Bible
Verses for Reference:
“For
the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God”
(1Pe 4:17).
“And
I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face
the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for
them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of
life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead
which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were
in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death. And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire”
(Rev 20:11-15).
Relevant
Words of God:
The
“judgment” in the words previously spoken—judgment will begin
at the house of God—refers to the judgment God passes today on
those who come before His throne in the last days. Perhaps there are
those who believe in such supernatural imaginings as that, when the
last days have arrived, God will erect a big table in the heavens,
upon which a white tablecloth will be spread, and then, sitting upon
a great throne with all men kneeling on the ground, He will reveal
the sins of each man and thereby determine whether they are to ascend
to heaven or be sent down to the lake of fire and brimstone. No
matter what the imaginings of man, the substance of God’s work
cannot be altered. The imaginings of man are nothing but the
constructs of man’s thoughts and come from the brain of man, summed
up and pieced together from what man has seen and heard. Therefore I
say, however brilliant the images conceived, they are still no more
than a drawing and are not able to substitute for the plan of God’s
work. After all, man has been corrupted by Satan, so how can he then
fathom the thoughts of God? Man conceives the work of judgment by God
to be particularly fantastic. He believes that since it is God
Himself doing the work of judgment, then it must be of the
most tremendous scale and incomprehensible to mortals, and it must
resound through the heavens and shake the earth; otherwise how could
it be the work of judgment by God? He believes that, as this is the
work of judgment, then God must be particularly imposing and majestic
as He works, and those being judged must be howling with tears and on
their knees begging for mercy. Such a scene must be a grand
spectacular and be deeply rousing…. Everyone imagines God’s work
of judgment to be preternaturally wonderful. Do you know, however,
that God began the work of judgment among men long ago and all this
while you have been nestled in peaceful oblivion? That, the time that
you think God’s work of judgment is officially beginning, it is
already time for God to make heaven and earth anew? At that time,
perhaps you will have only just understood the meaning of life, but
the merciless work of punishment of God shall bring you, still deep
in sleep, into hell. Only then will you suddenly realize that God’s
work of judgment has already concluded.
…
In
the last days, Christ uses a variety of truths to teach man, expose
the essence of man, and dissect his words and deeds. These words
comprise various truths, such as man’s duty, how man should obey
God, how man should be loyal to God, how man ought to live out
the normal humanity, as well as the wisdom and the disposition of
God, and so on. These words are all directed at the essence of man
and his corrupt disposition. In particular, those words that expose
how man spurns God are spoken in regard to how man is an embodiment
of Satan and an enemy force against God. In undertaking His work of
judgment, God does not simply make clear the nature of man with just
a few words; He exposes, deals with, and prunes it over the long
term. These methods of exposure, dealing, and pruning cannot be
substituted with ordinary words, but with the
truth that man does not possess at all. Only methods of this
kind are deemed judgment; only through judgment of this kind can man
be subdued and thoroughly convinced into submission to God, and
moreover gain true knowledge of God. What the work of judgment brings
about is man’s understanding of the true face of God and the truth
about his own rebelliousness. The work of judgment allows man to gain
much understanding of the will of God, of the purpose of God’s work, and of the mysteries that are incomprehensible to him. It
also allows man to recognize and know his corrupt substance and the
roots of his corruption, as well as to discover the ugliness of man.
These effects are all brought about by the work of judgment, for the
substance of this work is actually the work of opening up the truth,
the way, and the life of God to all those who have faith in Him. This
work is the work of judgment done by God.
God
is silent, and has never appeared to us, yet His work has never
stopped. He looks upon all lands, and commands all things, and
beholds all the words and deeds of man. His management is conducted
in steps and according to His plan. It proceeds silently, without
dramatic effect, yet His footsteps advance ever closer to mankind,
and His judgment seat is deployed in the universe at the speed of
lightning, immediately followed by the descent of His throne among
us. What a majestic scene that is, what a stately and solemn tableau.
Like a dove, and like a roaring lion, the Spirit arrives among us
all. He is wise, He is righteous and majestic, He quietly arrives
among us possessed of authority and filled with love and compassion.
