I

The work of God has never ceased,

His footsteps have never halted,

His footsteps have never halted,

and prior to the completion of His management work,

He has always been busy, and never stops.

But man is different:

Having gained but a modicum of the Holy Spirit’s work,

he treats it as if it’ll never change;

having gained a little knowledge,

he does not go forth to follow the footsteps of God’s newer work;

having seen but a little of God’s work, man believes that

God will always remain in this form that he sees before him,

that it was like this in the past and will always be thus,

will always be thus in the future;

having gained but a superficial knowledge,

man is so proud that he forgets himself and begins to wantonly proclaim

a disposition and a being of God that simply do not exist;

and having become certain about one stage,

one stage of the work of the Holy Spirit,

no matter what kind of person it is

that proclaims the new work of God,

man does not accept it,

man does not accept it.

II

These are people who are incapable of accepting

the new work of the Holy Spirit;

they are too conservative,

and incapable of accepting new things.

Such people are those who believe in God but also reject God.

Only those who follow the footsteps of the Lamb to the very end

can gain the final blessing,

whereas those “clever people,”

who are unable to follow to the very end yet believe they have gained all,

are incapable of witnessing God’s appearance.

They each believe they are the smartest person on earth,

and they cut short the continued development of God’s work for no reason,

and seem to believe with absolute certainty

that God will take them up to heaven,

they who “have the utmost loyalty to God, follow God, and abide by His words.”

III

Even though they have the “utmost loyalty”

toward the words spoken by God,

their words and actions are still so disgusting

because they oppose the Holy Spirit’s work, and commit deceit and evil.

Those who do not follow to the very end,

who do not keep up with the Holy Spirit’s work,

and who only cleave to the old work

have not only failed to achieve loyalty to God,

but on the contrary,

they have become those who oppose God,

have become those who are rejected by the new age,

and who will be punished, who will be punished.

Are there any more pitiable, any more pitiable than them?

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God’s Work and Man’s Practice