2,000 years ago,

the Lord Jesus incarnate was crucified to redeem mankind's sins,

acting as a sin offering and completing His redemption work.

He promised He would return in the last days,

so all believers have been watchfully awaiting the Lord's coming,

and thinking that as believers of the Lord, their sins have been forgiven,

and He no longer sees them as sinners.

They think they are fully ready,

so they just need to wait for the Lord's return

so they can be taken up into His kingdom.

That's why people are always gazing at the sky,

waiting for the day He suddenly appears on a cloud

and takes them up into heaven to meet with Him.

But to their great surprise,

they are watching the great disasters begin but still haven't welcomed the Lord.

No one knows what's really going on.

Even though they haven't seen the Lord come on a cloud,

they have seen Eastern Lightning giving consistent testimony

that He has returned as Almighty God incarnate.

He has expressed truths

and is doing the work of judgment beginning with the house of God.

Almighty God's appearance and work has rocked the entire religious world

and inspired a tremendous backlash.

God incarnate's work of judgment

is far out of line with people's notions and imaginings.

Many are asking:

The Lord Jesus already completed His great work of redemption,

and God has called us righteous,

so why would He need to do judgment work in the last days?

They feel that's not possible.

The religious community is even resisting and condemning Almighty God,

refusing to look into His work,

all while eagerly awaiting the Lord on a cloud to rapture them up into the kingdom,

hoping to escape the great disasters.

However, God's work is vast and mighty and no one can stop it.

Almighty God has made a group of overcomers and the disasters have begun,

while the religious world sinks into disaster, weeping and gnashing their teeth.

Since they weren't raptured before the disasters,

they're placing their hopes on it happening during or afterwards.

Why didn't they welcome the Lord before the disasters?

Where did they go wrong?

Did the Lord Jesus break His promise,

failing to take believers into the kingdom before the disasters,

utterly disappointing them?

Or did people misunderstand biblical prophecies,

trusting their notions that the Lord would come on a cloud,

refusing to hear God's voice,

and so failing to welcome the Lord and succumbing to disaster?

Everyone is now feeling very confused

about why the Lord hasn't come on a cloud and raptured believers before the disasters.

Today,

I'll share my personal understanding

of God incarnate's work of judgment in the last days as the Son of man.

Everyone familiar with the Bible

understands most biblical prophecies foretell two things:

The Lord will return, and He'll perform judgment in the last days.

These two things are actually one thing, though,

which is that God will come in the flesh in the last days to do His judgment work.

Some are sure to ask if there is a biblical basis for saying this.

Of course there is.

There are plenty of Bible prophecies about these things—200 or more.

Let's look at an example, like in the Old Testament:

It also says in the New Testament:

The Lord Jesus also personally prophesied

He would return and perform judgment work in the last days.

Revelation prophesies:

These prophecies are very clear in saying the Lord will return as the Son of man

and do the work of judgment in the last days.

There is no doubt about this.

We can see that the Lord Jesus clearly prophesied in the Age of Grace

that He would return in the last days as the Son of man for His judgment work.

Revelation clearly prophesies,

These prophecies show that the Lord is incarnating as the Son of man in the last days,

personally coming among us to do the work of judgment.

This was clearly planned long ago by God, and no one can deny this.

Almighty God has expressed truths for the work of judgment,

He has uttered so many words and made a group of overcomers.

This shows that these prophecies have been completely fulfilled.

Now let's take a look at the common religious belief

that the Lord has completed His work of redemption,

so it's impossible He'll do judgment work in the last days.

Is there any biblical basis for this?

Did the Lord Jesus say this?

Not at all.

Such ideas are nothing but human notions and imaginings—

they are wishful thinking.

They run completely contrary to the prophecies in the Bible,

and none of God's words support them.

This thinking is utterly asinine!

Why can't people earnestly seek the Lord's words and the prophecies in the Bible,

but instead insist on judging and condemning God's work of the last days

because of their own notions?

Isn't that arbitrary and arrogant?

The Bible contains so many prophecies about the coming of the Son of man

and the judgment in the last days,

so why don't people see the Scripture right before their eyes?

Just like the Bible says,

The wise should seek and investigate

why God does the work of judgment in the last days,

why it's the Son of man who appears to work.

We have to answer these questions before we can truly understand the Bible prophecies.

Now let's look into why the Lord incarnates again

for the work of judgment after redeeming mankind.

Almighty God has already unveiled this mystery.

Let's see what Almighty God's words say about this.

Almighty God's words are very clear, aren't they?

The Lord Jesus redeemed mankind in the Age of Grace,

so why would He return for judgment in the last days?

It's because the Lord Jesus only finished the work of redemption,

completing just half of God's salvation work.

This achieved redemption of man's sins,

so we are qualified to pray and fellowship with the Lord,

and enjoy His grace and blessings.

