Brothers and sisters,
we believe in the Lord,
hoping that we will be brought into the kingdom of heaven
to enjoy the eternal blessing when the Lord comes.
Amen!
Now with the Lord coming soon,
we did not expect the sudden emergence of Eastern Lightning,
announcing that the Lord Jesus has returned,
that is Almighty God who is doing the judgment work in the last days.
Isn't it odd and peculiar?
It is impossible!
These years, Eastern Lightning has been developing particularly fast.
Many good sheep of various denominations were stolen, stolen by them.
The incredible part is
those stolen people all claim that they have been raptured,
that they are supping with the Lord.
Now tell me, how is that possible?
No, it isn't possible.
"Raptured before the apocalypse," "supping with the Lord,"
are these for real?
If this was real though, wouldn't it mean that they've welcomed the Lord?
Brothers and sisters,
we haven't seen the Lord descending on a cloud,
yet Eastern Lightning has witnessed the Lord's return.
It's impossible!
Yeah, impossible! Yes, impossible! (Indeed it is.)
If the Lord had really returned, why weren't we raptured too?
Yeah, why weren't we? Exactly, why weren't we raptured?
I dare say,
everyone who has witnessed the Lord's return must be a liar.
We absolutely cannot believe them!
Right, don't believe them!
Brothers and sisters,
our belief means keeping the Lord's name and upholding the Lord's way,
watching for the Lord's descension on a cloud to bring us to God's kingdom!
Amen!
Don't you all agree?
Yes!
Brothers and sisters,
in order to prevent the followers from being taken by Eastern Lightning,
we must step up our efforts to defend against them.
Amen!
So now, the church has printed some booklets about resisting them.
Co-worker Wang, could you please pass them out?
Okay.
For more than a decade,
we have been guarding against Eastern Lightning in every way, (Yes.)
even the CCP government and religious leaders have been resisting Eastern Lightning. (Yeah.)
Why then, is the number of people believing in Eastern Lightning increasing?
Do you think that Eastern Lightning could actually be coming from God?
Well, the way I see it,
what is of God always prospers. (Yeah.)
We should read that carefully.
I want everyone to read this information about boycotting Eastern Lightning.
Improve our defensive efforts! (Amen!)
The people from the United Front are here. (What are they doing here?)
What else but to monitor us.
Moreover,
the government has implemented strict orders to ban Eastern Lightning.
We must fully coordinate with the government in opposing them.
Amen!
Does everyone understand? (Understood! Yes. I do!)
Thank the Lord!
Here I will talk about the preventive measures against Eastern Lightning …
Lord, is Eastern Lightning Your appearance and work?
In the past few years,
the CCP government and religious circles have condemned Eastern Lightning.
I have looked at some propaganda materials against Eastern Lightning
and found that their words ring hollow, full of slander, (Yes, that's true.)
full of slander and blasphemy.
Moreover, no factual basis has been given,
making it very hard to believe that these incriminating words are true.
That is true.
In addition,
we, who believe in the Lord, have all been persecuted by the CCP.
We all know that they are an atheist revolutionary party resistant to God.
That's right. Indeed.
Based on the devilish nature of the CCP,
if there were any factual basis,
they would set the media loose to hype it up,
besides, even using the law for prosecution and conviction.
The CCP would definitely do so. (Exactly.)
It is their habitual practice! (Yeah.)
What is strange is,
this is an atheist regime that doesn't believe in God or the Bible,
how would they know which religion is truly right or wrong?
Yes, indeed. How would they know who is right or wrong?
They regard Christianity as if it were a cult.
They have labeled the Bible a book of cults.
It is commonly acknowledged that they are devils that resist God.
Yes. Exactly. Absolutely! That's correct!
Therefore, it has been so normal for the CCP to make such remarks,
to criticize and condemn our religious beliefs,
even making up rumors, lies, twisting facts, and turning black and white on its head. (Right.)
These are just so normal. (That's true!)
So I dare to conclude
the CCP's incrimination of Eastern Lightning
are certainly false rumors and total lies, (Right.)
and the religious community's condemnation against it
is entirely propaganda of the CCP's nonsense.
Have they studied Almighty God's work in the last days? (No.)
Have they read the word of Almighty God?
I guess not.
From the perspective of the religious propaganda materials,
they don't seem to have studied it.
It is not difficult to find it questionable if we sit and analyze it.
Yes, that's true. Yeah, with some analysis, we can see the problem.
If we want to see through the facts, we need to study Eastern Lightning.
Oh? Study Eastern Lightning?
Study Eastern Lightning?
This is my opinion.
Brother Zhong is right.
Who among us believers of the Lord have not experienced persecutions by the CCP?
No one.
They call our faith a cult
and claim that the Lord Jesus was merely a man.
They even label the Bible as a book of cult,
declare our home churches unlawful,
and also say that our Christian congregation disturbs order.
Isn't that a distortion of black and white, facts against our belief?
That's correct. The CCP is lying.
We can't believe their fallacies!
I think we need to do some more research. (Yeah.)
The CCP's words are never trustworthy.
The Chinese Communist Party is against God,
so we don't have to believe them.
But the religious pastors and elders are servants of the Lord and know the Bible,
so if they condemn Eastern Lightning,
then it cannot be the true way of God.
I don't agree with studying Eastern Lightning.
Right. The pastors are set up by the Lord.
We have to listen and believe what they tell us.
The pastors and elders always say,
as long as it is not the Lord Jesus that descends on a cloud,
it has to be false.
Whoever testifies that the Lord is back is lying.
God can only be the Spirit, not incarnate!
Amen!
We only recognize the Lord Jesus' name.
What Eastern Lightning believes in is a man,
and it cannot be the true way!
We can't look into Eastern Lightning;
otherwise, we will be deceived.
We should wait for the Lord to come on a cloud and bring us into God's kingdom.
This cannot be wrong. (Amen!)
We can't be afraid to study just because we are frightened of being deceived!
Should we study it or not?
Co-worker Wu, Co-worker Hu,
you both believe in the point of view of most religious leaders,
and follow them in condemning Eastern Lightning.
Have you actually studied Eastern Lightning? (Yeah! Yes.)
That's true!
If you haven't studied it, isn't it wrong for you to say so?
Yes, it is.
Whether Eastern Lightning is the true way or not, I don't know.
But the words "Eastern Lightning" align with the Lord Jesus' prophecy,
They seem to be related.
Yeah, that's true. There is a link!
In addition, the religious community as a whole
recognizes that the Lord is about to come.
Some people even feel that the Lord should have already arrived.
Only that they don't know where the Lord has appeared to do His work. (Yeah. Yes.)
At present,
only Eastern Lightning is witnessing that the Lord has returned
and is doing the work of judgment beginning with the house of God.
No matter how we look at it, we need to study Eastern Lightning.
Don't you all agree with that?
We should study it. (Yes. Yeah!)
I think we should study it.
Despite the repression and the persecution of the Chinese Communist government,
Eastern Lightning continues witnessing God.
Yes.
I hear that so many good sheep of various denominations
have accepted Eastern Lightning.
This is not an ordinary feat. (It's nothing ordinary.)
I am just thinking,
since those are good sheep and faithful,
they must know more about the Bible.
If they could accept Eastern Lightning,
this just proves that the real truth could be found in there. (Yes, of course.)
None of them are that foolish. (Yes, indeed.)
Those who accepted Eastern Lightning are all faithful believers in the Lord.
Then we should wake up.
We can't just listen to one-sided opinions.
In the case that the pastors and elders are resisting God,
aren't we being jeopardized by them? (That's right. Yes, it's too dangerous.)
There's nothing wrong with studying Eastern Lightning.
But we should consider
how strongly the CCP is repressing Eastern Lightning.
If we study Eastern Lightning and find out that it really is the true way,
should we then follow it or not?
We would have to.
If we do, we'll end up being arrested for sure.
Yeah. That's not worth it at all!
If we don't follow it, we'd be cowards afraid of accepting it.
I think, studying it or not, we want safety and peace.
That's right.
The persecution against Eastern Lightning is too dangerous.
That's correct.
Believing in Eastern Lightning will end up in us being arrested sooner or later.
There will be danger.
Even if Eastern Lightning is the true way,
I … I just can't accept it.
Why would you think like that? (Yeah?)
If … if I were arrested, who could support my family?
There's no one else.
This is understandable.
Now that we believe in the Lord but in a low profile,
maybe we could still go to the heavenly kingdom when the Lord arrives.
There's no need to take that risk right now.
Indeed, no need at all. (I don't agree with that.)
How could you say that?
I don't get it, why would she say that?
Trials and tribulations reveal a person the most.
If a person lacks even the courage to study the true way,
haven't they believed in God all this time in vain?
That's right. Exactly.
When we believe in the Lord,
isn't it our greatest wish to meet the Lord's return?
Yes.
