God incarnate doing the work of judgment in the last days is necessary.
Now I understand why God is incarnated to do the work. I feel enlightened.
The Lord would return to do the work of judgment in the last days.
I have no objection to that.
However, I have one question.
Go ahead.
Why does God have to do the work of judgment
during the last days through incarnation?
Yes, why is He incarnated?
During the Age of Law, God used Moses to work.
Can't God also use man to do His judgment work in the last days? (Yes.)
I don't understand it, so please explain.
Will you please fellowship with us again?
Yes.
Brother Lin, that's quite important, your question.
I'd like to talk about it. Good question.
It's right. Yes. A good question indeed.
Keep this in mind! We shall not forget!
Jesus will take us into the kingdom of heaven! (That's right.)
He won't be incarnated to do the work of judgment! (Amen!)
Right! When Jesus returns, He can't become flesh! (Amen!)
You say it's impossible for God to become flesh. Is that for us to decide?
When the Lord Jesus came to earth, people didn't acknowledge Him or accept Him,
because He was not named Messiah. But the Lord Jesus was Messiah.
Isn't it a fact? How do you explain that?
God's incarnation is a mystery.
In it there is God's will, disposition, and His almightiness and wisdom.
Mm. Yes.
It is true that the Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross.
But think of this: What is the meaning of His death?
His crucifixion is what redeemed all of mankind.
And God gained glory. Wasn't it God's wisdom?
Can you fathom that?
Who can fathom God's work?
God's thoughts are always higher than mankind's.
All of God's ways are higher than man's ways.
God's wisdom can't be fathomed by man.
In everything God does there're mysteries, which is beyond mankind's thoughts.
Mm.
People think that by biblical letters and words, their notions and imaginations,
they are capable of perceiving God's mysteries and wisdom.
Aren't they too arrogant?
God created the heavens, earth, and all things. God rules over everything.
So as we all know, in God's first incarnation He was an ordinary man,
His name Jesus.
Was this in accord with man's conceptions?
Who thought of that? Who figured it out?
No one figured it out.
Yeah. (Yes.)
Before God does His work, no one can predict how He'll come,
or predict how He'll work. We just don't know.
People stubbornly try to define God's work with their own imaginations.
They're really reckless and ignorant.
All right, everyone, let's calm down.
Let's listen to the brothers from the Church of Almighty God.
Okay. You may continue. (Thank you.)
Brother, your question is quite practical. (Yes.)
About why God must be incarnated to do the work of judgment in the last days,
most believers who seek the truth and God's appearance care the most about it.
It also relates to whether man can be taken into the kingdom of heaven.
So it's very important to understand this truth.
Why must God do the work of judgment through incarnation
and not by the use of man?
It's determined by the nature of the work of judgment. (Mm.)
For the work of judgment is God expressing the truth
and His righteous disposition to conquer, purify, and save man.
Let's read Almighty God's words.
From Almighty God's words we know,
God's work of judgment in the last days is to express a variety of truths,
God's disposition, what God has and is, and to reveal all the mysteries.
It's to judge man's satanic nature of resisting and betraying God,
to reveal and dissect their words and deeds,
and illustrate to man His holy and righteous substance,
His intolerance of offense.
In the judgment of God's word,
God's chosen people are revealed and judged as if they're face to face with Him.
To judge mankind, God must make all of them see His righteous disposition,
which makes man seemingly see God's holy substance
and the great light that comes from heaven,
and mankind sees God's words pierce their hearts like a double edged sword,
and they suffer badly by that.
Only in this way can they know their corrupt substance and true situation.
They feel ashamed, disgraced to show their faces.
They fully fall down before God and repent to Him.
Then they can accept truth and be a man by God's word,
thus escaping from Satan's influence, and being saved and perfected by God.
To do the work of judging, and purifying, and saving all mankind,
God needs to do it in person through incarnation.
Yes. We've experienced the judgment of Almighty God's words
and tasted that His holy and righteous disposition
is intolerant of man's offense.
Every word of God is holy and majestic. It pierces our hearts.
Our satanic nature that resists and betrays God
and even our corrupt disposition deep within which we can't perceive
are revealed thoroughly.
We've come to realize
that our nature is full of arrogance and conceit.
We're full of contempt. We're selfish, crooked and crafty.
When we live according to these things, we're living like ghosts,
without any human likeness. We are hateful to God.
We're all ashamed and regretful
when we discover our evil and baseness.
We don't deserve to live in God's presence.
We fall before God, willing to accept His salvation.
It is when we experience the judgment of Almighty God's words
that we truly see God's appearance;
God's holiness cannot be defiled, righteousness not offended.
We understand God's kind intentions of saving man, His love for man.
We see our substance being corrupted by Satan.
We then have a sincere reverence for God.
We readily accept the truth, obey all God's arrangements.
Our corrupt disposition will gradually be cleansed.
We owe our change today
to the judgment work that is carried out by God incarnate.
Therefore, only if the God incarnate does His work of judgment
by expressing the truth, God's righteous disposition, and what God has and is,
can we see the appearance of the true light and appearance of God.
