Almighty God's words pierced my heart like a razor-sharp steel sword.
I felt that God was unleashing His wrath on us.
Only then did they feel that His holy substance allows no offense,
and see that they were too corrupt and ashamed to behold the face of God.
They abhorred Satan and hated themselves for being full of satanic dispositions.
You've testified to Almighty God's work of judgment.
I feel that what you've said here is God's work. (Yes, it is.)
The truth expressed by Almighty God
is to purify, save, and perfect man. (Mm. It is.)
Of that, I'm completely certain. (Praise the Lord.)
But now I'd like to know
how Almighty God does the work of judgment,
saving man from Satan's influence. (Mm. Yeah. Me too.)
Could you share your experiences and your testimony?
Tell us about that, would you? Tell us about it. Yes.
This is an excellent question!
Such key questions investigate God's work of the last days. (Right.)
It's helpful in the quest to gain salvation through our belief in God. (Indeed.)
Regarding Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days
to save man from Satan's influence,
let's read one relevant passage. (All right.)
Those words are really wonderful. (That is a wonderful passage.)
Those words are really something else.
Since Almighty God expressed the truth to do the work of judgment,
God's chosen people began to eat, drink, and enjoy His words.
They fellowshiped about God's words
and their own real experiences in every meeting. (Right.)
Almighty God's words with righteous disposition come to God's chosen people.
His words judge and reveal man's nature of sinning and resisting God,
expose and dissect how man resists and betrays God's will,
due to the deception and control
that comes with living in Satan's domain, (Right.)
and reveal His righteousness, majesty, and intolerance of offense. (Yes.)
In these words,
God's chosen people were shown that the disposition of God is righteous,
and that God appears to them with both wrath and majesty.
They felt extremely regretful and ashamed in the presence of God.
Only then did they feel that His holy substance allows no offense,
and see that they were too corrupt and ashamed to behold the face of God. (Yes.)
They abhorred Satan and hated themselves for being full of satanic dispositions,
and living as the embodiment of Satan, without any likeness of a real man.
That's right. (Right.)
This point is when they developed true regret
and yearned for the truth to start life anew. (That's right.)
We have a realization after Almighty God's judgment.
Why corrupt mankind resists and betrays God and lives in sin without release?
It's because they're all deceived and controlled by the influences of Satan,
like the great red dragon, the religious antichrists,
satanic heresies, fallacies, philosophical laws, and so on.
Satan's influences are just like an invisible snare,
binding and controlling all our hearts and minds, (Mm.)
so that we can't see the light
and can't see the appearance of God, nor can we feel His will.
We can only struggle in the darkness. (That's true.)
The judgment of Almighty God's words lets us see that mankind is deeply corrupt
and the world is dark, evil, and still under Satan's control.
We can see the great red dragon is demonic, and how it deceives and afflicts us,
as well as the antichrist nature of the pastors and elders,
hypocritical haters of the truth.
We've gained discernment of their heresies as well as fallacies.
We've discovered that we've been deeply deceived and corrupted by Satan.
Satan's poisons and its philosophical laws have become our very nature.
And by living our lives through these, we've lived out the ugliness of Satan,
arrogant and self-righteous, arbitrary, selfish and contemptible,
crooked and crafty, so full of lies,
weary of the truth, and having no fear of God.
We've long embodied Satan with no likeness of a real man. (Indeed.)
Yet still we long to be raptured to the kingdom of heaven.
That's so shameless.
Before, when we were deceived and controlled by the pastors and elders,
and followed Satan unaware we resisted God,
we believers worshiped man, followed man.
We obeyed the pastors and elders,
and weren't able to seek out the truth and obey God.
We really were so ignorant, blind to God. (Yes. That's exactly right.)
After experiencing Almighty God's judgment in the last days,
we've come to recognize, understand,
and know all the truths expressed to us by Almighty God. (Right.)
We have more and more discernment of positive things and negative things,
and have more and more knowledge of God.
Our outlook on both life and values has changed as well. (Thank the Lord! Yes.)
Our satanic dispositions are cleansed gradually
and we aren't shackled by Satan's influence.
Satan's heresies and fallacies won't fool us easily anymore. (Right.)
We are released from all of the shackles of worldly ties that bind us.
Mm, great. Thank the Lord.
We're free to live before God and perform our duty as beings created by Him,
and practice living by His words each day.
We slowly enter into the reality of truth.
We go forth like that experiencing God's work face to face with Him.
