Answers to questions about the trial of God.
1. What is this trial?
The trial of God was carried out according to His will and aims to restore justice and order based on the laws of God.
Who doesn't know that the world is filled with evil, injustice, lawlessness, disasters, and many other troubles? Responsibility for the disasters has been placed by God on people, Satan, demons, and devils, who are guilty of crimes against God's law and have earned punishment through their actions. But did God Himself not participate in creating this world and bringing it to such a disastrous state? And if He did participate*, then why shouldn't He bear His share of the guilt? That is what the trial process was about. *(He openly declares in His word that He is a participant, and often the organizer, of what happens on earth (Amos 3:6)).
The trial of God is a sign of the coming time of judgment, a time of justice, a time of correction, a time when the righteous will not be oppressed, and all the guilty will receive just punishment. This is the time of which it is said: "And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead with you face to face. Just as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead with you, says the Lord God" (Ezekiel 20:35,36).
2. For what reasons was this trial carried out?
There are several main reasons.
1. God was found guilty of violating the law which He Himself established for observance. He Himself admitted His guilt and desired that this trial be carried out.
2. The trial was carried out primarily to show how unfeignedly and impartially all righteousness should be fulfilled and all judgment rendered, so that those wishing to do righteousness would henceforth be impartial in matters of the law, neither before God nor before earthly authorities, because any partiality harms God's work and the triumph of truth on earth.
3. The time has come for changing many laws of the universe that have been in effect until now. Lawful change requires lawful grounds. The trial that has been conducted provides sufficient lawful grounds for the abolition or amendment of all unjust and imperfect laws.
4. The crimes discovered against Him turned out to be such for which other inhabitants of the universe have previously been and are still subjected to God's judgment and very severe punishments. It was God who established the laws by which others are condemned. Therefore, after many have already suffered as a result of these laws, answering to God for their crimes, it would be unjust to abolish them solely to prevent the Lawgiver, caught in transgression, from suffering. After condemning others, it is just and lawful for Him to condemn Himself by the same laws, which He desired to do by entrusting me with the trial process. It is just and right that there should be one law for all. It is just, right, and lawful, including for God, to do what you compel others to do; He Himself taught this (Matthew 7:12).
5. If, after the circumstances were revealed, a trial of God had not been conducted, then His judgment, proclaimed for those disobedient to God's word (John 12:31), would have turned from justice into a hypocritical display of power and authority over those who are inherently weaker than He is.
6. The trial of God must show everyone the power of the laws He established and serve as clear proof that no one has the right to violate them.
7. I had no choice after I became convinced that God indeed bore a significant portion of the guilt for all the crimes and lawlessness committed on earth. It was necessary either to act according to God's law, established for all, or to commit certain violations of the law, showing partiality to God in His affairs. Partiality and flattery are unacceptable to me. No matter before whom I stand, no matter with whom I speak, I strive to speak the truth as it is. He Himself said: "17You shall commit no sin, and there shall be no flattery in your mouth" (Seventh Epistle to John).
8. When I came to God, He said to me: "ask what you will, and I will give it to you." I asked that falsehood cease to dominate and that everything be arranged according to truth, according to just laws. He undertook to fulfill this. The trial is part of the fulfillment of His promise.
3. What is God guilty of?
Many matters have been revealed in which God bears guilt. I will name only a few main violations committed by God.
1. Over the several thousand years of human history, the Lord has never given people a clear law that would allow those who desire it to clearly see their spiritual state, the ways to correct their lawlessness, and the real consequences of their wrong actions. Moreover, He deliberately and repeatedly gave rather vague formulations or concealed certain information (3 Ezra 14:3-6; Mark 4:11).
The existing law of God has allowed for highly ambiguous interpretation, which has been the cause of the emergence of many apostate confessions, each presenting God's law as it suits them, leading people into temptation, teaching what they ought not.
2. On earth, favorable conditions for teaching those who desire to learn God's laws have still not been created. The conditions that have been created (the structure of life in human society, the laws governing nature) contribute to, and more often simply push, a person to violate God's laws.
The cost of these "shortcomings" is billions of people who lived in misery on earth, not knowing how to escape it, and who answer after death in hell for violating God's law, which they often did not even know (ignorance of God's law does not absolve responsibility, but only lessens it (Luke 12:47,48)).
3. God treats His creations with excessive cruelty. An example of such treatment is His words: "Let the multitude perish that was born in vain, and let My grape and My planting, which I have raised with great labor, be preserved" (3 Ezra 9:22). Another example is the story of Job. His entire family and he himself suffered, as the book of Job indicates, because God wanted to prove something to Satan.
