Almighty God says, "The work done by God during this age is chiefly the provision of the words for the life of man, the disclosure of the substance of the nature of man and the corrupt disposition of man, the elimination of religious conceptions, feudal thinking, outdated thinking, as well as the knowledge and culture of man. This must all be laid bare and cleansed away through the words of God. In the last days, God uses words, and not signs and wonders, to make man perfect. He uses His words to expose man, to judge man, to chastise man, and to make man perfect, so that in the words of God, man comes to see the wisdom and loveliness of God, and comes to understand the disposition of God, so that through the words of God, man beholds the deeds of God."
Friday, June 30, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Almighty God's Word "How Peter Came to Know Jesus"
Almighty God's Word "How Peter Came to Know Jesus"
During the time that Peter spent with Jesus, he saw many lovable characteristics in Jesus, many aspects worthy of emulation, and many which supplied him. Although Peter saw the being of God in Jesus in many ways, and saw many lovable qualities, at first he did not know Jesus. Peter began following Jesus when he was 20 years old, and continued so for six years. During that time, he never came to know Jesus, but was willing to follow Him purely out of admiration for Him. When Jesus first called to him on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, He asked: “Simon, son of Jonah, will you follow Me?” Peter said: “I must follow he who is sent by the heavenly Father. I must acknowledge he who is chosen by the Holy Spirit. I will follow You.” At the time, Peter had heard tell of a man named Jesus, the greatest of the prophets, God’s beloved Son, and Peter was constantly hoping to find Him, hoping for a chance to see Him (because that is how he was then led by the Holy Spirit). Although he had never seen Him and had only heard rumors about Him, gradually a yearning and adoration for Jesus grew in his heart, and he often yearned to one day look upon Jesus. And how did Jesus call upon Peter? He too had heard tell of a man called Peter, and it was not that the Holy Spirit instructed Him: “Go to the Sea of Galilee, where there is one called Simon, son of Jonah.” Jesus heard someone say that there was one called Simon, son of Jonah, and that people had heard his sermon, that he too preached the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, and that the people who heard him were all moved to tears. After hearing this, Jesus followed that person, and made for the Sea of Galilee; when Peter accepted Jesus’ call, he followed Him.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Why do people always use the Bible to define God? Why is it wrong to define God within the Bible?
The answer from Almighty God’s word:
“The Bible has been accompanying man for several thousand years of history, and people all treat it as God, and in the last days people even replace God’s place with the Bible, which is a thing greatly loathed by God. So, in His leisure time, God has to make clear both the inside truth and the origin of the Bible. If not, in man’s heart the Bible can still take the place of God, and people will still condemn and measure God’s doings with the letters of the Bible. By explaining the substance and structure of the Bible and the flaws in it, God is not denying the existence of the Bible or condemning the Bible, but giving a proper and appropriate statement about it and showing what the Bible really is, correcting people’s erroneous knowledge about the Bible, so that they all can have an accurate view about the Bible, no longer worship the Bible, and no longer lose the direction—considering blindly believing in the Bible as believing in God and worshiping God, and even daring not to face the true background of the Bible and the flaws in it. After people all have a pure knowledge of the Bible, they will cast it off without any misgiving and accept God’s new word boldly. … Here, the truth God wants to tell man is that no theory or fact can replace God’s practical work and word, and no thing can take the place of God. If one cannot break away from the trapping of the Bible, then he can never possibly come before God. If one wants to come before God, he needs to first sweep away all the things in his heart that can replace God. Thus God will be satisfied. Although here God only gives explanations about the Bible, you should not forget that apart from the Bible, there are many other erroneous things that man truly worships, and that the only things that man does not worship are those truly from God. God just takes the Bible as an example to remind everyone: Do not take the wrong way, and do not go to extremes and fall into confusion again while you believe in God and receive God’s word.”
from A Brief Introduction to Part Three of The Word Appears in the Flesh
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
I Regret All My Life that I Resisted Almighty God
Cao Zhengqing
Shangqiu City, Henan Province
I was formerly a shepherding worker of the “Hua Xuehe sect.” At the end of 1997, the leader said in a meeting, “Now there is a ‘Reaper Church.’ They believe in a ‘queen,’ who is called Almighty God. It’s a mafia, which has guns and cannons and pays its members. If you don’t accept their way after listening to their message, they will kill your whole family! …” Hearing this, I said at once, “The Bible doesn’t say God is female. It must be a false Christ, a deceiver!” After the meeting, I called the church workers together and conveyed every word of the leader to them. And I told them again and again, “No one can listen to Almighty God’s message! Whoever listens is an apostate and will be expelled at once!” Even so, I was still worried, and I often went to inspect the churches in case some believers would listen to the message of Almighty God.
In September 1998, I went to the home of Brother Li of our sect. There I saw a stranger. From his words I knew that he was a believer in Almighty God. So I shouted at Brother Li angrily, “A faithful servant shall not serve two lords. Why did you ‘convert’ to the ‘Eastern Lightning’? Do you have any conscience? …” Then, I hastened to the churches and announced, “Li X has followed Almighty God. He is an apostate! No one shall receive him anymore!” At the end of September, more than ten workers also accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days. The news made me furious. I rebuked them when I met them, “What did I tell you? Have you forgotten it? They believe in a ‘queen,’ a false Christ. It’s a mafia. They have guns and cannons. If you want to drop out after accepting their way, they will kill your whole family! Return their book to them quickly! Don’t contact them anymore! …” Threatened and frightened by me, they could not but return the books. I was very happy as I thought that I had protected the flock for God.