No one is aware of His arrival, no one welcomes His arrival, and,
moreover, no one knows all that He will do. Man’s life remains
unchanged; his heart is no different, and the days go by as usual.
God lives among us like an ordinary person, as a most insignificant
follower and an ordinary believer. He has His own pursuits, His own
goals, and, moreover, He has divinity not possessed by ordinary men.
No one has noticed the existence of His divinity, and no one has
perceived the difference between His substance and that of man.
from
“Beholding the Appearance of God in His Judgment and Chastisement”
in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Some
believe that God may sometime come to earth and appear to man,
whereupon He shall personally judge the whole of mankind, testing
them one by one without anyone being omitted. Those who think in this
way do not know this stage of work of incarnation. God does not judge
man one by one, and does not test man one by one; to do thus would
not be the work of judgment. Is not the corruption of all mankind the
same? Is not the substance of man all the same? What is judged is
mankind’s corrupt substance, man’s substance corrupted by Satan,
and all the sins of man. God does not judge the trifling and
insignificant faults of man. The work of judgment is representative,
and is not carried out especially for a certain person. Rather, it is
work in which a group of people are judged in order to represent the
judgment of all of mankind. By personally carrying out His work on a
group of people, God in the flesh uses His work to represent the work
of the whole of mankind, after which it is gradually spread. The work
of judgment is also thus. God does not judge a certain kind of person
or a certain group of people, but judges the unrighteousness of the
whole of mankind—man’s opposition to God, for example, or man’s
irreverence against Him, or disturbance of the work of God, and so
on. What is judged is mankind’s substance of opposition to God, and
this work is the work of conquest of the last days. The work and word
of the incarnate God witnessed by man are the work of judgment before
the great white throne during the last days, which was conceived by
man during times past. The work that is currently being done by the
incarnate God is exactly the judgment before the great white throne.
The incarnate God of today is the God who judges the whole of mankind
during the last days. This flesh and His work, word, and entire
disposition are the entirety of Him. Although the scope of His work
is limited, and does not directly involve the entire universe, the
substance of the work of judgment is the direct judgment of all
mankind; it is not work that is undertaken only for China, or for a
small number of people. During the work of God in the flesh, although
the scope of this work does not involve the entire universe, it
represents the work of the entire universe, and after He concludes
the work within the work scope of His flesh, He will immediately
expand this work to the entire universe, in the same way that the
gospel of Jesus spread throughout the universe following His
resurrection and ascension. Regardless of whether it is the work of
the Spirit or the work of the flesh, it is work that is carried out
within a limited scope, but which represents the work of the entire
universe. During the last days, God appears to do His work using His
incarnate identity, and God in the flesh is the God who judges man
before the great white throne. Regardless of whether He is the Spirit
or the flesh, He who does the work of judgment is the God who judges
mankind during the last days. This is defined based on His work, and
is not defined according to His external appearance or several other
factors. Although man has conceptions of these words, no one can deny
the fact of the incarnate God’s
judgment and conquest of all mankind. Regardless of how it
is evaluated, facts are, after all, facts. No one can say that “The
work is done by God, but the flesh is not God.” This is nonsense,
for this work can be done by no one except God in the flesh. Since
this work has already been completed, following this work the work of
God’s judgment of man shall not appear for a second time; the
second incarnate God has already concluded all of the work of the
entire management, and there shall not be a fourth stage of God’s
work.
from
“Corrupt Mankind Is More in Need of the Salvation of God Become
Flesh” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
The
current conquering work is work intended to make it obvious what
man’s end will be. Why do I say that today’s chastisement and
judgment are the judgment in front of the great white throne of the
last days? Do you not see this? Why is the conquering work the last
stage? Is it not precisely to make manifest how each class of man
will end up? Is it not to allow everyone, in the course of the
conquering work of chastisement and judgment, to show his true colors
and then to be classified according to kind afterward? Rather than
saying this is conquering mankind, it might be better to say that
this is showing how each class of man will end up. That is, this is
judging their sins and then showing the various classes of man,
thereby deciding whether they are evil or righteous. After the
conquering work comes the work of rewarding good and punishing evil:
People who obey completely, meaning the thoroughly conquered, will be
placed in the next step of spreading the work to the entire universe;
the unconquered will be placed in darkness and will meet with
calamity. Thus, man will be classified according to kind, the
evildoers grouped with evil, never again to see the sunlight, and the
righteous grouped with good, to receive light and live forever in the
light.
