle momentary grace for themselves. The people who will survive in the time of rest to come will all have endured the day of suffering and borne witness for God; they will all be people who have fulfilled their duties and who have deliberately submitted to God. Those who merely wish to use the opportunity of rendering service to avoid practicing the truth will not remain. God has appropriate standards for the arrangement of the outcome of every individual; He does not simply make these decisions according to one’s words and conduct, nor does He make them based on how one acts during a single period of time. He will absolutely not be lenient with regard to all of one’s evil deeds due to their past service for Him, nor will He spare one from death because they expended themselves for Him for a while. No one can evade retribution for their evil, and no one can cover up their evil deeds and thereby evade the suffering of perishing. If people can truly fulfill their own duties, it means that they are eternally loyal to God and not seeking rewards, regardless of whether they receive blessings or suffer woe. If people are loyal to God when they see blessings, but lose their loyalty when they cannot see any blessings, and if these people—who once labored for God loyally—are ultimately still unable to bear witness for God or fulfill the duties incumbent upon them, then such people will still be those that perish. In short, evil people cannot survive forever, nor can they enter into rest; only the righteous will be the masters in rest. Once humanity is on the right track, people will have normal human lives. They will all be able to do their own duties and be absolutely loyal to God. They will utterly cast off their rebelliousness and their corrupt dispositions, and they will live for God and because of God, devoid of rebelliousness and resistance. They will all be able to completely submit to God. This will be the life of God and humanity; it will be the life of the kingdom, and it will be the life of rest.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 599
Those who drag their utterly nonbelieving children and relatives into church are all extremely selfish, and they are just exhibiting kindness. These people only focus on being loving, regardless of whether they believe or not and regardless of whether it is God’s intention. Some bring their wives before God, or drag their parents before God, and whether or not the Holy Spirit agrees with this and whether or not the Holy Spirit is working on them, they blindly “adopt talented people” for God. What benefit can possibly be gained from extending kindness toward these nonbelievers? Even if these disbelievers, who are without the presence of the Holy Spirit, reluctantly follow God, they still cannot be saved as people imagine. Those who can receive salvation are not actually so easy to gain. People who have not undergone the Holy Spirit’s work and trials, and have not been perfected by God incarnate, are utterly incapable of being made complete. Therefore, from the moment they begin to nominally follow God, those people lack the Holy Spirit’s presence. In light of their conditions and actual states, they simply cannot be made complete. As such, the Holy Spirit does not intend to expend much energy upon them, nor does He provide any enlightenment or guide them in any way; He merely allows them to follow along, and will ultimately reveal their outcomes—this is enough. People’s enthusiasm and wishes come from Satan, and in no way can these things complete the Holy Spirit’s work. No matter what people are like, they must have the work of the Holy Spirit. Can humans make humans complete? Why does a husband love his wife? Why does a wife love her husband? Why do children show filial piety to their parents? Why do parents dote on their children? What is the intent that people all harbor? Isn’t it to fulfill their own plans and selfish desires? Is it truly to act for the sake of God’s management plan? Is it really to act for the sake of God’s work? Is it to fulfill the duties of a created being? Those who, ever since the moment they began to believe in God, have been unable to receive the presence of the Holy Spirit, can never receive the work of the Holy Spirit; these people are decidedly those that perish. No matter how much love one has for them, it cannot replace the work of the Holy Spirit. People’s enthusiasm and love represent human wishes, but cannot represent God’s wishes, and nor can they be a substitute for God’s work. Even if one extends the greatest possible amount of love or mercy toward those people who nominally believe in God and those who pretend to follow Him without knowing what it actually means to believe in God, they will still not obtain God’s sympathy, nor will they receive the work of the Holy Spirit. Even if people who sincerely follow God are of poor caliber and unable to understand a lot of truths, they can still occasionally receive the work of the Holy Spirit; however, those who are of considerably good caliber, but do not sincerely believe, simply cannot receive the Holy Spirit’s presence. There is absolutely no possibility for salvation with such people. Even if they read God’s words or occasionally listen to sermons, or sing praises to God, they will ultimately not be able to survive until the time of rest. Whether people pursue with a true heart is not determined by how others judge them or how the people around view them, but by whether the Holy Spirit works on them and whether they have the presence of the Holy Spirit. Even more so, it depends on whether, after undergoing the Holy Spirit’s work over a certain period, their dispositions have changed and they have gained some knowledge of God. If the Holy Spirit works upon a person, this person’s disposition will gradually change, and their understanding of their view on belief in God will gradually grow purer. Regardless of how long people follow God, as long as they have undergone some change, it means that the Holy Spirit is working on them. If they have not changed, it means that the Holy Spirit is not working on them. Even if these people render some service, what drives them to do so is the intent to receive blessings. Occasional service-rendering is no substitute for dispositional change. Ultimately, they will still perish, for in the kingdom there will be no need for service-doers, nor will there be a need for anyone whose disposition has not changed to be of service to those people who have been perfected and who are loyal to God. Those words spoken in the past, “One person’s belief in the Lord brings blessings to the whole family,” were applicable for the Age of Grace, but are unrelated to one’s destination. They were only applicable for a stage during the Age of Grace. The connotation of those words was directed at the peace and material blessings that people enjoyed; they did not mean that the entire family of one who believes in the Lord will be saved, nor did they mean that when one receives blessings, one’s entire family can also be brought into rest. Whether one receives blessings or suffers woe is determined according to one’s essence, not according to any common essence one might share with others. That sort of saying or rule simply has no place in the kingdom. If a person is ultimately able to survive, it is because they have met God’s requirements, and if they are ultimately unable to remain until the time of rest, it is because they have been rebellious against God and have not satisfied God’s requirements. Everyone has a suitable destination, which is determined according to each individual’s essence, and has absolutely nothing to do with other people. A child’s evil deeds cannot be transferred to their parents, nor can a child’s righteousness be shared with their parents. A parent’s evil deeds cannot be transferred to their children, nor can a parent’s righteousness be shared with their children. Everyone bears their respective sins, and everyone enjoys their respective blessings. No one can be a substitute for another person. This is righteousness. From man’s perspective, if parents receive blessings, then their children should be able to, too, and if children commit evil, then their parents must atone for those sins. This is a human perspective and a human way of doing things; it is not God’s perspective. Everyone’s outcome is determined according to the essence of their deeds, and it is always determined appropriately. No one can bear the sins of another; even more so, no one can receive punishment in another’s stead. This is absolute. A parent’s doting care for their children does not mean that they can perform righteous deeds in their children’s stead, nor does the filial piety of a child to their parents mean that they can perform righteous deeds in their parents’ stead. This is what is truly meant by the words, “Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” People cannot take their evildoing children into rest on the basis of their deep love for them, nor can anyone take their wife (or husband) into rest on the basis of their own righteous deeds. This is an administrative rule; there can be no exceptions for anyone. Doers of righteous deeds are ultimately doers of righteous deeds, and evildoers are ultimately evildoers. The doers of righteous deeds will ultimately be able to survive, while the evildoers will perish. The holy are holy; they are not filthy. The filthy are filthy, and not one part of them is holy. The people who will be destroyed are all the evil ones, and the ones who will survive are all the righteous—even if the children of the evil ones are doers of righteous deeds, and even if the parents of the righteous ones are doers of evil deeds. There is intrinsically no relationship between a believing husband and a nonbelieving wife, and there is no relationship between believing children and nonbelieving parents; these two types of people are incompatible. Prior to entering into rest, people have fleshly, familial affection, but once they have entered into rest, there will no longer be any fleshly, familial affection to speak of. Those who do their duty are inherently enemies of those who do not; those who love God and those who hate Him are intrinsically opposed to one another. Those who will enter into rest and those who will have been destroyed are two incompatible types of created beings. Created beings that perform their duties will be able to survive, while those that do not perform their duties will be objects of destruction; what is more, this shall last through eternity. Do you love your husband in order to perform your duty as a created being? Do you love your wife in order to perform your duty as a created being? Do you show filial piety to your nonbelieving parents in order to perform your duty as a created being? Are people’s views on belief in God actually right or wrong? What exactly do you believe in God for? What exactly do you wish to gain? How exactly do you love God? Those who cannot fulfill their duties as created beings, and who cannot make an all-out effort, will become objects of destruction. There are fleshly relationships that exist between the people of today, as well as blood ties, but in the future, these will all be broken. Believers and nonbelievers are inherently not compatible; rather, they are opposed to one another. Those in rest will all be people who believe there is a God and submit to God, whereas those who are rebellious against God will all have been destroyed. Families will no longer exist upon the earth; how could there be parents or children or spousal relationships? The very incompatibility of belief and unbelief will have utterly severed such fleshly relationships!