Though I ran around everywhere and spared no effort in sealing off the churches, the condition of the churches gradually declined. The co-workers raised jealousy and strife, and the brothers and sisters became weak and passive. Many brothers and sisters returned to the world to earn money, and many others turned to Almighty God. The churches fell into a mess. Facing this, I was very worried, but I had no way to reverse it. I suffered so much within yet could find no one to pour it out. Just at that time, the news came that Hua Xuehe died of a sudden illness. It made me feel even worse. A feeling of loss and emptiness welled up in me, and I was depressed all day long… In October 1998, I had a strange disease (low fever and coughing) and the doctor couldn’t tell what disease I had. It wasn’t cured after several months. These things that happened to me one after another made me lose heart in believing in God. But as I wasn’t willing to let my years of effort come to naught, I could only follow, yet in a passive way. Just when I was in a dilemma and had no way out, Almighty God’s great love came upon me.
In April 2001, persuaded by a relative, I listened to the testimony given by a brother. He talked about why man should believe in God, what it meant to believe in God, and what a religious belief was, and fellowshipped about God’s working principles by referring to the Bible: First, God’s work is always new and never old and won’t be repeated. Second, God’s work counters man’s notions. Third, God does His work by ages, stages, and steps. He also fellowshipped about the inside truth and the substance of the work in the Age of Law and in the Age of Grace. All these were what I had never heard of. From his fellowship, I understood many things in the Bible that had puzzled me. Enlightened by the Holy Spirit greatly, I became better in spirit. Then the brother talked about the differences between the true Christ and false Christs in detail. He said, “First, the incarnate God is called Christ. Christ is completely God Himself in substance and is the flesh God’s Spirit is realized in. He has a normal humanity and full divinity, and He doesn’t get married and start a career. A false Christ, however, comes from filthiness and is a corrupt body which an unclean spirit is clothed with. He is a created being corrupted by Satan. He doesn’t have God’s substance. He gets married and has wife and children. Second, Christ can open a new age and end the old age. He can do a new work (the work of reaping and uniting, which is recorded in Matthew 13:39, Isaiah 2:2, and Ephesians 1:10). A false Christ, however, can’t do such a work. Third, Christ can do a higher work on the basis of the former work according to man’s need, doing the work of removing sins and purifying man. A false Christ, however, can only follow in the wake of God and imitate the work God has done, such as healing the sick and driving out demons and performing miracles, to deceive people. (cf. Matthew 24:24) He can’t show people any new way of practice and can only lead people to a dead end…” After that, he read me the following words of Almighty God: “He comes into the flesh only to do the work He is supposed to do, not to live man’s life of being born to parents, growing up, forming a family and starting a career, having children, or experiencing life’s ups and downs—all the activities of normal life. God coming to earth is God’s Spirit being brought to the flesh, coming into the flesh, but God does not live a normal human life. He only comes to accomplish one part in His management plan. After that He will leave mankind.” (from “The Essential Difference Between the Incarnate God and People Used by God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) “God become flesh is called Christ, and so the Christ that can give people the truth is called God. There is nothing excessive about this, for He possesses the substance of God, and possesses God’s disposition, and wisdom in His work, that are unattainable by man. Those who call themselves Christ, yet cannot do the work of God, are frauds. Christ is not merely the manifestation of God on earth, but instead, the particular flesh assumed by God as He carries out and completes His work among man. This flesh is not one that can be replaced by just any man, but one that can adequately bear God’s work on earth, and express the disposition of God, and well represent God, and provide man with life. Sooner or later, those fake Christs will all fall, for although they claim to be Christ, they possess none of the substance of Christ. And so I say that the authenticity of Christ cannot be defined by man, but is answered and decided by God Himself.” (from “Only Christ of the Last Days Can Give Man the Way of Eternal Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) After hearing these words, I pondered them over and measured Hua Xuehe against them: Right! God is holy and He doesn’t get married and start a career, while Hua Xuehe had a wife and children and many grandchildren. God always does new work and never repeats His work and He can open a new age and do a new work, while Hua Xuehe didn’t open a new age or do a new work but only imitated the work Jesus had done, healing the sick and driving out demons and performing miracles. Hua Xuehe said all other denominations and sects would turn to him, but the fact was that other denominations and sects not only didn’t turn to him, but he himself died instead. I was really so blind and ignorant that I treated him as Christ!
After hearing the brother’s fellowship, although I gained some knowledge of God’s new work, I still couldn’t understand why God was incarnated as a female. So I put forward this question. The brother smiled and said, “Many people couldn’t understand it at first. They all thought that since the Lord Jesus was male, God should be male. This is a wrong knowledge that not only we but the entire religious world has. In fact, God is Spirit in substance and He has no gender at all. He puts on the shell of a created being only because He has to be incarnated to do His work. For example, Jesus’ flesh was a male, but the gender of His flesh doesn’t mean anything special. When God is incarnated, He can put on the shell of a male or a female. Whether His flesh is male or female, His substance is Spirit and won’t change. In Genesis 1:27, it says, ‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.’ From this, we know that since God created man and woman in His image, He can be incarnated as a male or a female.” Then, he read another passage of God’s word to me: “Each stage of work done by God has a real significance. When Jesus arrived, He was male, and this time He is female. From this, you can see that God created both male and female for His work and with Him there is no distinction of gender. When His Spirit arrives, He can take on any flesh at will and the flesh represents Him. Be it male or female, both represent God as long as it is His incarnate flesh. If Jesus arrived and appeared as a female, in other words, if the conception by the Holy Spirit was to an infant girl and not a boy, that stage of work would have been completed all the same. If so, this stage of work would have to be completed instead by a male and the work would then be completed all the same. The work done in both stages is significant; no work is repeated or conflicts with each other. … With God there is no distinction of gender. His work is done as He wishes and is not subject to any restrictions, particularly free, but every stage has a real significance.” (from “The Two Incarnations Complete the Significance of the Incarnation” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) Hearing these words of the truth, I was completely convinced. “God’s deed is really so wonderful and unfathomable! God’s work is beyond man’s imagination! If it were not for the enlightenment of God’s words today, I, an ignorant man, would never understand that God is Spirit in substance and has no gender. The more God’s work is discordant with man’s notions, the more it is the truth, and the more it is our need. Facing such truth, who will not fall before it? Who will not be ashamed?” As I thought back to my evil deeds of resisting, condemning, and blaspheming God, a feeling of guilt rose in my heart. “O God! I believe in You and enjoy Your grace but I’ve resisted You and sealed off the churches, so that many brothers and sisters couldn’t come before You. I have hindered the spreading of Your gospel of the last days in our area and acted as a Pharisee of the present age. I’m really unworthy to be a believer in God, worse than a beast indeed! Almighty God, what I did has brought You too much sorrow and grief. Even if I offer all I have, I can’t comfort Your broken heart. For the rest of my life, I will devote myself to cooperating with Your gospel work in a practical way to repay the price You have paid on me!”
