they're in this apartment!

Let's keep moving.

Yes.

Move!

Get in!

Hey, is that Sister Feng and Sister Tang? (Yes.)

Pastor Qiao is there too?

What's going on?

Let's turn back. (Yes.)

Mom, you're home?

You're home?

Keep listening. (All right.)

Qingxin, are you okay?

I saw Sister Feng, she was being arrested by the police!

What? Sister Feng?

She was arrested? What's going on?

I hear she received people from Eastern Lightning,

Pastor Qiao found out.

He brought the police to arrest them.

The Eastern Lightning, they left already and weren't arrested,

but the police did arrest Sister Feng.

I never thought that Pastor Qiao could do something this horrible.

Anyway, Eastern Lightning people are believers of God.

Isn't Pastor Qiao's action a betrayal of the Lord and of friends?

This is being a Judas,

the Lord will curse them for this.

As I see it, he'll do whatever it takes to stifle Eastern Lightning.

Right.

I don't understand,

all they do is testify that the Lord Jesus has returned

that He spoke words doing judgment work of the last days.

Why does Pastor Qiao hate them so much?

He worked with the Chinese government to arrest them!

There is something very wrong here!

In recent years, many good and head sheep

were stolen by the people of Eastern Lightning.

We must resist Eastern Lightning.

To protect the flock,

the church has printed more propaganda opposed to Eastern Lightning.

Please read them carefully.

These words incriminate Eastern Lightning.

There's no basis in fact; it's groundless.

Is this not spreading rumors?

It is.

In spreading rumors that incriminate Eastern Lightning,

the pastors and elders clearly violate God's commandments.

It appears that we cannot completely believe what the pastors and elders say!

How can Pastor Qiao be so evil?

He turned believers over to the government!

What is he doing!

Isn't this conspiring with Satan?

It is!

These days I have been pondering,

the church is desolate, without the work of the Holy Spirit,

the brothers and sisters are weak and negative.

True.

The pastors and elders do not lead us to seek the Lord's will in His word.

They ignore the Holy Spirit's work.

They've even made resistance of Eastern Lightning the central work of the church.

So I feel this is a serious violation of the Bible.

The Bible says nothing that condemns Eastern Lightning.

In doing this,

they're deviating from the Bible and committing outrages.

Right!

It's too much!

As I see it,

we can't keep blindly obeying one-sided statements of the pastors.

We should investigate Eastern Lightning, (That's right.)

and become clear about the truth of the matter,

and find out if Eastern Lightning is the Lord becoming manifest.

So what do you all think about this?

We should have investigated Eastern Lightning long ago.

These past years, more and more people are believing in Eastern Lightning,

and most of them are good sheep of many different sects and denominations.

They're all people who understand the Bible well.

It is no simple matter for these people to accept Eastern Lightning.

If Eastern Lightning didn't have the Holy Spirit's work

or the Holy Spirit's utterances,

there would be not so many people who understand the Bible accepting it!

There's certainly a mystery in this.

The pastors say that they've been deceived by heretics.

This is wrong.

If anyone were deceived, it would have been those fools who have no discernment.

It is impossible that good sheep of many denominations were misled! (Right.)

As I see it, the fact that so many good sheep of various denominations

have believed in Eastern Lightning

is sufficient proof that Eastern Lightning contains the Holy Spirit's work in it!

What you are saying is right.

Now, the religious world is missing the work of the Holy Spirit,

and the confidence and love of most people who believe in the Lord has gone cold.

Churches everywhere are desolate.

Why is the only sect that's flourishing Eastern Lightning?

Even under persecution by the Chinese Communist government,

they spread the gospel with unbounded confidence.

This could only be achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit!

That's right.

Take the brothers and sisters of our church who accepted Eastern Lightning.

Since they've accepted Eastern Lightning,

they have all changed and are more confident,

they're willing to risk their lives to spread the gospel.

Who could achieve this without the Holy Spirit's work?

I think it's very possible that Eastern Lightning comes from God.

Yes.