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 600
There were originally no families among humanity; there were just men and women—two different kinds of humans. There were no countries, to say nothing of families, but as a result of humanity’s corruption, all kinds of people organized themselves into individual clans, later developing into countries and ethnicities. These countries and ethnicities consisted of small individual families, and in this manner, all sorts of people were distributed among various races based on differences in language and boundaries. Actually, no matter how many races there might be in the world, humanity ultimately has one ancestor. In the beginning, there were only two kinds of humans, and these two kinds were men and women. However, due to the progress of God’s work, the movement of history, and geographical changes, to varying degrees these two kinds of humans developed into even more sorts of humans. At base, regardless of how many races might make up humanity, all of humanity is still God’s creation. No matter what races people belong to, they are all His created beings; they are all the descendants of Adam and Eve. Even though they were not made by the hands of God, they are descendants of Adam and Eve, whom God created personally. No matter which type of being people belong to, they are all His created beings; since they are created humans, they should have the destinations which humans ought to, and they will be divided according to the rules for making arrangements for humans. That is to say, all evildoers and all those who perform righteous deeds are, after all, created beings. Created beings that commit evil will ultimately perish, and created beings who perform righteous deeds will survive. This is the most suitable arrangement for these two kinds of created beings. Evildoers cannot, because of their rebelliousness, deny that they are God’s created beings and yet have been captured by Satan and thus cannot be saved. Created beings that perform righteous deeds cannot, based on the fact that they will survive, deny that they have been created by God and yet have received salvation after having been corrupted by Satan. Evildoers are created beings who are rebellious against God; they are created beings that cannot be saved and have already been thoroughly captured by Satan. People who commit evil are also humans; they are humans who have been corrupted to the extreme, and who cannot be saved. Being likewise created beings, people who perform righteous deeds have also been corrupted, but they are humans who are willing to cast off their corrupt dispositions and have become capable of submitting to God. People who perform righteous deeds do not brim with righteousness. Rather, they are people who have attained salvation, cast off their corrupt dispositions, and submitted to God, people who will stand fast in the end. It’s not the case that they are people who have never been corrupted by Satan. After God’s work ends, among all created beings, there will be those who will perish and those who will survive. This is an inevitable trend of His management work; no one can deny it. Evildoers will not be allowed to survive; those who submit and follow God to the end are certain to survive. As this work is that of humanity’s management, there will be those who remain and those who are eliminated. These are different outcomes for different types of people, and they are the most suitable arrangements for created beings. God’s ultimate arrangement for humankind is to divide them by breaking families, crushing ethnicities and shattering national borders in an arrangement without families or national borders, for humans are, after all, descended from one ancestor and are all created beings. In short, created beings that do evil will all be destroyed, and created beings that submit to God will survive. In this way, there will be no families, no countries, and especially no ethnicities in the time of rest to come; this kind of humanity will be the holiest kind of humanity. Adam and Eve were originally created so that humanity could manage all things on earth; in other words, humans were originally the masters of all things. Jehovah’s wish in creating humans was for them to exist upon the earth and to manage all things upon it, because humanity had not originally been corrupted and was incapable of committing evil. However, after humans became corrupted, they were no longer the stewards of all things. The purpose of God’s salvation is to restore this function of humanity, to restore humankind’s original reason and original submission; humanity in rest will be the very representation of the result that God hopes to attain with His work of salvation. Although it will no longer be a life such as the one in the Garden of Eden, their essence will be the same; it’s just that humanity will no longer be that uncorrupted humanity, but rather a humanity that became corrupted and later received salvation. These people who have received salvation will ultimately (that is, after God’s work is done) enter into rest. Likewise, the outcomes of those who are to be punished will also be completely revealed in the end, and they will only be destroyed after God’s work has ended. In other words, after His work is finished, those evildoers and those who have been saved will all be revealed, for the work of revealing all types of people (whether they are evildoers or among those who are saved) will be carried out upon everyone simultaneously. Evildoers will be eliminated, and those who are allowed to remain will be revealed simultaneously. Therefore, the outcomes of all types of people will be revealed at the same time. God will not allow a group of the people who have been brought salvation to enter into rest prior to setting aside the evildoers and judging or punishing them a little at a time; those are not the facts. When evildoers are destroyed and those who can survive enter into rest, God’s work in the universe will be complete. There will be no order of priority among those who receive blessings and those who suffer woe; those who receive blessings will live forever, while those who suffer woe will perish for all eternity. These two steps of work shall be completed simultaneously. It is precisely due to the existence of rebellious people that the righteousness of the ones who submit shall be revealed, and it is precisely because there are those who have received blessings that the woe suffered by evildoers for their evil deeds shall be revealed. If God did not reveal evildoers, then the people who sincerely submit to God would never see the sun; if God did not take those who submit to Him to a suitable destination, then the ones who are rebellious against God would not be able to receive their deserved retributions. This is the process of God’s work. If He did not carry out this work of punishing evil and rewarding good, then created beings would never be able to enter into their respective destinations. Once humankind has entered into rest, the evildoers will have been destroyed and all of humanity will be on the right track; all types of people will be sorted according to their kind based on the functions that they should carry out. Only this will be humanity’s day of rest, and only this is the inevitable trend for humanity’s development. Only when humanity enters into rest will God’s great work be ultimately brought to completion; this will be the final part of His work. This work will end all of humanity’s decadent life of the flesh, as well as the life of corrupt humanity. Humans shall thenceforth enter into a new realm. Though all humans will live in the flesh, the essence of this life will be markedly different from that of the life of corrupt humanity. The significance of this existence will also differ from that of the existence of corrupt humanity. Although this will not be the life of a new kind of person, it can be said to be the life of a humanity that has been saved, as well as a life in which humanity and reason have been regained. These will be people who once were rebellious against God, who have been conquered by God and then saved by Him; these will be people who dishonored God and later bore witness for Him. Having undergone His test and remained, their existence will be the most meaningful existence; they will be people who bore witness for God before Satan, and humans who are worthy of living. Those who will perish are the ones who cannot stand firm in their testimony to God and are not fit to go on living. Their destruction will be them perishing as the result of their evil deeds, and this destruction is the best destination for them. In the future, when humanity enters the beautiful realm, there will be none of the relationships between husband and wife, between father and daughter, or between mother and son that people imagine they will find. At that time, each human will be sorted according to their kind, and families will already have been shattered. Having completely failed, Satan will never disturb humanity again, and so humans will no longer have satanic corrupt dispositions. Those rebellious people will already have been destroyed, and only the people who submit will survive. As such, very few families will survive intact, and so how can fleshly relationships continue to exist? Humanity’s previous life of the flesh will be utterly banned; how can fleshly relationships then exist between people? Without satanic corrupt dispositions, human life will no longer be the old life of the past, but rather a new life. Parents will lose children, and children will lose parents. Husbands will lose wives, and wives will lose husbands. Fleshly relationships currently exist between people, but they will exist no longer once everyone has entered into rest. Only this sort of humanity will possess righteousness and holiness; only this sort of humanity can worship God.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 601
