I

Only by becoming flesh in the most backward and filthy of places can God reveal the entirety of His holy and righteous disposition. And through what is His righteous disposition revealed? It is revealed through His judging of man's sins, His judging of Satan, His detestation of sin, and His hatred of the enemies that oppose and rebel against Him. The words I speak today are to judge man's sins, to judge man's unrighteousness, to curse man's rebelliousness. Man's crookedness and deceitfulness, man's words and deeds—all that is at odds with God's intentions must be subjected to judgment, and all of man's rebelliousness is characterized as sin.

II

It is because of your filth and corruption that you are judged and that I unleash My wrath upon you. It is precisely because of the judgment of these words that you have been able to see that God is the righteous God, and God is the holy God; it is precisely because of His holiness and His righteousness that He judges you and unleashes His wrath upon you; it is precisely because He sees the rebelliousness of mankind that He reveals His righteous disposition. Mankind's filth and corruption reveals His holiness. This is enough to show that He is God Himself, who is holy and immaculate, and yet lives in the land of filth.

III

Only the holy God Himself is able to judge the whole of filthy mankind. How could man judge man's sins? How could man see the sins of man, and how could man be qualified to condemn man? If God were not qualified to judge the sins of man, then how could He be the righteous God Himself? It is because people reveal corrupt dispositions that God speaks in order to judge them, and only then can they see that He is a holy God. God judges and chastises man for his sins, and He exposes the sins of man. No person or thing can escape this judgment. All that is filthy is judged by Him. It is only in this way that God's disposition is revealed to be righteous.

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