After I accepted Almighty God’s work, the brother often travelled on a bicycle for more than 30 miles to fellowship with me. I felt much indebted to him and wanted to give him some money to pay his fare and buy food on the way, but he refused. I said, “The money was offered by the brothers and sisters when I was in the ‘Hua Xuehe sect.’ Just take it!” The brother said, “Since it was offered by the brothers and sisters, it should belong to the church and no one is allowed to use it. It is stipulated in Article 3 of the Ten Administrative Decrees God’s Chosen People Must Keep: ‘The money and the material things of God’s family, including all the possessions, are offerings that man should offer. These offerings can only be enjoyed by the priest and God, and no one else can enjoy them, because the offerings offered by man are for God to enjoy, but God only bestows the offerings to the priest to share, and no one else has the qualification and right to enjoy any of them. All the offerings offered by man (including the money and the material things for enjoyment) are offered to God but not to man. So man should not enjoy these things. If man enjoys these things, he is stealing offerings. All such ones are a Judas, because Judas not only sold the Lord but also stole the money in the purse.’ It is God’s uplifting that we can be saved today. Spreading the gospel to testify God is the duty we created beings should perform. It’s nothing to suffer a little from riding a bicycle…” His answer aroused my admiration. “The brothers and sisters who believe in Almighty God are really different.” During the time that followed, I saw that many brothers and sisters continued to perform their duty despite rain or shine, summer or winter, or busy farming season. And even when those gospel friends insulted and abused them, or beat them and called the police, they didn’t lose heart and still carried out God’s will uncomplainingly—spreading the kingdom gospel. When I saw these facts with my own eyes, I shed tears. I couldn’t find the words to express my indebtedness to Almighty God and the brothers and sisters! Brothers and sisters who haven’t yet come before God, do you think they are a “mafia”? Are there such mafiosi in the world who can suffer so much to persuade people to believe in God? Are there such mafiosi who “have guns and cannons” yet bear humiliations to spread the gospel? The facts proved that those rumors were all deceptive lies, pure slanders, and sheer smears against the true way! In the past, as I was blind, ignorant, and devoid of discernment, I was deceived by those rumors. And I even spread them everywhere to bind the brothers and sisters and became an evil servant who resisted God. Now, when I think of this, I’m really heartbroken with regret. Here, I want to tell my sincere hope to all brothers and sisters who haven’t yet come before God: Clear your spiritual eyes and discern right from wrong. Don’t be deceived by those people who have ulterior motives. Come before Almighty God, Christ of the last days quickly! Only Almighty God can save us from darkness and lead us to take the true way of human life!
Monday, June 26, 2017
Almighty God’s Righteous Disposition Awoke Me
Zhangjin
Zhumadian City, Henan Province
I was a believer of the “Seventh-day Observer,” also a sinner who resisted God blindly because of believing the leader’s words. It was not until November 15, 2003 when I saw God’s righteous disposition come upon the leader that I woke up and then came before Almighty God. The following is my true experience.
In March of 2000, Leader Li said to us in the church, “Now there is a typical heresy, a cult, called the ‘Eastern Lightning.’ They deceive people everywhere. They don’t even read the Bible anymore and only read a book they call the little scroll. You mustn’t listen to their message. If you don’t accept their way after listening, they will shut you into a basement and gouge your eyes, cut off your ears, or break your legs…” Hearing his words, I was very frightened, and didn’t dare to have contact with the strangers anymore, afraid of being deceived by the believers of the “Eastern Lightning.”
Later, many people came to preach to me, but I rejected them all. Once, a brother of our church came and said to me, “God has done a new work. He has opened the little scroll and uttered His voice personally…” “Bullshit. If you talk nonsense again, I will slap you. Get out of here immediately.” I shouted abuse at him before he finished his words. Then I grabbed his collar and pulled him out. Another time, two sisters came to preach to me. They said, “Brother, please listen to God’s new work! …” I flew into a rage and said, “What cheek! I have no time to listen to your babble. Go away!” With that, I took the broom and laid about them and drove them away.
On November 15, 2003, I had just finished my breakfast when my aunt (who had already accepted God’s new work) came and brought me a book. She said to me sincerely, “This is the little scroll opened by the Lamb. Read it, and you will be clear about all the mysteries. I won’t harm you. Please read it! …” I took it and saw that it was entitled The Scroll Opened by the Lamb. I was sure that it was the book of the “Eastern Lighting,” so I threw the book back to her, and said with a long face, “You’ve been deceived. Don’t come to deceive me! It’s none of your business if I go to hell. From now on, I’m no longer your nephew and you are not my aunt. I have nothing to do with you. Leave now!” “Nephew, think about it carefully. Don’t play with your life. The disposition God expresses this time is like a lion’s. You can’t slight it! …” “Stop it! Go! Never come again! …” As I said that, I pushed her out of the door. She heaved a heavy sigh and left in sorrow…
After my aunt left, I hastily went to attend the meeting. That morning, it was Leader Li again who gave the message. He was preaching wantonly, “The ‘Eastern Lightning’ is a false Christ, an evil spirit that deceives people. Its members commit adultery…” He spoke loudly and became more and more excited. Suddenly, he fell on the pulpit floor, his head tilting to one side, his legs kicking, and his eyes glaring, unable to speak. The brothers and sisters all hastened to kneel on the floor and pray for him. However, the poor man didn’t get up. In the end, we had to send him to the hospital, but he died there after emergency treatment failed. The believers talked much about it. “The ‘Eastern Lightning’ is really powerful. Possibly he is indeed the true God. Otherwise, how could Leader Li die after blaspheming and condemning him? …” “The Lord has said that we can’t judge rashly, or we will be condemned. He condemned and spoke against the ‘Lightning’ every day. Of course he will have to answer to it…” And two unbelievers said as they walked, “Have you heard that the ‘head of the church’ in our village (the leader) was struck dead by the lightning?” “He wasn’t struck dead by the lightning. I heard from those believers in the Lord that he was cursed to death because he reviled the God of the ‘Lightning’… It seems there is God! …” I was also greatly shocked, “If the ‘Eastern Lightning’ were not the true way, how could leader Li die of sudden illness after reviling him?” I also thought of Herod, who didn’t give praise to God and was eaten by worms and died. (ref. Acts 12:21-23) I couldn’t help feeling a shudder. “God is honorable and supreme. Was Leader Li really cursed by God? … Is the ‘Eastern Lightning’ really the true way? …”
After I went back home, I found that the book my aunt brought to me was still at my home somehow. I picked it up and wanted to see what was written in it, but I hesitated, afraid of being deceived for lack of discernment. But when thinking of the leader’s death, I said to myself, “If this book is really the scroll opened by the Lamb and I refuse to read it, won’t I regret all my life?” Then I immediately knelt down and prayed to the Lord, “Dear Lord! You know I’m ignorant and blind. May You guide and enlighten me, giving me the ability to discern whether it’s true or false. If this book is from You, may You let me be clear and I will accept it. If it is not, I will reject it…” I prayed for a long time. Finally, I picked up the book cautiously, opened it, and read these words: “The Son of man has been testified, and God Himself has appeared publicly. God’s glory shines forth, as the sun shines in full power! God’s countenance is radiating dazzling light. Who dares to show resistance in his look? Whoever resists will die! Regardless of whether he resists in his thinking, his speaking, or his doing, he won’t be given any mercy!” “I will punish the evil and reward the good, I will execute My righteousness, I will carry out My judgment, and I will accomplish everything with the word, causing all people and all things to taste My hands of chastising man. I will surely let all people see My all-gloriousness, all-wiseness, and all-bountifulness. No one dares to rise up to judge, for everything is accomplished with Me. Here, I’ll let everyone see My all-honorableness and taste My all-victoriousness, for everything is revealed with Me. This fully manifests My power and authority. No one dares to offend, and no one dares to obstruct. With Me everything is open. Who dares to cover up? I will surely not let him off! Such a despicable wretch is bound to suffer My severe chastisement, and such scum is bound to be removed from before My eyes. I will rule him with an iron rod. I will judge him with My authority relentlessly, without any mercy, because I am unemotional and I am majestic, unoffendable God Himself. Everyone should know and see this, lest you be struck down or destroyed by Me ‘for no reason,’ because My rod will strike down anyone who offends Me. I don’t care whether he knows My administrative decrees or not. I don’t care about that, for My person does not tolerate anyone’s offense. This is the reason why I say I am a lion. As long as I see your offense, I will strike you down. This is why now it is a blasphemy to say I am a merciful and loving God. I am not a sheep, but a lion, whom no one dares to offend. Whoever offends Me, I will put him to death at once, without any mercy! This fully manifests My disposition. So, in the final age, a large number of people will drop out. It is unbearable to man, but to Me it is quite easy and pleasant, not difficult at all. This is My disposition.” After reading these words, I associated them with Leader Li’s sudden death. Then I was stunned. “Doesn’t the fact fulfill the word ‘Whoever resists will die’? Moreover, these words are with power and authority, and no one can speak such words. Are they really God’s words?” I continued to read: “Throughout the universe I am doing My work, and in the East, thunderous crashes issue forth endlessly, shaking all denominations and sects. It is My voice that has brought all men to the present. I let My voice be that which conquers man; they all fall into this stream and all submit before Me, for I have long ago reclaimed My glory from all the earth and issued it forth anew in the East. Who does not long to see My glory? Who does not anxiously await My return? Who does not thirst for My reappearance? Who does not long for My loveliness? Who would not come to the light? Who would not see the richness of Canaan? Who does not long for the return of the ‘Redeemer’? Who does not adore the Great Almighty? My voice must spread throughout all the earth; I wish to speak more to My chosen people. The words I utter shake the mountains and rivers like mighty thunders; I speak to all the universe and to mankind. Hence My words become man’s treasure, and all men cherish them. The lightning flashes from the East even to the West. My words are such that man loathes to give them up and finds them unfathomable, but moreover, man rejoices in them. Like a newborn infant, all men are glad and joyful, celebrating My coming. Because of My voice, I shall bring all men before Me. Thenceforth, I shall formally enter among men so that they come to worship Me. The glory I give forth and My words make it such that all men come before Me and see that the lightning flashes from the East, and that I have also descended unto the ‘Mount of Olives’ of the East. They will see that I have already long been on earth, no longer the ‘Son of the Jews’ but the Lightning of the East. For I have long since been resurrected, gone away from among men, then reappeared among men with glory. I am He who was worshiped before the ages, and the ‘infant’ forsaken by the Israelites before the ages. Moreover, I am the all-glorious Almighty God of the present age!” Under the leading of the Holy Spirit, I read many pieces of God’s word, such as “Concerning the Bible (1),” “Concerning the Bible (2),” “Concerning the Bible (3),” “Concerning the Bible (4),” “The Work in the Age of Law” “The Truth Concerning the Work in the Age of Redemption,” “The Age of Kingdom Is the Age of the Word,” and so on. The more I read, the more I was thirsty, and the more I was clear and brightened. I finished the whole book in only two days and nights. From it I knew many mysteries that I hadn’t understood in my many years of belief in God. And I also knew that the Bible was only the historical record of the work God had done. Just as Almighty God says: “Anything that happened in the past is history today, no matter how true, how real; and history cannot address the present.” Only Almighty God’s word of today can satisfy people’s actual needs and supply them with life. If one wants to be purified, he must follow God’s new work and accept the chastisement and judgment of God’s word. By then, I believed that this book is the scroll opened by the Lamb and that the “Eastern Lightning” is the incarnate Savior Lord Jesus, and is God Himself! So I went to my aunt’s home and said to her with shame, “Auntie, scold me and beat me! I am so ungrateful and treated my benefactor as an enemy! …” My aunt said excitedly, “Almighty God is our benefactor. I feel so happy that you can come before God. God’s heart will be comforted! How can I scold or beat you? …”
Thinking back to what I had done before, I felt extremely ashamed and regretful. God had sent people again and again to save me, but I was not only ungrateful but insulted, abused, and beat the gospel preachers many times, and I even refused to recognize my aunt as a relative. I wasn’t rejecting a man but rejecting God’s salvation to me. So many times I prayed to God in bitter tears, “O Almighty God, I thank You! I blindly believed the leader’s words before and resisted Your new work without seeking or investigating. I was really blind and ignorant, unworthy to be a man. According to my evil deeds, I should deserve to die. But You didn’t remember my sin, and still love me and save me like this. You conquered me with Your word, which is like a double-edged sword, and led me before Your presence. O Almighty God! Thanks to Your great love. Otherwise, I would still have resisted You ignorantly and would be punished like my leader in the end! O Almighty God, no words can express my indebtedness to You. I only wish to give all the rest of my time to You and cooperate with You in the spreading of Your gospel to repay Your great love!”
After I accepted Almighty God’s new work, in associating with the brothers and sisters, I found that they all behaved decently, spoke properly, treated others by principles, and kept a clear line between male and female. There wasn’t any sign of their “committing adultery” as our leader said. What’s more, Almighty God stipulated in Article 4 of the Ten Administrative Decrees God’s Chosen People Must Keep: “Man has corrupt disposition and even more has emotion. So, in the service in coordination, two people of different sexes are forbidden to coordinate alone. If discovered, they shall be expelled, no matter who they are.” As to the leader’s words such as, “If you don’t accept their way after listening to their message, they will shut you into a basement and gouge your eyes, cut off your ears, or break your legs,” they are complete fabrications and groundless slanders. Several brothers and sisters in my village had accepted Almighty God and were dragged back later by the leader, and they are all very well now. Instead, it was those brothers and sisters preaching God’s new work who were often beaten and insulted. Weren’t all those iron facts? This made me feel more deeply that the rumors are so absurd and those rumor-fabricators are so malicious!
Dear brothers and sisters, please open our spiritual eyes and have a look! The “Eastern Lightning” we have resisted is becoming stronger and stronger, and more and more brothers and sisters who truly love God have believed in it. With various denominations and sects, however, we often hear from them the news that their evil leaders are repaid with punishment because of resisting Almighty God. Isn’t this worth our deep thinking? Almighty God says: “The disposition of God is one that belongs to the Ruler of the living beings among all things, to the Lord of all creation. His disposition represents honor, power, nobility, greatness, and most of all, supremacy. His disposition is the symbol of authority and all that is righteous, beautiful, and good. Moreover, it is a symbol of how God cannot be suppressed or attacked by the darkness and any enemy force, as well as a symbol of how He cannot be (and indeed is not allowed to be) offended by any created being. His disposition is the symbol of the highest power. No person or persons may or can disturb His work or His disposition.” God is a symbol of supreme authority. If the One those leaders resisted were not the true God, who could take their lives away? Brothers and sisters, the dispositions God expresses in the Age of Kingdom are majesty, wrath, and intolerance of man’s offense, which are a lion’s but not a sheep’s. Don’t resist God and test God’s disposition anymore. When God’s punishment comes, it will be too late to repent. Now there is still a little time left. Come before Almighty God’s throne quickly! This is the irresistible trend now. Almighty God says: “Let all come before My throne to see My glorious countenance, hear My voice, and watch My deeds. This is the entirety of My will; it is the end and climax of My plan, as well as the purpose of My management. Let every nation worship Me, every tongue acknowledge Me, every man trust Me, and every people be subject unto Me!”
Sunday, June 25, 2017
The Church of Almighty God | Gospel Movie “Stinging Memories”
Fan Guoyi was an elder of a house church in China. In his over twenty years of service, he always emulated Paul, sacrificing for the Lord zealously and working hard. He firmly believed that he was doing the will of the heavenly Father by pursuing that way and he would surely be raptured to the kingdom of heaven at the return of the Lord. However, when Almighty God’s salvation of the last days came upon him, he clung to his notions, rejecting, resisting, and condemning it time and time again…. Later, after several debates with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God, Fan Guoyi finally woke up. He truly understood the meaning of doing the will of the heavenly Father and the way of pursuing to be saved and enter the kingdom of heaven….
At every thought of the past, the memories were stinging in his heart….
Recommendation: Eastern Lightning,Almighty God
Saturday, June 24, 2017
The Recitation of Almighty God's Word "God Is the Source of Man's Life"
Almighty God says, "God created this world and brought man, a living being unto which He bestowed life, into it. In turn, man came to have parents and kin and was no longer alone. Ever since man first laid eyes on this material world, he was destined to exist within the ordination of God. It is the breath of life from God that supports each living being throughout his growth into adulthood. During this process, none believe that man lives and grows up under the care of God. Rather, they hold that man grows up under the love and care of his parents, and that his growth is governed by the instinct of life. This is because man knows not who bestowed life or from whence it came, much less how the instinct of life creates miracles. Man knows only that food is the basis of the continuation of life, that perseverance is the source of existence of life, and that the belief in his mind is the wealth of his survival. Man does not feel the grace and provision from God. Man then squanders the life bestowed upon him by God. … Not one man whom God looks upon day and night takes the initiative to worship Him. God continues to work as He has planned on man for whom He holds no expectations. He does so in the hope that one day, man will awaken from his dream and suddenly comprehend the value and purpose of life, understand the cost at which God has given man everything, and know how fervently God longs for man to turn back to Him. None have ever considered the secrets to the origin and continuation of man’s life. And yet, only God who understands all of this silently endures the hurt and blows from man, who has received everything from God but is not thankful. Man takes for granted all that life brings, and “as a matter of course,” God is betrayed, forgotten, and extorted by man. Is the plan of God truly of such importance? Is man, the living being that came from the hand of God, truly of such importance? The plan of God is of absolute importance; however, the living being created by the hand of God exists for His plan. Therefore, God cannot lay waste to His plan out of hatred for this mankind. It is for the sake of His plan and the breath He exhaled that God endures all torment, not for the flesh of man but for the life of man. He wishes to take back not the flesh of man but the life He breathed out. This is His plan."