And thus people can gain a true knowledge of God
and can be purified and be saved.
No one except Christ can judge us and do the work of judgment in the last days.
Let's have a look at Almighty God's words.
These words are so practical.
Can't God judge people by using man?
From Almighty God's words, it's clear that
to do the work of judgment in the last days,
God must do it by expressing His truth, disposition,
almightiness and wisdom, so as to conquer, purify, and perfect man.
This work of judgment is the work God personally appears to do,
as well as the work of opening and ending an age.
All this work must be done by the God incarnate. No one else can do God's work.
Why is it that so many people believe
that God should use a man to do all the work, rather than through incarnation?
That's just ludicrous.
Does all of mankind truly and honestly welcome God's coming?
Why do so many people always want God to do the work by using man?
I think it's because man's work is compatible with the conceptions of man
that people easily adore, exalt, and follow man.
Meanwhile,
God's work is never in line with man's notions, nor palatable for them.
So it's quite hard to be compatible with God.
Yes. That's right.
God in substance is the truth, the way, and the life.
God's disposition is holy, intolerant of offense.
However, man is deeply corrupted by Satan, full of its disposition.
They're not compatible with God.
Therefore, people find it hard to accept the work of God incarnate.
They won't investigate.
They take the work of those they adore and blindly believe in them.
They believe that as God's work, and they accept it.
That causes a problem.
Obviously, people just don't know what it means
to believe in God or to experience God's work.
Therefore, during the last days God must become flesh to express the truth
and to solve all the problems of corrupt mankind.
Regarding the question why doesn't God use man to do the work of judgment,
isn't that obvious?
Man's substance is man. Man does not possess the divine substance.
Man can't express the truth, God's disposition, or what God has and is.
Man is incapable of saving mankind. (Yes.)
Besides, man is corrupted by Satan and has sinful nature.
How could he be qualified to judge others?
Man is totally corrupt. They can't cleanse or save themselves.
They don't know how.
How could they possibly cleanse and save others? (Yes.)
If man is the judge, no one would be convinced.
They'd bring disgrace to themselves.
Only God is holy and righteous, and only God is the truth, the way, the life.
So God's judgment in the last days must be done by the God incarnate.
No one else can do that. This is a fact.
Everyone, can't we understand that?
That's right. If God used corrupt man to do the work of judgment,
what would be the result? It would be a lot worse.
Exactly. If we can't accept that God's incarnated to do judgment work,
aren't we the blind ones who don't know God?
God's incarnation reveals people so much.
That's true. This is why God judges through incarnation.
God is so wise. (Exactly.)
Then why did God use man to do the work in the Age of Law?
Because the work was different from the work of judgment in the last days.
Those in the Age of Law were a newborn human race, shallowly corrupted by Satan.
So the work done by Jehovah was only to issue the commandments
to lead and guide the people living on earth.
The change of man's disposition didn't involve that stage of work.
God didn't need to express more truths.
He only needed to use man to convey the laws He issued to the Israelites.
What He wanted them to know was to abide by the laws and to worship Jehovah.
He wanted them to live a normal life. Then that work was completed.
So by using Moses, God could just get the work done at that time.
He didn't need to be incarnated to work personally. (Yes. Mm.)
However,
God's work of judgment in the last days is to save the corrupted mankind.
It can't be achieved by expressing just a few pieces or conveying some laws.
Yes.
God has to express many truths.
God has to fully express His inherent disposition and what He has and is,
and open up the truth, the way, and the life to man.
Man feels as if God appears to them face to face,
making them understand the truth and know God,
thereby purifying and perfecting humans thoroughly.
This requires God to be incarnated, do it personally. No one else can do it.
It's all right for God to use prophets to convey pieces of God's word.
But God won't allow prophets to express His disposition,
to express what He has and is, or to express all of His truths.
Man's not qualified.
If God used man to express all His dispositions and all His truths,
it would easily shame God.
Man has a corrupt disposition and will express human notions,
and has impurity in working.
That would easily bring shame to God and affect the results of His work.
Also man would easily take what man has and is as what God has and is.
They would take man's impurities as truth
and would then misunderstand and shame God. (Yes.)
Man has mixtures in working. Man cannot express the truth on God's behalf.
Yes. What shames God are impurities. (That's right.)
So then, if God used man to express His disposition and all His truths,
due to man's impurities, others would not be convinced but would even resist it.
Satan would find fault and accuse it,
stirring up man's hatred for God, and they'd establish their own kingdom.
It's the consequence of man doing God's work.
During the last days when God incarnate saves the corrupted mankind,
people will hardly accept and obey the work of God.
It'd be harder for man to accept and obey, if God used man to do the work.
Isn't that a fact?
Let's look at religious pastors and elders,
and see how they resist and condemn the work of God incarnate.
Is there any difference between them
and the Jewish chief priests and the Pharisees who resisted Lord Jesus?
God's work of saving corrupt mankind is really difficult.
We should understand God's heart. (Yes.)
I understand your fellowship.
The Age of Law was meant to issue laws and show how the people should live.