Now that Eastern Lightning is the only church in the world that witnesses His return
and posts all the truths expressed by Almighty God on the Internet
for everyone in every country to pursue and study.
It is God knocking on our doors. (Amen.)
God is great. That is amazing.
If we don't study Eastern Lightning,
then are we really waiting for the Lord to appear? (No, we're not.)
We've been persecuted for years by the Chinese Communist Party.
But we got through it by relying on the Lord.
That's true. Yes.
Amen.
Everything is in the hands of the Lord.
Without the Lord's permission, the CCP can't do anything to us.
Amen.
We should have faith in the Lord.
We can't not study the true way because we're afraid of persecution.
If Eastern Lightning is the Lord's appearance and work
but we don't pursue it,
aren't we missing the chance to greet the Lord and be raptured?
Definitely. Exactly. We have to chase after this. True, can't miss that!
Why do we believe in the Lord?
Isn't it for eternal life in the kingdom of heaven?
Yes.
No matter how perilous the road to the heavenly kingdom is, we must follow it.
Amen!
The Lord is with us, what do we have to fear?
If worst comes to worst, we die martyrs and glorify Him.
Then we will not have lived in vain. (Yes. Amen! So true!)
Don't you all agree? (Yes!)
Despite the arrests and persecution by the CCP,
Eastern Lightning is increasingly prosperous.
I think Eastern Lightning is possibly the Lord's appearance and work,
the road to the heavenly kingdom.
Amen!
Even if the road is perilous, we cannot retreat.
That's right.
We should study more! (We should. Thank the Lord!)
It just so happens I know some people from Eastern Lightning.
Is that so? Really?
Should I invite them over tomorrow?
We can listen to their testimonies.
Yes, that'd be great! Wonderful! That's amazing!
Brother Zhang, Brother Xu,
you say that the Lord has returned and appears to work in the flesh.
This is the first time I'm hearing about it.
I don't recall to have read this passage in the Bible.
I believe that the Lord will descend on a cloud,
as it was prophesied in the Bible:
Amen!
After the Lord Jesus resurrected,
it was His spiritual body that rose to the sky.
When He returns, it will be His spiritual body coming on a cloud.
Yes. Right. Quite right.
But you say that God appears in a flesh in the last days.
Explain this to us.
Is there any basis for you to believe in this?
Could you please clarify this question for us all?
Yes, I would love for you to explain it to us!
There is no prophecy in the Bible about the Lord's return in the flesh.
I only see it written that the Lord will descend on a cloud
before the eyes of the crowd. (That's it.)
Amen.
You say that God has become flesh, the Son of man,
to do judgment in the last days.
This is obviously inconsistent with the Bible. (Yeah.)
Besides, our religious leaders say
that any testimony about the Lord's coming as incarnate is false.
So I think it's impossible for the Lord to return as incarnate.
I cannot accept your testimony.
I'll just wait for the Lord to descend on a cloud and bring us to the heavenly kingdom.
That cannot be wrong!
It cannot be wrong.
Brother Wu, let's just listen to what he has to say.
Let's fellowship about it.
You say it is impossible for the Lord to return as flesh.
Do you think that is correct?
It is explicitly written in the Bible that the Lord will return as incarnate.
Do you mean that you couldn't find it, maybe?
There are many prophecies about the Lord's return,
of which the ones of Him returning as incarnate are clear in the Bible.
For instance when the Lord Jesus said,
Amen.
The Lord Jesus prophesied that He would come again as the Son of man.
The Son of man refers to God incarnate, (Right.)
just like the Lord Jesus in the flesh
who looks like an ordinary, normal person on the outside,
who eats, drinks, sleeps, and walks.
But the spiritual body after He resurrected was different,
He could penetrate walls, fade in and out.
It was supernatural.
So He could not be called the Son of man.
About the Son of man's return,
But according to what you say,
the Lord will return as a spiritual body descending on a cloud and appearing publicly.
Everyone will bow and worship.
Who would dare to resist Him?
Yeah. Yes.
How would these words be fulfilled?
That's right.
Only when God incarnate appears to work as the Son of man,
only when they don't recognize Him,
would they dare reject Him according to their notions and imagination.
Don't you say that is the case?
Yes, it really is the case. (Yes.)
In addition, the Lord Jesus also prophesied,
If the Lord descended on a cloud in a spiritual body,
then everyone would know and be able to see it.
Yet the Lord Jesus prophesied when He shall return,
it would be "know no man," "neither the Son," and "as a thief."
How would these words be fulfilled?
If the Lord Jesus were to appear in a spiritual body, how would He not know about it Himself?
Only when God becomes flesh as the Son of man in the last days,
becomes an ordinary, normal person,
will the words that the Son shall not know be fulfilled.
Just as the Lord Jesus, before performing His ministry,
even He did not know He was Christ
who came to redeem mankind.
So, the Lord Jesus often prayed to heavenly Father.
Until the Lord Jesus began to fulfill His ministry, He realized His identity. (Amen.)
Is this more practical to understand it this way?
Yes, indeed.
Now, would you still say that there is no prophecy in the Bible
that the Lord will return in the flesh?
Not anymore. No, not anymore.
This was the prophecy made by the Lord Jesus.
Doesn't the "Son of man" refer to God incarnate?
Are you saying that you can't accept that?
Wow, I never thought of it that way.
They have communed the Lord Jesus' prophecy so clearly. (Yeah.)
Looks like the Bible did predict that the Lord would return in the flesh!
Yes.
But we also read these words from the Lord Jesus.
Why didn't we see it? (Yeah, why didn't we see it?)
Now that you understand it.
Isn't the Lord going to return in the flesh? (Yeah.)
Some people also think,
if He was going to return in the flesh,
then why didn't He just say that directly instead?
Why did He have to say the appearance of the Son of man? (Why?)
This is just how prophecies are.
Prophecies are enigmatic.
If He had said He would appear in the flesh,
it would be plain language and not a prophecy.
When perceptive people ponder carefully the meaning of the "Son of man,"
they'll be enlightened,
and will realize that the meaning of the "Son of man" is incarnation.
When we followed the Lord in the past, we didn't get the meaning of this word.
It was only when Almighty God revealed the mystery of incarnation that we did.
The prophecy of the Bible, "the coming of the Son of man,"
in reality, means incarnation.
It makes sense.
Since we now know that the Lord's return would happen in flesh,
how can we make sure He is the appearance of God in the flesh?
Yeah, tell us about it!
We need to be able to recognize the voice of God.
For someone to be the Son of man in the flesh,
He would have to express a great deal of truth, (That's right.)
and be able to clearly explain the origin and purpose of God's appearance and work,
and to do a stage of specific work by expressing the truth.
Oh, I see. So that's how it works.
Therefore, the incarnate Almighty God of the last days
has expressed the truth for the salvation of mankind
and done the judgment beginning with the house of God.
Amen!
The word expressed by Almighty God
is the spoken word of the Holy Spirit to the churches.
God speaks through the flesh to knock on the doors
of all those who long for His appearance.
That's right! Amen!
Those who perceive the word of Almighty God as the truth and the voice of God
are the wise virgins who are brought before God
to attend the wedding feast of the Lamb (Amen. Thank the Lord!)
where they eat and drink the Holy Spirit's latest words,
experience God's work,
and verify that it is God's appearance and work in the last days. (Yes.)
So they testify to various sects
that the Lord Jesus has returned as the incarnate Almighty God (Amen!)
and let people come to listen to the voice of God,
that is, the expression of Almighty God— The Word Appears in the Flesh. (Amen.)
The Word Appears in the Flesh?
This is the fulfillment of the Lord Jesus' prophecy:
Amen. Yes!
Those who cannot recognize God's voice,
even condemn and pass judgment on God's work in the last days,
are the foolish virgins who are revealed and eliminated.
Amen.
And these people will be weeping and gnashing their teeth in calamity.
Would you all agree that this is the case? (Yes.)
When it comes to greeting the Lord,
if we only choose to keep watching the sky for Him to descend on a cloud,
without choosing to listen to the voice of God
and seeking the Holy Spirit's words to the churches,
but blindly listen to the pastors' words,
categorize all testimonies of the Lord's return as if they were false,
aren't we going against the Bible?
Yeah, we are. Yes.
What does it say in the Bible?
The apostle John stated clearly:
Are these pastors and elders' denial and condemnation of the incarnation of God
consistent with the Bible?
No, they aren't!
They claim that all testimonies about the Lord's return as incarnate are false.
Don't you think that this is deceptive?
Yes! It is.
If we go by the apostle John's words,
aren't these religious leaders who deny the incarnation in reality acting as antichrists?
Yes!
If you all listen to the deceptive nonsense spread by the pastors and elders,
will you be able to greet the Lord?
No.
Can you see the appearance of God?
Can you be brought before God like the wise virgins? (No! Not yet.)
