
In knowing God’s work now, you should mainly know the God incarnated in the end time, knowing what her main ministry is and what she has come to earth to do. Previously, I said this in my words: God comes to earth (in the end time) to set himself as an exemplar and then he will leave. How does he set himself as an exemplar? By speaking words, doing works and speaking words everywhere. This is the work God wants to do in the end time. He only speaks words, making the earth a world of word, so that everyone can receive supply and inspiration through his words and become enlightened in spirit and be clear about the vision. In the end time when God is incarnated and comes to earth, he mainly speaks words. When Jesus came, he preached the good news of the kingdom of heaven, accomplished the redemptive work of the cross, ended the Age of the Law, and removed all the old things. When he came, he ended the Age of the Law and brought the Age of the Grace. When the incarnated God comes in the end time, she ends the Age of the Grace. When she comes, she mainly speaks words, and through her words she perfects, enlightens, and inspires people, and removes the vague god from their heart. When Jesus came, he did not do such work. When he came, he performed many miracles, healed the sick, drove out demons, and did the redemptive work of the cross. So people have the notion that God should be like that, for the work Jesus did when he came was not to remove the image of the vague god from people’s heart, but he came to be crucified, heal the sick, drive out demons, and preach the good news of the kingdom of heaven. When God is incarnated in the end time, on the one hand he removes the vague god in people’s notions so that there is no more image of the vague god in their heart, and by speaking words and doing works practically, walking everywhere, and working among people in a very practical and normal way, he causes them to know his being practical and removes the vague god; on the other hand he makes people complete and accomplishes everything through the words spoken by his flesh. This is the work God will accomplish in the end time.
You need to know:
1. God does not do the work in a supernatural way; do not have any notions about it.
2. You have to understand what work the incarnated God mainly does when she comes this time.
When she comes this time, she does not heal the sick, drive out demons, perform miracles, preach the good news of repentance, or redeem people. This is because Jesus has done that work and God does not repeat his work. Today when God comes, he ends the Age of the Grace and abolishes all the practices of the Age of the Grace. When the practical God comes, she mainly manifests her being practical. When Jesus came, he did not speak many words, but mainly performed miracles, performed signs and wonders, healed the sick, drove out demons, or spoke some prophecies so that people would be convinced, so that they saw that he was God who was without emotions, and in the end he accomplished the work of crucifixion. The God of today does not perform signs and wonders, heal the sick, or drive out demons. The work Jesus did when he came represents a part of God’s work. When God comes this time, he does the work he ought to do in this stage, for he does not repeat his work and he is an ever-new and never-old God. So what you see today is only the word and the work of the practical God.
When God is incarnated in the end time, he mainly speaks words, speaking clearly to people all the things they need in their life, pointing out to them what they should enter into, manifesting his deeds to them, and manifesting his wisdom, almightiness, and wonder to them. From God’s speaking in various ways, people see that God is supreme, God is great, and God is humble and hidden, and they see that God is supreme but he can be humble and hidden and become the least. Of his words, some are spoken directly from the position of the Spirit, some directly from the position of the Person, and some from the position of a third party. From this, people see that God works in manifold ways. And they see them through his speaking. The work God does in the end time is normal and practical. Therefore, this group of people in the end time undergo the greatest trials. Because God is normal and practical, all people are in trials. They are under trials from God because God is normal and practical. In the age of Jesus, people had no notions about him and underwent no trial, because most of the things he did were in harmony with their notions. So they all followed him and had no notions about him. People of today undergo the greatest trials. When these people are said to be the ones who have come out of the great tribulation, it refers to this tribulation.
