"During God’s long working period of supplying and sustaining men, He tells men all His will and His requirements, and also reveals to men His deeds, His disposition, and what He has and is. And His purpose is to equip men with a stature and let them gain the truths in every aspect during the period of their following Him. These truths are the sharp weapon God gives to men with which they war against Satan. Equipped with these, they will be faced with God’s test. God tests man through many kinds of means and ways. But every way and means require the “cooperation” of God’s enemy, Satan. That is to say, after God gives men the sharp weapon with which to war against Satan, He will deliver men to Satan and let it “test” men’s stature. If one gets out of the camp set by Satan and gets out of its siege alive, it means he passes the test. If he fails to get out of its camp and is subdued by it, it means he fails the test. No matter in what aspect God tests man, the criterion for testing is whether he stands testimony under Satan’s attack and whether he forsakes God and lays down his arms and surrenders and submits to Satan in its snare. It can be said that whether one can be saved depends on whether he can overcome and defeat Satan, and that whether one can gain freedom depends on whether he can independently use the weapon given by God to overcome Satan’s bondage and make Satan thoroughly give him up and let him go. Satan’s giving up a man and letting him go means that it will no longer fight against God for this man, no longer accuse or disturb him, and no longer willfully torture and attack him. Only such a man has been truly gained by God. This is the whole course of God’s gaining a man."( from “God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself (II)” in A Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh)