I

In His final work of concluding the age,

God’s disposition is one of chastisement and judgment,

in which He reveals all that’s unrighteous,

in order to publicly judge all peoples,

and to perfect those who love Him with a sincere heart.

Only a disposition such as this can bring the age to an end.

The last days have arrived.

All things in creation will be separated according to their kind,

and divided into different categories based on their nature.

This is the moment when God reveals humanity’s outcome and their destination.

If people do not undergo chastisement and judgment,

then there will be no way

of exposing their rebelliousness and unrighteousness.

Only through chastisement and judgment

can all creation’s outcome be revealed.

Man only shows his true colors when he is chastised and judged.

Evil shall be put with evil, good with good,

and all humanity shall be separated according to their kind.

II

Through chastisement and judgment, all creation’s outcome will be revealed,

so that the evil may be punished and the good rewarded,

and all people surrender to God’s dominion.

All this work must be achieved

through righteous chastisement and judgment.

Because man’s corruption has reached its peak

and his rebelliousness become too severe,

only God’s righteous disposition,

one that is principally compounded of chastisement and judgment

and is revealed in the last days, can fully transform and complete man.

Only this disposition can expose evil

and thus severely punish all the unrighteous.

Therefore, a disposition such as this

is imbued with the significance of the age,

and the revelation and exhibition of His disposition is made manifest

for the sake of the work of each new age.

It’s not that God reveals His disposition at random and without significance.

III

Supposing that, in revealing the outcome of man

during the last days,

God were still to bestow upon man infinite compassion and love

and continue to be loving toward him,

not subjecting man to righteous judgment

but rather showing him tolerance, patience, and forgiveness,

and pardoning man no matter how grave his sins,

without any jot of righteous judgment:

then when would all of God’s management ever be brought to a close?

When would a disposition such as this be able to lead people

into mankind’s appropriate destination?

During the last days,

only righteous judgment can separate man according to their kind

and bring man into a new realm.

In this way, the entire age is brought to an end

through God’s righteous disposition of judgment and chastisement.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The Vision of God’s Work (3)