The Savior Has Already Returned Upon a “White Cloud”

For several thousand years, man has longed to be able to witness the arrival of the Savior. Man has longed to behold Jesus the Savior on a white cloud as He descends, in person, among those who have pined and yearned for Him for thousands of years. Man has longed for the Savior to return and be reunited with the people, that is, for Jesus the Savior to come back to the people from whom He has been apart for thousands of years. And man hopes that He will once again carry out the work of redemption that He did among the Jews, will be compassionate and loving toward man, will forgive the sins of man, bear the sins of man, and even bear all of man’s transgressions and deliver man from sin. second coming of JesusThey long for Jesus the Savior to be the same as before—a Savior who is lovable, amiable and venerable, who is never wrathful toward man, and who never reproaches man. This Savior forgives and bears all of man’s sins, and even dies upon the cross for man once more. Since Jesus departed, the disciples who followed Him, and all of the saints who were saved thanks to His name, have been desperately pining for Him and awaiting Him. All those who were saved by the grace of Jesus Christ during the Age of Grace have been longing for that joyful day during the last days, when Jesus the Savior arrives on a white cloud and appears among man. Of course, this is also the collective wish of all those who accept the name of Jesus the Savior today. Throughout the universe, all those who know of the salvation of Jesus the Savior have been desperately yearning for the sudden arrival of Jesus Christ, to fulfill the words of Jesus when on earth: “I shall arrive just as I departed.” Man believes that, following the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus went back to heaven upon a white cloud, and took His place at the Most High’s right hand. Similarly, man conceives that Jesus shall descend, again upon a white cloud (this cloud refers to the cloud that Jesus rode upon when He returned to heaven), among those who have desperately yearned for Him for thousands of years, and that He shall bear the image and clothes of the Jews. After appearing to man, He shall bestow food upon them, and cause living water to gush forth for them, and shall live among man, full of grace and love, living and real. And so on. Yet Jesus the Savior did not do this; He did the opposite of what man conceived. He did not arrive among those who had yearned for His return, and did not appear to all men while riding upon the white cloud. He has already arrived, but man does not know Him, and remains ignorant of His arrival. Man is only aimlessly awaiting Him, unaware that He has already descended upon a white cloud (the cloud which is His Spirit, His words, and His entire disposition and all that He is), and is now among a group of overcomers that He will make during the last days. Man does not know this: Although the holy Savior Jesus is full of affection and love toward man, how could He work in “temples” inhabited by filth and impure spirits? Though man has been awaiting His arrival, how could He appear to those who eat the flesh of the unrighteous, drink the blood of the unrighteous, wear the clothes of the unrighteous, who believe in Him but do not know Him, and who constantly extort Him? Man knows only that Jesus the Savior is full of love and compassion, and is the sin offering filled with redemption. But man has no idea that He is also God Himself, who is brimming with righteousness, majesty, wrath, and judgment, and possessed of authority and full of dignity. And so even though man eagerly yearns for and craves the return of the Redeemer, and even Heaven is moved by the prayers of man, Jesus the Savior does not appear to those who believe in Him but do not know Him.

“Jehovah” is the name that I took during My work in Israel, and it means the God of the Israelites (God’s chosen people) who can take pity on man, curse man, and guide the life of man. It means the God who possesses great power and is full of wisdom. “Jesus” is Emmanuel, and it means the sin offering that is full of love, full of compassion, and redeems man. He did the work of the Age of Grace, and represents the Age of Grace, and can only represent one part of the management plan. That is to say, only Jehovah is the God of the chosen people of Israel, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, and the God of all the people of Israel. And so in the current age, all the Israelites apart from the tribe of Judah worship Jehovah. They make sacrifices to Him on the altar, and serve Him wearing priests’ robes in the temple. What they hope for is the reappearance of Jehovah. Only Jesus is the Redeemer of mankind. He is the sin offering that redeemed mankind from sin. Which is to say, the name of Jesus came from the Age of Grace, and existed because of the work of redemption in the Age of Grace. The name of Jesus existed to allow the people of the Age of Grace to be reborn and saved, and is a particular name for the redemption of the whole of mankind. And so the name Jesus represents the work of redemption, and denotes the Age of Grace. The name Jehovah is a particular name for the people of Israel who lived under the law. In each age and each stage of work, My name is not baseless, but holds representative significance: Each name represents one age. “Jehovah” represents the Age of Law, and is the honorific for the God worshiped by the people of Israel. “Jesus” represents the Age of Grace, and is the name of the God of all those who were redeemed during the Age of Grace. If man still longs for the arrival of Jesus the Savior during the last days, and still expects Him to arrive in the image He bore in Judea, then the entire six-thousand-year management plan would stop in the Age of Redemption, and would be incapable of progressing any further. The last days, furthermore, would never arrive, and the age would never be brought to an end. That is because Jesus the Savior is only for the redemption and salvation of mankind. I took the name of Jesus for the sake of all the sinners in the Age of Grace, and it is not the name by which I shall bring the whole of mankind to an end. Although Jehovah, Jesus, and the Messiah all represent My Spirit, these names only denote the different ages in My management plan, and do not represent Me in My entirety. The names by which people on earth call Me cannot articulate My entire disposition and all that I am. They are merely different names by which I am called during different ages. And so, when the final age—the age of the last days—arrives, My name shall change again. I shall not be called Jehovah, or Jesus, much less the Messiah, but shall be called the powerful Almighty God Himself, and under this name I shall bring the entire age to an end. I was once known as Jehovah. I was also called the Messiah, and people once called Me Jesus the Savior because they loved and respected Me. But today I am not the Jehovah or Jesus that people knew in times past—I am the God who has returned in the last days, the God who shall bring the age to an end. I am the God Himself that rises up at the ends of the earth, replete with My entire disposition, and full of authority, honor and glory. People have never engaged with Me, have never known Me, and have always been ignorant of My disposition. From the creation of the world until today, not one person has seen Me. This is the God who appears to man during the last days but is hidden among man. He resides among man, true and real, like the burning sun and the flaming fire, filled with power and brimming with authority. There is not a single person or thing that shall not be judged by My words, and not a single person or thing that shall not be purified through the burning of fire. Eventually, all nations shall be blessed because of My words, and also smashed to pieces because of My words. In this way, all people during the last days shall see that I am the Savior returned, I am the Almighty God that conquers all of mankind, and I was once the sin offering for man, but in the last days I also become the flames of the sun that burn all things, as well as the Sun of righteousness that reveals all things. Such is My work of the last days. I took this name and am possessed of this disposition so that all people may see that I am a righteous God, and am the burning sun, and the flaming fire. It is so that all may worship Me, the only true God, and so that they may see My true face: I am not only the God of the Israelites, and am not just the Redeemer—I am the God of all creatures throughout heavens and earth and seas.

When the Savior arrives during the last days, if He were still called Jesus, and were once again born in Judea, and did His work in Judea, then this would prove that I only created the people of Israel and only redeemed the people of Israel, and that I have nothing to do with the Gentiles. Would this not contradict My words that “I am the Lord who created the heavens and earth and all things”? I left Judea and do My work among the Gentiles because I am not merely the God of the people of Israel, but the God of all creatures. I appear among the Gentiles during the last days because I am not only Jehovah, the God of the people of Israel, but, moreover, because I am the Creator of all My chosen ones among the Gentiles. I not only created Israel, Egypt, and Lebanon, but also created all the Gentile nations beyond Israel. And because of this, I am the Lord of all creatures. I merely used Israel as the starting point for My work, employed Judea and Galilee as the strongholds of My work of redemption, and use the Gentile nations as the base from which I will bring the entire age to an end. I did two stages of work in Israel (the two stages of the work of the Age of Law and the Age of Grace), and I have been carrying out two further stages of work (the Age of Grace and the Age of Kingdom) throughout the lands beyond Israel. Among the Gentile nations I will do the work of conquering, and so conclude the age. If man always calls Me Jesus Christ, but does not know that I have begun a new age during the last days and have embarked upon new work, and if man always obsessively awaits the arrival of Jesus the Savior, then I shall call people such as this the ones who do not believe in Me. They are people who do not know Me, and their belief in Me is a sham. Could such people witness the arrival of Jesus the Savior from heaven? What they await is not My arrival, but the arrival of the King of the Jews. They do not yearn for My annihilation of this impure old world, but instead long for the second coming of Jesus, whereupon they will be redeemed; they look forward to Jesus once more redeeming all of mankind from this defiled and unrighteous land. How can such people become those who complete My work during the last days? The desires of man are incapable of achieving My wishes or accomplishing My work, for man merely admires or cherishes the work that I have done before, and has no idea that I am the God Himself who is always new and never old. Man only knows that I am Jehovah, and Jesus, and has no inkling that I am the Last, the One who shall bring mankind to an end. All that man yearns for and knows is of his own conception, and is merely that which he can see with his own eyes. It is not in line with the work I do, but in disharmony with it. If My work were conducted according to the ideas of man, then when would it end? When would mankind enter rest? And how would I be able to enter the seventh day, the Sabbath? I work according to My plan, according to My aim, and not according to the intention of man.

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How to Be Born Again? Need to Gain Truth From God

By Yan Xi

At the mention of rebirth, I believe that the brothers and sisters in the Lord all know it and may think of the exchange between the Lord Jesus and Nicodemus recorded in the Bible, “Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?” (John 3:3-4). We all know that the so-called rebirth is absolutely not the meaning of being born again from his mother’s womb as what Nicodemus comprehended. Then, what does the rebirth mean? Some brothers and sisters believe, “The lord Jesus has taken on our sins. We have gained the Lord’s redemption by belief in Him and are no longer condemned by the laws. Because of this we are reborn.” And some brothers and sisters believe, “As long as we weep bitterly, repent and confess all the sins we have committed before the Lord, and then accept baptism, the Lord will forgive our sins, and bestow us a new life. Thus, we will be reborn.”

I thought of what the Scripture said: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then, that is to say, real rebirth means that man accepts God’s salvation and has been cleansed of the corrupt disposition. According to these scriptures, it is sufficient to prove that the believers now are out of the state of being reborn. Then, how can we be reborn? What is the path to being reborn?

Later, I constantly examined the scriptures. I saw Jesus said to the Jews believing in Him in John 8:32: “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” From the Lord’s words we see that it is the truth that can make people free. Only after people gain the truth and have the truth and God’s words as the reality of life are they able to overcome Satan, and completely break free from the bondage and restrictions of sins, so as to never sin again to disobey God or resist God. Thus, they will completely break away from the degenerate life of sinning by day and confessing by night, rely on the truth and God’s words to live, truly obey God and worship God, and live a free and liberate life before God. Because the Lord Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life,” it can be seen that if we want to gain life, we must gain the truth from God first. Those who cannot gain the truth will never receive life, and they will forever be bound and constrained by sins, and become slaves of sins. From this, we can see that our belief that we will receive life through repenting and confessing sins before God and then gaining peace and joy of His forgiveness and we are reborn after being baptized are merely our conceptions and imaginations. This is not in conformity with the truth and the Lord’s will at all.

As we all know, after mankind was corrupted by Satan, God has begun His work of six-thousand-year management to save mankind. In the beginning the work of the Age of Law was carried out in Israel, and God issued His laws and commandments according to the needs of mankind at that time, and led them to live on earth, which made them know some common knowledge about mankind’s life and about living as a man, and how to worship Jehovah God, how to live with others, how to build the temple, and so on. Moreover, He also told them that they would be forgiven as long as they offered up a sin offering after they committed sins. Through this, He restricted them not to commit sins. But, at the end of the Age of Law, men became more and more corrupt, to the extent that they couldn’t abide by the law and didn’t have the best offerings to God since they had committed too many sins. They faced the danger of perishing under the punishments for violating the law. Thus, at the time many people were possessed by demons and afflicted by Satan. God couldn’t bear to see man being trampled and fooled by Satan like this, so He ended the work of the Age of Law and began the new work of the Age of Grace. He personally came to earth in the flesh and became the sin offering for man to redeem man from sins and forgive man’s sins. As long as man believes in Him, accepts Jesus as the Savior, and confesses and repents to the Lord Jesus, then he will get the sin offering bestowed by God so as to be forgiven of his sins and no longer be condemned, and live in the state of peace and joy. However, after believing in the Lord, why do man still live in sins and be unable to put into practice the way of the Lord? What is the reason for this? That is because the Lord Jesus’ work was limited to redemption alone and He did not do the work of judging, cleansing and saving man that God of the last days does. The Lord Jesus’ work was clearly to pave the way for the work of judgment in the last days. Therefore, the Lord Jesus said: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come” (John 16:12:13). God said clearly that in the last days He would carry out a step of work based on the needs of mankind to provide man truth and life, which is the way to help man thoroughly free from the dark influence of Satan, cast off satanic disposition, and break away from sins, so that he can gain a new life and be reborn from God’s words.

Now the Spirit of truth has come, He is Almighty God incarnate in the last days. On the basis of the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus and according to the current condition of man’s corruption, Almighty God has expressed several million words to judge all mankind, reveal and dissect the corrupt disposition of all mankind. If man accepts such work of God, then he will be purified and saved thoroughly, and live out the likeness of a true person according to God’s words. And he will be born again because of this. Just as God says: “If one can truly enter into the reality of God’s words from the matters and the words required by Him, then he will be a person perfected by God. It can be said that the work and the words of God are completely effective for this person, that God’s words become his life, he obtains truth, and he can live according to God’s words. After this the nature of his flesh, that is, the foundation of his original existence, will shake and collapse. After one has the words of God as their life they become a new person. The words of God become his life; the vision of God’s work, His requirements of man, His revelation of man, and the standards for a true life that God requires man to achieve become his life—he lives according to these words and these truths, and this person becomes perfected by the words of God. He experiences rebirth and becomes a new man through His words.” From this we can see that after man accepts the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, is capable to truly know and hate his own satanic nature and substance, and casts off the things of Satan, that is, after the foundation of his original existence begins to shake and collapse, and Satan’s laws for man’s life are replaced by God’s words and the truth, then man can lead a new life according to the standard required by God—only thus can he be the one who truly gets reborn. In real life the root reason why we are unable to practice the words of God, to live at peace with others, to bear with others to achieve loving others as ourselves, and to have the singular love to God is because we are restricted and controlled by our satanic corrupt nature. Things of the nature can’t be restrained by man. Only through the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, the revelation of the facts, and moreover, all kinds of trials and refinements, can they be shaken and changed; finally man is able to cast off these corruptions and live by God’s words. Those who put into practice being an honest person, pursue to love God and submit to God, and act as a true creation of God are the ones God loves, the new creatures through God’s words as well.

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God says: “Christ of the last days brings life, and brings the enduring and everlasting way of truth. This truth is the path through which man shall gain life, and the only path by which man shall know God and be approved by God. If you do not seek the way of life provided by Christ of the last days, then you shall never gain the approval of Jesus, and shall never be qualified to enter the gate of the kingdom of heaven….” From these words of God we can see that if man wants to enter the kingdom of God, he must accept the words of Christ in the last days as provision of life, for Christ in the last days is the embodiment of truth. These truths are the reality of the truth mankind should possess, are the only path for mankind to be purified, saved and obtained by God and gain life. If we gain all the truths from the words of Christ of the last days, then we will gain life, in the end be brought into God’s kingdom, and inherit the beautiful blessings and promises bestowed by God. However, if man can’t keep up with the footsteps of Christ of the last days, and can’t gain all the truths Almighty God has expressed for man to be saved, then he will never gain life or be approved by God.

