What do you think about the vision of the Millennial Kingdom? Some people have a lot of thoughts about it, and they say: “The Millennial Kingdom will last for a thousand years on earth, so if the older members of the church are unmarried, do they have to get married? My family has no money, should I start making money? …” What is the Millennial Kingdom? Do you know? People cannot see through this and suffer a great ordeal. In fact, the Millennial Kingdom has yet to officially arrive. During the stage of making people perfect, the Millennial Kingdom is still in an embryonic form; at the time of the Millennial Kingdom spoken of by God, man will have been made perfect. Previously, it was said that people would be like holy ones and stand firm in the land of Sinim. When people are made perfect, they become the holy ones spoken of by God, and only that is when the Millennial Kingdom will have arrived. When God makes people perfect, He purifies them, and the more they get purified, the more they are made perfect by God. When the filth, rebelliousness, opposition, and things of the flesh within you are expelled and cleansed, then you will be pleasing to God (in other words, you will be a holy one); when you have been made perfect by God and become a holy one, you will be in the Millennial Kingdom. Now is the Age of Kingdom. In the Age of Millennial Kingdom people will depend on the words of God to live, and the myriad nations will come under God’s name, and all will come to read God’s words. At that time, some will call by telephone, some will send telegrams … they will use every means to access God’s words, and you, too, will come under God’s words. All this is what happens after people are made perfect. Today, people are made perfect, refined, enlightened, and guided through words; this is the Age of Kingdom, it is the stage of people being made perfect, and it doesn’t yet have any connection to the Age of Millennial Kingdom. During the Age of Millennial Kingdom, people will have already been made perfect and the corrupt dispositions within them will have been cleansed. At that time, the words spoken by God will guide people step by step, and reveal the mysteries of all of God’s work from the time of creation until today, and His words will tell people of God’s actions in every age and every day, how He guides people within, the work He does in the spiritual realm, and will tell them of the dynamics of the spiritual realm. Only then will it truly be the Age of Word; now it is merely in an embryonic form. If people are not made perfect and purified, they will have no way of living a thousand years on earth. Flesh must inevitably decay; if people are purified inside, and become free of the things of Satan and the flesh, then they will remain alive on earth. You still cannot see through these things at this stage, and all that you should experience is loving God and bearing witness for Him for every day you live on earth.

“The Millennial Kingdom Has Arrived” is a prophecy, it is analogous to the foretelling of a prophet, one in which God prophesies what will happen in the future. The words that God speaks in the future and the words that He speaks today are not the same: The words of the future will guide the age, whereas the words He speaks today make people perfect, refine them, and prune them. The Age of Word in the future is different from the Age of Word today. Today, all words spoken by God—regardless of the means by which He speaks—are in order to make people perfect, to cleanse that which is filthy within them, to make them sanctified, and to make them righteous people before God. The words spoken today, and the words spoken in the future, are two separate things. The words spoken in the Age of Kingdom are to make people enter into all training, to bring people onto the correct track in everything, and to expel all that is impure in them. Such is what God does in this age, making it so that His words serve as a foundation in every person and as the life of every person, constantly enlightening and guiding them within, and so that when people are not considerate of God’s intentions, God’s words are inside them to reproach and discipline them. The words of today are to be the life of man; they directly provide all that man needs, all that you lack inside is provided for by God’s words, and all those who accept God’s words are enlightened by eating and drinking His words. The words spoken by God in the future will guide the people of the entire universe; today, these words are only spoken in China, and they do not represent those spoken to the entire universe. God will only speak to the entire universe when the Millennial Kingdom comes. Know that the words spoken by God today are all to make people perfect; the words spoken by God during this stage are in order to provide for people’s needs, not in order to allow you to know mysteries or see the signs and wonders of God. That He speaks through many means is in order to provide for people’s needs. The Age of Millennial Kingdom has yet to arrive—the Age of Millennial Kingdom that is spoken of is the day that God gains glory. After Jesus’ work in Judea had been completed, God transferred His work to mainland China and created another plan. He does another part of His work on you, He does the work of making people perfect with words, and He uses words to cause people to suffer much pain as well as gain much of God’s grace. This stage of work will make a group of overcomers, and after He has made this group of overcomers, they will be able to bear witness to His deeds, they will be able to live out reality, and they will actually satisfy Him and be loyal to Him unto death, and in this way God will gain glory. When God gains glory—that is, when He has made this group of people perfect—that will be the Age of Millennial Kingdom.

Jesus was on earth for thirty-three and a half years, He came to do the work of crucifixion, and through the crucifixion God gained one part of His glory. When God came in the flesh, He was able to be humble and hidden, and could endure tremendous suffering. Although He was God Himself, He still endured every humiliation and every slander, and He endured great pain in being nailed to the cross so as to complete the work of redemption. After this stage of work was concluded, although people saw that God had gained great glory, this was not the entirety of His glory; it was only one part of His glory, which He had gained from Jesus. Although Jesus was able to endure all suffering, to be humble and hidden, and to be crucified for God, God only gained one part of His glory, and His glory was gained in Israel. God still has another part of glory: coming to earth to practically work and make perfect a group of people. During Jesus’ stage of work, He did some supernatural things, but that stage of work was by no means only in order to perform signs and wonders. It was primarily to show that Jesus could suffer, and be crucified for God, that Jesus was able to suffer tremendous pain because He loved God and that, although God abandoned Him, He was still willing to devote His whole life to God’s will. After God had completed His work in Israel and Jesus was nailed to the cross, God gained glory, and He had borne witness before Satan. You neither know nor have seen how God has become flesh in China, so how can you see that God has gained glory? God has done much work of conquest on you, and you have stood firm. This stage of God’s work is thus successful, and this is part of God’s glory. You see only this, and you have yet to be made perfect by God, have yet to give your hearts entirely to God. You have yet to entirely see this glory; you only see that God has already conquered your hearts, that you can never leave Him, and will follow God to the very end and your hearts will not change, and that this is the glory of God. In what do you see God’s glory? In the effects of His work in people. People see that God is so lovely, they have God in their hearts, and are unwilling to leave Him, and this is God’s glory. The vigor of the brothers and sisters of the churches has grown. They can love God from their hearts, and see the supreme might of the work done by God, the incomparable might of His words. They see that His words carry authority, and that He can carry out His work in the land of demons that is the Chinese mainland. Though people are weak, their hearts bow down before God and they are willing to accept God’s words. Although they are weak and unworthy, they are able to see that God’s words are so lovable, and so worthy of their cherishment. This is the glory of God. When the day comes on which people are made perfect by God, and are able to yield before Him, and can completely submit to God, and leave their prospects and fate in the hands of God, then the second part of God’s glory will have been entirely gained. Which is to say, when the work of the practical God has been entirely completed, His work in mainland China will come to an end. In other words, when those who were predestined and chosen by God have been made perfect, God will have gained glory. God said that He has brought the second part of His glory to the East, yet this is invisible to the naked eye. God has brought His work to the East—He has already come to the East. This is God’s glory. Today, although His work has yet to be completed, because God has decided to work, it shall surely be accomplished. God has decided He shall complete this work in China, and He has resolved to make you complete. Thus, He has blocked all possible means of retreat for you—He has already conquered your hearts, and you have to go on whether you want to or not, and when you are gained by God, God gains glory. Today, God has yet to gain complete glory, because you have yet to be made complete. Although your hearts have returned to God, there are still many weaknesses in your flesh, you are incapable of satisfying God, you are unable to be considerate of God’s intentions, and you still possess many negative things that you must cast off. You must yet undergo many trials and refinements—only in that way can your life dispositions change and you can be gained by God.