Recommend: Gospel Movie clip "Song of Victory" (6) - The Path That Leads to Purification and SalvationFriday, June 23, 2017
The Church of Almighty God | Official Trailer "Break the Spell"
Fu Jinhua was the elder of a house church in China. Like many other devout Christians, she upheld the Bible above all. In her mind, the entirety of the Bible was inspired by God, departing from the Bible was not faith in the Lord, and holding on to the Bible was being faithful to the Lord. She also believed that the Lord would come with clouds to rapture His believers straight into the kingdom of heaven. With that, when in the face of Almighty God’s work in the last days, she never sought or investigated. In a co-worker meeting, when co-workers sought and discussed how the Lord would return in the last days, they found that they only stuck to the prophecy of the Lord’s coming with clouds but ignored the prophecies of the Lord coming like a thief and wise virgins welcoming the Bridegroom. It was only then that Fu Jinhua came to realize that the Lord’s return in the last days was not so simple as what man imagined, and that there were extremely profound mysteries within it. After the truth debates with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God, the “spell” that had bound her for many years was finally broken.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Almighty God's Word "The Savior Has Already Returned Upon a 'White Cloud'"
For several thousand years, man has longed to be able to witness the arrival of the Savior. Man has longed to behold Jesus the Savior on a white cloud as He descends, in person, among those who have pined and yearned for Him for thousands of years. Man has longed for the Savior to return and be reunited with the people, that is, for Jesus the Savior to come back to the people from whom He has been apart for thousands of years. And man hopes that He will once again carry out the work of redemption that He did among the Jews, will be compassionate and loving toward man, will forgive the sins of man, bear the sins of man, and even bear all of man’s transgressions and deliver man from sin. They long for Jesus the Savior to be the same as before—a Savior who is lovable, amiable and venerable, who is never wrathful toward man, and who never reproaches man. This Savior forgives and bears all of man’s sins, and even dies upon the cross for man once more. Since Jesus departed, the disciples who followed Him, and all of the saints who were saved thanks to His name, have been desperately pining for Him and awaiting Him. All those who were saved by the grace of Jesus Christ during the Age of Grace have been longing for that joyful day during the last days, when Jesus the Savior arrives on a white cloud and appears among man. Of course, this is also the collective wish of all those who accept the name of Jesus the Savior today. Throughout the universe, all those who know of the salvation of Jesus the Savior have been desperately yearning for the sudden arrival of Jesus Christ, to fulfill the words of Jesus when on earth: “I shall arrive just as I departed.” Man believes that, following the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus went back to heaven upon a white cloud, and took His place at the Most High’s right hand. Similarly, man conceives that Jesus shall descend, again upon a white cloud (this cloud refers to the cloud that Jesus rode upon when He returned to heaven), among those who have desperately yearned for Him for thousands of years, and that He shall bear the image and clothes of the Jews. After appearing to man, He shall bestow food upon them, and cause living water to gush forth for them, and shall live among man, full of grace and love, living and real. And so on. Yet Jesus the Savior did not do this; He did the opposite of what man conceived. He did not arrive among those who had yearned for His return, and did not appear to all men while riding upon the white cloud. He has already arrived, but man does not know Him, and remains ignorant of His arrival. Man is only aimlessly awaiting Him, unaware that He has already descended upon a white cloud (the cloud which is His Spirit, His words, and His entire disposition and all that He is), and is now among a group of overcomers that He will make during the last days. Man does not know this: Although the holy Savior Jesus is full of affection and love toward man, how could He work in “temples” inhabited by filth and impure spirits? Though man has been awaiting His arrival, how could He appear to those who eat the flesh of the unrighteous, drink the blood of the unrighteous, wear the clothes of the unrighteous, who believe in Him but do not know Him, and who constantly extort Him? Man knows only that Jesus the Savior is full of love and compassion, and is the sin offering filled with redemption. But man has no idea that He is also God Himself, who is brimming with righteousness, majesty, wrath, and judgment, and possessed of authority and full of dignity. And so even though man eagerly yearns for and craves the return of the Redeemer, and even Heaven is moved by the prayers of man, Jesus the Savior does not appear to those who believe in Him but do not know Him.
