I

The words God speaks today are to judge man’s sins,

to judge man’s unrighteousness, to curse man’s rebelliousness.

Man’s crookedness and deceitfulness, man’s words and deeds—

all that is at odds with God’s intentions

must be subjected to judgment, subjected to judgment,

and all of man’s rebelliousness denounced as sin, denounced as sin.

His words revolve around the principles of judgment;

He uses judgment of man’s unrighteousness,

the curse of man’s rebelliousness, and exposure of man’s ugly faces

to reveal His own righteous disposition.

Holiness is a representation of His righteous disposition,

a representation of His righteous disposition,

and in fact God’s holiness actually is His righteous disposition.

Your corrupt dispositions

are the context of today’s words—God uses them to speak, judge,

and carry out the work of conquest.

This alone is the practical work,

and this alone fully makes God’s holiness shine, makes God’s holiness shine.

II

It’s precisely because of the judgment of these words

that you have been able to see that God is the righteous and holy God;

it’s precisely because of His holiness and His righteousness

that He judges you and unleashes His wrath upon you;

it’s precisely because He sees the rebelliousness of mankind

that He reveals His righteous disposition.

Mankind’s filth and corruption makes manifest, makes manifest His holiness.

This is enough to show that He is God Himself, who is holy and pristine,

and yet lives in the land of filth, lives in the land of filth.

This is enough to show that He is God Himself,

who is holy and pristine, and yet lives in the land of filth.

If a person wallows in the mire with others,

and he’s not holy at all, and he has no righteous disposition,

then he is not qualified to judge man’s iniquity,

nor is he fit to carry out the judgment of man.

How could people who are equally filthy as one another

be fit to judge those who are alike to them, those who are alike to them?

Only the holy God Himself is able to judge,

is able to judge the whole of filthy mankind.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. How the Effects of the Second Step of the Work of Conquest Are Achieved