How can the appearance and work of God be found at all?
Yeah. How should we find it? How can it be found?
I will read two passages of Almighty God's word.
You will understand better.
That's great! Very Good! Thank the Lord!
He is absolutely right. Yes.
Amen!
Almighty God's word has so practically explained God's appearance and work.
This is the first time I hear the word of Almighty God.
Thank God!
Almighty God's word is indeed the truth.
My heart is enlightened after listening to it.
Thank the Lord! Amen!
Thank the Lord! (This is great.)
Thinking back on my belief in the Lord,
I completely believed the pastors' words,
I was full of assumptions and totally impractical.
I am really ashamed of myself!
Especially regarding greeting the Lord,
I only focused on reciting the Bible.
I waited for the Lord to descend on a cloud
without paying attention to hearing the Lord's voice.
I was convinced by my assumptions that God could not become flesh to return.
I was so arrogant and ignorant.
Fortunately, after listening to your testimonies today,
I came to know that God had long been secretly incarnated among mankind
to do judgment work beginning with the house of God.
Right.
We've been deceived for such a long time.
But we got to examine the work of Almighty God.
It's a good thing we haven't missed the opportunity to be raptured!
Thank God for not forsaking us!
Amen! Yes! Thank the Lord! Thank the Lord for not forsaking us!
That's so great.
Who is it?
It's me.
Oh, it's Brother Wang? (It's Brother Wang!)
Why is he here?
Brother Wang, Brother Xi.
Brother Qian, you're here too.
Zhong Xin,
the church has already stressed that receiving these people
and reading Almighty God's words are prohibited,
how dare you go against the church by privately studying Eastern Lightning
and even leading them to listen to its preachings!
Do you still listen to us pastors and elders? (Yeah, do you?)
If they're all deceived and led astray,
can you bear the responsibility? (That's right, Brother Zhong.)
Can you bear this responsibility? (The fellowship today was pretty good.)
Pastor Qian,
why have you always stopped us from reading the word of Almighty God?
You have only talked about biblical knowledge and theological concepts.
We've become weak and have fallen into spiritual darkness.
The church has been desolate. (True.)
Can't you see that, Pastor Qian? (True. Yeah.)
Do you still want us to be trapped forever?
When we heard the word of Almighty God today,
it was very enlightening.
So why aren't you allowing us to study it? (Exactly true! That's right!)
God has already appeared and done His work.
Why wouldn't you let us hear His voice?
What are your reasons for that?
Why wouldn't you consider the lives of our brothers and sisters? (Yeah.)
I don't let you study Eastern Lightning
because I don't want you to be deceived. (That's right!)
I was caring for your lives.
Why didn't you all stop and listen to me?
You are unable to speak about the light at all,
and you still expect us to listen,
can you represent the Lord?
Do you have the truth?
Can you guide us into the kingdom of heaven?
The Lord Jesus is whom we believe in, not you pastors and elders! (Yeah. That's true.)
We are the sheep of the Lord, not yours, Pastor Qian. (Amen!)
The Lord will be responsible for us! (That's right! Yes.)
Why do you always restrict our religious freedom? (Yeah, why?)
Do you belong to the CCP?
You keep us from looking into the true way.
What is your true motive? (Yeah, tell us.)
Pastor Qian, don't waste time with their nonsense.
Let's hurry and call the police
to arrest Eastern Lightning's people and stop them from deceiving others.
What do you think you're doing?
Pastor,
even if we cannot communicate, you should not call the police.
Seriously? The police were called?
Exactly! Why would you do that?
You are selling out the Lord and our friends.
Turning in brothers who believe in God to Satan's regime
is an evil act against God.
This is sinful! (Yes, it is.)
What sin? What is against God?
I do this in order to protect the flock.
These people want to steal my sheep. So the police are on their way right now!
Hold it, you can't leave …
Pastor Qian,
it seems that Zhong Xin and the others have accepted Eastern Lightning,
and we can't hold them back.
What should we do?
It's simple.
If we can't hold them back, let the police handle it!
Of course.
Starting today, you two keep an eye on Zhong Xin.
Okay.
When you see him with anybody from Eastern Lightning,
call the police immediately!
Will do!
We'll only make Eastern Lightning stop stealing our believers
by arresting them and putting them all in prison!
Right. Sounds like a plan.
I never thought that Pastor Qian and the others would call the police to arrest believers of God.
Why haven't we seen that they are these kinds of people before?
I know.
Why is it that as we study the true way and hear God's voice,
they are showing their dark sides to us?
Yeah.
It makes me think of when the Lord Jesus appeared to work.
Didn't the chief priests and scribes of Judaism and the Pharisees
resist and also condemn the Lord Jesus?
They did.
Without the Lord Jesus' appearance and work,
who could have seen the true nature of the hypocrisy
of the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees?
I feel that the word of Almighty God is the voice of God.
The appearance and work of Almighty God has exposed these pastors and elders.
Oh! I have learned a big lesson this time.
You are so correct.
If we hadn't studied the true way and heard God's voice,
no one could have seen that the pastors are the modern-day Pharisees.
Why were their dark sides so exposed this time?
God's appearance and work and God's word are so revealing!
These pastors and elders dared to call for the police to arrest the witnesses of God.
It was really unexpected.
Yes, it was!
What happened today made me think of the Lord Jesus' words:
Amen!
These pastors and elders are the evil servants.
Had the Lord not returned and exposed their true nature,
who could have seen through them and rejected them?
God's sheep would have all been controlled in their hands,
being starved and trapped to death.
When we heard the voice of the Lord,
it was the Lord who wrested us away from the hands of the evil servants of religion.
Dad's right.
That is true.
I don't know how many times I've read this passage of the Lord's word,
and I never understood what it means until today.
The Lord has returned and exposed these evil servants.
That's right. Indeed.
All these pastors, elders, and "servants of the Lord,"
or any who do not recognize God incarnate are false shepherds and antichrists.
These people are the evil servants in the Lord's prophecy,
and we saw them for who they really are today.
Thank the Lord!
It was really the grace of the Lord for truly not abandoning us.
He let us hear the voice of God and receive God's work in the last days.
This is the greatest blessing!
Thank the Lord!
Grandpa, Mom, Dad, I'm back.
Mingming is back!
Look who's back!
Sit down, get some rest.
How have your studies been? Has it been difficult?
Thank the Lord!
Brothers' and sisters' state is fine.
When they hear there is a congregation, they'll all want to come.
Brothers and sisters, shall we start?
Absolutely!
This hymn is so exciting!
One can tell it's the voice of God!
That is correct!
God is the Sower and the Reaper.
All the sowing and reaping are done by God Himself.
The fact that we can hear God's voice and welcome the Lord's return
is the mercy and grace of God.
Yes. Thank God! We are so blessed!
Thank God! Yes, thank God.
Thank God!
Brothers and sisters, we have just listened to the hymn of God's word
Everyone is happy and excited now,
feeling that this is God's voice and expression. (Yeah. Amen!)
This is enough to prove that God's sheep will recognize the voice of God.
Amen!
Now everyone can confirm in their heart that the word of Almighty God is God's voice.
Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus! (Amen!)
Thanks be to God.
Some brothers and sisters still may not understand the truth of incarnation.
So it's hard for them to stand firmly on the true way!
Yes.
Let's talk more about the truth of incarnation.
Fine.
Let's read several passages of the word of Almighty God first. (Great.)
Amen!
So, only this is incarnation!
Amen!
Indeed, it's true.
Brother Zhang, allow me to read. (Okay.)
Amen!
Well, let's conclude the reading of God's words.
Brothers and sisters, as believers of the Lord,
although we know that the Lord Jesus is the incarnation of God,
no one can really understand the truth of incarnation.
Then Almighty God has come in the last days
and unveiled the mystery of the truth of incarnation. (Thank God.)
In the five passages of Almighty God's word we just read,
Almighty God has clearly explained the truth and mystery of incarnation.
Simply put,
incarnation is the Spirit of God materialized in the flesh of a person;
it is the Spirit of God wearing an ordinary, normal human flesh
that appears and works among mankind.
Amen!
So, only this is incarnation. (Yes, it is.)
In the Age of Grace,
God became flesh as the Lord Jesus to do the redemptive work.
In the Age of Kingdom,
God is incarnated as Almighty God to do judgment work in the last days.
Amen!
On both occasions of God's incarnation, we can see that
not only does the incarnate God have normal humanity,
He also has complete divinity.
Anyone can feel the normal humanity of the incarnate God;
it is not supernatural at all.
He eats and lives as an ordinary person with normal emotions.
Indeed.
In the naked eye, man can't see the complete divinity of God in the flesh.
Only from the work performed by God and the truth He expresses,
the wisdom He reveals and what He has and is
can it be confirmed.
Judging from the outside,
the incarnation of God is a normal, ordinary person
that is not lofty or supernatural at all,
yet the essence of the incarnate God is divinity.
