1 “How, Sir,” I said, “did they become worse once they had fully known God?” “Whoever does not know God,” he said, “and commits wickedness, is punished for his wrongdoing. But whoever fully knows God ought not to commit wickedness any longer, but to do good. 2 So if the one who should do good commits evil, does he not seem to do more wickedness than the person who does not know God? That is why those who have not known God and commit wickedness are condemned to death; but those who have known God and have seen His mighty works, yet still do evil, will receive double punishment and will die eternally.⁠a In this way the Church of God will be purified. 3 Just as you saw the stones removed from the tower and handed over to evil spirits, these too will be thrown out; then there will be one body of those who are purified, just as the tower, after being cleansed, was as though of a single stone. So it will be with the Church of God too, after she is purified and the wicked and hypocrites and blasphemers and double-minded and those who commit various sins are cast out. 4 When these are cast out, the Church of God will be one body, one mind, one judgment, one faith, one love. Then the Son of God will rejoice and be glad in them, because He has received back His people pure.” “Sir,” I said, “all these things are great and glorious. 5 Once more, Sir,” I said, “show me the meaning and effect of each of the mountains, so that every soul who trusts in the Lord, hearing these things, may glorify His great and marvelous and glorious name.” “Listen,” he said, “to what I say about the variety of the mountains and the twelve nations.