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Can We Who Are Saved by Faith Enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

By Ma Xiaoxiao

One day, when I preached, I spoke of the great disaster that was going to come. So I exhorted brothers and sisters to attend meetings actively, put more effort in the Bible, and follow the Lord’s way in real life, so that we could watch and wait for the return of the Lord. But I saw some brothers and sisters remain weak and full of doubts whether they could be raptured to the kingdom of heaven. Then I explained, “Brothers and sisters, the Bible says, ‘For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation’ (Rom 10:10). As long as we believe in the Lord in our hearts and confirm our belief in Him with our words, our faith will allow us to obtain eternal salvation. When the Lord comes again, we will surely be raptured to the kingdom of heaven.” Hearing what I said, brothers and sisters were all happy and they had some strength. At this moment, co-worker Zhang stood up and said, “I’m not sure. The Lord Jesus said, ‘But he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven’ (Mat 7:21). This clearly tells us that only those who do the will of God can enter the kingdom of heaven. Although we have been saved, we’re still committing sins during the day and repenting at night. This’s not doing the will of the heavenly Father. I think we still will be unable to enter the kingdom of heaven.”

The brothers and sisters were just happy, but a few words of co-worker Zhang quelled their excitement at once. I looked around, thought for a short while, and said hastily, “Brothers and sisters, brother Paul said in the Book of the Galatians 3:26, ‘For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.’ This shows that we believe in the Lord, so we are His children. In that case, we will definitely be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Co-worker Zhang took my words, “Brother Ma, I don’t agree with what you’re saying. 1 Peter 1:16 says, ‘Be you holy; for I am holy.’ And Hebrews 12:14 says, ‘and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.’ From these two verses, we can see clearly that God’s substance is holy. Although we have been saved, we often sin and confess, and we don’t become holy. We are unworthy to see the Lord’s face. How can we enter the kingdom of heaven?”

At this point, brother Chen stood up. He pointed at the Bible in his hand and said seriously, “Brothers and sisters, apostle Paul already told us clearly in the Book of Romans 8:33–34, ‘Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns?’ We have been God’s elects. Both our sins of the past and those of the future have been forgiven by the Lord Jesus. He doesn’t see us as sinners. We have been justified, so we will certainly enter the kingdom of heaven. This is undoubtable. I agree with brother Ma’s point.”

Co-worker Zhang firmly said, “Brothers and sisters, since the Scripture says, ‘and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord,’ and the Lord Jesus also told us that only those who do the will of the heavenly Father can enter the kingdom of heaven. This is sufficient to prove that only those who attain holiness can enter the kingdom of God. We must keep the Lord’s word.”

I said loudly, “My fellow co-workers, on the question of being saved, Paul already told us clearly, ‘For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God’ (Eph 2:8). ‘And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work’ (Rom 11:6). Paul’s words are very clear. The Lord’s salvation is freely given to us and does not depend on our works. If this depends on our works, then is that called the Lord’s grace? Now we can rely on the Lord’s grace to be saved into the kingdom of heaven.”

Brother Chen raised his hand and said, “Brother Ma is right. Paul in the book of Timothy also said, ‘Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began’ (2Ti 1:9), so we who believe in Jesus can enter the kingdom of heaven based on His grace. If it were based on our works, who then could be saved?”

Co-worker Zhang stood up with emotion. He said, “Brothers and sisters, whether we believers can enter the kingdom of heaven is decided by what the Lord Jesus said or what Paul said? Is it the Lord Jesus’ words that have authority or Paul’s words? Do we confess that the Lord Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life?” Everyone looked at each other, and said, “Of course we do!”

This word of brother Zhang reminded me. I thought, Right! We believers should focus on the Lord’s words, but why do I keep speaking of Paul’s words? Thinking of this, I calmed down and continued to listen to brother Zhang’s fellowship …

Co-worker Zhang said, “Since we confess that the Lord Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life, and what Paul said opposes what our Lord Jesus said, that would explain what Paul said carries tares. It comes from human will and is not the truth. I would rather believe what the Lord Jesus said, ‘But he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.’ This is the sole standard for entering the kingdom of heaven.”

At this moment, brother Guo also stood up emotionally. He said, “We believers in God should set the Lord Jesus’ words as the standard. Because the Lord Jesus is the only Lord of the kingdom of heaven. His word is the only truth, the only authority. His word carrying authority means what He said counts. Paul is not the Lord of the kingdom of heaven; his word does not carry authority, nor do they count. Paul is nothing more than an apostle, having a corrupt human nature. He himself need God’s salvation. Whether everyone can enter the kingdom of heaven is still decided by the Lord Jesus. What rights does he have to decide if others can enter the kingdom of heaven?”

Seeing everyone nodded their approval, I asked, “Brother Zhang, you’re right. We who believe in the Lord should have the Lord Jesus’ words as the standard. But I do not yet understand the difference between being saved and entering the kingdom of heaven. Could you share your opinion?”

