God’s entire management plan,

the six-thousand-year management plan,

consists of three stages, or three ages:

the Age of Law of the beginning;

the Age of Grace; and the Age of Kingdom of the last days.

I

God’s work in these three ages differs in content

according to the nature of each age,

but at each stage this work befits the needs of man,

this work befits the needs of man—

or, to be more precise,

it is done according to the tricks that Satan employs

in the war that God wages against it.

It is to defeat Satan, to reveal God’s wisdom and almightiness,

to expose all of Satan’s tricks,

and thereby to save the entire human race, which lives under Satan’s power.

It is to show God’s wisdom and almightiness,

and to reveal the unbearable hideousness of Satan;

moreover, it’s to allow created beings to discern between good and evil,

to know that God is the Sovereign of all things,

to see clearly that Satan is mankind’s enemy, a degenerate, the evil one,

and to allow them to tell, with absolute certainty,

the difference between good and evil, truth and falsehood, holiness and filth,

and what is great and what is ignoble.

II

Thus will ignorant humanity become able to bear witness to God

that it is not God who corrupts humanity,

and only God—the Creator—can save humanity,

can bestow upon people the things that they can enjoy;

and they will come to know that God is the Sovereign of all things

and Satan is merely one of the beings

that God created and that later betrayed Him.

God’s six-thousand-year management plan is divided into three stages,

is divided into three stages,

and He works thus to achieve the effect

of enabling created beings to bear witness to Him,

and comprehend His intentions, and know that He is the truth,

comprehend His intentions, and know that He is the truth,

know that He is the truth.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The True Story Behind the Work of the Age of Redemption