Now God speaks words just to perfect these people’s faith, love, will to suffer, and obedience. When God is incarnated in the end time, he speaks according to the substance of people’s innate nature, according to their actions and behavior, and according to what they should enter into at present, speaking in a practical and normal way. He does not speak about the things of tomorrow or talk about the things of yesterday but just speaks about what people should enter into, practice, and understand today. If today a man who can perform signs and wonders, drive out demons, heal the sick, and perform many miracles claims that he is Jesus who has returned, they must be counterfeits of an evil spirit and an evil spirit’s imitations of what Jesus has done. Remember, God does not repeat his work! The work of Jesus has been concluded. God will never do it again. God does not work according to man’s notions. For example, it was prophesied in the Old Testament that Messiah would come, but it was Jesus who came. It would be wrong if another Messiah came. As Jesus has come once, it would be wrong if “Jesus” came again this time. God takes a different name in a different age, and one name is only for one age. People have the notion that God must always perform signs and wonders, heal the sick, and drive out demons, and that he must always work like Jesus. God will by no means work that way this time. If in the end time, God still performed signs and wonders, drove out demons, and healed the sick, doing exactly the same things as Jesus did, then he would be repeating his work and Jesus’ work would be meaningless and worthless. So God does one stage of his work in one age. Every time after God finishes a stage of his work, evil spirits will immediately imitate it. After satan imitates God’s work, God does his work in another way. After God finishes a stage of his work, evil spirits will imitate it. You should be clear about this. Why does God do a different work from Jesus’ today? Why does God not perform signs and wonders, drive out demons, or heal the sick today? If Jesus had done the same work as that of the Age of the Law, could he have been the God of the Age of the Grace? Could he have accomplished the work of crucifixion? If Jesus had entered the temple and kept the Sabbath as people did in the Age of the Law, no one would have persecuted him but all would have supported him. Then could he have been crucified? Could he have accomplished the redemptive work? If God still performed signs and wonders as Jesus did when he is incarnated in the end time, what meaning would it have? Only if God does another part of his work in the end time, which represents one part of his management plan, can people have a deeper knowledge of him and can his management plan be accomplished.
In the end time when God comes, he mainly speaks words, speaking from the position of the Spirit, from the position of the Person, and from the position of a third party, and speaks in different ways, speaking in one way in one period of time. Through speaking in different ways, he changes people’s notions and removes the image of the vague god from their heart. God mainly does such work. Because people all believe that God comes just to heal the sick, drive out demons, perform miracles, and give people material blessings, God does the work of judgment and chastisement to remove all these things in their notions so that they can know his being practical and normal, and to remove the image of Jesus from their heart so that his new image can be in them. Once God’s image becomes old in people, it becomes their idol. Jesus came and did that stage of the work, but he did not fully represent God. He performed some signs and wonders, spoke some words, and in the end was crucified. He represented God partially but could not completely represent God, and he only did a part of the work on God’s behalf, for God is too wonderful, too great, and unfathomable, and God only does one part of his work in one age. The work God does in the present age is mainly to supply people with the word of life, to expose the substance of their innate nature and expose their corrupt nature, and to get rid of their religious notions, feudal thoughts, old thoughts, knowledge, and culture. These things have to be exposed by God’s word and thus be purged away. In the end time, God perfects people by his word, not by signs and wonders. Through his word, he exposes, judges, chastises, and perfects people so that in his word they can see his wisdom and loveliness and know his nature, and through his word they can see his deeds. In the Age of the Law, Jehovah brought Moses out of Egypt by speaking and spoke some words to the Israelites. At that time, God manifested some of his deeds. As people had limited qualities and could in no way know him fully, he continued to speak his words and do his works. In the Age of the Grace, people saw some other deeds of God and knew that Jesus could perform signs and wonders, heal the sick, drive out demons, be crucified, rise three days later, and appear to men in his flesh. They could only know that much. People can only know what God reveals to them. If God revealed no more to them, they would conclude that God could only do that much. So God continues to do his work, so that people can have a deeper and deeper knowledge of him and gradually know his substance. God perfects people by his word. He exposes your corrupt nature by his