Co-worker Zhang said in a calm way, “I’ve studied this aspect of verses over and over again these few days. I think being saved refers to being free from the condemnation of the law, and that it refers to sins being forgiven. But those who have been saved can still resist and oppose God through sinning, so they don’t become holy and they still live under Satan’s domain, while those who can enter the kingdom of heaven ought to be those who do the will of our Father in heaven, who obey God’s words. They are those who know God and submit to God, who are compatible with Him. So, being saved and entering the kingdom of heaven are two different matters. Just as the Lord Jesus said, ‘many are called, but few are chosen’ (Mat 22:14). This shows that people who come and believe in the Lord are many, but few can enter the kingdom of heaven in the end. It also manifests God’s righteous disposition.”

Brother Guo also said, “I agree with brother Zhang’s point of view. The Lord Jesus said, ‘the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force’ (Mat 11:12). We can see from the Lord’s words that entering the kingdom of heaven has its standard. It’s not so easy to enter as we thought. We can’t get into it just by relying on grace. We must work hard to follow the Lord’s way before entering it.”

Although what they are saying makes sense, I still have doubt in my heart. Then I said, “To enter the kingdom of heaven, we must do the will of our heavenly Father. This is right. But haven’t we been imitating Paul, forsaking everything for the Lord’s work? Even many brothers and sisters never get married, offering their whole life to the Lord. They cross mountains to preach the gospel of the Lord. It can be said that every Christian suffers a lot and pays much price so as to enter the kingdom of heaven. Is this not doing the will of our heavenly Father? I believe that as long as we carry on like this, we will definitely enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Co-worker Zhang put down the Bible in his hand, and he said, “Brothers and sisters, we can study the Bible carefully. The Lord Jesus has never said that if we forsook everything and labored for Him, we would enter the kingdom of heaven. The Lord Jesus only said, ‘But he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.’ I think that those who truly do the will of the heavenly Father should be those who love God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their mind. They work and suffer for the Lord not in order to covet their own benefits and prospects, but completely to love God and repay His love. They can care for God’s will in everything, and whatever they encounter, they no longer sin or resist God. All that they do is in order to break away from sins and become holy. Only such people who work for the Lord will be qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Brother Guo who was in deep thought said, “Brother Zhang is right! The Bible says, ‘he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous’ (1Jn 3:7). The righteous here are not those ‘justified by faith,’ but those who do the works of righteousness and never sin. While we may now lay all aside for the Lord’s work, we still often sin and are not truly righteous. We are not worthy to enter the kingdom of God.”

I didn’t agree with his opinion, so I retorted, “But Paul said, ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness …’ (2Ti 4:7–8). We preach the gospel, toil and labor for the Lord, and keep the Lord’s way. Isn’t this doing the will of our heavenly Father?”

Co-worker Zhang said very calmly, “Brother Ma, based on your opinion, when the Pharisees traveled over land and sea, suffering much for spreading the gospel everywhere, and having some outward good behaviors, were they then doing the will of our heavenly Father? As we all know, the Pharisees suffered and sacrificed outwardly for God, but they could still oppose God and nail Jesus on the cross. That’s sufficient to prove that outward sufferings and good behaviors do not represent doing the will of our heavenly Father, nor do they represent knowing and submitting to God. In the same way, today we suffer for the Lord, we have some good behaviors outwardly, but we can still sin often and resist God. We are still not those who do the will of our heavenly Father, and still not worthy to enter the kingdom of heaven!”

At his words, I was utterly convinced. It is a fact that we all live in sin. When we work for the Lord, we still have our personal intentions and viewpoints of exchange, as well as a desire for blessings. This is also a fact.

Everyone heatedly shared their own views and knowledge on this topic. When our gathering was nearing its end, I said happily to the others, “Brothers and sisters, Thank God. This debate today allows us to understand that being saved isn’t equivalent to entering the kingdom of heaven. It turns around my incorrect point of view. We can’t be saved by grace. I realized that no matter how we believe in God and labor for the Lord, as long as our sins remain, we can’t truly achieve doing the will of God. So we can’t be approved by God, nor can we enter the kingdom of God. It can be seen that God is the God who is holy and righteous. We can’t always believe in God with our own notions and imaginations but should pursue according to the standard for entering the kingdom of heaven that God requires of us. Only in this way, can we finally act in harmony with God’s will, and can our belief in God be approved by Him.” Brothers and sisters all nodded their heads and agreed …

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Introduction

In the vast heavens of the universe, strewn with stars, every celestial body travels precisely along its own track. The distances between the sun, the earth, and the moon are just perfect…. This has created an environment suitable for human life. Under the great sky, the mountains, rivers, plains, and lakes all have their boundaries. Humans, animals, and plants all thrive and multiply within their own living environments. All creatures cycle through the four seasons, obeying the laws of life…. All of this is such an exquisite design—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging this?

Ever since Adam and Eve, mankind’s ancestors, were corrupted by Satan, people have been living under the influence of Satan, living in sin and suffering. In order to save human beings, God began His six-thousand-year-long work of management. Jehovah God issued the law in the Age of Law to lead mankind to learn how to worship God, how to live, and to know their sins…. When people were unable to uphold the law and faced being condemned or executed, the Lord Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross to be the sin offering for mankind. He bestowed rich grace and blessings upon humans, ushering in the Age of Grace…. And now, in order to thoroughly resolve mankind’s sinful nature, Christ of the last days, Almighty God, has brought the gospel of the kingdom and expressed truths to judge, purify, and save man…. Would you like to understand God’s almightiness, wisdom and wondrous deeds? Would you like to know how God sustains and nourishes all beings, and leads and guides mankind? Would you like to gain God’s salvation and blessings, and return to His kingdom? Then please join us for the documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything.

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You Must Know the Aim of the Three Stages of God’s Work

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The aim of the three stages of work is the salvation of all mankind—which means the complete salvation of man from the domain of Satan. Though each of the three stages of work has a different objective and significance, each is part of the work of saving mankind, and is different work of salvation carried out according to the requirements of mankind. …

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… When the entire management of God is nearing its end, God will class all things according to kind. Man was made by the hands of the Creator, and in the end He must completely return man under His dominion; this is the conclusion of the three stages of work. …

… When the three stages of work come to an end, there will be made a group of those who bear testimony to God, a group of those who know God. These people will all know God and will be able to put the truth into practice. They will possess humanity and sense, and will all know the three stages of God’s work of salvation. This is the work that will be accomplished at the end, and these people are the crystallization of the work of 6,000 years of management, and are the most powerful testimony to the ultimate defeat of Satan.

from “Knowing the Three Stages of God’s Work Is the Path to Knowing God”

My entire management plan, which spans six thousand years, consists of three phases, or three ages: first, the Age of Law; second, the Age of Grace (which is also the Age of Redemption); and finally, the Age of Kingdom. My work in these three ages differs according to the nature of each age, but at each stage it accords with man’s needs—or rather, it varies according to the tricks that Satan employs in My war against it. The purpose of My work is to defeat Satan, to make manifest My wisdom and omnipotence, to expose all Satan’s tricks and thereby to save all of humanity, which lives under its domain. It is to show My wisdom and omnipotence while at the same time revealing the hideousness of Satan. Moreover, it is to teach My creations to discriminate between good and evil, to recognize that I am the Ruler of all things, to see clearly that Satan is humanity’s foe, the lowest of the low, the evil one, and to make the difference between good and evil, truth and falsehood, holiness and filth, greatness and baseness, as clear as day. This way, ignorant humanity may bear witness to Me that it is not I who corrupt humanity, and only I—the Creator—can save humanity, can bestow upon them things for enjoyment; and they may come to know that I am the Ruler of all things and Satan is merely one of My creations, which later turned against Me.

from “The Truth Concerning the Work in the Age of Redemption” 

… the core of the work of God’s management is for the sake of mankind’s salvation. Earliest mankind was in the hands of God, but because of Satan’s temptation and corruption, man was bound up by Satan and fell in the hands of the evil one. Thus, Satan became the object to be defeated in the work of God’s management. Because Satan took possession of man, and because man is the stock of all God’s management, if man is to be saved, then he must be snatched back from the hands of Satan, which is to say that man must be taken back after having been held captive by Satan. Satan is defeated through changes in man’s old disposition that restore his original sense, and in this way, man, who has been taken captive, can be snatched back from the hands of Satan. If man is freed from the influence and bondage of Satan, Satan will be shamed, man will ultimately be taken back, and Satan will be defeated. And because man has been freed from the dark influence of Satan, man will become the spoils of all of this battle, and Satan will become the object that will be punished once this battle has finished, after which the entire work of mankind’s salvation will have been completed.

from “Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination” 

Such is the management of God: to hand mankind over to Satan—a mankind that doesn’t know what God is, what the Creator is, how to worship God, and why it is necessary to submit to God—and give free rein to the corruption of Satan. Step by step, God then recovers man from the hands of Satan, until man fully worships God and rejects Satan. This is the management of God. All this sounds like a mythical story; and it seems perplexing. People feel that it is like a mythical story, and that is because they have no inkling of how much has happened to man over the last several thousand years, much less do they know how many stories have occurred in the expanse of this universe. And furthermore, that is because they cannot appreciate the more astonishing, more fear-inducing world that exists beyond the material world, but which their mortal eyes prevent them from seeing. It feels incomprehensible to man, and that is because man has no understanding of the significance of God’s salvation of mankind and the significance of the work of God’s management, and does not comprehend how God ultimately wishes mankind to be. Is it a mankind akin to Adam and Eve, uncorrupted by Satan? No! The management of God is in order to gain a group of people who worship God and submit to Him. This mankind has been corrupted by Satan, but no longer sees Satan as his father; he recognizes the ugly face of Satan, and rejects it, and comes before God to accept His judgment and chastisement. He knows what is ugly, and how it contrasts with that which is holy, and he recognizes the greatness of God and the evil of Satan. A mankind such as this will no longer work for Satan, or worship Satan, or enshrine Satan. That’s because they are a group of people that have truly been gained by God. This is the significance of God’s managing mankind. …

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The love and compassion of God permeates each and every detail of His management work, and regardless of whether people are able to understand God’s good intentions, He is still tirelessly doing the work that He intends to accomplish. Irrespective of how much people understand of the management of God, the benefits and assistance of the work done by God can be appreciated by everyone. Perhaps, today, you have not felt any of the love or life provided by God, but as long as you do not abandon God, and do not give up on your determination to seek the truth, then there will always be a day when God’s smile will be revealed to you. For the aim of the work of God’s management is to recover the mankind who is under the domain of Satan, not to abandon the mankind who has been corrupted by Satan and opposes God.

