… though the pastors and elders often interpret the Bible and exalt the Bible,
… is that the same as bearing witness to the Lord and exalting the Lord?
Back then, didn't the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
all interpret as well as exalt the Bible?
So why was it then that they crucified the Lord Jesus on the cross?
Brothers and sisters,
the pastors and elders stop at nothing to deny and condemn Almighty God
to protect their positions as well as to protect their meal tickets.
Yes. True.
This reveals their satanic nature:
They hate the truth and they hate God.
Yes.
So they are the modern-day hypocritical Pharisees.
They are antichrists that deny God incarnate.
Amen!
This is a fact that we all can understand.
Yes, thanks be to God.
However,
many brothers and sisters worship the pastors and elders in their hearts.
They do not understand why,
though the pastors and elders often interpret the Bible and exalt the Bible,
these same pastors and elders still hate the truth
and resist and condemn Almighty God incarnate. (Yes.)
Interpreting the Bible and exalting the Bible,
is that the same as bearing witness to the Lord and exalting the Lord?
Most people don't understand this problem.
Right. That's right.
Brothers, please talk to us about this more.
Yes. We want to hear more. Fellowship with us further. (Sure!)
Please tell us.
Everyone, an atmosphere persists in the religious community.
Those who can best interpret the Bible
and those with the best biblical theory
are widely praised and worshiped.
Those who can interpret the mysteries of the Bible and the prophecies
are worshiped even more.
Yeah. Right. Yes.
Therefore, many people worship pastors and elders of the church.
They all see interpreting the Bible
as exalting and bearing witness to the Lord.
Yes.
When they see the pastors and elders
condemn Almighty God's work in the last days,
most of them feel quite conflicted and confused.
On one hand, pastors and elders interpret the Bible
so they think it means they're bearing witness to the Lord.
That's what it is.
On the other hand,
all that Almighty God expresses is the truth,
so why do the pastors and elders resist and condemn Him?
Could it be they condemn Almighty God because His name is not the Lord Jesus?
Yet all that Almighty God expresses is truth,
so He should not be condemned! (Right. Yes.)
So why is it then that pastors and elders
fanatically resist and condemn Almighty God who expresses the truth?
Many people don't understand it.
Yes, why is that?
Actually, this is not hard to explain.
Think of when the Lord Jesus came to do His work,
didn't the Jewish chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
all condemn and resist the Lord Jesus in the same way?
Didn't they nail the Lord Jesus to the cross?
Yes.
Wasn't that due to the Lord Jesus not being named Messiah?
Wasn't that because the Lord Jesus expressed so many truths?
They saw that the Lord Jesus' words had authority and power
and He could reveal miraculous signs.
They saw that thousands followed Him.
It shocked all of Judea.
If they allowed the Lord Jesus to spread His work,
Judaism itself would be overturned.
The effect on Judaism would be unthinkable!
Yes.
Therefore, they came to hate the Lord Jesus and wished to kill Him.
That's how the Lord Jesus ended up crucified on the cross.
The Pharisees were despicable!
Back then, didn't the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
all interpret as well as exalt the Bible? (That's right.)
So why was it then that they crucified the Lord Jesus on the cross?
To put it plainly,
wasn't it because the Pharisees hated the truth and also hated God's work?
To protect their meal tickets and status,
they were just ruthless to the truth-expressing God.
You see, they were willing to do any evil deed to resist God!
That's all true. It is.
It's not hard to see
that these chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees' true nature
is to hate the truth and resist God!
That's true. Yes.
They all interpreted the Bible to maintain their meal tickets and status.
They were full of hatred for God and for the truth.
Yes.
So when the Lord Jesus expressed the truth and did His work,
their true nature of despising the truth and resisting God was exposed.
Yes. Right.
Whether or not people will resist God
is not affected by how they interpret the Bible,
it relates to their true nature.
For those with a truth-hating and God-resisting nature,
no matter how they interpret the Bible,
their nature of hatred of truth and resistance of God cannot be changed.
Right.
Didn't the Pharisees all use their interpretations of the Bible
to resist the Lord Jesus?
This is something that God revealed long ago through His work. (Yes.)
Do we really not see this yet?
Now we can clearly see their true nature: They resisted God …
Brothers and sisters,
the pastors, the elders, and the Pharisees all interpret the Bible.
So then how can they still resist and condemn God incarnate?
We must understand yet another truth:
The Bible's just testimony of God,
a record of God's work in the Age of Law and the Age of Grace.
God expresses some truth during each stage of His work.
In His words, people find His disposition and all that He has and is.
So each time people experience a stage of God's work,
they understand some truth and know more about God.
During the three stages of work in His management plan,
God reveals gradually what He has and He is, His inherent disposition.
Yes.
During the Age of Kingdom,
God fully reveals His inherent righteous disposition,
almightiness and wisdom, His authority and His glory.