So, Christ can express the truth,
express God's disposition and what God has and is anytime and anywhere. (Amen.)
He can do God's own work.
This is what no one can do, possess, and reach. (Amen!)
Christ expresses God's word and carries out God's work within His normal humanity.
What people see is a person who works and speaks,
very practical and very real.
It is similar to the incarnate Lord Jesus
who appeared as an ordinary person externally,
who actually lived among people.
Amen!
But the Lord Jesus has expressed many truths and given man the way of repentance.
Amen!
The Lord Jesus forgave the sins of man
and expressed God's loving and merciful disposition. (Amen!)
The Lord Jesus also showed many miracles and marvels,
such as calming the wind and sea,
feeding five thousand people with five loaves and two fish,
and raising people from the dead, (Yeah.)
which fully revealed the power and authority of God.
In the end, the Lord Jesus completed the redemption work
for mankind through His crucifixion. (Amen!)
This makes us see
that the words and work of the Lord Jesus are God's own words and work.
The Lord Jesus is the incarnate God.
Amen!
That is so true.
As we talk about this,
is everyone understanding more on how to know about the incarnation of God?
Yes. Thank God! We understand more now.
In order to understand the incarnation of God,
we must know how to listen to the voice of God,
and see God's disposition, wisdom, and omnipotence, what God has and is
from Christ's words and work.
So we can be certain
that this is completely the work and word of the incarnate God. (Amen!)
Do you all agree?
Yes, that's amazing!
Thank God!
I understand more.
Pastor Qian,
you coordinated with the government to arrest the members of Eastern Lightning.
The head of the United Front Work Department is very pleased with you!
Director Hu,
coordinating with the government and fighting Eastern Lightning is my responsibility.
Almighty God indeed reveals the mystery and truth of incarnation.
Without the word expressed by Almighty God in the last days,
we corrupt mankind wouldn't be able to understand the truth of incarnation
regardless of how long we've believed in the Lord Jesus. (True.)
No one can comprehend the mystery and truth of incarnation.
Yes. That's true. That's really true. Yes.
On the outside,
the incarnate Almighty God is an ordinary person who actually lives among people,
not supernatural at all. (Yeah.)
But Almighty God has expressed all the truths for cleansing and saving mankind,
revealing all the truths and mysteries of God's management plan,
and carrying out the work of judgment beginning with the house of God in the last days.
Amen! Thank God! Thank the Lord! Great!
From the word of Almighty God,
we understand the purpose of God's management plan,
the meaning and purpose of God's salvation work for mankind in three stages, (Yeah.)
the mystery of God's incarnation, the inside story of the Bible.
We also understand how Satan has corrupted mankind,
the essence and truth of man's corruption by Satan
as well as how God saves mankind,
the significance of God's judgment work in the last days,
how God does judgment work for the cleansing and salvation of man,
how God determines the outcomes and destinations of various kinds of people
according to their types,
how the kingdom of Christ is fulfilled on earth, and so on.
Amen!
God has expressed so many truths.
Think about it.
Other than God, who could have expressed so much and revealed God's own mystery?
Only God!
Who can determine the outcomes and destinations of mankind?
Who can do the judgment work in the last days for the cleansing and salvation of man?
Only God.
Exactly! Only God can do this type of work. (Yes!)
Only the incarnate God can actually work like this to save man! (Amen.)
This is the work performed by God in heaven as incarnate.
Amen! Thank God! It really is true.
The truth of incarnation seems simple enough, but particularly profound.
The simple part is
those who believe in the Lord Jesus acknowledge that the Lord Jesus is the incarnate God.
The profound part is,
of those who believed in the Lord for years,
no one can recognize that the Lord Jesus is God's own manifestation.
Right. Yes! That makes sense.
In the last days,
God has become flesh and expressed so many truths.
Who could know that the Lord Jesus has returned?
No.
And who could confirm
that only Christ is able to deliver the truths for the salvation of mankind,
to reveal all the mysteries of God's management plan?
No one!
Indeed, no one.
Someone like that has yet to be found in the religious community.
Yes!
It's very true.
Upon contact, man can clearly see the humanity of Christ.
Man can even produce notions anytime, anywhere due to His normal humanity.
However, many people cannot understand the essence of Christ's divinity.
Yes!
Therefore, when the Lord Jesus returns in the flesh to do His judgment work,
even those who have believed in the Lord for many years
could still resist and betray Him.
This is a fact.
Now that we have read the word of Almighty God and understood the truth of incarnation.
The more we read the word of Almighty God and experience His work,
the more we can identify
that the words expressed by Almighty God are the truth, (Amen! Right!)
and are God's disposition and what God has and is. (Amen!)
Almighty God's expression is sufficient to prove
that Almighty God is the advent of the Spirit of truth.
Yes.
Almighty God is the manifestation of the only true God! (Amen!)
I'm so happy. That's amazing!
Thanks be to God!
After reading the word of Almighty God and listening to the testimonies of our brothers,
our eyes have really been opened.
Yes, they have!
Almighty God has indeed revealed all the truths and mysteries of incarnation.
It wasn't until today did I see
judgment work done by Almighty God in the last days
has completely fulfilled all the prophecies made by the Lord Jesus in the Bible.
Amen!
The incarnation of God is indeed a huge mystery!
Yes.
It is easy for those who love the truth to accept the incarnate God.
Those who do not love the truth are most likely to condemn and resist the incarnate God.
The only way to know whether He is the incarnate God
is if He can express all the truth.
Other than Christ, no one else can express the truth. (Amen!)
Only He who can express the truth and express the voice of God
and do the work of God is the incarnate God.
This is what I wasn't seeing clearly until today.
Thanks be to God! Thank God!
It was the word of Almighty God that enlightened me,
and God graced me.
Had I not read His word,
I would never have been able to ascertain
that Almighty God is the second coming of the Lord Jesus.
I would still be deceived and bound by the religious pastors and elders,
living in the darkness like a blind person,
unable to hear God's voice and see God's appearance.
I finally see it clearly now.
In waiting for the Lord,
we should find the Son of man who can express the truth, (Amen!)
find the Son of man who has endured many hardships and rejection by generations
for His troubles in expressing God's voice and doing God's work.
That's right.
If we found the Son of man,
we would be meeting the Lord, and we would be brought before the Lord.
Amen!
Today, I have finally found the Son of man who is Almighty God! (Amen!)
I'm sure that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus.
One and the same.
Amen!
This is really the grace of God to me.
I am beholden to Almighty God!
Thank God.
Thanks be to God!
In the past,
I didn't understand the truth about incarnation.
So I was living within my imagination,
assuming that the incarnate God should be magnificent in bearing and imposingly majestic,
with a thunderous voice and awe-inspiring appearance
that discourage any human attempt to approach Him.
Unbounded by time and space,
He's able to appear and vanish at will and walk through walls,
just like the spiritual body of Lord Jesus.
Only that would be the incarnate God.
In retrospect, my imagination was absurd!
I used to think that way.
I only understand what incarnation is after reading the word of God.
Incarnation is the Spirit of God realized in the flesh
as an ordinary person to do God's own work.
Amen!
Just like the Lord Jesus, He is not lofty or supernatural.
He actually lives among the people,
expressing the truth by speaking and working in normal humanity to provide for man.
In the eyes of the people, He is particularly practical and normal.
No wonder the Pharisees and all of those who didn't love the truth
couldn't accept the Lord Jesus. (Yeah.)
Whenever He was mentioned,
they would often say,
"Isn't that a carpenter's son? Isn't that a Nazarene?"
Yeah.
So it seems that
even if those who do not love the truth believed in the name of Lord Jesus.
They only believe in the three words "the Lord Jesus," (True.)
and they do not know the Lord Jesus' divine substance.
How can those who don't know the Lord Jesus accept God incarnate in the last days?
Yeah!
No wonder many religious leaders and all of those who don't love the truth
so persistently resist and condemn Almighty God.
That's true. Yes, it is.
It is Almighty God who unveiled the truth and mystery of incarnation.
If we only listened to the preaching of the pastors and elders,
we would never understand what God's incarnation is all about!
Yes!
When we prayed to the Lord Jesus in the past,
we used to pray to God the Father at the same time in fear of missing one of Them.
It was exactly because we didn't know about the incarnation of God. (Right.)
The word of Almighty God is so great,
which has so thoroughly explained the truth.
It has enlightened my heart!
Thank God!
This is like attending a feast in the kingdom of heaven.
Amen! Thank God! Thank the Lord!
This is just so amazing!
We'll finally be raptured when we accept the incarnate Almighty God. (Amen.)
Our hopes and dreams have materialized. (Amen!)
We thank Almighty God!
Amen. Thank God! Praise the Lord!
It is God's grace. (Indeed. That's right.)
Yes. Indeed.