word and replaces your religious notions by his being practical. When God is incarnated in the end time, he mainly fulfills this word, “The Word becomes flesh, the Word comes into the flesh, and the Word appears in the flesh.” If you do not have a clear knowledge of this, you won’t be able to stand. In the end time, God mainly accomplishes the work that the Word appears in the flesh. This is a part of the work in God’s management plan. Therefore, you have to know that clearly. No matter what work God does, he does not allow people to draw a fixed conclusion about him. If God did not do this work in the end time, people would have a fixed knowledge of him. You would only know that God could be crucified and could destroy Sodom, and that Jesus could rise from the dead and could appear to Peter…. But you would not be able to say that God’s word can accomplish everything and conquer people. Only through experiencing God’s word may you be able to communicate such knowledge. The more you experience God’s work, the more clearly you will know God. Only then will you not draw a fixed conclusion about God according to your notions. People can only know God through experiencing his work. This is the only right way to know God. Now, many people do nothing else but wait to see signs and wonders and to see when the disasters will be poured down. So are you believing in God or the disasters? When the disasters are poured down, it will be too late for you to do anything. If God does not pour down the disasters, is he not God? Are you believing in signs and wonders or God Godself? When Jesus was mocked by others, he did not perform signs and wonders. Then was he not God? Are you believing in signs and wonders or God’s substance? You are believing in God with a wrong viewpoint! In the Age of the Law, Jehovah spoke many words, but even today some of them have not been fulfilled. Then can you say that Jehovah is not God?
Now you all should be clear that in the end time God will mainly accomplish the fact that the “Word becomes flesh.” By working on earth practically, he causes people to know him, contact him, see his practical deeds, and see clearly that sometimes he can perform signs and wonders and sometimes he cannot, which depends on in what age he is doing his work. From this, you can see that it is not that God cannot perform signs and wonders, but that he does different works in different stages of his work and in different ages. In the present stage of his work, God does not perform signs and wonders. In the age of Jesus, God performed some signs and wonders because he was doing a different work in that age. Today, God no longer does that work. Some people think that God cannot perform signs and wonders or that he is not God as he does not perform signs and wonders. Isn’t this a fallacy? God can perform signs and wonders, but since he is working in a different age, he no longer does those works. Since he is doing his work in a different age and in a different stage of the work, he manifests different deeds. When people believe in God, they should not believe in signs and wonders or believe in miracles, but believe in God’s practical work of the new age. Through the ways of God’s working, people gain some knowledge of God. Such knowledge causes them to “believe” in God, that is, to believe in God’s work and God’s deeds. In this stage of the work, God mainly speaks words. Don’t wait to see signs and wonders. You will see none! This is because you were not born in the Age of the Grace. If you had been born in the Age of the Grace, you might have seen signs and wonders. As you were born in the end time, you can only see that God is practical and normal. Do not expect to see a supernatural Jesus in the end time. You can only see the practical incarnated God, who looks exactly the same as a normal person. In each age, God manifests his different deeds. In each age, he manifests some of his deeds. His work in each age represents a part of his nature and some of his deeds. When he does his work in a different age, he manifests different deeds, but his only purpose is to cause people to have a deeper knowledge of him and to have a more solid and genuine faith in him. People believe in God because of all his deeds. Because God is so wonderful, so great, almighty, and unfathomable, they believe in him. If you believe in God because he can perform signs and wonders, heal the sick, and drive out demons, you are believing with a wrong viewpoint. In that case, some will say, “Can’t evil spirits also do such things?” Then, won’t God’s image be confused with satan’s? Today, people believe in God because of his many deeds, many works, and many ways of speaking, and they are conquered and made perfect by God through his word. People believe in God because of his many deeds, not because he can perform signs and wonders, and they come to know him only because they have seen his deeds. Only through knowing God’s practical deeds such as how he works, what ways of wisdom he works by, how he speaks, and how he perfects people can you know his being practical and have some knowledge about his nature and know what he likes, what he loathes, and how he works on people. Through knowing what he loathes and what he likes, you can distinguish what are positive things and what are negative things. Through your knowledge of him, you can grow in life. In a word, you have to know God’s work and believe in God with a right viewpoint.