77 God’s Judgment Reveals His Righteousness and Holiness
Verse 1
The words that God’s saying today
are to judge people’s sins and unrighteousness,
and to curse people’s rebelliousness,
and chastise their deceit and their crookedness.
If the things that they say and they do
aren’t in line with His will, He will judge them all.
He’ll condemn their defiance as sin.
This is work that reveals all His holiness.
Verse 2
God is speaking in accord
with the principles of judgment.
By cursing man’s rebellion, revealing their ugliness,
and by judging their unrighteousness,
He shows His righteous disposition.
His holiness means that He’s righteous.
God speaks and does work of judging and conquest
in light of your corrupt dispositions.
Pre-chorus 1
Only this work that is practical
puts God’s holiness into sharp relief.
Chorus
Because of these judgments,
you’ve been able to see it:
God is righteous and holy.
He’s holy and righteous—
that’s why He has judged you
and brought His wrath upon you.
Verse 3
He can reveal His righteousness
when seeing how mankind rebels,
and He can reveal His holiness
when seeing all of mankind’s filthiness.
That’s enough to show that He’s holy God,
who doesn’t have the slightest bit of taint,
that He’s God Himself who is holy,
but who also lives in a land of filth.
Verse 4
If He were a regular man
who sullies himself along with others;
if He weren’t righteous or didn’t have
any single element of holiness,
He would not be qualified
to judge filthy people’s unrighteousness,
nor would He be qualified
to be the judge of entire mankind.
Pre-chorus 2
How could someone who’s so filthy
judge a person as filthy as they are themselves?
Chorus
Because of these judgments,
you’ve been able to see it:
God is righteous and holy.
He’s holy and righteous—
that’s why He has judged you
and brought His wrath upon you.
Outro
The only One who has the right
to judge man is the holy God.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. How the Effects of the Second Step of the Work of Conquest Are Achieved