Oh, no! The police are coming.
The police?
Open now! Open this door right now! Open this door! …
Don't move! Where are you going?
Come back here!
Stay down!
Sir, they ran out the back door.
Go after them!
Hurry up!
Over here! Come back here!
Stop! Stop! You two! Stop! …
Hold them down!
Stop!
Where they go?
This way, this way.
Sir, which way did they go?
This way! After 'em!
Alright.
Wow! That was close.
The police almost got us.
I didn't expect it.
We had just accepted Almighty God, and the CCP is after us.
Yeah.
This road to the kingdom of heaven is perilous!
The great red dragon is entrenched in the way to the kingdom of heaven.
The road to the kingdom of heaven is predestined to be perilous.
It's taking a chance on life when one desires to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Brother Zhong, Brother Yang.
Sister Zhao. (Brother Zhong, Brother Yang!)
Hurry!
Are you all right?
I am! Thank the Lord! Are you OK?
Yeah, we are okay!
Thank the Lord! Thank the Lord for watching over us!
Let's rest a bit over there!
Fine!
Brother,
believing in Almighty God will get us arrested sooner or later.
The CCP just wants to eradicate The Church of Almighty God.
"Troops won't be withdrawn until the ban is done."
I think …
let's do away with gathering from now on.
Let's just secretly believe at home. (That's correct.)
When the CCP collapses, we will continue pursuing.
Yes, absolutely!
We'll continue believing without gathering, spreading the gospel, or doing our duty.
The CCP won't know who to arrest. (Exactly!)
Let's secretly read the word of Almighty God and pray to God at home.
Wouldn't it be safer that way?
Perhaps the CCP will collapse one day.
Then we'll be able to perform our duties and go back to church.
Wouldn't that take us to the kingdom of heaven? (Yeah, that's right.)
If we keep congregating and communicating,
we are bound to be thrown into prison by the Chinese police.
If one refuses to write a statement of penitence or betray God like Judas,
he will have to tough it out with his life.
How many people can tough it out?
From what I see, there aren't many. (Yeah, I agree.)
It's too dangerous!
After the CCP's pursuit,
we're all a bit shaken up and weak. That's unavoidable.
But we cannot retreat because we are timid.
Right.
Amen!
Also, it's predicted in the Book of Revelation,
Amen!
Entering the kingdom of heaven and receiving eternal life is not as simple.
We have to suffer persecution and tribulations.
If we want to enter the kingdom of heaven
riding in a sedan chair without paying the price, it will be impossible.
It is said in the Bible,
However evil the CCP the great red dragon is,
it cannot jostle our faith in following Christ,
much less stop us from following His footsteps!
Yes.
Does it mean that the treacherous road to the kingdom of heaven
will cut off our love with God?
No, it won't.
The Lord Jesus has returned.
If we don't accept the Lord's work in the last days,
aren't we betraying the Lord Jesus?
Yes!
Failing to accept Almighty God is betraying the Lord.
If one doesn't understand this, how can he follow the Lord?
Brother, you said it well.
Well said!
Our brothers and sisters are weak.
I see that we must hurry to find a safe place for us to communicate in God's word
in order to consolidate their faith.
Fine. I will arrange for more people to keep watch and stand guard.
Great, thank the Lord.
Why is Brother Zhang still not here?
Brother Yang has been gone for a while.
They should be here.
What could be holding them up?
Oh look. Brother Zhang is here.
Hey! Everyone is here.
My brothers and sisters are all here!
Hi.
Brother Zhang, Brother Xu, you are finally here! We have been worried about you.
Thank God for watching over us! (Thank God!)
Brother Zhang, Brother Xu, let's sit down and talk.
Thank God!
These days, the religious leaders have been acting like crazy
when they see us believe in Almighty God.
They are harassing brothers and sisters everywhere,
preventing us from studying the true way. (Yes.)
They even warned us
that whoever believes in Eastern Lightning will be expelled.
They even … they even brought the police to arrest those who believe in God,
aren't they traitorous like Judas?
Yes! They are.
They call themselves believers of the Lord? (Disgraceful!)
These pastors and elders are capable of any misdeed.
I finally saw their true colors.
To say that they are the Pharisees is no exaggeration!
Yeah! Exactly!
That's right.
The pastors and elders stop us from studying the true way
because they don't let us accept Almighty God.
Exactly! Are they committing these atrocities to protect the flock?
Protecting the flock does not call for preventing us from studying the true way.
Yes. That's right!
Well, if all the sheep are stolen, to whom the pastors are going to preach?
Don't you think they would all be out of a job?
Exactly. Absolutely. Yeah.
Brother Zhang, Brother Xu,
since we started to study the work of Almighty God in the last days,
the religious leaders have been condemning Almighty God more frantically.
Yeah.
Doing all they could to block us from studying the true way.
It's no different from how the Jewish Pharisees
resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus all those years ago!
Exactly! Yes, I agree. That's true.
I have been thinking these last few days.
Why did God twice appear in the flesh to work
and confront the collective persecution of the religious community and atheist government?
In the last days,
Almighty God appears and works merely to express the truth by speaking and working
for the cleansing and salvation of mankind. (Yeah.)
Why are the religious community and the CCP government so rancorous against Christ
that they even mobilize the media loose and armed police forces
to condemn, blaspheme, round up, and exterminate Christ?
Yeah.
It makes me recall when King Herod
heard that the King of Jews, the Lord Jesus, was born,
he ordered the slaughtering of all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem.
He would rather execute thousands than spare Christ.
That's right.
When God came for the salvation of mankind,
why didn't the religious community and government welcome His arrival,
instead they condemned and blasphemed God's appearance and work?
Why did they deplete the resources of the whole country to crucify Christ on the cross?
Why is mankind so evil and acts so rancorously against God?
I cannot see through these matters.
I hope you can explain it to me.
Yes, we really don't understand these matters. Would you please show us the way?
This question Brother Zhong has raised really is so important, (Absolutely.)
and only very few in the whole of mankind can understand it thoroughly! (Absolutely.)
Why mankind defies God so wildly has become headline news, (Yes.)
and the historical tragedy of the incarnate Christ being nailed to the cross
is being played out again;
is that not a fact?
Yes! It really is!
Amen!
And in 1 John 5:19 it says,
Amen!
That makes a lot of sense, does it? (Yes, it does.)
We didn't quite understand when we read these words in the Bible previously.
Only when we see that both God's incarnations
have suffered the united condemnation, hunting, and suppression
of atheist governments and the world of religion,
however, do we understand that these words within the Bible are indeed true.
Amen!
Mankind's doings and the attitude they take in their approach to Christ are enough to prove
that the entire world is completely under Satan's control and in its power.
Yes! Exactly. Absolutely.
Nowadays, most of us can clearly see
that most pastors and elders of the world of religion
are people who defy, condemn, and deny Christ,
and that the world of religion long ago came under the control
of these hypocritical Pharisees and antichrists.
Yes! Absolutely. Exactly.
Therefore, when God incarnate appears and works,
the pastors and elders in the world of religion
are the first to rise up and condemn and defy Him.
Amen! It's inevitable.
The CCP government is a satanic regime that most hates the truth and defies God,
and it has always been arresting and persecuting Christians.
When Christ of the last days came to appear and do His work in China,
the CCP government unscrupulously and savagely
tried to hunt, round up, and exterminate Christ,
causing ripples throughout the entire world. (Yes.)
This fact completely fulfilled the prophecy of the Lord Jesus:
Amen!
Yes. That's correct. Yes.
God has been incarnated twice amongst man to speak and work,
to redeem mankind and save mankind,
both times suffering the united condemnation, blasphemy, and hunting
carried out by religious leaders and the ruling party;
this fact is enough to prove that this world is so dark and evil
and that mankind has been corrupted! (That's correct! Yes.)
Mankind has been corrupted and degenerated to a stage
where they have become sick of the truth
and they hate the truth, (Amen! Indeed!)
becoming of a kind with Satan and becoming Satan's progeny,
unable to tolerate the existence of God.
The manifestation and work of God incarnate
must therefore inevitably suffer persecution and abandonment.
Everyone can see this fact clearly, right?
Yes. Thank the Lord! That's true.
As to why mankind defies God,
Almighty God has revealed this aspect of the truth.
It will be clear once we've read the words of Almighty God.
OK! Fantastic. Thanks be to God!
Here you go.
Allow me to read some passages. (Go ahead.)
Amen!
Allow me to read. (Go ahead.)
Amen!
Amen.
Amen!
Thanks be to God.
Almighty God has spoken extensively on the root and the state of mankind's corruption.
Exactly.
Reading the words of Almighty God,
we understand why there is so much darkness in the world,
why man so strongly resists God,
and the truth and substance of mankind's corruption by Satan.
Does that all make sense to you? (Yes. Thanks be to God! It does.)