from “Man Can Only Be Saved Amidst the Management of God” 

God created humanity, placed them upon earth and led them to the present day. He then saved humanity and served as a sin offering for humanity. At the end He still must conquer humanity, save humanity entirely and restore them to their original likeness. This is the work that He has been engaged in from the beginning to the end—restoring man to his original image and to his original likeness. He will establish His kingdom and restore man’s original likeness, meaning that He will restore His authority upon earth and restore His authority among all creation. Man lost his God-fearing heart after being corrupted by Satan and lost the function that one of God’s creatures should have, becoming an enemy disobedient to God. Man lived under Satan’s domain and followed Satan’s orders; thus, God had no way to work among His creatures, and was all the more unable to win fear from His creatures. Man was created by God, and ought to worship God, but man actually turned his back to God and worshiped Satan. Satan became the idol in man’s heart. Thus God lost His standing in man’s heart, which is to say that He lost the meaning of His creation of man, and so to restore the meaning of His creation of man He must restore man’s original likeness and rid man of his corrupt disposition. To reclaim man from Satan, He must save man from sin. Only in this way can He gradually restore man’s original likeness and restore man’s original function, and in the end restore His kingdom. The ultimate destruction of those sons of disobedience will also be carried out in order to allow man to better worship God and better live upon the earth. Since God created man, He shall make man worship Him; since He wishes to restore man’s original function, He shall restore it completely, and without any adulteration. Restoring His authority means making man worship Him and making man obey Him; it means that He shall make man live because of Him and make His enemies perish because of His authority; it means that He will make every last part of Him persist among humanity and without any resistance by man. The kingdom He wishes to establish is His own kingdom. The humanity He wishes for is one that worships Him, one that completely obeys Him and has His glory. If He does not save corrupt humanity, the meaning of His creation of man will come to nothing; He will have no more authority among man, and His kingdom will no longer be able to exist upon the earth. If He does not destroy those enemies who are disobedient to Him, He will be unable to obtain His complete glory, nor will He be able to establish His kingdom upon the earth. These are the symbols of the completion of His work and the symbols of the completion of His great accomplishment: to utterly destroy those among humanity who are disobedient to Him, and to bring those who have been made complete into rest. When humanity has been restored to their original likeness, when humanity can fulfill their respective duties, keep their own place and obey all of God’s arrangements, God will have obtained a group of people upon the earth who worship Him, and He will also have established a kingdom upon the earth that worships Him. He will have eternal victory upon the earth, and those who are opposed to Him will perish for all eternity. This will restore His original intention in creating man; it will restore His intention in creating all things, and it will also restore His authority upon earth, His authority among all things and His authority among His enemies. These are the symbols of His total victory. Henceforth humanity will enter into rest and enter into a life that follows the right track. God will also enter into eternal rest with man and enter into an eternal life shared by God and man. The filth and disobedience upon the earth shall disappear, as shall the wailing upon the earth. All upon the earth that opposes God will not exist. Only God and those people that He has saved shall remain; only His creation shall remain.

from “God and Man Will Enter Into Rest Together”

When man enters the eternal destination, man will worship the Creator, and because man has gained salvation and entered eternity, man will not pursue any objectives, nor, moreover, will he need to worry that he is besieged by Satan. At this time, man will know his place, and will perform his duty, and even if they are not chastised or judged, each person will perform their duty. At that time, man will be a creature in both identity and status. There will no longer be the distinction of high and low; each person will simply perform a different function. Yet man will still live in an orderly, suitable destination of mankind, man will perform his duty for the sake of worshiping the Creator, and a mankind such as this will be the mankind of eternity. At that time, man will have gained a life illuminated by God, a life under the care and protection of God, and a life together with God. Mankind will lead a normal life on earth, and the whole of mankind will enter onto the right track. The 6,000-year management plan will have utterly defeated Satan, which means that God will have recovered the original image of man following his creation, and as such, the original intention of God will have been fulfilled.

from “Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination” 

Managing man is My job, and having him be conquered by Me was even more predestined when I created the world. People do not know that I will completely conquer them in the last days, and they are also unaware that the evidence of My defeating Satan is to conquer the disobedient members of mankind. But I had already told My enemy when it struggled with Me that I would become the conqueror of those who had been taken away by Satan and had long become its children, and its loyal servants watching over its home. … Mankind, trampled under Satan’s feet long ago, has been acting in Satan’s image—even being its embodiment. They are the evidence of being Satan’s “witness, loud and clear.” Such mankind, such scum, or such offspring of this corrupt human family, how could they bear witness to God? From whence comes forth My glory? Where is My witness? The enemy that stands against Me and corrupts mankind has already soiled mankind, My creation, brimming with My glory and My living out. It has stolen away My glory, and what it has imbued man with is nothing but poison heavily laced with the ugliness of Satan, and juice from fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. … I will repossess My glory, repossess My testimony among man and all that once belonged to Me, which I had given to mankind long ago—completely conquer mankind. However you should know, the humans I created were holy men with My image and My glory. They were not originally of Satan, nor subjected to its trampling, but purely My manifestation, free of the slightest trace of its poison. Thus, I let everyone know that I only want that which was created by My hand, My beloved pure ones that never belonged to any other entity. Furthermore, I will take pleasure in them and see them as My glory. However, what I want is not the mankind corrupted by Satan, belonging to Satan today, which is no longer My original creation. Because I want to repossess My glory in the human world, I will gain complete conquest over the remaining survivors of mankind, as the proof of My glory in My victory over Satan. I only take My testimony as My crystallization, as the object of My enjoyment. Such is My intention.