“Jehovah” is the name that I took during My work in Israel, and it means the God of the Israelites (God’s chosen people) who can take pity on man, curse man, and guide the life of man. It means the God who possesses great power and is full of wisdom. “Jesus” is Emmanuel, and it means the sin offering that is full of love, full of compassion, and redeems man. He did the work of the Age of Grace, and represents the Age of Grace, and can only represent one part of the management plan. That is to say, only Jehovah is the God of the chosen people of Israel, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, and the God of all the people of Israel. And so in the current age, all the Israelites apart from the tribe of Judah worship Jehovah. They make sacrifices to Him on the altar, and serve Him wearing priests’ robes in the temple. What they hope for is the reappearance of Jehovah. Only Jesus is the Redeemer of mankind. He is the sin offering that redeemed mankind from sin. Which is to say, the name of Jesus came from the Age of Grace, and existed because of the work of redemption in the Age of Grace. The name of Jesus existed to allow the people of the Age of Grace to be reborn and saved, and is a particular name for the redemption of the whole of mankind. And so the name Jesus represents the work of redemption, and denotes the Age of Grace. The name Jehovah is a particular name for the people of Israel who lived under the law. In each age and each stage of work, My name is not baseless, but holds representative significance: Each name represents one age. “Jehovah” represents the Age of Law, and is the honorific for the God worshiped by the people of Israel. “Jesus” represents the Age of Grace, and is the name of the God of all those who were redeemed during the Age of Grace. If man still longs for the arrival of Jesus the Savior during the last days, and still expects Him to arrive in the image He bore in Judea, then the entire six-thousand-year management plan would stop in the Age of Redemption, and would be incapable of progressing any further. The last days, furthermore, would never arrive, and the age would never be brought to an end. That is because Jesus the Savior is only for the redemption and salvation of mankind. I took the name of Jesus for the sake of all the sinners in the Age of Grace, and it is not the name by which I shall bring the whole of mankind to an end. Although Jehovah, Jesus, and the Messiah all represent My Spirit, these names only denote the different ages in My management plan, and do not represent Me in My entirety. The names by which people on earth call Me cannot articulate My entire disposition and all that I am. They are merely different names by which I am called during different ages. And so, when the final age—the age of the last days—arrives, My name shall change again. I shall not be called Jehovah, or Jesus, much less the Messiah, but shall be called the powerful Almighty God Himself, and under this name I shall bring the entire age to an end. I was once known as Jehovah. I was also called the Messiah, and people once called Me Jesus the Savior because they loved and respected Me. But today I am not the Jehovah or Jesus that people knew in times past—I am the God who has returned in the last days, the God who shall bring the age to an end. I am the God Himself that rises up at the ends of the earth, replete with My entire disposition, and full of authority, honor and glory. People have never engaged with Me, have never known Me, and have always been ignorant of My disposition. From the creation of the world until today, not one person has seen Me. This is the God who appears to man during the last days but is hidden among man. He resides among man, true and real, like the burning sun and the flaming fire, filled with power and brimming with authority. There is not a single person or thing that shall not be judged by My words, and not a single person or thing that shall not be purified through the burning of fire. Eventually, all nations shall be blessed because of My words, and also smashed to pieces because of My words. In this way, all people during the last days shall see that I am the Savior returned, I am the Almighty God that conquers all of mankind, and I was once the sin offering for man, but in the last days I also become the flames of the sun that burn all things, as well as the Sun of righteousness that reveals all things. Such is My work of the last days. I took this name and am possessed of this disposition so that all people may see that I am a righteous God, and am the burning sun, and the flaming fire. It is so that all may worship Me, the only true God, and so that they may see My true face: I am not only the God of the Israelites, and am not just the Redeemer—I am the God of all creatures throughout heavens and earth and seas.
When the Savior arrives during the last days, if He were still called Jesus, and were once again born in Judea, and did His work in Judea, then this would prove that I only created the people of Israel and only redeemed the people of Israel, and that I have nothing to do with the Gentiles. Would this not contradict My words that “I am the Lord who created the heavens and earth and all things”? I left Judea and do My work among the Gentiles because I am not merely the God of the people of Israel, but the God of all creatures. I appear among the Gentiles during the last days because I am not only Jehovah, the God of the people of Israel, but, moreover, because I am the Creator of all My chosen ones among the Gentiles. I not only created Israel, Egypt, and Lebanon, but also created all the Gentile nations beyond Israel. And because of this, I am the Lord of all creatures. I merely used Israel as the starting point for My work, employed Judea and Galilee as the strongholds of My work of redemption, and use the Gentile nations as the base from which I will bring the entire age to an end. I did two stages of work in Israel (the two stages of the work of the Age of Law and the Age of Grace), and I have been carrying out two further stages of work (the Age of Grace and the Age of Kingdom) throughout the lands beyond Israel. Among the Gentile nations I will do the work of conquering, and so conclude the age. If man always calls Me Jesus Christ, but does not know that I have begun a new age during the last days and have embarked upon new work, and if man always obsessively awaits the arrival of Jesus the Savior, then I shall call people such as this the ones who do not believe in Me. They are people who do not know Me, and their belief in Me is a sham. Could such people witness the arrival of Jesus the Savior from heaven? What they await is not My arrival, but the arrival of the King of the Jews. They do not yearn for My annihilation of this impure old world, but instead long for the second coming of Jesus, whereupon they will be redeemed; they look forward to Jesus once more redeeming all of mankind from this defiled and unrighteous land. How can such people become those who complete My work during the last days? The desires of man are incapable of achieving My wishes or accomplishing My work, for man merely admires or cherishes the work that I have done before, and has no idea that I am the God Himself who is always new and never old. Man only knows that I am Jehovah, and Jesus, and has no inkling that I am the Last, the One who shall bring mankind to an end. All that man yearns for and knows is of his own conception, and is merely that which he can see with his own eyes. It is not in line with the work I do, but in disharmony with it. If My work were conducted according to the ideas of man, then when would it end? When would mankind enter rest? And how would I be able to enter the seventh day, the Sabbath? I work according to My plan, according to My aim, and not according to the intention of man.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Resolve to be Born Again - "Offer Love to God" | The Church of Almighty God
God took on flesh, came to live among us.
Through all disgrace and shame, He gave us salvation.
But I did not know or understand Him, full of grumbles.
How His heart grieved at my rebellion and resistance!
Dear Almighty God, You don’t remember my faults.
You’ve endured all my rebellious ways but offer grace once again.
Knowing You raise me up, I’m covered with great shame.
How unworthy I am to receive Your love!