God created humans, He placed them upon the earth and has led them ever since, later He saved them and served as a sin offering for humanity, and at the end, He still must conquer humanity, save humans entirely, and restore them to their original likeness. This is the work that He has been engaged in from beginning to end—restoring humanity to their original image and likeness. God will establish His kingdom and restore the original likeness of human beings, which means that God will restore His authority upon the earth and among all created beings. Humans lost their God-fearing hearts as well as the function created beings ought to have after being corrupted by Satan. They all became enemies rebellious against God, lived under Satan’s power, and were subject to Satan’s manipulation; thus, God had no way to work among His created beings, and became all the more unable to gain their fear. Humans were created by God, and ought to worship God, but they actually turned their backs on Him and worshiped Satan instead. Satan became the idol in their hearts. Thus, God lost His place in their hearts, which is to say that the meaning behind His creation of humanity was lost. Therefore, to restore the meaning behind His creation of humanity, He must restore their original likeness and rid humanity of their corrupt dispositions. To reclaim humans from Satan, He must save them from sin. Only in this way can God gradually restore their original likeness and function, and finally, restore His kingdom. The complete destruction of those sons of rebellion in the end will also be for the sake of allowing humans to better worship God and better live upon the earth. Since God created humans, He will make them worship Him; since He wishes to restore humanity’s original function, He will restore it completely and without any adulteration. Restoring His authority means making humans worship Him and submit to Him; it means that God will make humans live because of Him and cause His enemies to be destroyed as a result of His authority. It means that God will cause everything about Him to persist among humans without resistance from anybody. The kingdom God wishes to establish is His own kingdom. The humanity He desires is one that worships Him, one that submits to Him completely and which is possessed of His glory. If God did not save corrupt humanity, then the meaning behind His creation of humanity would be lost; He would have no more authority among humans, and His kingdom would no longer be able to exist upon the earth. If God did not destroy those enemies who are rebellious against Him, He would be unable to gain His complete glory, nor would He be able to establish His kingdom upon the earth. To utterly destroy those among humanity who are rebellious against Him, and to bring into rest those who have been made complete—these will be marks of the completion of His work and of His great accomplishment. When humans have been restored to their original likeness, and when they can fulfill their respective duties, keep to their own proper places, and submit to all of God’s arrangements, God will have gained a group of people upon the earth who worship Him, and He will also have established a kingdom upon the earth that worships Him. He will have eternal victory upon the earth, and all those who are opposed to Him will perish for all eternity. This will restore His original intention in creating humanity; it will restore His intention in creating all things, and it will also restore His authority upon the earth, among all things, and among His enemies. These will be the marks of His total victory. Thenceforth, humanity will enter into rest and begin a life that is on the right track. God will also enter into eternal rest with humanity, and commence an eternal life shared by both Himself and humans. The filth and rebelliousness upon the earth will have disappeared, and all the wailing will have dissipated, and everything in this world that opposes God will have ceased to exist. Only God and those people to whom He has brought salvation will remain; only His creation will remain.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together
Daily Words of God Excerpt 602
Man will be fully made complete in the Age of Kingdom. After the work of conquest, man will be subjected to refinement and tribulation. Those who can overcome and stand firm in their testimony during this tribulation are the ones who will ultimately be made complete; they are the overcomers. During this tribulation, man is required to accept this refinement, and this refinement is the last instance of God’s work. It is the last time that man will be refined prior to the conclusion of all the work of God’s management, and all those who follow God must accept this final test, and they must accept this last refinement. Those who are in the midst of the tribulation are without the work of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of God, but those who have been truly conquered and who truly pursue God will ultimately stand fast; they are the ones who are possessed of humanity, and who sincerely love God. No matter what God does, these victorious ones will not be bereft of the visions and will still put the truth into practice without losing their testimony. They are the ones who will finally emerge from the great tribulation. Even if those who just muddle along for benefit can still freeload today, no one is able to escape the final tribulation, and no one can escape the final test. For those who overcome, such tribulation is a tremendous refinement; but for those who just muddle along for benefit, it is the work of utter elimination. No matter how they are tried, the allegiance of those who have God in their hearts remains unchanged; but for those who do not have God in their hearts, once the work of God is not advantageous to their flesh, they change their view of God, and even depart from God. Such are those who will not stand fast in the end, who only seek God’s blessings and have no desire whatsoever to expend themselves for God and dedicate themselves to Him. Such base people will all be “driven out” when God’s work comes to an end, and no mercy will be shown to them at all. Those without humanity absolutely do not possess true love for God. When the environment is comfortable, or they have something to gain, they are totally obedient toward God, but once their desires are compromised or eventually dashed, they immediately rise up in revolt. Even in the space of just one night, they go from a smiling, “kindhearted” person to a savage-looking executioner, unexpectedly treating their benefactor of yesterday as their mortal enemy, without rhyme or reason. If these evil demons who kill without batting an eye are not cast out, will they not become a serious underlying threat? It is not the case that once the work of conquest is concluded, the work of saving man comes to its full completion. Although the work of conquest has come to an end, the work of purifying man has not; only once man has been wholly purified, once those who sincerely submit to God have been made complete, and once those disguisers who are without God in their hearts have been cleared out, will the work be finished. Those who are incapable of satisfying God in the final stage of His work will be completely eliminated, and those who are eliminated are the ilk of devils. Those who are incapable of satisfying God are rebellious against God. Even though these people follow God today, this does not prove that they are those who will finally remain. In the words that “those who follow God to the end will receive salvation,” the meaning of “follow” is to stand firm in the midst of tribulation. Today, many believe that following God is quite easy, but when God’s work is about to end, you will know the true meaning of “follow.” Just because you are still able to follow God today after being conquered, this does not prove that you are one of those who will be made perfect. Those who are unable to endure the trials, who are incapable of being victorious amid tribulation will, ultimately, be incapable of standing fast, and they will be unable to follow God to the very end. Those who sincerely follow God are able to withstand their work being tested, whereas those who do not sincerely follow God are incapable of withstanding any of God’s trials. Sooner or later they will be driven out, while the overcomers will remain in the kingdom. Whether or not man sincerely seeks God can only be determined by testing his work, that is, by God’s trials, and has nothing to do with what man himself determines. God does not reject any person lightly; all that He does can utterly convince man. He does not do anything that is invisible to man, or any work that cannot convince man. Whether man’s belief is true or not is proved by the facts and cannot be determined by man. That “wheat cannot become tares, and tares cannot become wheat” is without doubt. All those who sincerely love God will ultimately remain in the kingdom, and God will not treat anyone who sincerely loves Him poorly. Based on their different functions and testimonies, the overcomers within the kingdom will serve as priests or followers, and all those who are victorious amid tribulation will become the body of priests within the kingdom. The body of priests will be formed when the work of the gospel within the universe has come to an end. When that time comes, that which should be done by man will be the performance of his duty within the kingdom of God, and his living together with God within the kingdom. In the body of priests there will be chief priests and priests, and the remainder will be the sons and people of God. They will be divided based on their testimonies to God during tribulation; these are not titles given on a whim. Once man’s status has been established, the work of God will cease, for each person will be sorted according to their kind and returned to their original position, and this is the mark of the accomplishment of God’s great work, it is the final outcome of the work of God and the practice of man, and it is the crystallization of the visions of God’s work and the cooperation of man. In the end, man will enter the kingdom of God and there find rest, and God, too, will return to His dwelling place to rest. This will be the final outcome of 6,000 years of cooperation between God and man.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Work and Man’s Practice
Daily Words of God Excerpt 603
