For years, we feel an emptiness in our church.
And we can't feel the presence of the Lord.
Regarding the desolation in the churches, what do you think of that question?
Could they be a source of lawlessness?
So, what specific acts are increasing lawlessness?
What is God's purpose in causing the religious world to face famine?
Thank the Lord. I've invited two sisters from the Church of Almighty God.
Hello, everyone! I'm Su Ran. (Hello, I'm Tian Xin.)
These are Sister Tao, Sister Yi, Sister Sun, and Brother Fang.
Thank God! (Thank the Lord!)
For years, we feel an emptiness in our church.
We've lost the faith and love we had at the start,
and become weaker and negative.
We preachers sometimes feel lost and don't know what to talk about.
We feel we've lost the work of the Holy Spirit.
We've looked everywhere for a church with the Holy Spirit's work,
but every church we see is as desolate as our own.
Why are so many churches hungry and desolate? What is happening now?
That's right.
Every church is empty and desolate, and we can't feel the presence of the Lord.
Do you know what is behind this?
We also see more and more serious disasters.
We're seeing
the prophecies about the Lord's reappearance in the last days coming true.
Has the Lord already come, and we just don't know?
We invited you here today to discuss and seek answers to these questions.
Regarding the desolation in the churches, what do you think of that question?
I'd very much like to hear your opinions.
Yes, this is something we urgently need to understand.
Please fellowship with us.
The question you've asked is an important one.
We all know that we live in the late period of the last days.
The Lord Jesus once prophesied,
Lawlessness in the world of religion is growing.
Religious leaders don't abide by the commandments.
They abide by men's traditions.
They only preach biblical knowledge to show off and testify themselves.
They don't testify or exalt God at all.
They've completely departed from the Lord's way,
which is why God rejects and eliminates them.
This is mainly why the religious world has lost the work of the Holy Spirit.
But also, it's because the Lord Jesus has returned to flesh,
and begun the work of "judgment beginning with the house of God."
When Christ of the last days—Almighty God expresses the truth of saving man
to purify all who accept God's work of the last days,
the work of the Holy Spirit will turn to God's work of the last days.
Those who accept Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days
will receive the work of the Holy Spirit,
and receive the living water of life that quenches their thirst.
Those who return before His throne, God will make them overcomers,
and bring them into accordance with His will.
While those who stop in religion
and refuse to accept God's work of the last days,
will be left in dark desolation.
This proves a prophecy in the Bible,
Here, "one piece was rained on"
refers to churches who accept and obey God's work of judgment in the last days.
They have accepted the present words of God,
and so enjoyed provision of the living water of life that flows from the throne.
refers to the religious pastors and elders
who refuse to practice the Lord's words and disobey His commandments,
and reject, resist, and condemn Almighty God's work of the last days,
which leads the religious world to be rejected and cursed by God,
to lose completely the work of the Holy Spirit
and access to the living water of life,
and become trapped in desolation.
Just like at the end of the Age of Law,
when the temple, once so full of Jehovah's glory, became desolate,
the Jewish people didn't hold to religious laws.
They made improper sacrifices,
and the temple became a place of trade, a den of thieves.
Why did this happen?
Yes, that's true.
Primarily because the Jewish religious leaders didn't abide by Jehovah's laws
and didn't fear God in their hearts.
They abided by men's traditions, but rejected God's commandments.
They departed completely from the way of God and so were cursed by God.
But another reason was that
God had been incarnated to do the work of redeeming mankind in the Age of Grace.
God's work had changed.
All those who accepted the Lord Jesus' redemptive work
received the work of the Holy Spirit,
and had a new way to practice,
but those who rejected and resisted the work of the Lord Jesus
were eliminated by God's work and fell into dark desolation.
If you want to receive the work of the Holy Spirit
and gain provision of the living water,
the most important thing you have to do
is seek and investigate Almighty God's work of the last days.
That will solve the darkness in your spirits and the desolation in your church
at the root of the problem.
Don't you think?
Such fellowship does make sense!
Right.
Thank the Lord.
After your fellowship, I understand.
The desolation in the religious world
is mainly because the pastors and leaders don't follow the Lord's way,
don't practice His words and don't keep His commandments,
so they are rejected and cursed by God.
But also, it's because God has done a new work
and the work of the Holy Spirit has moved.
We haven't kept up with God's footsteps and we have fallen into darkness.
We need to seek Almighty God's work in the last days.
Thank the Lord.
We've sought many pastors and elders.
None clearly explain the desolation in the churches.
Today's fellowship is so clear! True enlightenment from the Holy Spirit!
You say the increasing lawlessness refers to
the religious pastors and elders refusing to obey the commandments.
They depart from the Lord's way and are cursed by God.
Yet we see pastors and elders are people serving the Lord in the churches.
Pious men they seem to be.
Could they be a source of lawlessness?
That's right. How could the pastors and elders do anything lawless?
That's not the right way to think about it.
You see, the priests, scribes, and Pharisees in Judaism
were people who served God in the temple.
But when the Lord Jesus came to do work,
they led others in resisting and condemning Him, (Yes.)
and they even colluded with the Roman government to crucify Him.
How do you explain that?
Today many pastors won't allow their believers to learn about Eastern Lightning.
Instead, they slander and condemn the Eastern Lightning
and report the preachers of Almighty God's gospel to the police.
Don't those acts sound lawless to you?
Have you forgotten about that?