If we only know God from His work during the Age of Law and the Age of Grace,
that's far too limited a knowledge.
It's like during the Age of Law
when believers acknowledged God's real existence as well as His wise deeds
through the work of Jehovah God.
They learned Jehovah God's laws could not be violated.
In the Age of Grace,
when believers saw the work of the Lord Jesus,
they all knew He was indeed the Redeemer of mankind,
the compassionate God.
However,
they did not understand God's substance or inherent righteous disposition.
Yes.
They did not achieve true knowledge of God.
We really do not know God.
Thus we see that if we only know God
from His work and words in the Age of Law and the Age of Grace,
our knowledge of God will be one-sided.
We will only know a part of His disposition, what He is.
We cannot achieve true knowledge of God.
Brothers and sisters,
those who don't know God but interpret the Bible often resist and define Him.
Isn't that the truth?
Yes!
Those who don't know God will resist Him!
Not only did the Jewish chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees not know God,
but most importantly,
they all had a satanic nature: They hated truth and resisted God.
That was their fatal flaw!
Yes.
Had their hearts been good,
they wouldn't have crucified the loving Redeemer of man,
the Lord Jesus, on the cross, even if they didn't know God.
Yes. Absolutely right.
Now we're all able to see that
God did not have any place in the hearts of the Pharisees.
To them, their positions were more important than all else.
Therefore,
when God's work threatened their positions and meal tickets,
they all treated God as their enemy and cruelly killed Him.
Yes. That's true.
As you can see, their hearts, nature, and substance were quite toxic!
That's right. Yes.
No wonder God called them a brood of vipers!
They really were too venomous!
Yes!
The leaders of the religious community don't know God,
but those who resist God have all been exposed as antichrists.
Amen!
Yeah, that's true.
Of course, some religious leaders have their own conceptions of God's work,
but their God-fearing hearts prevent them from verbally condemning God.
Indeed.
For instance, when the Lord Jesus did His work,
Gamaliel, a law teacher, did not condemn the Lord Jesus.
Yes. Gamaliel did not condemn the Lord Jesus.
Nicodemus would search for the truth in the Lord Jesus at night. (Yes.)
These are all facts recorded in the Bible.
We really should seek the truth. (Yes.)
Those who believe in God but don't know Him or have a God-fearing heart,
when serving God, are apt to resist Him. (Right. Yes.)
If people with truth-hating nature and toxic hearts become religious leaders,
sooner or later they will be exposed as antichrists. (Amen.)
This is simply a fact that no one can deny!
Yes!
Are you all clear on this now?
We're clear!
Yes. Now I can see it clearly.
Yes.
Those with toxic hearts who become pastors and elders are antichrists.
Back then,
the Lord Jesus did expose and curse the hypocritical Pharisees.
In the last days,
Almighty God has exposed, judged the antichrist essence of pastors and elders
who've misled others with their interpretations of the Bible
and have resisted God.
Let us now read from Almighty God's word. (OK!)
Please turn to page 855.
Amen!
God's words have such authority. (Yes!)
Almighty God's words reveal the pastors and elders' essence,
they interpret the Bible yet they resist God.
Yes. Indeed. Yes, it's true.
The pastors and the elders do not in fact know God;
they both define and resist Him instead.
This is especially true for those who condemn Almighty God;
their nature and essence matches that of the Pharisees
who crucified the Lord Jesus on the cross.
They are all satanic, toxic in nature and hate the truth.
Yes.
They are all antichrists exposed by God's work. (Yes.)
They're who crucified God on the cross again.
They are all cursed by God! (Amen!)
Yes, they're antichrists.
They really should be cursed by God!
Thank the Lord!
The way you explained, it helped. I understand.
Pastors and elders can interpret and exalt the Bible,
but that doesn't mean they know God. (Right.)
They have a satanic nature: They hate the truth and defy God.
No matter how well they interpret or exalt the Bible,
they're deceiving and confining people in order to save their own positions.
Yes. That's true.
They're not really exalting God at all. (Amen!)
The way pastors and elders resist God and deceive people is shameful!
It's so shameful. Horrible! It's insidious!
Yes. The CCP's plan to deceive us is plain to see,
but the pastors and elders' deception with the Bible
is not so easy to discern! (Right. Yes.)
Before, we worshiped and followed them.
But now, after all these years, we've not gained any truth.
Yes.
At least now we know we were tricked.
This is all thanks to Almighty God's salvation!
From our hearts, we thank Almighty God!
Amen! Thanks be to Almighty God.
Thank God!
Brothers and sisters, truly witnessing and exalting the Lord
isn't about how men interpret the Bible.
What is key is if they practice God's words and experience His work.
If men love truth,
they'll obtain the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit
and true knowledge and experience of God's word.