from “What a Real Man Means”

After carrying out His 6,000 years of work through the present day, God has already revealed many of His acts, primarily to defeat Satan and save all of humanity. He uses this opportunity to allow everything in heaven, everything upon the earth, everything within the seas as well as every last object of God’s creation on earth to see God’s almightiness and to see all of God’s acts. He seizes the opportunity of defeating Satan to reveal all of His acts to humanity and allow people to be able to praise Him and exalt His wisdom of defeating Satan. Everything on earth, in heaven and within the seas brings Him glory, praises His almightiness, praises all His acts and shouts His holy name. This is proof of His defeat of Satan; it is proof of His conquering of Satan; more importantly, it is proof of His salvation of humanity. The whole of God’s creation brings Him glory, praises Him for defeating His enemy and returning victoriously and praises Him as the great victorious King. His purpose is not merely to defeat Satan, and so His work has continued for 6,000 years. He uses Satan’s defeat to save humanity; He uses Satan’s defeat to reveal all His acts and reveal all of His glory. He will obtain glory, and all the multitude of angels will also see all His glory. The messengers in heaven, the humans upon earth and all of creation upon earth will see the glory of the Creator. This is the work that He does. His creation in heaven and on earth will all see His glory, and He will return triumphantly after utterly defeating Satan and let humanity praise Him. He will thus successfully achieve both of these aspects. In the end all of humanity will be conquered by Him, and He will wipe out anyone who resists or rebels, that is to say, wipe out all those who belong to Satan.

from “You Should Know How the Whole of Humanity Has Developed to the Present Day” 

Man is the master of all things, but those who have been gained will become the fruits of all battles with Satan. Satan is the corrupter of all things, it is the loser at the end of all battles, and is also the one which will be punished following these battles. Among God, man and Satan, only Satan is the one which will be detested and rejected. Those who were gained by Satan but are not taken back by God, meanwhile, become the ones who will receive punishment in behalf of Satan. Of these three, only God should be worshiped by all things. Those who were corrupted by Satan but are taken back by God and who follow the way of God, meanwhile, become the ones who will receive God’s promise and judge the evil ones for God. God will surely be victorious and Satan will surely be defeated, but among man there are those who will win and those who will lose. Those who win will belong to the Victor, and those who lose will belong to the loser; this is the classification of each according to kind, it is the final outcome of all God’s work, it is also the aim of all God’s work, and it will never change. The core of the main work of God’s management plan is focused on the salvation of man, and God becomes flesh primarily for the sake of this core, for the sake of this work, and in order to defeat Satan.

from “Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination” 

All people need to understand the purpose of My work on earth, that is, the final objective of My work and what level I must achieve in this work before it can be complete. If people, walking with Me to this day, do not understand what My work is all about, then have they not been walking with Me in vain? People who follow Me should know My will. I have been working on earth for thousands of years, and I am still doing so now. Although there are especially numerous items included in My work, its purpose remains unchanged. For example, although I am filled with judgment and chastisement toward man, it is still in order to save him, to better spread My gospel and further expand My work among the Gentile nations once man has been made complete. So now, at a time when many people have already greatly lost hope, I am continuing with My work, continuing the work I must do to judge and chastise man. Despite the fact that man is fed up with what I say and regardless of the fact that he has no desire to care about My work, I am still carrying out My duty because the purpose of My work remains unchanged and My original plan will not be broken. The function of My judgment is to get man to better obey Me, and the function of My chastisement is to allow man a better transformation. Although what I do is for the sake of My management, I have never done anything that was unprofitable for man. That is because I want to make all the nations outside of Israel just as obedient as the Israelites and make them into real men, so that I will have a foothold in the lands outside of Israel. This is My management; it is the work I am accomplishing in the lands of the Gentiles. Even now, many people still do not understand My management because they are not concerned with it, instead just thinking about their futures and destinations. No matter what I say, people are indifferent to My work, just focusing on the destinations of their tomorrow. So if that continues, how can My work be expanded? How can My gospel be spread throughout the world? You must know that when My work is expanding, I will scatter you, and I will strike you just as Jehovah struck the tribes of Israel. All this will be done so that My gospel may be enlarged over all the earth, so that My work may spread to the Gentile nations. Thus, My name will be magnified by adults and children alike and My holy name will be exalted by the mouths of people from all tribes and nations. In the final era, I will have My name magnified among the Gentile nations, make My deeds seen by the Gentiles so they will call Me the Almighty, and cause My words to soon come to pass. I will make all people know that I am not only the God of the Israelites, but the God of all Gentile nations, even of the nations I have cursed. I will let all people see that I am the God of all creation. This is My greatest work, the purpose of My work plan for the last days, and the only work to be fulfilled in the last days.

from “The Work of Spreading the Gospel Is Also the Work of Saving Man”

Source: Walk in the Light

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