From all of the words spoken by God, it can be seen that the day of God draws nearer with each passing day. It is as if this day is right before people’s eyes, as if it will arrive tomorrow. Thus, after reading God’s words, all people are chilled with terror, and they also sense a part of the world’s desolation, as if there are leaves falling to the ground, accompanied by a light rain. People disappear without a trace, as if they have all vanished entirely. Everyone has an ominous feeling, and though all people try hard and wish to satisfy God’s intentions, and each person uses all their might to satisfy God’s intentions, that God’s will may proceed smoothly and without obstruction, such a sentiment is always mingled with a sense of foreboding. Take today’s words: If they were broadcast to the masses, announced to the whole universe, then all people would bow down and weep, for in God’s words “I will scrutinize the whole earth and, appearing in the East of the world with righteousness, majesty, wrath, and chastisement, I shall appear to the myriad people!” all who have spiritual understanding see that no one can escape God’s chastisement, and that all people must experience the suffering of chastisement, and then be sorted according to their kind. Truly, this is a step of God’s work, and no one can change it. When God created the world, when He led mankind, He showed His wisdom and wondrousness, and only when He brings the age to an end will people behold His true righteousness, majesty, wrath, and chastisement. Furthermore, it is only through chastisement that they are able to see His righteousness, majesty, and wrath; this is a path that must be taken, just as, during the last days, God’s incarnation is necessary and indispensable. After proclaiming the outcomes of all mankind, God shows to man the work He does today. For example, God says: “The Israel of old has ceased to be, and today’s Israel has risen up, erect and towering in the world, and has stood up in the hearts of all humanity. Today’s Israel shall surely attain the foundation for existence through My people!” “Ah, hateful Egypt! … How can you not live within My chastisement?” God deliberately shows people the consequences that two antithetical countries meet in His hands, in one sense referring to Israel, which is material, and in another referring to all God’s chosen people—which is to say, to how God’s chosen people change as Israel changes. When Israel has wholly returned to its original form, all of the chosen people will subsequently be made complete—which is to say, Israel is a meaningful symbol of those whom God loves. Egypt, meanwhile, is the representative convergence of those whom God hates. The more into ruin it falls, the more corrupt those who are hated by God become—and Babylon subsequently falls. This forms a clear contrast. By proclaiming the outcomes of Israel and Egypt, God reveals the destinations of all people; thus, when mentioning Israel, God speaks also of Egypt. From this, it can be seen that the day of Egypt’s ruin is the day of the world’s destruction, the day when God chastises the myriad people. This will happen soon; God is about to accomplish it, something that is quite invisible to man’s naked eye, yet indispensable and unalterable. God says: “All those who resist Me will surely be chastised by Me for eternity. For I am a jealous God and will not let off lightly any person for any of their deeds.” Why does God speak in such absolute terms? And why has He personally become flesh in the country of the great red dragon? From God’s words, His aim can be seen: He has not come to save people, or to show them mercy, or to care for them, or protect them—He has come to chastise all those who resist Him. For God says: “None can escape My chastisement.” God lives in the flesh, and, furthermore, He is a normal person, yet He does not forgive people for their weakness because they are unable to know Him subjectively; instead, He condemns all people by means of a “normal person,” He makes all those who behold His flesh those who are chastised, and they thus become sacrifices for all who are not the people of the country of the great red dragon. But this is not the primary goal of God’s incarnation. God became flesh chiefly in order to do battle, in the flesh, with the great red dragon, and to bring shame upon it through battle in the flesh. Because battling the great red dragon in the flesh better manifests God’s great power than doing so in the Spirit, God chooses the method of fighting in the flesh to show His deeds and almightiness. Innumerable people have been “innocently” condemned by God’s becoming flesh, and countless people have thereby been thrown into hell and cast into chastisement, and suffer in the flesh. This is the demonstration of God’s righteous disposition, and regardless of how those who resist God change today, God’s upright disposition will never change. God condemns people once and forever, making it so that they are never able to rise again. Man’s disposition cannot be like God’s. Toward those who resist God, people are by turns hot and cold; they waver left and right, now up, now down; they are incapable of remaining constant, sometimes hating those who resist God to their bones, sometimes holding them close. These present circumstances have come about because people do not know God’s work. Why does God say such words as, “The angels are, after all, angels; God, after all, is God; the demons are, after all, demons; the unrighteous are still unrighteous; and the holy are still holy”? Can you not see through to this? Could God have misremembered? Thus, God says: “People are all sorted according to their kind, and are unknowingly returned to their ‘families.’” From this it can be seen that today, God has already classified all things into their families, so that it is no longer an “infinite world,” and people no longer eat from the same big pot, but do their own duty in their own home, playing their own role. This was God’s original plan when creating the world; after being sorted according to their kind, people would “each eat their own meal,” meaning that God would commence judgment. As a result, from God’s mouth came these words: “I will restore the former state of creation; I will restore everything to the way it originally was, thoroughly changing everything, and make everything fall within My plan.” This is precisely the aim of all God’s work, and it is not hard to understand. God will complete His work—could man stand in the way of His work? And could God rip up the covenant established between Him and man? Who could alter what is done by the Spirit of God? Could any man at all do so?