This knowledge is created by practicing and experiencing God's words.
It's true knowledge of God.
Sharing these real experiences and testimonies
is to truly exalt God and witness God!
Amen!
This is what it means to truly exalt and witness God!
The true knowledge of God of which those who exalt and bear witness to Him speak
doesn't come from man's conceptions or logic,
nor from their literal understanding of God's words.
Those who exalt and bear witness to God
focus on sharing God's words in the Bible,
His will and demands of people,
His disposition, and all that He has and is,
which allows people to understand God's will, disposition, and truly know God.
Yes.
This is how people can truly revere and truly obey God.
This kind of explaining and sharing
is how they can truly exalt and bear witness to God. (Amen!)
However, when pastors and elders interpret the Bible,
can they really share the essence of the truth of God's words?
Can they communicate the will of God
or bear witness to God's disposition?
No. They can't.
Are they able to make others know, or obey, or revere God?
Definitely not! There's no way!
Right. The facts showed us that
most pastors and elders hate truth and resist God; that's their nature.
They don't practice God's words and don't experience His work.
They do not understand His will or demands at all, (Yes.)
nor understand His disposition, all that He has and He is.
Therefore, they can't communicate any true knowledge of God,
nor bear witness to the Lord Jesus' divine substance or lovable qualities.
That's true.
It's all true. (Indeed!)
They just interpret biblical knowledge and theories of theology,
or certain characters' stories in the Bible,
along with historical backgrounds to inspire admiration.
Yes. That's what the pastors and elders do.
Not only that,
much of the time the pastors and elders
interpret man's words in the Bible, like Paul's words.
According to Paul,
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God,"
they take the Bible's words as if they were all the words of God.
Yes. That's the truth.
This has caused the religious community
to treat the words of apostles as God's words
and in turn tell believers to observe them.
Yes.
They are increasingly quoting the apostles' words in sermons,
when they testify or communicate.
Yet they're quoting God and the Lord Jesus less and less.
That's right. Yes.
The result is that the Lord Jesus and God's words in the Bible
have completely been replaced and nullified.
The place of the Lord Jesus in people's hearts grows small,
while the place of Paul and others in their hearts continues to rise.
This has allowed the words of Paul and other men in the Bible
to occupy people's hearts. (Yes.)
People believe in the Lord Jesus in name,
but in truth, they're proceeding according to man's words in the Bible
such as Paul's.
They are on their own path of faith in God.
Yes. It's so true. He's right.
How could we thus not stray from the Lord's way?
How can such service be in accordance with God's will?
That's true. Yes. Indeed.
For instance, the Lord Jesus said this of entering the kingdom of heaven:
Amen!
Pastors and elders talk about salvation and entering the kingdom of heaven
according to Paul's words instead.
This is a betrayal of the Lord Jesus' words. (Yes.)
The result is most believers do not know how to follow the will of God.
They're far less clear of who'll be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.
And they use the words of Paul as their motto:
The pastors and elders teach others
that as long as they labor for the Lord as Paul did and endure suffering,
they can enter the heavenly kingdom.
They substitute the words of men for God's words
and so exclude the words of God.
The result is that they lead people astray. (Yes.)
When they interpret the Bible this way,
are they exalting God or testifying to God?
Not at all.
I think they're in direct opposition to God! (Amen!)
The problem is enormous and very serious!
Yes!
Pastors and elders often substitute men's words in the Bible for God's words.
At this point, we should all be clear on the consequences of this.
Yes. We do understand this now.
They bring us believers before man, not God.
They are religious con men! (It's true.)
Brothers, sisters, let's think about something.
How can people believe in the Lord for years and still not know Him?
Why do they never really experience the Lord's words?
How can they that believe in the Lord this way obtain truth or life?
Yes.
Isn't this because pastors and elders
often both interpret and testify about the words of men that are from the Bible,
and urge the believers to then keep to these words?
Amen. This really is the case.
How can they exalt or bear witness to the Lord interpreting the Bible this way?
Exactly. They can't.
How can that kind of service be in accordance with the will of the Lord?
Yes.
They are no different from those Pharisees, the hypocrites
both travel a path of serving while also resisting God. (Amen!)
This makes sense.
During the last days,
when God incarnate appears and does His work,
they start to unscrupulously resist and condemn God's work,
exposing their hidden satanic nature which is to hate truth and resist God.
In the end, they will all be both punished and cursed by God.
Amen!
Yes. That is indeed their just punishment.
This is the righteousness of God.
Just as Almighty God says,
Amen!
The pastors and elders are stumbling blocks to our accepting the true way.
Yes, they're truly evil!
Almighty God has exposed
the God-resisting essence of the pastors and elders clearly.
Thank God!
True believers and truth-seekers should all grasp the truth:
The pastors and the elders quote the Bible out of context
and misinterpret it in resistance of God.