The darkness of these times
proves how mankind is corrupted at the hands of Satan,
so how many among mankind are there
who long for God's appearance and welcome His return?
How many are there who love to hear God's word and accept the truth?
How many have studied God's work of the last days?
None. (Right.)
Most people not only ignore these things,
they also listen to the lies of the satanic CCP government
and are working together with Satan's forces to resist
and condemn Almighty God. These are facts.
That's right! Yeah.
Even though many people believe in God,
how many are there who can accept the truth,
seek out the truth, and truly submit to God?
No one.
If we recall the time when Lord Jesus appeared to do His work,
all of the Jewish people followed the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
in their resistance against the Lord Jesus. (Right!)
Since Almighty God of the last days appeared to do His work,
most leaders in the religious world deny and condemn Him;
they even go so far as sealing off their churches
and not allowing believers to study the true way.
This is enough to prove that this world, in this era, is dark and evil.
That's right.
Mankind deny the truth, hate the truth, and choose to stand against God.
Yes! He's really got it right!
The root of this evil in the world is Satan's control of mankind.
The entire world is under its dominion.
Amen!
For several thousand years,
Satan has used atheism, the theory of evolution, and materialism, as well as other heresies
to corrupt mankind.
This has caused mankind to worship the various lies of devils and false "great men,"
who said things like "There is no God or Savior";
"Man can fight against heaven and earth and conquer nature";
"One's destiny is in his own hands";
"Everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost";
"Brain over brawn";
"Money makes the world go round";
"Small minds make no gentlemen, ruthlessness makes real men," and so on.
Yeah. Yes. It's true.
Man has been deceived and corrupted by these evil teachings,
which has made them arrogant, deceitful, selfish, greedy, and wicked;
there is no man who speaks of humanity and morality,
no man who speaks of conscience and reason,
and no man who can speak of being honest.
That's true!
In the search for fame and status, men fight each other;
men scheme and cheat each other, and even kill one another.
For different interests,
nations fight nations in unceasing conflict.
Is this not the result of Satan's corruption of mankind?
Exactly. Yeah, it is totally genuine. Yes.
These facts show that
mankind has been thoroughly corrupted by Satan
and that we have become Satan's ilk, its descendants.
Mankind has become an evil force against God.
Amen! Yes, what he said is true.
For this reason, when God twice became flesh to speak and do His work among men,
corrupt mankind resisted, condemned, and abandoned God on both occasions,
even crucifying Him.
These are some of the facts behind why mankind resists God.
Is it safe to say we're all clear about this?
Yes. Thank God.
That was really clear.
What you just explained are all facts.
This world has become so dark and evil!
Yes, indeed!
The CCP has ruled for over sixty years,
persecuting religions during that time,
designating Christianity and Catholicism as cults,
labeling the Bible as a cultist book to be destroyed,
demolishing churches and crosses everywhere,
and arresting, detaining, and imprisoning Christians, (It's true.)
causing countless Christians to be forcefully displaced and become homeless.
Yes, indeed!
Countless people lost their right to religious beliefs,
and are even deprived of the right to live.
Family members of many Christians were dismissed from public service,
their children barred from studying,
from being employed, or even leaving the country.
What has the world come to?
Yeah.
China has essentially become a prison of hell
where religious freedom doesn't exist, where even the right to life is restricted.
The CCP doesn't let believers of God live;
it would rather have them all hunted and killed.
It's true!
The CCP is an evil group that detests the truth and hates God!
Amen!
Right! That's exactly what it is!
You're right!
The CCP wants nothing more than to exterminate all who believe in God! (Yes.)
The CCP's persecution of Christians from the country's foundation
to the Cultural Revolution needs no reiteration.
As we know, even after its reform in 1980,
the detention campaigns against Christians have never stopped happening!
Yes. It's true!
Think back to the campaigns in 1983, 1987, 1991, 1996, and 1998,
as well as 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2009,
and especially the nation-wide public one in 2012,
"Operation Spring Thunder" in 2013, and "Hundred Days Battle" in 2014,
all of these nation-wide unified "round-up and detention" campaigns
were characterized by surprise attacks and secret arrests,
causing mass panic and widespread hysteria,
and making life in China like living in a prison.
Yes, indeed!
If the CCP is not destroyed, the Chinese people will never know peace,
and Christians will always be persecuted and endangered. (Right!)
Quickly, search the house!
What are you doing?
What was going on?
Where's Zhong Xin? Where is he? Talk!
I don't know.
You don't know?
Grandpa!
Say you don't know one more time, old man!
Grandpa, are you okay? (I'm all right.)
Why did you beat him up?
Do you have a problem with that? I'm good at arresting people too, you little bastard!
Where did your father go? Say it or I'll pound your face in!
How would I know? He didn't tell me!
The hell you don't, boy!
Talk! Where is Zhong Xin?
Everyone, isn't the CCP so detestable?
Yes, detestable!
The CCP's suppression and attacks against Eastern Lightning
shocked and stirred the whole world.
Many people have no understanding of why they resist and oppose God so much.
Why?
It's because the incarnate Almighty God spoke many truths.
Amen!
The book The Word Appears in the Flesh has shaken every religious sect.
Many who believe in the Lord have heard Almighty God's utterances
and affirm them as the voice of God and His work
and have therefore turned toward Him.
Amen!
The constantly increasing number of those who follow Almighty God
makes the CCP panic.
The CCP has arrested countless of those who bear witness to God,
and confiscated many copies of The Word Appears in the Flesh.
They research this book day after day,
and increasingly realize how powerful it is.
It has the ability to conquer all.
No matter how the CCP tries to slander, judge, and discredit Almighty God,
they dare not make The Word Appears in the Flesh known to the public.
They make not the slightest mention of what Almighty God has uttered.
Why do they deal with The Word Appears in the Flesh by hiding it?
They fear the whole world will see that God has appeared
and is doing His work in the East,
that the Savior of mankind has appeared in the East,
and that therein lies the hope of mankind.
Amen!
Why does the CCP fear mankind reading The Word Appears in the Flesh?
Yeah, why's that?
Because The Word Appears in the Flesh is the voice of God,
it is the utterance of the truth,
and it is true light that has appeared in the East!
Amen! Thanks be to God!
The CCP is a regime of Satan, the most evil and hateful of the truth.
Satan fears most that the truth will come into man's world,
that mankind will accept the truth,
that God will take power as King to rule man's world,
and that the kingdom of Christ will appear on Earth.
Thus, the CCP so wildly pursues and hounds Christ,
and uses the media networks for propaganda
to frame, falsely charge, and discredit The Church of Almighty God.
They have even mobilized the nation's armed police force
to overwhelmingly suppress, arrest, and persecute God's chosen people.
So hateful!
With nowhere to hide, His chosen people have been forced into exile
because of the CCP's persecution.
Under the CCP, the Chinese government has stretched out its hand into every country abroad
and utilized political, economic, and diplomatic means to pressure some of them
to have Christians who have escaped abroad extradited back to China
in order to torture and persecute them.
It's abhorrent! It's despicable!
Even more detestable is that the CCP also arrests and persecutes the relatives
of Christians who have gone abroad
and keeps them hostage to threaten The Church of Almighty God.
It forces them to get their passports to go abroad
and disrupt The Church of Almighty God in various countries,
and attempts through diplomatic channels
to frame and slander The Church of Almighty God, to mislead by rumor,
and to manipulate public opinion and discredit it.
They incite both the governments and people of other countries
to reject The Church of Almighty God,
and to extradite the Church's overseas members;
its evil aim is to succeed in obstructing, restricting and suppressing the spread
of The Church of Almighty God and its gospel work abroad.
Yeah!
Would you not say that the CCP is the devil Satan who hates the truth and hates God?
Yes!
The CCP is an expert in the cruel abuse of people and the devouring of souls;
it is a demon that eats men without spitting out their bones. (Amen!)
Now I think all of you see why the Chinese government under the CCP
so wildly resists and condemns Almighty God, right?
Amen. Thanks be to God! Right.
This fellowship has helped us understand a lot!
Talking about the CCP's persecution of Christians makes my heart ache.
During the busy spring farming season last year,
my son was taken away by the CCP police for believing in God.
My husband and I were sick and unable to work on the farm.
They took away the main worker in our family.
We cried all day.
We tried every way we knew,
but we couldn't get him out of prison.
The CCP sentenced him to three years.
This year, we had no choice but to hire help to plant our crops.
We're not even sure if there will be a fall harvest.
Is our faith to blame for that?
Our faith in God is the right path.
Why does the CCP persecute us like that?
They make life so difficult for us.
The CCP is a human-devouring demon that has no concern for human lives. (Indeed.)
Like Brother Zhang and his wife, Sister Li,
just because they bore witness to God's work,
the pastors and elders called the police.
The couple were taken immediately away by the police,
leaving behind two small children alone at home,
two small children crying all day without anyone to look after them.