4. The injustice of this world is obvious and needs no proof. Some are born into believing families, others into pagan families, and still others into tribes of cannibals, while special rewards are promised by God for a righteous life lived specifically on earth. It is not difficult to notice that many people from birth simply have no chance of receiving a reward from God for their lives, only because they were born into the wrong family, meaning the ungodliness of their parents lies as a curse upon them. Not only will they not receive a reward, but in the future they will have to answer for the deeds done in life, and a person's life is also heavily dependent on the family into which he was born. The fairness of such a state of affairs raises serious doubts, especially since everyone must answer to God for their crimes, regardless of living conditions and circumstances of birth. God, as the Creator, also bears responsibility for the injustice of the created world.
5. God consciously arranged many things so that the admitted injustice would be corrected in the future. For example: many righteous are promised a gracious life in the future. Likewise, the lawless are promised full punishment for their lawlessness in the future (Daniel 12:2,3; Matthew 25:31-46).
This fact testifies: firstly, to the admitted injustice (there is no need to correct what was already done correctly); secondly, that God deliberately went along with this, taking upon Himself the obligation to correct the injustice in the future. Therefore, He bears responsibility both for the admitted injustice and for restoring order and compensating the victims for the damage.
6. God consciously consented to creating the world as it became after humanity's apostasy from God, that is, full of cruelty, violence, and deceit. From the beginning, He planned both calamities, suffering, and punishment for the disobedient, as well as death for Jesus and many other servants of God. It was within His power to establish other, gentler rules and laws of the universe, but He deliberately made the laws cruel and often merciless towards His creations.
For brevity, only the main matters in which God's guilt has been found are listed; there is much else besides.
4. Why was God's silence counted as agreement during the trial process?
1. This was done for specific, peculiar reasons; for example, at that time He did not wish to speak openly before everyone, and under the circumstances, the option of considering silence as a sign of agreement was the most acceptable and demonstrative for all participants in the process.
2. This option was preliminarily discussed with God, and He gave His consent to it.
3. If I am deceiving and leading others astray, He can openly rebuke me for lying in a way visible to everyone, thereby voiding my judgment and proving Himself right. Until this happens, the trial is considered lawful, and the verdict is in force.
5. Is this trial lawful?
The trial is based on the laws of God; anyone wishing to can verify this, of course after first understanding God's laws. Everything that does not transgress God's laws is lawful and right.
6. Is this trial pleasing to God?
All truth and righteousness should be pleasing to God. If only because one of Jesus' names is Truth (John 14:6).
7. Is this trial not blasphemy against God?
Blasphemy against God is any falsehood about God and His laws. Any truth about God cannot be blasphemy against Him; moreover, according to His original plans, it should serve for His glory. The reasoning is simple: if He did not want anyone to know about His deeds, He could have refrained from doing them; this is entirely possible for One who calls Himself Almighty (Genesis 35:11); and if He did them, especially if He did them openly, it means He was prepared that these deeds would be investigated and evaluated by someone.
8. Do I honor God?
I honor God as is proper. He Himself testifies to this: "7You have served well and have prepared for yourself a higher degree and great boldness in faith in Christ Jesus" (Sixth Epistle to John). And the trial, contrary to the opinion of people who do not understand God's laws and do not know God, will serve more for His glory than for His shame. God's high-quality and full execution of a just verdict will remove all the unrighteous accusations that many have been trying to bring against Him for millennia.
If He manifested glory in the triumph of His laws over others, it is entirely just that the law should triumph just as gloriously in His own case.
9. Can a mortal man judge God, change His decisions?
1. Even in former times, a mortal man could, under certain circumstances, change the will and decisions of God, and therefore change His judgment by his own judgment. There are examples of this in Scripture: (Exodus 32:9-14; 2 Kings 4:33-35). Why should something similar not happen now, especially if it fulfills God's will?
2. The book of Job describes a not unsuccessful attempt by a man to contend with God. I will cite some excerpts from Job's speech.
Job 9:22-24
It is all the same; therefore I said, He destroys the blameless and the wicked. If the scourge slays suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
Job 9:32
Behold, I have started a lawsuit; I know that I will be in the right. Who is able to dispute with me? For I will soon fall silent and expire.
As a result, Job achieved a meeting with God, and despite retracting his words, he received confirmation from the Lord that he had spoken more justly than those who tried to defend God: "And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has" (Job 42:7).
This fact proves that a righteous judgment is more pleasing to God than a partial justification of His deeds.