Amen! Yes.
This way, we'll be able to escape their deception and control
and to return before the throne of God.
Amen! Thanks be to God.
Although the pastors and the elders interpret the Bible,
they do not communicate their experiences practicing the Lord's words,
nor lead believers to practice the Lord's words or obey His commandments.
They even misread verses about meeting the Lord's return
by taking them out of context. (That is right! I agree.)
They randomly define and judge God,
and disseminate all kinds of lies to deceive and control us.
They prevent us from seeking God's work in the last days.
How are they exalting or bearing witness to the Lord?
They're building their own kingdom as enemies of God.
Their hearts are surely toxic!
They really are a brood of vipers!
They are soul-eating demons!
This is all true. (Yes.)
Almighty God's work of the last days exposed these pastors and elders,
these antichrist demons in the religious community.
Yes.
Otherwise,
no one would see that their interpretations of the Bible
are really schemes to deceive and control people, (Right.)
nor would anyone see the truth:
They're building their own kingdom as God's enemies.
They are. Yes.
At that time, the Pharisees bore witness to and exalted the Bible,
restricting God within it.
They never sought truth or tried to follow God's footsteps.
Then they crucified the Lord Jesus
because He refused to follow the Old Testament,
committing quite a serious sin!
Correct!
Pastors and elders in the last days are just like the Pharisees were.
They bear witness to and exalt the Bible;
they define God within the Bible.
They spread lies such as
"None of God's words and work exist outside the Bible,"
"To believe in God is to believe in the Bible. The Bible represents God.
If you leave it, you are not believing in God."
They use these sayings to mislead people
into believing in and worshiping the Bible,
and treating the Bible as if it were God.
They replace God with the Bible.
That's exactly what's going on.
Pastors and elders continually use these secret and underhanded methods
as a way to steal people from God
and bring them before the Bible.
Yes. It's so true.
This ruins relationships with God
as they who once believed in God, now just believe in the Bible.
The Bible becomes the Lord in their hearts, the God in their hearts.
Thus, their blind belief in and worshiping of the Bible
leads them to worship and follow the biblical scholars: the pastors and elders.
As for the pastors and elders,
they all use the Bible as a tool to control the religious community
and achieve their own ambitions.
They exalt the Bible and interpret it out of context (That's right.)
to deceive ensnare and control people.
They covertly lead people to worship and follow mere men,
resisting God and being enemies of God.
Yes. True. That's exactly what they do.
They are religious con men; they're toxic.
They mislead the believers into thinking
that worshiping the Bible and keeping it
is believing in God and having God's presence.
Thus, people don't seek God's work in the last days
and miss their very last chance at salvation.
That's right. Yes.
This really is Satan's most cunning and insidious plan.
It is extremely harmful!
They are harmful!
It's true! They're just despicable! (That's right.)
And so, the pastors and elders in the religious world
are genuine Pharisees, con men, (Amen!)
and antichrists, false shepherds that mislead and control God's elect!
Amen!
The religious community is controlled
by a group of Pharisees and antichrists that resist God.
God can no longer perform His work here. (Yes. True.)
It's now a satanic camp that takes God as its enemy.
Long ago it became the great city of Babylon!
Amen!
How could this religious Babylon possibly avoid falling under God's wrath?!
Amen!
We mustn't remain in the religious community, or we'll be punished.
Brothers and sisters, we listened to pastors and elders' lies,
and we practiced men's words in the Bible as if they were God's words.
We thought practicing man's words would be easier than practicing God's words.
Yes. That's true.
We've been tricked by the pastors and the elders.
Yes, we have. That's right.
The pastors and elders have deeply harmed us! (Yes!)
That's the truth!
They've eaten the offerings we intended to give to God.
They use the Bible to deceive and control us. (Right. Yes.)
They desperately work to prevent us from accepting the true way
when Almighty God comes to do judgment work starting from His house.
Yes. That's right.
They want to suck our blood dry and drain us of life.
They want to drag us into hell; (Yes, it's true.)
they are simply evil! (Indeed! Yes, they are!)
There's no way they'll rest till they kill us!
Right. That's right.
True. I never thought that the pastors and elders we look up to
were evil demons that hurt and harm us and seek to consume our very souls!
Right. Yes.
Thinking of it scares me! (Yes!)
The religious community really is ruled by antichrist demons!
It's true.
No wonder God curses this community!
Yes. That's right.
Not only will we be barred from entering the heavenly kingdom,
we will be cursed and punished by God
because they tricked us into resisting God.
This is so dangerous!
We must reject pastors and elders and make a clean break from them!
Right! We must reject them and break from them!
The religious community resists God; it is ruled by Satan!
The religious community is a thieves' den, a wasteland!
That's right.
We must free ourselves from the control of the antichrist pastors and elders.