Those who always give vent to negativity among the brothers and sisters are servants of Satan, and they are disturbers of the church. Such people must one day be expelled and eliminated. In their belief in God, if people do not have God-fearing hearts, if they do not have hearts of submission to God, then not only will they be unable to do any work for Him, but on the contrary, they will become those who disturb His work and who resist Him. Believing in God but not submitting to or fearing Him, and instead resisting Him, is the greatest disgrace for a believer. If believers are just as careless and unrestrained in their speech and conduct as nonbelievers are, then they are even more wicked than nonbelievers; they are archetypal evil demons. Those who give vent to their poisonous, malicious talk within the church, who spread baseless rumors, foment disharmony, and form cliques among the brothers and sisters—they should have been expelled from the church. Yet because now is a different era of God’s work, these people are restricted, for they are certainly to be eliminated. All who have been corrupted by Satan have corrupt dispositions. However, some have nothing more than corrupt dispositions, while others are different: Not only do they have satanic corrupt dispositions, but their nature is also extremely malicious. The words and actions of these people go beyond merely revealing satanic corrupt dispositions; they are genuine devils and Satans. All they do is disrupt and disturb God’s work, it disturbs the brothers’ and sisters’ life entry, and it damages the normal church life. Sooner or later, these wolves in sheep’s clothing will be cleansed away; an unsparing attitude, an attitude of rejection, should be adopted toward these servants of Satan. Only this is standing on the side of God, and those who fail to do so are wallowing in the mire with Satan. People who genuinely believe in God always have Him in their hearts, and they always carry within them a God-fearing heart, a God-loving heart. Those who believe in God should do things cautiously and prudently, and all that they do should be in accordance with God’s requirements and able to satisfy His heart. They should not be headstrong, doing whatever they please; that does not befit saintly propriety. People must not run amok, swaggering and swindling all over the place, while waving the flag of God; this is the most rebellious sort of conduct. Families have their rules, and nations have their laws—and isn’t it even more so in the house of God? Does it not all the more have strict standards? Does it not all the more have administrative decrees? People are free to do what they want, but the administrative decrees of God cannot be altered at will. God is a God who does not tolerate offense from humans; He is a God who strikes down people. Do people really not know this already?
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth
Daily Words of God Excerpt 604
Every church has people who cause disturbance in the church or disrupt the work of God. They are all Satans who have infiltrated the house of God in disguise. Such people are particularly good at acting: They come before Me with great reverence, bowing and scraping, the very image of mangy dogs, and devoting their “all” to achieve their own objectives—but in front of the brothers and sisters, they show their ugly side. When they see people who practice the truth, they strike out at them and shove them aside; when they see people more formidable than themselves, they flatter and fawn upon them. They run wild in the church. It can be said that such “local bullies,” such “lapdogs,” exist in the majority of churches. They act secretively together, sending each other winks and secret signals, and none of them practices the truth. Whoever has the most venom is the “head demon,” and whoever has the highest prestige leads them, bearing their flag aloft. These people rampage through the church, spreading negativity, venting death, doing as they please, saying what they please, and no one dares to stop them. They brim with satanic dispositions. As they cause a disturbance like this, an air of death enters the church. Those within the church who practice the truth are rejected, unable to do all they’re capable of, while those who disturb the church and spread death run rampant within—and, what’s more, most people follow them. Such churches are virtually ruled by Satan, with the devil as their king. If people in such churches do not rise up and reject the head demons, then they, too, will sooner or later come to ruin. From now on, measures must be taken against such churches. If those who are capable of practicing a little of the truth do not seek, then that church will be abolished. If a church contains no one who is willing to practice the truth and no one who can stand firm in their testimony to God, then that church should be completely isolated, and its connections with other churches must be severed. This is called “burying death”; this is what it means to reject Satan. If a church contains several local bullies, and they are followed by “little flies” that entirely lack discernment, and if people in this church, even after having seen the truth, are still incapable of rejecting the binds and manipulation of these bullies, then all those muddleheads will be eliminated in the end. These little flies might not have done any great evil, but they are even more deceitful, even more slick, and everyone like this will be eliminated. Not a single one shall remain! Those who are of Satan will be returned to Satan, while those who are chosen by God will surely seek the truth; this is decided by their natures. Let all those who follow Satan perish! No pity will be shown to such people. Let those who seek the truth be provided for, and may they take pleasure in God’s word to their hearts’ content. God is righteous; He would not show bias toward anyone. If you are a devil, then you are incapable of practicing the truth; if you are someone who seeks the truth, then it is certain that you will not be taken captive by Satan. This is beyond all doubt.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth
Daily Words of God Excerpt 605
People who do not strive for progress always wish for others to be as negative and indolent as themselves. Those who do not practice the truth are jealous of those who do, and always try to mislead those who are muddleheaded and lack discernment. The things these people give out can cause you to degenerate, slip downward, fall into an abnormal condition, and be filled with darkness. They can cause you to become distant from God, and to cherish the flesh and make allowances for yourself. People who do not love the truth and who are always perfunctory toward God have no self-awareness, and the disposition of such people seduces others into committing sins and resisting God. They do not practice the truth, nor do they allow others to practice it. They cherish sin and do not hate themselves. They do not know themselves, and they stop others from knowing themselves; they also stop others from thirsting for the truth. Those who are misled by them cannot see the light—they fall into darkness, do not know themselves, are unclear about the truth, and become more and more distant from God. They do not practice the truth and they stop others from practicing the truth, bringing all those muddleheads before them. Rather than say that they believe in God, it would be better to say that they believe in their ancestors, or that what they believe in are the idols in their hearts. It would be best for those people who claim to follow God to open their eyes and take a good look to see exactly who they believe in: Is it really God that you believe in, or Satan? If you know that what you believe in is not God, but your own idols, then it would be best if you did not claim to be a believer. If you really do not know who you believe in, then, again, it would be best if you did not claim to be a believer. To say so would be blasphemy! No one is forcing you to believe in God. Do not say you believe in Me; I have had enough of such talk, and do not wish to hear it again, because what you believe in are the idols in your hearts and the local bullies among you. Those who shake their heads when they hear the truth, who grin when they hear deathly words, are all the offspring of Satan, and they are the ones who will be eliminated. Many in the church have no discernment. When someone tries to mislead others, they contrarily stand on the side of Satan; they even feel extremely wronged at being called Satan’s servants. Though people might say they have no discernment, they always stand on the side of non-truth, they never stand on the side of the truth at the critical time, they never stand up and argue for the truth. Do they truly lack discernment? Why do they contrarily take the side of Satan? Why do they never say one word that is fair and reasonable for the sake of the truth? Has this situation genuinely arisen as a result of their momentary confusion? The less discernment people have, the less able they are to stand on the side of the truth. What does this show? Does it not show that people without discernment love sin? Does it not show that they are the loyal offspring of Satan? Why is it that they are always able to stand on the side of Satan and speak its language? Their every word and deed, the expressions on their faces, are all sufficient to prove that they are not any kind of lovers of the truth; rather, they are people who detest the truth. That they can stand on the side of Satan is enough to prove that Satan really loves these minor devils who spend their lives fighting for Satan’s sake. Are all these facts not abundantly clear? If you truly are a person who loves the truth, then why have you no regard for those who practice the truth, and why do you immediately follow those who do not practice the truth at the slightest look from them? What kind of problem is this? I do not care whether you have discernment or not. I do not care how great a price you have paid. I do not care how great your forces are, and I do not care whether you are a local bully or a flag-bearing leader. If your forces are great, then that is only with the help of Satan’s strength. If your prestige is high, then that is merely because there are too many around you who do not practice the truth. If you have not been expelled, then that is because now is not the time for the work of expelling; rather, it is time for the work of elimination. There is no rush to expel you now. I am simply waiting for the day when I will punish you after you have been eliminated. Whoever does not practice the truth will be eliminated!
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth
Daily Words of God Excerpt 606
People who genuinely believe in God are those who are willing to put God’s word into practice and are willing to practice the truth. People who are truly able to stand firm in their testimony to God are also those who are willing to put His word into practice and can genuinely stand on the side of the truth. People who engage in crooked and unrighteous practices are all devoid of the truth, and they all bring shame to God. Those who cause disputes in the church are Satan’s servants, they are the embodiment of Satan. Such people are so malicious. Those who have no discernment yet are incapable of standing on the side of the truth are all people who harbor evil intentions and tarnish the truth. They are more archetypal representatives of Satan. They are beyond redemption, and shall naturally be eliminated. God’s house does not allow those who do not practice the truth to remain, nor does it allow to remain those who deliberately dismantle the church. However, now is not the time to do the work of expulsion; such people will simply be revealed and eliminated in the end. No more useless work is to be expended on these people; those who are Satans cannot stand on the side of the truth, whereas those who seek the truth can. People who do not practice the truth are unworthy of hearing the way of the truth and unworthy of bearing witness to the truth. The truth is simply not for their ears; rather, it is directed at those who practice it. Before every person’s outcome is revealed, those who disturb the church and disrupt the work will first be put to the side and left alone for now. Once the work is complete, these people will each be revealed, and then they will be eliminated. For the time being, while the truth is being provided, they will be ignored. When the whole truth is revealed to humanity, people will start to be eliminated; that will be the time when all people will be sorted according to their kind. The petty tricks of those without discernment will lead to their destruction at the hands of the evil, they will be lured away by them, never to return. And such treatment is what they deserve, because they do not love the truth, because they are incapable of standing on the side of the truth, and because they follow evil people, stand on the side of evil people, and collude with evil people to resist God. They know perfectly well that what those evil people reveal is evil, yet they embolden themselves and turn their backs on the truth to follow them. Are these people who do not practice the truth but who do destructive and abominable things not all committing evil? Although there are those among them who act as “kings” and others who follow them, is their nature of resisting God not the same? What excuse can they have to claim that God does not save them? What excuse can they have to claim that God is not righteous? Is it not their own evil that is destroying them? Is it not their own rebelliousness that is dragging them down into hell? People who practice the truth will, in the end, be saved and made perfect because of the truth. Those who do not practice the truth will, in the end, bring destruction upon themselves because of the truth. These are the outcomes that await those who practice the truth and those who do not. I advise those who are not planning on practicing the truth to leave the church as soon as possible to avoid committing even more sins. When the time comes, it will be too late for regret. In particular, those who form cliques and create schisms, and those local bullies within the church, must leave even sooner. Such people, who have the nature of evil wolves, are incapable of change. It would be better if they left the church at the earliest opportunity, never again to disturb the normal life of the brothers and sisters, lest they be punished by God. Those of you who have gone along with them would do well to make use of this opportunity to reflect upon yourselves. Will you leave the church along with the evil ones, or remain and follow obediently? You must consider this matter carefully. I give you this one more opportunity to choose, and I await your answer.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth
Daily Words of God Excerpt 607
As a believer in God, you should be loyal to none other than Him in all things, and be able to accord with His intentions in all things. Nevertheless, though everyone understands this message, because of the sundry difficulties of man—because of his ignorance, absurdity, and corruption, for example—these truths, which are the most superficial and basic of all, are not wholly evident in him, and so, before your outcome is determined, I ought first to tell you a few things that are of the utmost importance to you. Before I continue, you should first understand this: The words I speak are truths directed at all mankind; they are not expressed only to a specific person or type of person. Therefore, you should only concern yourselves with comprehending My words from the standpoint of the truth, and you must have an attitude of undivided attention and sincerity; do not ignore a single word or truth that I speak, and do not treat all of the words I speak lightly. In your lives, I see that you have done a vast number of things that are irrelevant to the truth, and so I expressly require that you be servants of the truth, that you not be slaves of wickedness and ugliness, and that you do not trample on the truth or defile any corner of the house of God. This is My admonition to you. Now I shall speak of the topic at hand.
First, for the sake of your fates, you ought to achieve being recognized by God. This is to say, since you acknowledge that you are members of the house of God, you ought then to set God’s mind at rest in all respects and satisfy Him in all things—which is to say, you must act with principle and in accordance with the truth. If you cannot achieve this, then you shall be spurned by God and rejected with disdain by everyone. Once you have fallen into such a predicament, you cannot then be counted among the members of God’s house, which is precisely what is meant by not being recognized by God.