The CCP is just inhuman!
How are these children going to survive without their parents?
Yes.
The CCP are such evildoers!
I believe the CCP's talks about human rights and religious freedom
are just barefaced lies intended to deceive and fool people.
Has it ever allowed religious freedom?
Does it respect people's rights to life?
Isn't it depriving people of the right to life?
Yes! That isn't right.
What law did Brother Zhang and his wife violate by preaching the gospel?
They were good people who followed the right path!
What cause did they have to send them to prison?
Do they have any sense of moral principle or justice?
There is no such thing as justice in China! (Yes.)
Just talking about the CCP's evil deeds makes me so angry.
It is true.
It angers me so much. It makes me mad also.
But our congregation today is helping me see things clearer.
Why does the CCP so insanely suppress, attack, and persecute The Church of Almighty God?
Because it hates the truth and hates God.
Yes.
These are the roots of Satan's resistance.
Amen! That's right.
In the past,
I didn't understand why Christians always faced persecution and trials.
I thought it was the CCP's total lack of understanding.
Christians are good people
that will neither usurp the power of the CCP nor threaten its reign.
Why would the CCP hate us so much and persecute us like that?
That's right.
But upon hearing your words,
I now understand the truth behind it.
Thank God!
These CCP demons are no simple folk.
They have brains and ideas,
so they couldn't have acted out impulsively in doing these things.
That's right.
It all stems from their demonic, satanic nature!
Amen.
You are so right! Yes, it does.
Believing in the Lord for so many years,
we have suffered the CCP's arrest and persecutions.
Why hadn't we seen the demonic essence of the CCP?
We were blind to the intention behind the CCP's insane resistance to God.
Without understanding the truth,
we were really unable to discern anything!
Yes. Yeah.
I was undiscerning in the past,
I just blindly listened and was deceived by the CCP,
and refused to seek and study Almighty God's work.
I was so blind and ignorant!
So was I.
Finally, I see things clearly.
The CCP is the satanic regime that despises the truth and God.
No wonder the incarnate God encounters such cruel and insane suppression and persecution
when He appears and works in China!
That's right.
The CCP is a group of demons against God!
Amen! Indeed! That's right!
The CCP are a bunch of demons, how could they do that?
Yes! It's despicable.
Everyone, Brother Zhong.
The police are on their way here right now! (What?)
Brothers and sisters, let's hurry up and leave!
Let's go.
Everyone needs to pack up and go.
Get your things and leave!
It's so hard to believe in God in China!
I can't wait for the CCP to fall.
When it does, we can freely believe in God without fear of persecution.
Brother Zhang, Brother Xu,
after hearing your fellowship, I understand it now.
The CCP is an atheist party,
a demonic group that is hostile to God and the truth.
Yes.
The demon is the personification of Satan.
The reincarnation of Satan and evil spirits is the demon, the sworn enemy of God.
Right. Absolutely true!
Therefore, because God appears in the flesh and works in China in the last days,
the insane suppression and persecution He encounters from the government
is inevitable. (Yes!)
But most leaders in the religious community
are servants of God who are familiar with the Bible.
Not only do they not seek and study Almighty God's work in the last days,
they judge, condemn, and frantically resist.
This is ridiculous!
It is. It sure is.
It's not surprising the CCP condemns God's work,
but why do religious leaders resist and condemn God's work as well?
That's a good question.
We lack the insight to understand this issue.
Brother Zhang, Brother Xu, please explain it to us.
Yes, please. Brothers, please. Yes, tell us about that.
That's right.
It would be normal if only the CCP government convicted,
suppressed, and persecuted Eastern Lightning,
because the CCP is an atheist satanic regime that
has always suppressed religious beliefs, and arrested and persecuted Christians.
Yes.
But the majority of pastors in the religious community
are teachers of the Bible and servants of God. (Right!)
Their judgment and condemnation of Eastern Lightning exposes the problem.
Yes.
What problem does it expose? What kind of problem?
I can affirm that when religious community condemns any sect as heretic,
it usually isn't wrong.
Does everyone agree?
Co-worker Wu,
what is your logic in claiming that the work of Almighty God in the last days is not the true way
going by the majority of religious leaders' resistance to and condemnation of Almighty God?
Yeah.
Do you have God's word as a basis for your assertion?
Are religious pastors and elders established and used by God?
Do they know God?
Can they determine how God comes and how God appears and works?
Have you sorted these things out?
Yet you dare draw the conclusion?
We shouldn't be hasty to draw to conclusions.
You have read the Bible for some years.
You should know clearly
how the Jewish chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees condemned and resisted the Lord Jesus.
Yes.
You've believed in the Lord for many years,
so why do you still worship the pastors and elders?
Do you believe in the Lord Jesus or in the pastors?
Do you listen to the word of the Lord or the words of men?
If you really believe in the Lord,
why do you worship the pastors and elders?
Why do you follow and obey men when you believe in the Lord?
Yes. Why do?
I highly doubt you truly believe in the Lord.
That's right.
Exactly! That's right.
The question raised by Brother Lin is very critical,
most believers in the Lord do not understand it.
God has become flesh twice.
Twice He encountered the collective resistance, condemnation, and persecution
of the religious community and the world's governments.
This proves that "The true way has been persecuted since ancient times."
Amen!
Many people can't understand this.
They particularly feel astonished at the religious leaders' condemnation of God's work.
Actually, there is nothing strange about this.
Back then, when the Lord Jesus appeared to work,
He was first condemned, blasphemed, and arrested
by the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees of Judaism.
It's true. Yeah.
These facts were clearly written in the Bible.
Yes.
Those chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees
were supposed to teach the Bible and serve God.
Why did they condemn, persecute, and hunt the incarnate Lord Jesus?
Was their belief in God for no other purpose than to crucify the Lord Jesus when He came?
No.
Absolutely not!
Then why did they commit such acts against God?
Yeah, why did they?
Almighty God has revealed the mystery here.
Let's read a few passages of Almighty God's word.
Praise the Lord! Thank God!
Amen!
Can I read next? (Go ahead.)
That's the case.
Right. Yes.
Right.
Amen!
That's the case.
The words of Almighty God have clearly spoken about the root cause
of the Pharisees, religious pastors and elders' resistance to God. (That's right!)
Did everyone hear it clearly? (Yes, we did.)
Thank God!
Which one of you will talk about why religious leaders resist and condemn God?
Religious leaders only focus on pursuing biblical knowledge and theological theories,
but not on pursuing the truth.
So they do not recognize the Lord's return.
That's right,
the pastors and elders are weary of and hostile to the truth.
When they see that the expressions of Almighty God are all the truth,
they are filled with hostility,
and they begin to judge, condemn, and resist God.
Yeah.
What you've said is all correct.
When the Pharisees of Judaism listened to the word of the Lord Jesus,
they openly acknowledged that the word of the Lord Jesus
was authoritative and powerful that originated from God.
Why did they still condemn, incarcerate, and crucify the Lord Jesus?
Logically, since they discovered that the word of the Lord Jesus was the truth,
they should have prayed to God to seek the answer:
Is the Lord Jesus the Messiah?
God would certainly have enlightened them. (That's right!)
But they neither sought nor prayed to God.
They directly condemned the Lord Jesus for blasphemy.
In particular, they repeatedly asked the Lord Jesus,
"Are you the Messiah?"
When the Lord Jesus directly answered them, they refused to believe.
Yeah.
This is enough to show that the Pharisees were too arrogant!
They worshiped the Bible too much!
They had no regard for Christ expressing the truth.
Their logic was that:
No matter how much truth the Lord Jesus could express,
no matter how authoritative and powerful the Lord's word was,
as long as He was not named the Messiah,
they would condemn and even nail the Lord Jesus on the cross.
True. They were so despicable!
Weren't those leaders of Judaism demons who hated the truth?
Yes! That's right. It is.
If the Lord Jesus could not express the truth,
would they have such hatred for Him?
No, they wouldn't.
This had completely exposed the satanic nature of the Pharisees that detested the truth.
Amen!
This was where the roots of the Pharisees' resistance of the Lord Jesus lie! (Amen.)
Just as how the Lord Jesus exposed the Pharisees:
Amen!
We see clearly why the Jewish leaders resisted and killed the Lord Jesus.
Then why the religious pastors and elders in the last days
frantically resist and condemn Almighty God
is not hard to understand. (Yes.)
Is everyone clear on this issue now?
Yes. Yeah.
It's really great to learn like this. (Yeah.)
Those of us who have experienced the work of God would realize
that people who detest the truth inevitably judge, condemn, and resist God.
Isn't it true?
Yes. Yeah. It's true.
The judgment work of Almighty God in the last days
is to cleanse the satanic disposition of man.
How does God cleanse and save man?
It is by expressing the truth to judge and cleanse man. (Amen!)