We often accept God's discipline and dealing in doing our duty
as we are living in God's love. (Yes. Thank the Lord.)
We all feel Almighty God's work here in the last days is extremely practical!
It can indeed save and perfect man! (Yes…)
And we deeply realize
that only by accepting Christ's judgment can we gain the truth and gain life.
What Christ of the last days brings us is the everlasting way of life.
This is absolutely true! (Yes. Right.)
Thank Almighty God!
What do you think? (That was wonderful. I think it was too.)
It's practical fellowship. This testimony is beneficial to us. (It is.)
Nice testimony. (It was.)
We've found the way we can be saved. (I agree.)
Praise the Lord. Your fellowship is practical.
Almighty God expresses the truth to judge man,
and the effects are wonderful. (They are.)
On one hand, people know God's righteousness and appreciate His deeds.
It's as if they're beholding the appearance of God face to face. (Right. It is.)
On the other hand, people learn the true face of their corruptions,
and thus know the truth and gain insight
to break free of Satan's dark influence and turn to God. (Thank God. Right.)
I've believed for so many years and had too much faith in pastors and elders.
I couldn't see their true nature
that their true substance was as antichrists. (Right.)
They deceived and controlled me.
I was unable to accept Almighty God's work.
And now I feel so much shame and so much regret.
Brother Fang, Brother Tian.
How did you break free from the religious leaders' control and deceit?
Yes, how?
Please tell us your experiences concerning that.
That's right. Please tell us…
Thank God. We can't discern the substance of the Pharisees
or be free from the deception and control of the antichrists
without the truths expressed by Almighty God.
Those truths expressed by Him tell us everything, reveal all facts,
so that we obtain real knowledge
of the religious Pharisees' substance of hypocrisy, and resistance to God.
I recall the time when I believed in God within religion.
I really looked up to the pastors and elders.
"Longtime believers know the Bible," so I thought.
They were gifted, so surely the Lord approved of them most.
Whatever their teachings were, I accepted them and obeyed.
When our church heard Almighty God's gospel of the last days,
they not only didn't lead us to seek and investigate,
but stressed repeatedly God's words are all in the Bible.
That faith requires the Bible.
And any departure from it is heresy.
Those who accept the "Eastern Lightning" will be expelled from the church.
They even promised the believers
that when the Lord came, He would give them the revelation first,
so they could lead us into the kingdom of heaven.
With the pastors and elders' words, we felt we had an assurance,
so we just followed them to bind believers and seal off the church.
But Almighty God was accepted by still more of our church.
The pastors and elders were angry and they ordered us to call the police
if we saw preachers from the "Eastern Lightning."
But one day, our elder suddenly fainted on the lectern
while he was condemning and blaspheming Almighty God,
and he died on the way to the hospital.
The elder's death shocked me to the core.
I couldn't figure it all out.
He was a defender of the Lord's way. How could he just die like that?
Why didn't the Lord protect his life?
Could it be we were wrong to resist the "Eastern Lightning"?
Was the "Eastern Lightning" really the return of the Lord?
When I thought this,
I felt that perhaps I had committed some offense to the Lord.
There was an unspeakable dread that occupied my heart,
as if punishment might come to me anytime.
Just then, Almighty God's gospel came to me once again.
Through Almighty God's words and His believers' fellowship and help,
I accepted His work of the last days. (Thank God!)
One day, I read Almighty God's words.
Almighty God's words pierced my heart like a razor-sharp steel sword.
I felt that God was unleashing His wrath on us.
We resisted God, condemned Him,
which seriously offended God's righteous disposition.
I was sure that the elder's death was punishment for resisting Almighty God,
as well as hindering believers from their proper return to Almighty God.
Pondering over His words and thinking some more of the elder's actions,
I realized that when he told us all
that we should cling to the Bible, seal off the church,
and hindered us from looking into the true way,
he wasn't watching over the flock,
but was instead protecting his position and job.
God came to work and save man.
Yet as leader of the church, he didn't lead us to follow God.
He rather, to protect his own position and job,
spread rumors and fallacies to deceive man, resist and condemn God's work.
Isn't he the stumbling block that hinders us from following God? (Yes. Mm.)
Isn't he the devil who devours our souls?
But I had no sense of discernment. I was blind.
I worshiped and obeyed the elder like a fool,
followed him to resist God, believing I was faithful to the Lord.
I was so foolish and so muddle-headed!