Brother Ding just talked about some lawless acts.
So, what specific acts are increasing lawlessness?
I don't understand. Can you explain?
More lawlessness
means mostly that religious leaders, pastors, and elders
go against God's will, go their own way.
They don't obey God's commandments,
misinterpret the Bible to shackle, control, and deceive people,
drowning them in biblical theology, taking them further away from God,
turning churches into places of religious ritual,
and they treat their responsibilities and duties as access to status and job,
which leads to many hypocritical acts that resist God in the church.
Many people have exposed their unbelieving viewpoints.
They pursue worldly pleasures, depart from the way of the Lord,
and even treat God's words as mere myth.
They do not believe at all
that the Lord Jesus will come again to speak and do work.
Especially religious leaders without any fear of God in their hearts,
and all kinds of evil men and unbelievers who do not love the truth are exposed,
committing evil acts, denying God's work of the last days, rejecting the truth.
These religious pastors and elders preach biblical knowledge and theology.
They strive to protect their own status, influence and income,
but they refuse to follow the Lord's way or spread the Lord's word.
They don't exalt or testify the Lord at all.
Instead, they preach things that betray the truth in God's word,
using traditions to deceive and control people,
stubbornly taking the Pharisees' path of resistance to God.
Many religious pastors and elders also pursue worldly pleasures.
They seek fashion, lust for money, and struggle for position.
They are purely men of the world, purely unbelievers.
Infuriating is that these religious leaders, pastors and elders
wildly condemn God's work in the last days to control the believers.
They even collude with the CCP,
standing with Satan against God, striving to create their own kingdoms,
also re-crucifying God, for which God hates and curses them.
These lawless acts are facts apparent to us all.
They are nothing less than a betrayal from the religious world.
Because of the increase in lawless acts,
the faith and love of many believers has gone cold,
and they are negative and weak.
Because these religious leaders have chosen their own path
and no longer follow God's way,
the work of the Holy Spirit has been withdrawn
and the religious venues have been abandoned.
The Holy Spirit's work has moved to those
who accept Almighty God's work of the last days.
These things reveal that
God's righteous disposition is intolerant of offense by man.
What you've fellowshiped are true facts!
No wonder the religious world's so dark and desolate today,
it's because the religious pastors and elders have taken their own path
and no longer follow the Lord's way.
So God hates them and He curses them.
They have accepted Almighty God's work in the last days,
and explained the reason behind the desolation in the religious world
so clearly.
It seems like the Eastern Lightning has access to the truth.
It's worth investigating!
We just fellowshiped on some of the reasons the religious world is desolate.
That was just an outline.
You asked what we mean by increasing lawlessness,
which Sister Su answered very clearly,
and which you understood.
Now, I'd like to add my own perspective and opinion
to the root causes of the desolation in the religious world.
Let's read two passages from Almighty God,
which will help you better understand the causes of desolation in religion.
Almighty God has clarified the cause of the famine in the religious world.
This allows us to see the omnipotence and wisdom of God.
God has not abandoned those who love the truth and thirst for His appearance.
God has used the famine's arrival to compel people to seek the true way,
making them find His will and His footsteps
amidst the desolation in the churches.
He did this to help those in every denomination
who love the truth and truly believe in God to come before His throne.
So God says,
From this we can see
that the work of the Holy Spirit has moved
to those who accept God's work in the last days.
This proves the fact
that God means, for all those who come before His throne,
to become those after God's heart.
These people will be made overcomers by God before the disaster,
and so the Lord Jesus' prophecies of the clever virgin
attending the wedding feast with the Lamb will be borne out. (Yes, it will.)
The foolish virgins,
who, no matter how desolate or dark their churches become,
remain in them and wait for death,
are just like the Israelites who died in the wilderness
after being led out of Egypt.
The whole religious world has become a place of ruin,
primarily because the religious world's leaders follow the path of the Pharisees
and disobey the Lord's will.
They don't follow God's will, don't obey the Lord's commandments,
and were abandoned by God long ago.
Through the truth God incarnate expresses in the last days,
their nature, their antichrist nature is exposed.
They become those who re-crucify God and are cursed by God.
What is God's purpose in causing the religious world to face famine?
He wants people to seek the true way.
Those who long to search for God's voice,
who accept Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days,
will again receive the work of the Holy Spirit,
provision of the living water of life which flows from His throne,
and finally be saved to enter the kingdom of heaven.
These are the people the Lord Jesus prophesied,
would be raptured into the kingdom of heaven.
If we refuse the judgment, chastisement, purification,
and salvation of Almighty God's words,
we will be eternally abandoned and eliminated.
Let's read another passage from Almighty God.
Almighty God's words have authority.
God has reclaimed the Holy Spirit's work throughout the universe
and worked among those who accept Almighty God's work of the last days.
Now I understand the cause of desolation in the religious world!
The Lord has already appeared to do the work of judgment in the last days,
so we have to seek Almighty God's work of the last days right away!
We should investigate.
Otherwise the Lord might abandon us.
We'll lose God's salvation in the last days!
If Almighty God really is the second coming of the Lord Jesus,
then we have to accept and obey Almighty God's work in the last days right away!
That's the only way we can be provided from the fountain of the living waters,
and escape the desolation and darkness we felt in the past.
That's right. We've waited every day for the Lord.
If the Lord really has come back, then we can be raptured before Him,
and all of our problems will be solved.