Secondly, you ought to know that God likes those who are honest. God has an essence of faithfulness, and so His words can always be trusted; His actions, furthermore, are faultless and unquestionable. This is why God likes those who are absolutely honest with Him. Honesty means giving your heart to God, not being false toward God in anything, being open with Him in all things, never hiding the facts, not trying to deceive those above you and hide things from those below you, and not doing things that are merely attempts to curry favor with God. In short, to be honest is to be pure in your actions and words, and to deceive neither God nor man. What I say is very simple, but to you it is doubly arduous. Many people would rather be cast down to hell than speak and act honestly. Little wonder that I have other treatment in store for those who are dishonest. Of course, I know full well how difficult it is for you to be honest people. Because you are all so “clever,” so good at measuring the hearts of noble people based on your own mean mindset, this makes My work much simpler. And since you each hug your secrets to your bosom, well then, I shall place you, one by one, in disaster to be “schooled” by fire, so that thereafter you may become dead set on your belief in My words. Ultimately, I shall wrest from your mouth the words “God is a faithful God,” whereupon you shall beat upon your breast and lament, “The heart of man is so deceitful!” What will be your state of mind at this time? Surely you won’t be as carried away with pride as you are now! And much less will you be as “profound and abstruse” as you are now. In the presence of God, some people are all prim and proper, and especially “well-behaved,” yet they bare their fangs and brandish their claws in the presence of the Spirit. Would you number such people among the ranks of the honest? If you are a hypocrite, someone who is skilled in “interpersonal relations,” then I say that you are definitely someone who tries to trifle with God. If your words are riddled with excuses and valueless justifications, then I say that you are someone who is loath to put the truth into practice. If you have many private matters that are difficult to speak of, if you are highly averse to opening up about your secrets—your difficulties—before others to seek the way of the light, then I say that you are someone who will have great difficulty attaining salvation, and who will have difficulty emerging from the darkness. If you really enjoy seeking the way of the truth, then you are someone who dwells always in the light. If you are very glad to be a service-doer in the house of God, working diligently and conscientiously in obscurity, always giving and never taking, then I say that you are a loyal saint, because you seek no remuneration and are simply being an honest person. If you are willing to be candid, if you are willing to expend your all, if you are able to sacrifice your life for God and stand firm in your testimony, if you are honest to the point where you know only to satisfy God and not to consider yourself or take for yourself, then I say that people such as you are those who are nourished in the light and who shall live forever in the kingdom. You should know whether there is true faith and true loyalty within you, whether you have a record of suffering for God, and whether you have absolute submission to God. If you do not possess these, then there remains within you rebelliousness, deceit, greed, and complaint. As your heart is not honest, you have never been appreciated by God and never lived in the light. How one’s fate will work out in the end hinges upon whether they have an honest and blood-red heart, and whether they have a pure soul. If you are someone who is very dishonest, someone with a heart of great malice, someone with an unclean soul, then you are sure to end up in the place where man is punished, as is written in the record of your fate. If you claim to be very honest, and yet never manage to act in accordance with the truth or to speak a word of truth, then are you still waiting for God to reward you? Do you still hope for God to regard you as the apple of His eye? Is such thinking not preposterous? If you deceive God in all things, how could the house of God accommodate one such as you, whose hands are unclean?
The third thing I want to tell you is this: Every person, in the course of living their life of faith in God, has done things that resist and deceive God. Some of them need not be recorded as demerits, but some are unforgivable, for there are many that violate the administrative decrees—things which offend the disposition of God. Many who are concerned about their own fates may ask what these things are. You should know that you are arrogant and conceited by nature, and unwilling to submit to the facts. For this reason, I shall tell you bit by bit after you have reflected upon yourselves. I exhort you to make a real effort to understand the content of the administrative decrees, and to endeavor to know the disposition of God. Otherwise, you will find it difficult to keep your lips sealed, your tongues will wag too freely, and you will spout high-sounding talk, unwittingly offending the disposition of God and falling into the darkness, losing the presence of the Holy Spirit and the light. Because you are unprincipled in your actions, doing and saying that which you should not, you shall receive the retribution you deserve. You should know that though you are unprincipled in word and deed, God is highly principled in both. The reason you receive retribution is because you have offended God, not a person. If, in your life, you offend the disposition of God many times, then you are bound to become a child of hell. To man it may appear that you have only committed a few deeds that are not in accordance with the truth, and nothing more. Are you aware, however, that in the eyes of God you are already someone for whom there is no more sin offering? Because you have violated the administrative decrees of God more than once and have, moreover, shown no sign of repentance or turning back, there is no other recourse but for you to be plunged into hell, where God punishes man. A small number of people, while following God, committed some deeds that violated principles, but after being pruned and given guidance, they gradually discovered their own corruption, thereafter entered on the right track of reality, and they remain well-grounded today. Such people are those who shall survive in the end. Nevertheless, it is the honest that I want; if you are an honest person and someone who acts according to principle, then you can be a confidant of God. If in your actions you do not offend the disposition of God, and seek the desires of God, and have a God-fearing heart, then your faith is up to the standard. Whoever does not fear God and does not have a heart that trembles frightfully is highly likely to violate the administrative decrees of God. Many serve God on the strength of their passion but have no understanding of the administrative decrees of God, still less any inkling of the implications of His words. And so, with their good intentions, they often wind up doing things that disturb God’s management. In serious cases, they are expelled from God’s house, deprived of any further chance of following Him, and are cast into hell, all association with God’s house at an end. These people do the work of God’s house on the strength of their ignorant good intentions, and end by angering God’s disposition. People bring their ways of serving officials and lords to the house of God and try to put them into play, vainly thinking that they can be applied with effortless ease here. Never do they imagine that God has not the disposition of a lamb, but that of a lion. Therefore, those associating with God for the first time are unable to communicate with Him, for the heart of God is unlike that of man. Only after you understand many truths can you continuously come to know God. This knowledge is not made up of words and doctrines but can be used as a treasure by means of which you enter into close confidence with God, and as proof that He delights in you. If you lack the reality of knowledge and are not equipped with the truth, then your passionate service can only bring upon you the disgust and abhorrence of God. By now you should have figured out that belief in God is not a study in theology!
Though the words with which I admonish you are brief, all that I have laid out is what is most lacking in you. You should know that I speak now for the sake of My final work among man, for the sake of determining man’s outcome. I do not wish to do much more work that serves no purpose, nor do I wish to continue guiding those people who are like pieces of deadwood, much less to continue leading those who secretly harbor ill intentions. Perhaps one day you will understand the painstaking intentions behind My words and the contributions I have made for mankind. Perhaps one day you will discover a concept that will enable you to come to a conclusion about your own outcome.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Three Admonitions
Daily Words of God Excerpt 608
I have given you many warnings and bestowed upon you many truths intended to conquer you. By now, you all feel much more enriched than you did in the past, have come to understand many principles of self-conduct, and have figured out so much of the common sense that faithful people should have. All of this is the harvest you have reaped over the course of many years. I do not deny your achievements, but I must say quite frankly that I also do not deny the numerous rebellions and betrayals you have committed against Me over these many years, for there is not one holy person among you—you are, without exception, people who have been corrupted by Satan, you are enemies of Christ. To date, your transgressions and rebellions remain too numerous to count, so it can hardly be considered strange that I am always nagging you. I do not wish to associate with you in this manner—but for the sake of your prospects, for the sake of your destinations, I will, here and now, nag you once more. I hope you can show understanding and that you will believe every word I speak and appreciate the profound intentions behind My words. Do not doubt what I say, much less casually pick up My words and then toss them aside at will; this I find intolerable. Do not judge My words, still less take them lightly, and do not say that I am always testing you, much less that what I have told you is inaccurate—all this I find intolerable. Because you are always full of misgivings about Me and what I say, always ignoring Me and disregarding My words, I tell each of you in all seriousness: Do not link what I say with philosophy; do not link My words with the lies of a trickster. Much less should you be perfunctory toward My words with contempt. Perhaps no one in the future will be able to tell you what I am telling you, or speak to you with such kindness, or, still less, guide you step by step with such patience. You will spend those days to come recalling the good times, or crying loudly or groaning in pain, or you will be living through dark nights without any provision of truth or life, or just waiting, but without a sliver of hope, or dwelling in such bitter regret that you lose all reason…. None of you can escape these possibilities. This is because none of you occupy a place from which you truly worship God, but intermingle in the world of licentiousness and evil, mixing into your beliefs, into your spirits, souls, and bodies, so many things that have nothing to do with life and truth and which actually are in opposition to them. Therefore, My hope for you is that you can obtain a path of light. My sole hope is that you can cherish yourselves and value yourselves, and that you do not place so much emphasis on your destination while viewing your behavior and transgressions with indifference.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Transgressions Will Lead Man to Hell
Daily Words of God Excerpt 609
For a long time, people who believe in God have all been earnestly hoping for a beautiful destination, and all of God’s believers hope that good fortune will suddenly come to them. They all hope that before they know it, they will find themselves peacefully seated at one place or another in heaven. But I say that these people, with their many lovely thoughts, have never known whether they are qualified to bear such good fortune that falls down from heaven or to sit on a seat there. You, at present, have a good knowledge of yourselves, yet you still hope to escape the disasters of the last days and the hand of the Almighty when He punishes the evil ones. It seems as though having sweet dreams and fantasizing is a common feature of all people whom Satan has corrupted, and not some stroke of genius by any lone individual. Even so, I still wish to put an end to these extravagant desires of yours, as well as your eagerness to gain blessings, because your transgressions are numerous, and the incidents of your rebelliousness are ever-increasing, and how can these things fit with your lovely blueprints for the future? If you want to make mistakes as you please, with nothing holding you back, yet at the same time you still want your dreams to come true, then I advise you to continue hiding under the covers and sleeping, and to never wake up—for yours is an empty dream and in the presence of the righteous God, He will not make an exception for you. If you simply want your dreams to come true, then never dream; rather, forever face the truth and the facts. This is the only way that you can be saved. What, in concrete terms, are the steps of this method?
