What exactly is the work that God has done on this group of people? Have you seen it? In the past, God said that it was in the millennial kingdom that people would stride ahead, following the sound of Godýs voice. In the future, it will still be the sound of Godýs voice that directly leads people as they live in the pleasant land of Canaan. When Moses was in the wilderness, God spoke to him and guided him directly, and food, water and manna came down from heaven for people to enjoy. The same is true of today. God himself has brought things to eat and drink from heaven for his people to enjoy, and he has brought the curse to punish people. So, every stage of the work is done by God himself. Now, there are some people who seek to see the fulfillment of Godýs word immediately and seek to see miraculous signs and wonders. Such people will possibly be cast away, because the work of God is becoming more and more practical. God has come down from heaven but no one knows; he has also sent food and nutriment from heaven, but people still donýt know. Yet God actually exists. Even at the grand occasion of the millennial kingdom of peopleýs expectations, it will still be God himself who speaks to people. This is a fact. And this is the true meaning of reigning and ruling with God on earth. To reign and rule with God on earth means that man must live in the body. One wouldnýt be on the earth if he did not live in the body. So, all who are focusing on being taken up to the third heaven will gain nothing. One day, when people all over the universe turn to God, the work of the whole universe will be centered on following the voice of God. In other places, some people will make phone calls; some will come by airplane, some by ship; some will use laser to receive the word of God. All people will desire and thirst for God and draw close to God, gathering around and worshipping God. All of these are Godýs deeds. Remember this! God will absolutely not start his work from any other place in the future. God will make this true: people all over the universe will come to have an audience with God, worshipping the God who is on the earth; all people will be compelled to seek the truth because God has stopped working at any other place. Just as in the days of Joseph, everyone had to go to him to get food, and they bowed down to him because he had food to supply. So, everyone was compelled to seek the truth in order to escape the famine. Serious famine is striking entire religious circles. Only the God of today is the spring of living water and he provides the living water that will never dry up, for his people to enjoy. All people will take refuge in him. That will be the time everyone sees the power of God, and the day God gains glory. People all over the universe will come and bow down before this ordinary ýperson.ý Wonýt it be the day for God to be glorified? One day, the old pastors will have to send telegrams to seek the spring of living water. Isnýt it a miracle that such old people have to come and worship the person they despised, believe in him in their hearts and confess with their mouths? It will be the day for God to be glorified when the whole nation is jubilant. All who come to you and receive the good news of God will be blessed by God. Such a nation and such a people will all be blessed and cared for by God. The trend in the future will be that those who receive the word of God will have the way forward; one will have to seek the truth no matter what field he is in, business, science, education, or industry; he will be able to do nothing without receiving the word of God. That is, ýif you are in the right, you can go anywhere, if you are in the wrong, you are unable to move even a single step.ý This is how things stand. God controls the whole universe, and masters and conquers people by means of ýthe wayý (ýthe wayý viz. all the word of God). People always expect that the manner of Godýs work could change greatly. I tell you honestly, God controls people by his word alone. You have to do according to his word no matter whether you want to or not. It is an objective fact. You have to accept it even if you are not convinced. It is also a trend of the times and a fact known to all.

People who have read the word of God have certainty and peace in their hearts, and those who lack the supplying of the word of God feel empty. These feelings are given by the Spirit. This proves the power of Godýs word. All have to read the word of God. In future, people will not focus on what to eat and drink, but on reading the word of God. They will be nourished when they read, and wonýt be able to bear not reading it. Just as with opium eating, people feel energetic when they eat it; otherwise they have a strong desire for it and have no strength at all. This tends to happen to people nowadays. They feel vigorous after reading the word of God; they feel that their limbs are weak without reading the word. They get off the sickbed as soon as they have read the word of God. This is God (the word) reigning on earth. Some people want to leave or have been getting bored with the work of God; no matter what, they canýt stay away from the word of God. People have to live on the word of God no matter how weak they are. People dare not to stay away from the word of God no matter how rebellious they are. It will be the time for God to reign when the word of God truly displays his power. God works in just this way. In a word, this is the manner of Godýs work. Nobody can leave. The word of God will spread through numerous households and be known to every family. Only then could it be said that Godýs work in the whole universe has expanded. In other words, to expand the work to the whole universe, the word of God has to be spread. It will be at the time Godýs word displays his power and authority when the glorious day of God comes. The words that God has spoken from the very beginning until now will be accomplished and fulfilled, one by one. In this way, God gains glory on earth, that is, the word of God rules on earth. All the wicked are punished by the word that comes from the mouth of God. All the righteous are blessed by the word that comes from the mouth of God. All things exist by Godýs word and are completed by it. God will not perform any miraculous signs and wonders. He does everything by his word only. And reality follows after the word is proclaimed. The word of God is continually on the lips of the people on earth. All people, adults and children, men and women, young and old, become subject to the word of God. The word of God is revealed in the flesh and vividly seen by people on earth, that is, the word become flesh. The purpose for which God came down to the earth was to fulfill this fact: ýthe word became fleshý; that is, the word of God is proclaimed by the flesh. (It isnýt as God did in the times of Moses in the Old Testament when he spoke directly from heaven.) Then it will be fulfilled, one by one, in the age of the millennial kingdom. God will make it become a fact, which can be seen by people, with their own eyes, without an iota missing. This is the great significance of Godýs becoming flesh. That is to say, the work of the Spirit is done through the flesh; moreover, it is done through the word. This is the true meaning of ýthe word became flesh, the word was revealed in the flesh.ý Only God can tell the mind of the Spirit. Only the God in the flesh can speak on behalf of the Spirit, and the word of God is revealed in God become flesh. All men are guided by the word, no one can exceed the limits; all should stay within this confined area. People donýt know the mind of the Spirit until the God in the flesh speaks; no one, except those who receive the word from him, can hear the voice from heaven. This is the authority the God in the flesh has displayed, so that everyone will be convinced. Even the top theologians or priests in religious circles canýt speak such words, they all have to become subject to this word. No one can make any other beginning. God will conquer the whole universe by the word; it is not through the flesh that God became, but through the word that came out from the mouth of the God in the flesh that God conquers people all over the universe. That is, the ýwordý became flesh, and the ýwordý was revealed in the flesh. Maybe, from manýs point of view, God hasnýt done much work, but everyone will be utterly convinced, and everyone will be struck dumb with amazement once the word of God is proclaimed. People all raise an uproar because they donýt see the fact, but they will lay their hands on their mouths because of the word of God. This fact will be fulfilled, for this is the plan that God has already made, fulfilling the fact that the word is manifest on earth. In fact, it is not necessary for me to give any further explanation; the millennial kingdom on the earth is just that the word of God comes to earth; that the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven is that the word of God comes and lives among people along with their every act and every move, and every thought of their hearts. This is the fact that God will fulfill. It is also the beautiful picture of the millennial kingdom. This is the plan God has made ý the word will manifest on earth for a thousand years to disclose all of Godýs deeds, completing all of Godýs work on earth. Thence, the human race will come to the end of a stage.

Translated from Chinese by: Chris Schurr
Date: 20 January 2004