Our sins have been forgiven and we enjoy the peace and joy given by the Holy Spirit,

but we're still sinning all the time,

stuck in a cycle of sinning, confessing, and sinning again.

No one can escape the bonds and constraints of sin,

but we live struggling with it.

It's painful and there's no way to be free.

This shows that though the Lord forgave our sins,

our sinful nature still exists; our corrupt disposition still exists.

We're likely to rebel against, resist, and judge God at any moment.

This is an undeniable fact.

No matter how long someone is a believer,

they cannot escape sin and achieve holiness or be worthy of facing God.

This entirely fulfills the Lord's prophecy:

And it says in Hebrews 12:14,

We can see here that only those who do God's will can enter the kingdom of heaven.

But why did the Lord say those who preach and cast out demons in His name are evildoers?

This might be confusing for a lot of people.

This means that they proclaim their faith,

but they keep sinning and haven't truly repented.

No matter how much they've preached or exorcised in the Lord's name,

how many miracles they've done,

they don't have the Lord's approval.

In the Lord's eyes, people like that are evildoers.

They may do things in the Lord's name,

but this is an insult to the Lord that He detests.

Are these people, whose sins are forgiven, worthy of entering the kingdom?

Absolutely not.

They're still dreaming of the day the Lord will come to take them up into the sky.

This is a human fantasy.

Clearly, the Lord Jesus prophesying His return

didn't mean He'd take people straight up into the sky to meet with Him,

but that He would carry out judgment

and cleanse people of their sinful nature and corruption,

that He would fully save us from sin and from Satan's forces,

and take us to a beautiful destination.

This is the meaning of God's judgment work in the last days.

Now I'm sure we can all see

that the redemption work in the Age of Grace was just to redeem us of our sins,

so our sins are forgiven.

This just completed half of the salvation work,

and God is doing a greater step of work in the last days.

On the foundation of the Lord Jesus' redemption work,

Almighty God is expressing truths for the last days' judgment work

to fully cleanse and save mankind from sin, to free us from Satan's forces.

Here we can see that the Lord Jesus' redemption

was entirely paving the way for God's judgment in the last days.

It was foundational work.

And Almighty God's work of judgment

is the most critical step in God's management plan to save humanity

and will conclude the age.

Only accepting the Lord Jesus' redemption work

without accepting Almighty God's last days' judgment work

means stopping halfway on the path of faith,

and the last step is the most critical one that will determine our fate and outcome.

Not taking this step truly is giving up halfway and a waste of all previous efforts.

I think everyone understands that the final part of a journey is often the hardest.

This last phase in your path of faith is the most important that will decide your fate.

For believers,

what decides our outcome and fate is God's judgment work of the last days.

If people won't accept this, they will be eliminated by God;

that's really a tragedy.

So we can be sure,

no matter how long someone has been a believer,

if they won't accept Almighty God, God will eliminate them,

and they will be a foolish virgin

who falls into disaster weeping and gnashing their teeth.

Plenty of previous unbelievers have directly accepted Almighty God's work

and gained God's salvation of the last days.

These are the fortunate ones

and they make up for those believers

who refuse to accept Almighty God and are eliminated.

Wouldn't that be the greatest regret for believers?

After all those years of waiting for the Lord,

they see Almighty God doing the work of judgment and expressing so many truths

but refuse to accept that,

instead pig-headedly waiting for the Lord to come on a cloud,

making this bet with God.

Ultimately they'll lose their chance at salvation.

Wouldn't that be tremendously sad for a believer?

Some may ask

how Almighty God does the work of judgment and cleansing to fully save mankind.

There is so much to fellowship on the truths related to this,

so today we can just scratch the surface.

Let's start with a passage of Almighty God's words.

Almighty God's words are very clear

that His judgment in the last days

is mainly to judge mankind's corrupt essence by expressing the truth,

to expose our corruption

so we reflect and know ourselves, and see our own corruption.

Then we feel regret, hate ourselves, and hate our flesh,

leading to true repentance.

This judgment work

isn't done just by expressing a few truths for people to understand,

but God is expressing many aspects of the truth.

All these truths are to judge, expose, prune and deal with mankind,

also to test and refine us.

Particularly God's words that judge and expose man's corrupt essence

incisively reveal humanity's satanic dispositions, and our nature and essence.

Reading these words is so poignant, and they go straight to our heart.

We see how deeply corrupt we are, that we're not worthy of being called human.

We have nowhere to hide,

and we want to burrow in the cracks of the earth to escape God's wrath.

Going through this judgment is the only way to see the truth of our own corruption,

then we're filled with regret

and know we're unworthy of God's blessings, of being taken into His kingdom.

Being so corrupt, we're unworthy of seeing God.

Without God's judgment and chastisement, we'd never truly know ourselves,

but we'd just give lip service to confess our sins,