I

As believers in God, each of you should

appreciate how you have truly gained

the utmost exaltation and salvation

by receiving God’s work in the last days

and the work of His plan that He does in you today.

God’s made this group of people

the sole focus of His work throughout all the universe.

He’s sacrificed all His heart’s blood for you;

He has reclaimed and given to you

all the work of the Spirit throughout the universe.

That is why you are the fortunate ones.

You are the ones who will receive God’s inheritance,

and moreover, you’re the heirs to God’s glory.

II

Perhaps you all remember these words:

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,

works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

These words shall be fulfilled by God in the last days,

and they shall be fulfilled in those who have been brutally persecuted

by the great red dragon in the land where it lies coiled.

The great red dragon persecutes God and it is the enemy of God,

so in this land, those who believe in God

are thus subjected to humiliation and oppression,

and these words are fulfilled in you, this group of people, as a result.

III

It’s tremendously difficult for God to carry out His work

in the land of the great red dragon—

but it is through this difficulty that God does one stage of His work,

making manifest His wisdom and His wondrous deeds,

and using this opportunity to make this group of people complete.

Through people’s suffering, caliber,

and all the satanic dispositions of the people of this filthy land,

God does His work of purification and conquest,

so that, from this, He may gain glory,

and so that He may gain those who will bear witness to His deeds.

Such is the entire significance of all the sacrifices

that God has made for this group of people.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Is the Work of God As Simple As Man Imagines?