Those who accept the truth will receive cleansing and salvation.
The satanic disposition of those who reject the truth will not be changed.
They will still resist and betray God.
Absolutely true. Right.
In The Church of Almighty God,
some people who were weary of and hostile to the truth were completely revealed.
These unbelievers and antichrists were purged and expelled.
As for the religious pastors and elders,
why do they deliberately condemn or blaspheme Almighty God?
Isn't it because Almighty God expresses many truths,
and He has conquered and saved a group of people? (It is.)
The work of Almighty God has revealed them,
so they hate and condemn God.
Their satanic nature is completely exposed.
Indeed.
Why does God detest and curse these exposed antichrists?
It is because they compete with God for His chosen people
by firmly controlling the sheep of God in their hands, (So despicable!)
and forbidding people to study and receive the true way.
They engage in independent kingdom building
and become demons that harm and devour the human lives.
They are condemned and cursed by God for offending God's disposition.
Amen!
Do you say this is the case?
Yes.
What is the basis of the pastors and elders' condemnation of Almighty God?
We have to discern this matter.
First, they only go by the lack of record of Almighty God's work in the Bible.
They only believe that God's word was all written in the Bible
and God's word does not exist outside the Bible.
So they deny the work of Almighty God.
Second, they don't understand how the prophecies of the Bible are fulfilled.
Like the Pharisees, they only follow regulation.
No matter how profound and authoritative the sermon spoken by the Lord Jesus was,
how much the truth He has,
as long as the Lord was not called the Messiah,
they would condemn and even nail the Lord Jesus to the cross. (Yes. That's right.)
Third, they do not recognize Christ in the flesh,
nor do they admit that God will become flesh.
According to the apostle John, they are antichrists.
Yes.
Fourth, they go by the rumors and lies fabricated by the CCP government
to deny the work of Almighty God in the last days.
They even take side with the CCP.
They can't wait for the CCP to thoroughly ban The Church of Almighty God.
Yes, that's what they did.
This makes us think:
Why didn't the Lord Jesus go to the synagogue when He preached and worked?
Why did He look for someone in the wilderness who was after God's heart?
Does everyone know why that was?
If the Lord Jesus had gone to the synagogue, He surely would have been expelled. (Yes.)
Had the Lord Jesus gone there,
He'd have been arrested and handed over to those in power by the Jewish leaders.
What you said is correct.
If we went to the church to bear witness for Almighty God,
what would be the outcome?
Definitely negative.
I'm sure that they will report us to the police.
And what does that tell us?
The people in religion are too pathetic.
They believe in the Lord but don't know the Lord. (Yes.)
They're even capable of selling out and betraying the Lord.
These religious leaders are too vicious. (Yeah.)
That's what we didn't expect.
Yes.
Now we all see the true colors of the pastors and elders! (Yes.)
Now I see it clearly
the pastors and elders are people who detest the truth. (That's right!)
No wonder they keep resisting God's work in the last days.
The pastors and elders just enjoy talking about biblical knowledge and theological theories
to let people worship them. (Yeah!)
They like listening to flattery.
They just like people who flatter them. (Yes.)
If it weren't for Almighty God's work revealing the pastors and elders,
we still wouldn't be able to distinguish.
Yes! Yeah!
The ways religious leaders resist Almighty God
are identical to how the Pharisees resisted the Lord Jesus.
Why didn't we recognize it?
We have listened to the preaching of the elders for many years,
but we didn't understand the truth at all!
That's right.
Had it not been for Almighty God to reveal the root causes and true nature
of the religious Pharisees, pastors and elders' resistance to God,
we wouldn't have discerned that they are the antichrists and evil servants
that detest the truth.
Absolutely! Exactly.
We would still be deceived and constrained by the religious pastors and elders
and remain resistant to God's work.
We may even follow them in resisting and condemning Almighty God.
It was so dangerous!
Absolutely. Indeed. It was very dangerous. Exactly.
Thanks to Almighty God who has mercy on us,
who rescued us from the control of these pastors and elders, the antichrists.
We are grateful to God!
Amen! Thanks be to Almighty God! Thank God.
Over the years,
I have long heard that Eastern Lightning witnessed the return of the Lord Jesus,
many good sheep and head sheep of various denominations
have accepted Almighty God.
But I worshiped the pastors and elders too much
and blindly listened to their nonsense.
I didn't study the true way.
I was not believing in and following the Lord!
I was purely worshiping and following a man!
I was unaware that I had been deceived by the antichrist who almost delivered me to hell!
Right!
The religious leaders are the modern-day Pharisees. (Exactly.)
They are the demons that stop us from entering the kingdom of heaven!
Exactly. That's right!
They keep us from entering!
Brother Zhong, Sister Cheng,
Zhong Ming has come to look for both of you.
What happened, Xiaoming?
Dad, Mom,
the police came to our house to arrest you.
They ransacked it.
How's your grandfather?
How about your grandfather?
Grandpa is fine.
He told me to tell you not to come home.
Don't cry, it's okay.
You can't go home from now on.
Find somewhere to hide first!
Xiaoming,
you have already grown up.
When Dad is not at home,
you have to believe in God and pursue the truth.
Look after your grandpa.
Dad … Dad … Dad, I will.
When you are away, take care of yourself!
Mom, Dad,
I'm going back now.
Be careful.
Take care of grandpa.
Go back home.
Take care!
We have seen it clearly now.
The CCP government is a demon that resists and condemns God.
The religious leaders are the antichrists who hate truth and resist God.
Yeah. Yes.
So why does Almighty God not destroy them?
If they are destroyed by Almighty God,
won't the people in the religious community
seek and study the true way and accept Almighty God?
Well, we don't quite get this matter. (Yeah.)
Can you talk with us on the truth of this aspect?
Yeah.
God's judgment work in the last days has far-reaching meaning. (Yes!)
God's almightiness and wisdom is unfathomable by man.
But we must be clear
that God's judgment work begins with making a group of overcomers.
God will first conquer, save, make perfect, and gain a group of people
who are of one mind with Him.
This was predestined before the ages.
Amen!
It is not a simple matter for God to make a group of overcomers.
God needs to maneuver everything in His endeavor to make perfect these people. (Amen!)
The Lord Jesus prophesied that when He returns in the last days,
He will suffer a lot of hardships, followed by being rejected by this generation.
The group of overcomers made by God
are those who follow the Lamb every step of the way
and also undergo many trials and hardships.
These are necessary.
How are these hardships generated?
On one hand, it is because of our corrupt dispositions
that require us to suffer some hardships when we face judgment and chastisement. (Yes.)
On the other hand,
many of these hardships are generated by the condemnation, persecution, and judgment
of the Chinese Communist government and religious community.
It is through these sufferings that we shall be cleansed and made perfect,
and God shall receive witness and glory.
Amen!
At the same time, God will use this
to reveal those who are afraid to accept the true way,
and the unbelievers, wicked men, and antichrists
who are weary of and hostile to the truth,
and categorize people by their types.
Thank God!
This will manifest God's wisdom and omnipotence,
and reveal God's wonderful accomplishment. (Amen!)
Thank God!
Let us read a few more passages of Almighty God's word and see how God has spoken.
Great! Thank God!
Amen!
Thanks be to God!
God's wisdom is so profound! (Yes.)
Amen!
Please allow me to read. (Sure.)
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Thank God! Thanks be to God!
Yes. Amen.
Amen! Thanks be to God!
Amen! Thanks be to God! Praise be to God! Yes.
Thank God!
The words of Almighty God have spoken of these things!
Yes, God is so wise and omnipotent!
Amen. Yes, indeed!
God said,
when the catastrophe comes, China is the first to be destroyed.
Isn't that exhilarating?
Yes! Thank God!
Now it seems the great red dragon is like a rabbit's tail—it can't last long!
Yes!
Now everyone understands that it is not easy for God
to make perfect a group of people, right?
Yeah. Absolutely! That's right!
There are some mysteries within
that we cannot understand without experiencing God's work!
Yes.
God is deploying everything in His command to serve His management plan.
That is the omnipotence and wisdom of God. (Amen!)
Without experiencing the work of God, we cannot realize it. (Yes!)
No matter how perilous the path to the heavenly kingdom is,
we must follow God!
Amen!
These words are written in the Book of Revelation:
Amen!
Now I understand that
these words refer to the perfection of those
who follow Almighty God and turn out to be overcomers. (Yes.)
No matter how treacherous the road to the kingdom of heaven is,
we must follow Christ to the end!
Amen!
Until the day that China is destroyed by God,
we will have completely understood God's righteous disposition, (Amen!)
and completely known about God's almightiness and wisdom.
Amen!
These truths expressed by Almighty God will be fulfilled one by one.
Just as the Lord Jesus said in the Bible,
Amen! Thanks be to God!
All the glory be to Almighty God!
Amen!