God could use man in order to make the laws known to the Israelites.
But God's judgment work in the last days
is to save people and cleanse people
by expressing the truth and God's disposition.
This work just can't be done by man. (Mm. Yes.)
It definitely has to be done by God incarnate. (Thanks be to God.)
It also shows God's love for all of us. (Yes.)
Man has no truth and is totally corrupt.
If man judged people, no one would be convinced. (Mm. Yes.)
It makes it more difficult for man to accept God's work. (Mm.)
God incarnate doing the work of judgment in the last days is necessary.
Now I understand why God is incarnated to do the work. I feel enlightened.
Thanks be to God.
Man was created by God. Only God understands man.
How can we be free of sins? How can we become holy?
I think that people don't really know.
Only God knows best how to purify man and to save them. (Yes.)
God expressing the truth to save man and judge man
can't be done by us humans. (Yes. Of course. That's right.)
God incarnate doing judgment work in the last days makes the most sense. (Yes.)
God becomes flesh to do the judgment work in the last days,
on one hand, to judge us, purify us, and save us.
However, it is more important to completely express God's disposition
and what God has and is by expressing truth.
God will enable mankind to truly understand Him and know Him
and see God appearing in the flesh. (Yes.)
Let's read Almighty God's word. Page 1351.
Page 1351. Mengfu, would you read it? (OK.)
It's very significant for God incarnate to do judgment work in the last days.
God becomes flesh and lives among us on earth,
interacts with mankind, utters words to humans.
He makes known to the public God's disposition, what God has and is,
which people God likes, which kind God dislikes,
with whom God will get angry, whom God will punish,
God's emotional state, God's requirements, God's will for all mankind,
the outlook on life that man shall have, are all made known to man. (Yes.)
Mankind has accurate goals and pursuits.
They all needn't go searching in a vague belief.
The appearance of God incarnate
brings to an end the age when "only the back of Jehovah appeared to mankind,"
and ends the age when mankind believed in a vague God.
Mm, sounds very practical.
Everyone who's experienced Almighty God's work in the last days
has the exact same feeling.
Though we have experienced God's judgment in the last days
and all manners of trials,
suffered the great red dragon's frenzied hunting, cruel persecution,
all sufferings,
we then see God's righteous disposition upon all of us.
We see God's majesty and wrath, God's almightiness and wisdom,
and also see what God has and is revealed to all of us.
We feel as if we've seen God.
Though we never see God's spiritual body,
God's inherent disposition, almightiness and wisdom,
and also what God has and is
are already there completely shown to us. (Yes, so interesting.)
We feel as if we're face to face with Him. Hence we all know Him.
All of us have reverence for Him
and can submit to His arrangements, obey Him until death.
We have seen God and known God practically in His work and His word,
and we love Him,
cast off our notions and our imaginations so we become ones who know God.
For example, we believed that God was loving and compassionate,
and God would forgive our sins forever.
Yet in experiencing the judgment of Almighty God's words,
we truly know God is not only compassionate and loving,
but majestic, righteous, wrathful.
Those who offend will be punished.
We can revere God, and accept the truth, be what He wants.
During the last days, Almighty God's work of judgment
makes all of us realize that God is righteous, intolerant of offense.
We've tasted God's love and compassion for man.
We truly appreciate God's almightiness and wisdom.
We get to know God's humility,
His kind and thoughtful heart, and much of His loveliness.
We see His emotions, His faithfulness, and His goodness,
His sovereignty, authority, and His watching over everything.
God reveals everything to us, what God has and is. It's as if we have seen God.
Therefore, we all come to know God face to face,
and no longer believe according to our notions and imaginations.
We have true reverence and adoration for Almighty God.
We all obey and rely on God.
Everyone truly realizes
that if God wasn't personally incarnated to express the truth and judge,
we would never truly know God, or be delivered from sins and be holy. (Yes.)
So then, all things considered,
God's work of judgment in the last days
must be done by God incarnate in person. (Mhm.)
No one else can do it on His behalf.
If God used man to do judgment work
according to man's notions and imaginations,
it absolutely couldn't achieve such results.
Yes, I couldn't agree more.
I can't believe we haven't seen this before. Let's hear more. (Mm.)
Praise to the Lord. Your understanding of God is practical.
This shall be your achievement
after experiencing the word and work of the incarnate Almighty God. (Yes.)
Mm. It seems
only if God is incarnated to show His disposition and true face to man,
will we understand and have a practical knowledge of God. (Mm. Yes.)
Otherwise, we can only believe in God according to our notions.
And we will never have a true knowledge of God. (Mm. Yes.)
That's right. Previously we all believed God was a merciful God.
He'd forgive man forever.
After hearing your fellowship,
we now realize God is not only compassionate but majestic, righteous.
His disposition allows no transgressions.
We didn't know that before, and now we know more.
If we want to know God, we do need God to be incarnated to do work and speak.
If man did the work in God's stead, we would never know God.
Yes. This is enough to prove that only Christ is the truth, the way, the life.
Only Christ can express the truth and God's disposition,
and can help us understand and to know God.