I never even thought in my dreams that I was awaiting the Lord's return,
and when He actually came,
I joined with the antichrists in resistance of God Himself.
So I deserved to be cursed.
I should've been thrown into hell just like the elder.
And yet God forgave me for my transgressions.
He knew that I had been corrupted by Satan,
had no understanding of the truth or discernment,
and was deceived by the wicked.
God didn't abandon me and brought me back to His house
through brothers and sisters preaching the gospel to me.
This was God's great mercy and salvation for me! (Thank the Lord.)
Praise God! Thank the Lord.
Having had this painful lesson, I truly realized
that I did follow the wicked to resist God.
It's because I believed in God with no place in my heart for Him,
no reverence in my heart,
but rather only worshiped and followed man.
And so I was deceived and used by Satan
and became one of its tools to resist God.
I also deeply felt God's righteous disposition, majesty,
wrath and intolerance of man's offense.
Thanks to God's forgiveness as well as His mercy,
I still remain alive to this day.
I want to cherish the chance He gave me
and to pursue the truth and life correctly,
and try my best to preach the gospel and testify to God
by bringing those brothers and sisters who long for the Lord's return
back to His presence, (Amen.)
and help all of them break through the snare of the Pharisees
to accept God's salvation,
so that I can repay God's love and comfort His heart. (Amen.)
Your experience is so realistic. (Mm.)
I can really sympathize with it. (Me too.)
All these years, we've been deluded and controlled by the pastors and elders.
We couldn't see through their satanic nature that opposes God. (That's right.)
It's Almighty God's word that allowed us to understand.
Had it not, we wouldn't have known even now
that we'd be abandoned by God for following the pastors and elders,
and we'd expect to be raptured to the kingdom of heaven.
We'd be blind and ignorant!
That's right. Your fellowship really helped me gain insight and discernment.
And your experience and testimony have been so beneficial! (Praise the Lord.)
God's disposition really allows no offense! (That's right.)
Elder Liu is in a coma at the present
and Brother Xu lost his legs in a car crash. (Mm.)
I think these are their punishments for resisting Almighty God. (That's it!)
This is retribution!
Right! They've all done too much evil!
They've fabricated so many rumors to judge and condemn Almighty God.
They've misled us and hindered us from accepting Almighty God's work too.
How could they not be punished for that? (They deserve it!)
Thank the Lord!
Almighty God's word can indeed give us discernment
and help us break through Satan's snare!
We finally have discernment.
I truly believe we can break through this. (Right!)
Thank the Lord.
Not only does He have love and mercy for man, He can also punish man. (Right.)
Today from Almighty God's words of judgment and revelation,
I see that God is truly wrathful and majestic, and allows no offense. (Right.)
I really feel like these words can pierce man's heart almost like a sharp sword,
and judge and cleanse man of corruption. (Really.)
Judgment like that is truly practical
and is able to purify and save mankind. (Yes! Thank the Lord.)
Hearing your testimony, I feel so ashamed.
After all these years, did I really believe in the Lord?
The truth is I believed in the Bible.
I followed people stubbornly in my worship.
I didn't know yet about the pastors and elders' deceit and control.
I constantly rejected and resisted Almighty God's work.
It never crossed my mind that I longed for the Lord's coming.
When He came, I was too blind to recognize Him,
and became a Pharisee who resisted God! (Mm. Yes.)
Today,
if Almighty God had never granted me mercy, and allowed me to hear His voice,
I fear I never would've broken the snare of the Pharisees the antichrists
in my life of faith. (That's right.)
And my religion would've just run its course!
I never thought the way to His salvation
would be fraught with so many obstacles.
Breaking through the great red dragon's snare is easy.
As long as we can see through its substance,
understand the mystery of gaining life,
and if we have true faith in God, we can break it.
But breaking the Pharisees the antichrists' snare
while still blindly believing in religion is extremely difficult.
Without the truth, it's hard to distinguish things
like the antichrist substance of the pastors and elders! (Right.)
It really is Almighty God who's saved me. (Thank the Lord.)
He sent those who preached the gospel to me
and rescued me from the snare of Satan finally. (Thank God!)
So I'm free of Satan's influence,
and I can walk out, free of religion and be raptured before the throne of God. Thank God. Thank the Lord!
Starting now, I'll surely follow Almighty God
to pursue the truth, to pursue salvation! (Exactly!)
I can no longer be a muddle-headed fool anymore! (Thank God. Thank the Lord.)