Riding on white clouds, the Messiah has returned. He has arrived
amongst us, performed new works, ushered in a new epoch, conquered
us with His words, and manifested His temperament of justice
and righteousness. Laden with wrath and majesty. He has revealed
Himself to us in His original guise, with almighty power and
with omnipotence.
God's Appearing Brought in the New Era
God's six-thousand-year managed plan has already
drawn to an end and the gate of the Kingdom has already opened
to everyone who seeks for God's appearing. Dear sisters and
brothers, what are you waiting for now? What are you seeking?
Are you not waiting for God's appearing? Are you not looking
for God's footsteps? How admirable is God's appearing! How
difficult is it to trace out God's footsteps! In such era,
in such world, what should we do so that we can see the day
of God's appearing? What should we do so that we can follow
God's footsteps? Everyone who is waiting for God's appearing
confronts with such questions. Maybe you have thought these
questions not only once, but what is the result? Where shall
God appear? Where are God's footsteps? Have you got the answer?
Many people may say, "it is simple, God will appear to
all the followers and God's footsteps are just among us."
A formula answer can be given by everybody, but do you really
know what God's appearing is and what God's footsteps are?
God's appearing is that God himself comes to the world and
does his work, with his own position, his own temperaments
and his intrinsic style, he does the work to open the new
era and end the old era among man. This appearing is not a
ceremony nor a sign, neither a picture nor a miracle, neither
a big vision nor a religious procedure, but it is a real fact
which people can be able to touch and see. This appearing
is not for a mere formality, and it is not for a work which
can be finished in a short while but it is for a step of God's
work in his managed plan. God's appearing has his significance
and it is related to his managed plan. This "appearing"
is absolutely different from "the appearing" of
God's guidance, leading, and enlightenment. Whenever God appears,
he will do a great work and this work is different from the
work which have been done in any other era, it is the work
which people can not imagine and this work is the one that
man has never experienced before. This work opens the new
era and ends the old era, it is a newer and higher work to
save human being, much more it is the work to lead man into
the new era, this is the very significance of God's appearing.
You know what God's appearing is, but how should
you look for God's footsteps? It's not difficult to explain
this question, the answer is, where there is God's appearing,
there you can find God's footsteps. Such explanation sounds
very simple but it is not very easy to practise, for many
people do not know where on earth God appears and much more
they do not know where God will appear or should appear. Some
people may think excitedly that where there is the Spirit's
work, there is God's appearing; where there is the spiritual
leader, there is God's appearing, or they may think where
there is the famous people, there is God's appearing. These
understandings are right or wrong, let us put it aside for
a moment. In order to explain such questions, first, we must
understand that our aim is not to look for the spiritual leader,
but to look for God's footsteps. If we want to look for God's
footsteps, we must seek God's will, God's Word and God's voice.
For where there is God's new Word, there is God's voice; where
there is God's footsteps, there is God's achievements; where
there is God's announcement, there is God's appearing; where
there is God's appearing, there is the existence of the truth,
the way and the life. You are looking for God's footsteps
but all of you have ignored the word "God is the truth,
the way and the life". That is why many people have got
the truth but they still do not think they have found God's
footsteps, much more they do not admit it is God's appearing,
what a critical mistake! God's appearing is out of man's idea,
much more it is impossible that God will appear according
to man's requirements. God does his work according to his
own choice, his own plan, his own aim and his own style. When
God does his work, it is not necessary for him to consult
man and ask for man's opinion, much more he will not inform
any man, this is God's temperament, as a human being, each
of us should understand this. If you want to see God's appearing
and follow God's footsteps, first, you should come out of
your own idea. Do not make excessive demands of God and order
God to do things in this way or in that way, much more you
should never confine God in your limits and in your idea.
But you should demand yourself how to seek God's footsteps,
how to meet the appearing of God and how to obey God in his
new work, this is what you should do. For man is not the truth
and man does not have the truth at all. What man should do
is to seek the truth, receive the truth and obey the truth.
No matter you are an American, a British or
you come from the other nationalities, you shall come out
of the boundary of nationalities and out of yourself and stand
in the place of the creature to look upon God's work. Only
like this, you will not confine God's footsteps in one place.
For today, according to the idea of man, many people believe
it is impossible that God will appear in one country or among
any race. How can man figure out the profound significance
of God's work and the great importance of God's appearing
in their mind, by their idea? That is why I say you should
come out of the idea of your nationality and your race to
seek the appearing of God. Only like this, you are not bound
by the idea; only like this, you can have the qualification
to welcome God's appearing, otherwise you will forever be
the people who are in darkness and be the people who can never
get the commendation from God.
God is the whole human being's God. He does
not consider himself as any country or race's private property.
But he does do his planned work, no matter in any style, in
any country or race. Maybe you have never imagined that God
would not do his work in this style. Maybe your attitude towards
this style is negation. Maybe the country or race which God
appears to is the very country discriminated against by people
and the very most backward country in the world, but God has
his own wisdom. By his great power, by his truth and by his
temperament, God got a squad of people who have one heart
and one mind with him and a squad of people who went through
all the sufferings, trials, persecution and followed him to
the end. This squad of people is made perfect and conquered
by him. God does not confine his appearing to any country
or in one form, and the purpose of this is for him to finish
his planned work. Just as God became flesh in Judea, the purpose
of that was to finish the work of crucifixion and redeem the
whole human being. But all the Jews thought it was impossible
that God would do like this, it was impossible that God would
become flesh and be an image like Jesus. Their "impossible"
became the basis of them to condemn God and to resist God,
because of this, at the end Israel became a conquered nation.
Today, many people made the same mistake, they are indulging
in unbridled propaganda that God will appear, but at the same
time they condemn the appearing of God. Once again this "impossible"
confined God in their imagination. That is why I saw many
people laugh furiously after they read the Word of God. Is
not this "laugh" same as the Jews' condemnation
and blasphemy? In front of the truth, you are not godly and
you do not have any thirsty attitude, but just study it and
wait indifferently, what can you get if you wait like this?
Will you get God's guidance? You even can not distinguish
God's voice, God's word, how do you have the qualification
to see the appearing of God? Where God is appearing, there
is the announcement of the truth and the voice of God. Only
the people who receive the truth are the people who can listen
to the voice of God, only this people have the qualification
to see the appearing of God. Please put aside your idea! Calm
down and read this word carefully, only if you have a heart
thirst for the truth, God will enlighten you to understand
his intention and his word. Please put down your "impossible"
talk! The more you believe "it is impossible", the
more it is the possible things to happen. For God's wisdom
is above all the heavens, God's thoughts are higher than man's
thoughts. God's work is beyond the boundary of man's thoughts
and idea. The more the thing is impossible, the more truth
you can find in it; the more the thing is impossible for man
to imagine, the more you can find God's intention in it. For
it does not matter where God appears, God is God, even God's
appearing place and form changed, but God's essence can never
change. No matter where God's footsteps are, God's temperaments
are the same, and he is forever the whole human being's God.
Like the Lord Jesus, he is not only Israel's God, but also
he is the whole Asian, European and American's God, much more
he is the only God in heaven and on earth. Let us seek for
God's intention, find God's appearing and catch up with God's
footsteps from his voice and his Word! God is the truth, the
way and the life. His Word is coexisting with his appearing.
He reveals his temperaments and his footsteps to man all the
time. Dear brothers and sisters, may you see God's appearing
in these words and catch up with God's footsteps, walk into
the new age, enter into the new heaven and the new earth which
is prepared by God and is for the people who are waiting for
God's appearing!