from
“The Inside Truth of the Conquering Work (1)” in The Word Appears
in the Flesh
Those
who obey the truth and submit to the work of God shall come under the
name of the second incarnate God—the Almighty. They will be able to
accept the personal guidance of God, and shall acquire more and
higher truth and receive the real human life. They shall behold the
vision that people of the past have never seen: “And I turned to
see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven
golden candlesticks; And in the middle of the seven candlesticks one
like to the
Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt
about the breasts with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were
white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of
fire; And his feet like to fine brass, as if they burned in a
furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his
right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged
sword: and his countenance was as the sun shines in his strength”
(Revelation 1:12–16). This vision is the expression of God’s
entire disposition, and such an expression of His entire disposition
is also the expression of the work of God when He becomes flesh this
time. In the torrents of chastisements and judgments, the Son of man
expresses His inherent disposition through the speaking of words,
allowing all those who accept His chastisement and judgment to see
the true face of the Son of man, a face that is a faithful depiction
of the face of the Son of man seen by John. (Of course, all this will
be invisible to those who do not accept the work of God in the Age of
Kingdom.) The true face of God cannot be fully articulated using the
words of man, and so God uses the expression of His inherent
disposition to show His true face to man. Which is to say that all
those who have experienced the inherent disposition of the Son of man
have seen the true face of the Son of man, for God is too great and
cannot be fully articulated using the words of man. Once man has
experienced each step of God’s work in the Age of Kingdom, then he
shall know the true meaning of John’s words when he spoke of the
Son of man among the lampstands: “His head and his hairs were white
like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And his feet like to fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and
his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand
seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword: and
his countenance was as the sun shines in his strength.” At that
time, you shall know beyond all doubt that this ordinary flesh that
has spoken so many words is really the second incarnate God. And you
shall truly sense how blessed you are, and feel yourself the most
fortunate. Would you be unwilling to accept this blessing?
from
Preface to The Word Appears in the Flesh
The
work of judgment is God’s own work, so it should naturally be done
by God Himself; it cannot be done by man in His stead. Because judgment
is the conquering of the human race through the truth, it is
unquestionable that God still appears as the incarnate image to do
this work among men. That is to say, in the last days, Christ shall
use the truth to teach men around the earth and make all truths known
to them. This is God’s work of judgment. Many have a bad feeling
about the second incarnation of God, for man finds it difficult to
believe that God would become flesh to do the work of judgment.
Nevertheless, I must tell you that often the work of God greatly
exceeds man’s expectations and is difficult for the minds of men to
accept. For men are merely maggots upon the earth, while God is the
supreme One that fills the universe; the mind of man is akin to a pit
of foul water that gives rise only to maggots, whereas each stage of
the work directed by the thoughts of God is the distillation of God’s
wisdom. Man constantly wishes to contend with God, to which I say it
is self-evident who will suffer loss in the end. I exhort you all not
to regard yourselves as more important than gold. If others can
accept the judgment of God, then why can you not? How much higher do
you stand above others? If others can bow their heads before the
truth, why can you not also do so? God’s work has an unstoppable
momentum. He will not repeat the work of judgment again for the sake
of your “merit,” and you will be filled with boundless regret at
letting such a good opportunity slip. If you do not believe My words,
then just wait for that great white throne in the sky to pass
judgment upon you! You must know that all of the Israelites spurned
and denied Jesus, and yet the fact of Jesus’ redemption of mankind
still spread to the ends of the universe. Isn’t this a reality that
God made long ago? If you are still awaiting Jesus to take you up to
heaven, then I say that you are an obstinate piece of
deadwood.[a] Jesus
will not acknowledge a false believer such as you who is disloyal to
the truth and seeks only blessings. On the contrary, He will show no
mercy in casting you into the lake of fire to burn for tens of
thousands of years.
from
“Christ Does the Work of Judgment With the Truth” in The Word
Appears in the Flesh
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