I

In God’s work, He expresses what He is directly;

He does not rack His brains to formulate a plan.

All the work He does is the most actual work.

He carries it out in accordance with the development of each era,

and bases it on how things change.

For Him, carrying out work is akin to suiting the medicine to the illness;

while doing His work, He observes,

and continues His work according to His observations.

In every stage of His work,

God is capable of expressing His ample wisdom and ability;

God reveals His abundant wisdom and authority

according to the work of any particular age,

and allows all of those people brought back by Him

during that age to see His entire disposition.

God provides for people’s needs in accordance with

the work that needs to be done in each age,

and does whatever work He should do.

He supplies people with what they need

based on the degree to which Satan has corrupted them.

II

God has been engaged in new work ever since He created the world,

and none of the steps of this work has been repeated.

Satan has continuously put plots into motion,

humanity has constantly been corrupted by Satan,

and Jehovah God has unceasingly carried out His wise work.

He has never failed,

nor has He ever stopped working, ever since the world was created.

After humans were corrupted by Satan,

He has kept working amongst them to defeat it,

the enemy that was the source of their corruption.

This battle has raged since the beginning, and will continue till the world’s end.

In doing all this work, Jehovah God has not only allowed humans,

who have been corrupted by Satan, to receive His great salvation,

but also allowed them to see His wisdom, almightiness, and authority.

Furthermore, in the end, He will let them see His righteous disposition—

punishing the evil and rewarding the good.

III

God has battled Satan to this very day

and He has never been defeated by Satan.

This is because He’s a wise God,

and He exercises His wisdom based upon Satan’s plots.

So, God not only makes everything in heaven submit to His authority,

but He also has everything upon earth rest below His footstool

and, not least, He makes the evil ones who invade and harass humanity

fall within His chastisement.

The results of all this work are brought about because of His wisdom.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. You Should Know How the Whole of Humanity Has Developed to the Present Day