Firstly, examine all your transgressions, and examine any behavior and thoughts you have that do not accord with the truth.
This is one thing that you can do easily, and I believe that all people who have brains are able to do this. However, those who never know what is meant by transgression and truth are the exception, because they simply do not have brains. My words are addressed to people who have been recognized by God, are honest, have not seriously violated any administrative decrees, and can easily find their own transgressions. Though this one thing I require of you is easy to accomplish, it is not the only thing that I require of you. No matter what, I hope that you will not inwardly laugh at this requirement, and especially that you will not look down on it or take it lightly. You should treat it seriously, and not be indifferent.
Secondly, for each transgression and rebellion you’ve had, you should find a corresponding truth with which to resolve it, and afterward replace your transgressive acts and rebellious thoughts and acts with the practice of the truth.
Thirdly, you should be a guileless person; don’t try to be slick, and don’t be a deceitful person. (Here I am asking you again to be an honest person.)
If you can accomplish all three of these things, then you are fortunate—you are a person whose dreams come true and who receives good fortune. Perhaps you will treat these three unassuming requirements seriously, or perhaps you will just glance over them in a very irresponsible way. In any case, My purpose is to fulfill your dreams and realize your aspirations, not to make fun of you or to toy with you.
My demands may be simple, but what I am telling you is not so simple as one plus one equals two. If all you do is to talk casually about this, or ramble on about empty, high-sounding statements, then your blueprints for the future and your wishes will forever be but a blank page. I will have no sense of pity for those of you who suffer for so many years and work so hard, yet have nothing to show for it. On the contrary, I have only punishment in store for those who have not met My demands, not rewards, much less any sympathy. You might think that, having been a follower for so many years, you have put in hard work no matter what, and that whatever the case you can be a laborer and get a meal ticket in God’s house. I would say that the majority of you think this way, for you have always pursued the principle of taking advantage of things and not being taken advantage of. Thus, I am telling you now in all seriousness: I do not care if you’ve worked very hard and made major contributions, if you have a lot of seniority, if you follow Me closely, if you’re highly renowned, or if your attitude has improved; as long as you have not acted according to My demands, you will never be able to gain My approval. You’d better act as soon as you can to do away with all those ideas and plans of yours, and treat My requirements seriously. Otherwise, I will turn everyone to ash, thus bringing an end to My work; at most, My years of work and suffering will come to nothing—for I cannot bring My enemies and those people who reek of evil and have the same old satanic likeness into My kingdom or take them into the next age.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Transgressions Will Lead Man to Hell
Daily Words of God Excerpt 610
I have a lot of hopes. I hope you can conduct yourselves in a proper and well-behaved manner, devotedly do your duties, possess truth and humanity, be people who can give up everything, including their lives, for God, and so on. All of these hopes pertain to your insufficiencies and your corruption and rebelliousness. If none of the conversations that I have had with you has been sufficient to attract your attention, then I’ll just have to say no more. However, you understand what the results of that would be. It is not often that I am idle, so if I do not speak, I will do something for people to look at. I could make someone’s tongue rot, or cause someone to die dismembered, or make someone lose their senses and exhibit all kinds of hideousness. Then again, I could make some people endure plenty of torments that I have brewed up for them. This way I would feel very glad, very happy, and greatly pleased. It has always been the case that “Good is repaid with good, and evil with evil,” so why not now? If you really wish to stand against Me, and make some judgment about Me, then I will rot your mouth, and that will gratify Me to no end. This is because ultimately, what you have done is not the truth, still less has it anything to do with life, whereas everything that I do is the truth, and is related to the principles of My actions and the administrative decrees that I set forth. Therefore, I urge each of you to accumulate some virtue, stop committing so much evil, and heed My demands in your free time. I then will feel joyful. If you were to contribute (or rather “donate”) to truth even one-thousandth of the effort that you put into rushing about for the flesh, then I say you would not frequently make transgressions and have rotted mouths. Is this not obvious?