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Almighty God Gave Me a Second Life
—The Story of a Person Who Fiercely Resisted Almighty God’s Work of the Last Days
Zheng Yongshen
Funan County, Anhui Province
I was a co-worker of the Stream of Recovery. On December 8, 1998, a brother of our church came to me to preach the work of Almighty God of the last days. He gave me a book of Almighty God’s word and asked me to read it. I was very angry and rebuked him, “We only believe in the Lord Jesus; why did you convert to the faith of another god?” Running my eyes over more than one page of the book, I laid it aside, because I thought the words were plain and simple, and too shallow. The brother said to me earnestly, “Better finish reading it, and you will know it is truly the word personally spoken by God.” “I don’t think so. Now that you insist it is God’s own word, you get a pen and a notebook, put them on the table, and ask God to speak!” I said rudely. And then I murmured to myself angrily, “You believers in Almighty God have stolen many of our lambs, and now you also want to draw me in. No way!” Then I went to the church, and called some other co-workers together and discussed how to guard against the “Eastern Lightning,” trying to work out ways to fight back against it. After that, we went to every meeting place spreading these slanderous and blasphemous words: “You mustn’t believe in the ‘Eastern Lightning.’ It is a false Christ, a false prophet, who tries to deceive people in the disguise of the Lord. What we believe in is the truth. Don’t listen to their messages. Those people are the disturbers of the church. It is a test of whether we have foundation. If your foundation is built on sand, you will be taken away by them; if you have foundation, you will be able to stand no matter how they disturb.” And I also started rumors among the believers, “The sect of Almighty God is a mafia, and they have guns. Once you join them, you can’t withdraw. If you want to, they will gouge out your eyes, cut off your nose or ears, or break your legs. And they are promiscuous.” In order to preserve my position and fame and prevent the brothers and sisters from receiving the truth, I fabricated horrible lies to seal off the church and used the biblical verses out of context to condemn God’s work of the last days. As a result, many who had no discernment and didn’t know the truth were too frightened to accept Almighty God’s work of the last days. These are the evils I have done.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Almighty God's Word "What Do You Know of Faith?"
In man exists only the uncertain word of faith, yet man knows not what constitutes faith, much less why he has faith. Man understands too little and man himself is too lacking; he merely has faith in Me mindlessly and ignorantly. Though he knows not what faith is nor why he has faith in Me, he continues to do so obsessively. What I ask of man is not merely for him to obsessively call upon Me in this way or to believe in Me in a desultory fashion.
Gospel Movie Trailer "My Dream of the Heavenly Kingdom" | The Church of Almighty God
Song Ruiming was a pastor of a certain church in South Korea. Over many years of his belief in the Lord, he had been pursuing fervently, spending and working for the Lord, waiting for the Lord to come and rapture him to the kingdom of heaven. However, in recent years, what laid before him was the increasingly desolate church that lost the work of the Holy Spirit: The preachers had nothing new to talk about, and believers were all weak and passive. At the crucial point of welcoming the Lord’s return, the religious world was subject to such a fierce famine. Song Ruiming felt confused and lost for this situation. Right at that time, a repatriated missionary who had ever evangelized in China told him something about a rising church in China—the Eastern Lightning: The Eastern Lightning is testifying that the Lord Jesus has come back and that He is Almighty God, and they are frenziedly condemned and resisted by the CCP government and the religious world. What he said reminded Song Ruiming of the fact that while the Lord Jesus was preaching and working, He suffered the same thing—the condemnation and rejection of the religious world and the ruling regime. Also, Song Ruiming realized that the church condemned and persecuted most seriously by the CCP should be the church that comes from God because the CCP is an atheist party that opposes God the most. As such, Song Ruiming made his decision to go to China and investigate the Eastern Lightning there. After Song Ruiming and Missionary Cui Cheng’en arrived in China, they suffered some frustration and finally met Co-worker Chen Xin who was looking into the Eastern Lightning. Through reading Almighty God’s words, Song Ruiming found that all that Almighty God says is the truth and is exactly the voice of God. He sensed the Eastern Lightning is far more likely to be the reappearance and work of the Lord!when he gathered with the preachers of the Eastern Lightning to hear their testimony about Almighty God’s work of the last days, a religious co-worker in China betrayed them by reporting them to the police. As a result, Song Ruiming and Cui Cheng’en were captured by the CCP police and were forcibly sent back to South Korea. Back to his own country, Song Ruiming was particularly lost and distressed and he tried every possible means to contact the Church of Almighty God. It lasted until one day he came across the Korean website of the Church of Almighty God online. He then learned that the Eastern Lightning was already spread to South Korea and there was the Church of Almighty God established there. This news came as a great surprise to Song Ruiming, and he gathered the brothers and sisters in his church and took them to the Church of Almighty God for an investigation of Almighty God’s work of the last days. Through the fellowship and testimony of the preachers, Song Ruiming and his fellow believers made certain that Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus, and readily accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days. As such, they were raptured before God’s throne and found the path to the kingdom of heaven. His dream of the heavenly kingdom has finally come true!
Source : Gospel Movie Trailer "My Dream of the Heavenly Kingdom" | Eastern Lightning
Source : Gospel Movie Trailer "My Dream of the Heavenly Kingdom" | Eastern Lightning
Almighty God Is the Returned Jesus
Wang Yang
Guichi City, Anhui Province
I was formerly a leader of the Justification by Faith Church in the city of Guichi. Before I accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days, I, like all brothers and sisters, had been eagerly expecting the Lord Jesus’ coming again. But because of the constant “warnings” from the senior leader above and the biblical verse that there will surely appear many false Christs in the last days, I became one who resisted and condemned God’s work of the last days. Thinking of these, I feel very guilty. Now, I will tell brothers and sisters my personal experience, hoping that brothers and sisters will learn a lesson from it and come back to God’s family soon.
I Questions and Answers About the Church Desolation | Gospel for the Church of Almighty God
Question 1: For years, we feel an emptiness in our church. We’ve lost the faith and love we had at the start, and become weaker and negative. The preachers sometimes feel lost and don’t know what to talk about. We feel we’ve lost the work of the Holy Spirit. We’ve looked everywhere for a church with the Holy Spirit’s work, but every church we see is as desolate as our own. Why are so many churches hungry and desolate?
