I

In His final work of concluding the age, God's disposition is one of chastisement and judgment, in which He reveals all that's unrighteous, in order to publicly judge all peoples, and to perfect those who sincerely love Him. Only a disposition such as this can bring the age to an end. The last days have already arrived. All things are separated according to their kind, and divided into different categories based on their different qualities. This is precisely the time when God reveals people's outcomes and destinations. If people don't experience chastisement and judgment, then there will be no way to expose their rebelliousness and unrighteousness. Only through chastisement and judgment can all things' outcomes be revealed. People only show their true colors when they're chastised and judged. Evil shall be put with evil, good with good, and all people shall be separated according to their kind.

II

Through chastisement and judgment, the outcomes of all things will be revealed, so that the evil may be punished and the good rewarded, and all people surrender to God's dominion. All this work must be achieved through righteous chastisement and judgment. Because man's corruption has reached its peak and their rebelliousness is exceedingly severe, only God's righteous disposition, one that's principally compounded of chastisement and judgment and is revealed during the last days, can fully transform people and make them complete, and reveal evil, and all the unrighteous will thus be severely punished. A disposition such as this is imbued with the significance of the age. God's disposition is revealed and disclosed for the sake of the work of each new age. It's not that God reveals His disposition arbitrarily and without significance.

III

Suppose that, in the last days of revealing people's outcomes, God were still to love people with infinite mercy and lovingkindness, and continue to be loving toward them, not subjecting them to righteous judgment but rather showing them tolerance, patience, and forgiveness, and pardoning them no matter how grave their sins were, without any jot of righteous judgment. When then would all of God's management ever be brought to a close? When would a disposition such as this be able to lead people into mankind's appropriate destination? During the last days, only righteous judgment can separate people according to their kind and bring them into a new realm. In this way, the entire age is brought to an end through God's righteous disposition of judgment and chastisement.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The Vision of God's Work (3)