The more transgressions you commit, the fewer opportunities you will have to obtain a good destination. Conversely, the fewer transgressions you make, the better your chances become of being approved of by God. If your transgressions increase to the point that it is impossible for Me to forgive you, then you will have utterly wasted your chances of being forgiven. As such, your destination will not be above, but below. If you do not believe Me, then be bold and do wrong, and see what that gets you. If you are a person whose practice of the truth is very earnest, then you surely will have an opportunity to be forgiven for your transgressions, and you will rebel less and less frequently. If you are a person who is very unwilling to practice the truth, then your transgressions before God will surely increase in number and you will rebel more and more frequently, until you reach the limit, which will be the time that you utterly perish. This will be when your pleasant dream of receiving blessings will be ruined. Do not regard your transgressions as the mere mistakes of an immature or foolish person; do not use the excuse that you did not practice the truth because your poor caliber had made it impossible to do so. Even more so, do not simply regard the transgressions you have committed as the acts of someone who did not know any better. If you are good at forgiving yourself and treating yourself with generosity, then I say you are a coward who will never gain the truth, nor will your transgressions ever cease to haunt you; they will keep you from ever meeting the demands of the truth, and cause you to forever remain a loyal companion of Satan. My advice to you is still this: Do not pay attention only to your destination while failing to notice your hidden transgressions; take transgressions seriously, and do not overlook any of them out of concern for your destination.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Transgressions Will Lead Man to Hell
Daily Words of God Excerpt 611
Today, I admonish you thus for the sake of your own survival, in order for My work to progress smoothly, and so that My inaugural work within the entire universe may be carried out more appropriately and perfectly, revealing My words, authority, majesty, and judgment to the people of each country and nation. The work I do among you is the beginning of My work within the whole universe. Although now is already the time of the last days, know that the “last days” is but a name for an age, a term that refers to an age; just like the Age of Law and the Age of Grace, it indicates an entire age rather than the final few years or months. Yet the last days are unlike the Age of Grace and the Age of Law. The work of the last days is not carried out in Israel, but among the Gentiles; this work conquers people from all nations and tribes outside of Israel before My throne, so that My glory in the universe can fill the cosmos and the firmament. It is so that I can gain greater glory, so that all created beings on earth can spread My glory to the myriad nations, forever among later generations, and all created beings in heaven and on earth can see all the glory that I have gained on earth. The work carried out during the last days is the work of conquest. It is not guiding all the people on earth to lead their earthly lives, but the conclusion of mankind’s imperishable, millennia-long life of suffering on earth. As a consequence, the work of the last days cannot be like the work in Israel, which lasted for several thousand years, nor can it be like the work in Judea, which lasted for just a few years and then continued on for two millennia until the second incarnation of God. The people of the last days only interact with the reappearance of the Redeemer in the flesh, and they receive the personal work and words of God. It will not be two thousand years before the last days come to an end; they are brief, like the time when Jesus carried out the work of the Age of Grace in Judea. This is because the last days are about concluding the entire era. They are about completing and ending God’s six-thousand-year management plan, and concluding mankind’s life journey of suffering. They are not about taking the whole of mankind into the next age or allowing mankind’s life to continue; that would hold no significance for My management plan or for the existence of man. If mankind carried on like this, then sooner or later they would be entirely devoured by the evil devil, and those souls that belong to Me would ultimately be ruined by its hands. My work lasts for but six thousand years, and I have also only permitted the evil one’s control over the whole of mankind to last for six thousand years. So, now the time is up. I wish neither to continue nor to delay any longer: During the last days I will vanquish Satan, I will take back all My glory, and I will reclaim all the souls that belong to Me on earth so that these distressed souls may escape from the sea of suffering, and thus will be concluded My entire work on earth. From this day onward, never again will I become flesh on earth, and never again will My Spirit, who is sovereign over all, work upon the earth. I will only recreate a mankind on earth, a mankind that is sanctified and which is My faithful city on earth. But know that I will not annihilate the entire world, nor will I annihilate the whole of mankind. I will keep that remaining third—the third that has been thoroughly conquered by Me and loves Me, and I will cause this third to be fruitful and multiply on earth just as the Israelites did under the law; they will receive the copious sheep and cattle I nourish them with, as well as all the riches on earth. This mankind will remain with Me forever, yet it will not be the deplorably filthy mankind of today, but a mankind that is an assembly of all those who have been gained by Me. Such a mankind will not be damaged, disturbed, or besieged by Satan, and will be the only mankind that continues to live on earth after I have defeated Satan. It is the mankind that has today been conquered by Me and has gained My promise. And so, the mankind that has been conquered during the last days is also the mankind that will remain and will gain My everlasting blessings. They will be the only evidence of My triumph over Satan, and the only spoils of My war with Satan. These spoils of war are saved by Me from the power of Satan, and are the only crystallization and fruit of My six-thousand-year management plan. They come from every nation and denomination, from every place and country within the universe. They are of different ethnicities, have different languages, customs, and skin colors, and they are spread across every nation and denomination of the globe, and even every corner of the world. Eventually, they will come together to form a complete mankind, an assembly of people that is unreachable by the forces of Satan. Those among mankind who have not been saved and conquered by Me will sink silent to the depths of the sea, and will be burned by My consuming flames for all eternity. I will annihilate this old, supremely filthy mankind, just as I annihilated the firstborn sons, cattle, and sheep of Egypt, leaving only the Israelites, who ate lamb’s meat, drank lamb’s blood, and marked their door lintels with lamb’s blood. Are the people who have been conquered by Me and are of My family not also the people who eat the meat of the Lamb that is Me and drink the blood of the Lamb that is Me, and have been redeemed by Me and worship Me? Are such people not always accompanied by My glory? Have not those who are without the meat of the Lamb that is Me long since sunk silently into the depths of the sea? Today you resist Me, and today My words are just like those spoken by Jehovah to the sons and grandsons of Israel. Yet there is intransigence in the depths of your hearts, and you are storing up My anger, bringing more suffering upon your flesh, more judgment upon your sins, and more anger upon your unrighteousness. Who could be spared on My day of anger, when you treat Me like this today? Whose unrighteousness could escape My eyes of chastisement? Whose iniquities could elude the hands of Me, the Almighty? Whose resistance could escape the judgment of Me, the Almighty? I, Jehovah, speak thus unto you, the descendants of the Gentile family, and the words I speak to you surpass all the utterances of the Age of Law and the Age of Grace, yet you are more intransigent than all the people of Egypt. Do you not store up My anger as I reposefully do My work? How could you escape unharmed from the day of Me, the Almighty?
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. No One Who Is of the Flesh Can Escape the Day of Anger
Daily Words of God Excerpt 612
Do you understand now what judgment is and what the truth is? If you do, then I advise you to submit obediently to being judged, otherwise you shall never have the opportunity to be approved of by God or to be brought by Him into His kingdom. Those who only accept judgment but can never be purified, that is, those who flee amidst the work of judgment, shall forever be spurned by God. Their sins are more grievous, and more numerous, than those of the Pharisees, for they have betrayed God and are rebels against God. These people who are not worthy even to labor shall receive a more severe punishment, a punishment that is, moreover, everlasting. God shall not spare any traitor who once evinced loyalty with words but then betrayed Him. Such people shall receive retribution through punishment of the spirit, soul, and body. Is this not precisely a revelation of the righteous disposition of God? Is this not precisely God’s purpose in judging and revealing man? God consigns those who perform all kinds of evil deeds during the time of judgment to a place infested with evil spirits, and lets those evil spirits destroy their fleshly bodies as they wish, and those people’s bodies emit the stench of corpses. Such is their due retribution. God writes each and every one of the sins of those disloyal false believers, false apostles, and false workers in their record books, and when the time is right, He casts them amidst the unclean spirits, letting those unclean spirits defile their entire bodies at will, and makes it so that they can never be reincarnated and never again see the light. God lists among the evil those hypocrites who do service for a time but do not remain loyal to the end, allowing them to wallow in the mire with the evil people and form with them a gang of motley miscreants, and in the end, God shall annihilate them. God casts aside and takes no notice of those who have never been loyal to Christ or have never contributed any of their strength, and at the changing of the age He shall annihilate them all. They shall no longer exist on earth, much less gain passage into the kingdom of God. God lists among those who render service for His people anyone who has never been sincere to God, but has no other choice but to deal with Him perfunctorily. Only a small number of such people will survive, while the majority shall be destroyed along with those whose labor is not even up to standard. In the end, God shall bring into His kingdom all those who are of the same heart and mind as God, the people and the sons of God, and those predestined by God to be priests. They are the crystallization of God’s work. As for those who cannot be classed into any of the categories demarcated by God, they shall be listed among the ranks of the nonbelievers, and you can surely imagine what their outcome shall be. I have already said to you all that I should say; the path that you select is your choice alone. What you should understand is this: The work of God never waits for any person that cannot keep pace with Him, and the righteous disposition of God shows no mercy to any man.
—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Christ Does the Work of Judgment With the Truth