3. Adam, having committed a crime, was recognized as one of the gods whom God had to reckon with (Genesis 3:22-24). How much more should people, cleansed from all lawlessness, be accepted by the Father as gods, with all the rights due to gods. By this I mean that if the Father has chosen me and considered me worthy of His company, He has taken upon Himself a certain obligation to listen to my words.
Through Scripture, the Lord offers everyone to be cleansed, to become His son and partaker of great blessings. People themselves refuse this, listening to the lies of Satan and his minions, mired in sins and lawlessness, while asserting that it is impossible to be freed from sin, that one thing is impossible, another is impossible. God said: "...truly I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you..." (Matthew 17:20). My example is a confirmation of the truth of God's words—on the path of faith I have already done many things that were previously considered impossible (including by me).
If you too wish to reach God—carefully examine and choose whom you listen to and whom you serve, so that you may not be put to shame on the day of visitation.
4. I have been promised by God immortality, the highest "degree and great boldness in faith in Christ Jesus," so I am far from an ordinary mortal and have the power to do deeds beyond the strength of ordinary people. The trial of God is one such deed.
My works are also visible proof of my power. First, my works are written according to God's will and are confirmed by God, to which He Himself is witness: "2Write to the fathers, that they may know Him who is from the beginning. Write to the young men, that they may overcome the evil one. Write to the children, that they may know the Father. 3Write to everyone, you, man, being righteous and not desiring the destruction of many, do not keep My words a secret. 4Explain to everyone how to walk by the Spirit, so as not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh, 5for the Spirit of the Lord rests upon you, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and piety. 6Your food will not cause your brothers to stumble, for you will do nothing to cause your brothers to stumble" (Sixth Epistle to John). Second, they are clearly unlike the works of ordinary mortals, who are not privy to the secrets of existence, who are in the darkness of delusion and care primarily for their own gain.
5. It is God's will: that all people stop evading and hiding from Him, that they cease their futile attempts to cover their shame with all manner of indecency, and finally stand in righteous judgment with Him, because a righteous judgment on earth inevitably leads to positive results in correction, cleansing, obtaining forgiveness and mercy from God. He Himself in His word offers to stand in judgment and contend with Him.
Isaiah 43:25,26
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your cause, that you may be justified.
Jeremiah 2:8,9
The priests did not say, "Where is the Lord?" And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit. Therefore I will yet contend with you, says the Lord, and with your children's children I will contend.
Jeremiah 2:35
...you say, "Because I am innocent, surely His anger will turn from me." Behold, I will contend with you because you say, "I have not sinned."
Jeremiah 25:31
A noise will come to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has a controversy with the nations; He will enter into judgment with all flesh; the wicked He will give to the sword, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:35,36
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead with you face to face. Just as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead with you, says the Lord God.
Thus, the Lord desires that every person stand in judgment before God, and if anyone does not wish to do so of his own will—he will be brought to judgment by the strength and power of God.
I am the first among people who has gone through the trial with God to the end and won. The final result of the trial between God and me is the work "The Trial is Underway." In this case, the words of His promise were fulfilled: "No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, says the Lord" (Isaiah 54:17).
A person who stands in judgment and conscientiously fulfills God's will for his own cleansing will, sooner or later, inevitably receive justification from the Lord. I will say more: if one is not guilty of shedding human blood, he has significant chances, through his obedience and diligence, to become a victor in the trial process with God. Especially now, when the work "The Path to Being Born Again - The Only Way to God" clearly describes the requirements that must be met to avoid significant loss in the trial process.
6. God is in a rather great dependence on man.
A person living on earth has certain advantages over God. For example: a person is seen by other people, can be clearly heard by them, they cannot say about him: "he does not exist"; one who lives in the flesh can defend his beliefs in a way evident to others, and so on. One person acting according to God's laws can do more than thousands and millions of apostates from God. I will say more: to my great surprise, it turned out that God can act in true power on earth only through His true servants, and this means that God can also receive glory and respect among people only with the help of His servants, and this means that God is quite strongly dependent on man and must take into account the words and actions of people in His own actions.
Man is relatively free from these conditions and can act as he wishes, and if he acts according to God's will, coordinating his actions with Him—he will be able to achieve very much in God's work and even become like God in all things. And this is God's will, that people become like Him in all things. Only those who fulfill this condition are adopted by God and are children of God.
Moreover, God Himself promised to serve the one who will faithfully do His will (Luke 12:37). For Him, the time has come to fulfill His promises, since He has recognized me as worthy of this honor.
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