In the past, people grasped a law in God’s words: When God’s words are spoken, they are soon made real. There is no falsehood in this. Since God has said He shall chastise the myriad peoples, and, furthermore, since He has issued His administrative decrees, it can be seen that God’s work has been carried out to a certain stage. The constitution that was issued forth to all people addressed their lives and their attitude toward God. It did not get to the root—in other words, it did not say whether they were predestined by God—instead it was based on their behavior at that time. The administrative decrees of today are extraordinary and they speak of how “all people will be sorted according to their kind, and will receive various chastisements commensurate with their actions.” Without a close reading, no problem can be found in this. Because it is only during the final age that God sorts all things according to their kind, after reading this, most people remain puzzled and confused; they still adopt a lukewarm attitude, not seeing the urgency of the time, and so they do not take this as a warning. Why, at this point, are God’s administrative decrees, which are announced to the whole universe, shown to man? Do these people represent all those within the universe? Could God, afterward, have come to show mercy to these people that He did not before? Have these people grown two heads? When God chastises the people of the entire universe, that is, when all manner of disasters strike, changes will occur in the sun and moon as a result of these disasters, and, when these disasters end, the sun and moon will have been altered—and this is called “the transition.” Suffice to say, the disasters of the future will be grievous. Night might take the place of day, the sun might not appear for a year, there might be several months of searing heat, a waning moon might always face mankind, there might appear the bizarre state of the sun and moon rising together, and so on. Following several cyclical changes, ultimately, with the passage of time, they shall be renewed. God pays special attention to His arrangements for those who are of devils. Thus, He deliberately says: “Of the human beings within the universe, all those who are of devils will be annihilated.” Before these “people” have shown their true colors, God always uses them to render service. So, He pays no heed to their doings, He gives them no “bonus” when they do well, nor does He dock their “wages” when they perform badly. As such, He disregards them and gives them the cold shoulder. He does not suddenly change because of their “goodness,” for, regardless of the time or place, man’s substance does not change, just like the covenant established between God and man, and just like, as man says, “There will be no change even if the seas run dry and the rocks crumble.” Thus, God simply sorts those people according to their kind and does not readily heed them. From the time of creation until today, the devil has never comported itself well. It has always caused disruptions and disturbances, and engaged in defiance. When God acts or speaks, the devil always tries to participate, but God takes no notice of it. At the mention of the devil, God’s anger flows forth, insuppressible; because they are not of one spirit, there is therefore no connection, only distance and separation. Following the unveiling of the seven seals, the state of the earth grows ever messier, and all things “advance shoulder-to-shoulder with the seven seals,” not falling behind in the slightest. Throughout God’s words, people are always seen by God as stupefied, yet they do not awaken at all. To reach a higher point, to bring forth the strength of all people, and even more so, to conclude God’s work at its peak, God asks people a string of questions, as if inflating their bellies, and thus replenishing all people. Because these people have no real stature, based on the actual circumstances, those who are inflated are “goods” that are up to standard, while those who are not are useless trash. This is God’s requirement of man, and the aim of the method by which He speaks. In particular, when God says: “Could it be that I, when on earth, am not the same as I am in heaven? Could it be that I, when in heaven, cannot come down to the earth? Could it be that I, when on earth, am unworthy to be borne up to heaven?” these questions serve as a path by which man might know God. From God’s words, God’s urgent intention is beheld; people are incapable of meeting it, and God repeatedly adds conditions, thus reminding all people to know the heavenly God on earth, and to know the God who is in heaven but lives on earth.

From God’s words can be seen the states of man: “All mankind spends effort on My words, and undertakes their own research into My outward semblance, but they all meet with failure, their efforts bearing no fruit, and instead are struck down by My words and dare not get up again.” Who can understand God’s sorrow? Who can comfort God’s heart? Who can accord with God’s intentions in what He asks? When people bear no fruit, they deny themselves and truly let God orchestrate them. Gradually, as they show their true hearts, each is sorted according to their kind, and it is thus seen that the substance of the angels is pure submission to God. And so, God says: “Humanity is exposed in its original form.” When God’s work reaches this step, it will all have been completed. God says nothing at all of His being an exemplar for His sons and people, instead focusing on making all people expose their original forms. Do you understand the true meaning of these words?