Relevant Words of God:

In the beginning, God was in rest. There were no humans or anything else upon the earth at that time, and God had not yet done any work. He only began His work of management once humanity existed and after humanity had been corrupted; from that point on, He no longer rested, but instead began to busy Himself among humanity. It was because of humanity’s corruption that God lost His rest, and also because of the archangel’s betrayal. If God does not defeat Satan and save corrupted humanity, He will never again be able to enter into rest. As man lacks rest, so does God, and when He rests once more, humans will, too. A life at rest means a life without war, without filth, and without any unrighteousness. This is to say, it is a life devoid of Satan’s disturbances (here “Satan” refers to hostile forces) and Satan’s corruption, and free from the encroachment of any force in opposition to God; it is a life in which everything is sorted according to its kind and can worship the Creator, and in which heaven and earth are entirely tranquil. This is the life of rest for humans. When God rests, unrighteousness will no longer exist upon the earth, nor will there be any further encroachment from hostile forces, and humankind will enter a new realm—no longer be a humanity corrupted by Satan, but rather a humanity that has been saved after having been corrupted by Satan. Humanity’s day of rest will also be God’s day of rest. God lost His rest due to humanity’s inability to enter into rest; it’s not that He originally had no rest.

—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together

These are the facts: Before the earth existed, the archangel was the greatest of heaven’s angels. It had jurisdiction over all the angels in heaven; this was the authority God had granted it. With the exception of God, it was the greatest of heaven’s angels. Later, after God had created humanity, down on earth the archangel carried out an even greater betrayal against God. I say it betrayed God because it wanted to manage humanity and to surpass God’s authority. It was the archangel that tempted Eve into sin, and it did so because it wished to establish its kingdom upon earth and to get humans to betray God and obey the archangel instead. The archangel saw that so many things could obey it—the angels could, as could the people upon the earth. The birds and beasts, trees, forests, mountains, rivers, and all things upon the earth were under the care of humans—that is, Adam and Eve—while Adam and Eve obeyed the archangel. The archangel therefore desired to surpass God’s authority and to betray God. After that, it led many angels to betray God, and they later became various sorts of unclean spirits. Has not humanity’s development to this day been caused by the archangel’s corruption? Humans are only the way they are today because the archangel betrayed God and corrupted humanity. … Humanity and everything on earth are now under Satan’s power and lie under the power of the evil one. God wants to reveal His deeds to all things so that people may know Him, and thereby defeat Satan and thoroughly vanquish His enemies. The entirety of this work is accomplished through revealing His deeds. All of His creations are under Satan’s power, so God wishes to reveal His almightiness to them, thereby defeating Satan. If there were no Satan, He would not need to reveal His deeds. If not for Satan’s disturbance, after God created humanity, He would have led them to live in the Garden of Eden. Why, prior to Satan’s betrayal, did God never reveal all His deeds to the angels or to the archangel? If, in the beginning, all the angels and the archangel had known God and had submitted to Him, then God would not have carried out those meaningless acts of work. Because there are Satan and demons, and because humans have resisted God and are filled to the brim with rebellious dispositions, God therefore shall reveal His deeds. Because He shall do battle with Satan, He must use His own authority and all His deeds to defeat it; in this way, the work of salvation that He performs among humans will allow them to see His wisdom and almightiness.

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

For the sky above all mankind is turbid and dark, without the slightest impression of clarity, and the human world is plunged into pitchy darkness, so that one living in it cannot even see their outstretched hand before their face or the sun when they lift up their head. The road beneath their feet, muddy and rife with potholes, meanders tortuously; the whole land is littered with corpses. The dark corners are filled with the remains of the dead, and in the cool and shady corners crowds of demons have taken up residence. At every turn, demons come and go in hordes among people. The progeny of all manner of beasts, covered in filth, are locked in pitched battle, the sound of which strikes terror to the heart. At such times, in such a world, such an “earthly paradise,” where does one go to seek out life’s felicities? Where could one go to find their life’s destination? Mankind, long since trampled under Satan’s feet, is a performer taking on Satan’s image—more than that, mankind is the embodiment of Satan, and serves as evidence that bears a “resounding witness” to Satan. How can such a human race, such a bunch of degenerate scum, such offspring of a corrupt human family, bear witness to God? Whence comes My glory? Is there any testimony to Me to speak of? For the enemy that stands against Me, and that corrupted mankind, has already taken mankind—the mankind that I created long ago and that was filled with My glory and My living out—and soiled them. It has snatched away My glory, and all it has imbued man with is poison heavily laced with the ugliness of Satan, and juice from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In the beginning, I created mankind; that is, I created mankind’s ancestor, Adam. He was endowed with form and image, brimming with vitality, brimming with vigor, and he was, even more so, in the company of My glory. That was the glorious day when I created man. After that, Eve was produced from the body of Adam, and she too was the ancestor of man. Thus, the people that I created were filled with My breath and brimming with My glory. Adam was originally “born” from My hand and was the representation of My image. Thus the original meaning of “Adam” was a being created by Me who was imbued with My vital energy, imbued with My glory, having form and image, having a spirit and breath. He was the only created being possessed of a spirit who was capable of representing Me and of bearing My image, and who received My breath. In the beginning, Eve was the second human endowed with breath whose creation I had ordained, so the original meaning of “Eve” was a created being who would continue My glory, filled with My vitality and even more so endowed with My glory. Eve came from Adam, so she also bore My image, for she was the second human to be created in My image. The original meaning of “Eve” was a living human with a spirit, flesh, and bone. She was My second testimony as well as My second image among mankind. They were mankind’s ancestors, the precious and pure ones of mankind, and were originally living beings endowed with spirits. However, the evil one trampled and took captive the progeny of mankind’s ancestors, plunging the human world into complete darkness, and making it so that the progeny no longer believe in My existence. Even more abominable is that, while the evil one corrupted people and trampled all over them, it cruelly wrested away My glory, My testimony, the vitality I bestowed on them, the breath and the life I blew into them, all My glory in the human world, and all the heart’s blood I have expended on mankind. Mankind is no longer in the light, people have lost everything I bestowed upon them, and they have cast away the glory I bestowed upon them. How can they acknowledge that I am the Lord of all creation? How can they believe in My existence in heaven? How can they discover the manifestations of My glory upon the earth? How can these grandsons and granddaughters take the God their own ancestors feared as the Lord who created them? These pitiful grandsons and granddaughters have actually “presented” with great generosity to the evil one the glory, the image, and the testimony that I bestowed upon Adam and Eve, as well as the life I bestowed upon mankind and on which they depend to exist; and they do not mind the evil one’s presence at all, and give all My glory to it. Is this not the very source of the term “degenerate scum”? How can such a mankind, such evil demons, such walking corpses, such Satans, such enemies of Mine be possessed of My glory? I will repossess My glory, repossess My testimony among man, and all that originally belonged to Me and that I bestowed upon mankind long ago—I will completely conquer mankind. However, you should know that the humans I created were pure humans who bore My image and My glory. They did not belong to Satan, nor were they subject to its trampling, but were purely a manifestation of Mine, free of the slightest trace of Satan’s poison. And so, I make known to humanity: I want only the pure ones who were created by My hand, and who are loved by Me and belong to no other entity, and I will derive enjoyment from them and consider them as My glory, however, what I want is not the mankind that has been corrupted by Satan, that belongs to Satan today, and that is no longer My original creation. Because I intend to repossess My glory in the human world, I shall completely conquer the survivors among mankind, as proof of My glory in defeating Satan. I take only My testimony as My crystallization, as the object of My enjoyment. This is My intention.

—The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. What It Means to Be a Real Person