We should pursue it and investigate it,

and hear if the words spoken by Almighty God really are the voice of God.

This way we can be wise virgins and welcome the Lord's return!

Qingxin, what is it?

It's nothing; let's go.

Hello?

People from Eastern Lightning have gone to Sister Li's house.

What? They are stealing sheep again?

This is outrageous!

Keep close watch. We'll be there soon.

Should we first report this to the police?

Go easy.

Let's get to Sister Li's house first to see what's up,

to avoid what happened last time,

when the Eastern Lightning people were not caught

and our church's brothers and sisters were arrested.

As usual, you have thought it through best.

Let's go! (Yes.)

Sister Dong, Sister Yang,

hearing you fellowship Almighty God's words and witness for His last days' work,

I have received great edification and have gained great rewards!

Thank God! Thanks be to God!

I now understand truths that I failed to understand for years,

many points of confusion in my faith have been resolved. (Thank the Lord.)

My heart is more enlightened.

I feel that my belief in God has a clearer path! (Thank the Lord.)

Thank the Lord.

We must thank Almighty God!

Yes. Thanks be to God.

Brothers and sisters, this is God's divine favor to us!

Right. Thank the Lord! Yes. Certainly.

You've received great results from hearing us commune Almighty God's words.

What does this illustrate?

This shows that the words of Almighty God are the words of the Holy Spirit;

they are God's voice!

Does everyone agree?

Yes!

The Lord Jesus left many words unspoken during the Age of Grace,

people back then couldn't receive them, due to their small spiritual stature.

Hence the Lord Jesus promised to return during the last days,

to guide people to understand how to get into all truth.

Just as the Lord Jesus said,

Nowadays, the Lord Jesus has returned as Almighty God in the flesh. (Yes!)

Almighty God has expressed all truth to fully save people,

revealing God's management plan.

These truths are the water of life that nourishes us.

Indeed.

Yeah, it's exactly true.

Read Almighty God's words often,

and we will understand truth, and our lives will be nourished.

That's right. Yeah.

Brothers and sisters, let us read some more of Almighty God's words!

Great!

Let's turn to page 1454.

Brothers and sisters, let's read another passage. (Yes!)

Who's there?

Qingxin, it's me, Wen Ping.

Pastor Qiao, Elder Zou.

Pastor Qiao, Elder Zou.

Pastor Qiao, Elder Zou.

Pastor Qiao, have a seat and we'll discuss whatever you want. (Yeah.)

As I see it,

Sister Li, this is a strange matter.

Everyone has been welcoming the Lord's return,

waiting for the Lord to descend on a cloud,

so we can be lifted into the air to meet the Lord.

I never imagined how Eastern Lightning could have come about

and testify that the Lord has returned.

We have not seen the Lord descend on a cloud, however,

and we have not seen the believers raptured up.

Instead, many of the church's sheep have been stolen away by Eastern Lightning.

Could it be that these people were raptured?

I can't believe this!

It's wrong no matter who steals sheep away from our church.

We must protect the church.

Could it be that only they are a church,

and we are not a church?

Brothers and sisters,

our faith in the Lord is based on the Bible.

Can this be wrong?

Why don't you obey me?

You even receive people from Eastern Lightning,

and lead the brothers and sisters in hearing sermons of Eastern Lightning.

So you're not afraid of taking the wrong path?

Pastor Qiao, Elder Zou, have a seat and discuss this.

Yeah, please sit down.

Yes, Pastor Qiao, have a seat and we'll talk about it.

Pastor Qiao, it is clear that you are concerned about us

and fear that we will be deceived.

I can understand this.

However, the Bible has never forbidden us to receive strangers,

and the Lord Jesus has never forbidden us to receive Eastern Lightning people.

Even less did He forbid hearing the Eastern Lightning's preaching. (Right.)

The Lord Jesus even prophesied

that lightning would come out of the east and shine to the west. (Amen!)

Does our study of Eastern Lightning not conform to the Bible,

and conform to the Lord's word?

Why must you restrict us?

If you don't allow investigation of the lightning from the east,

could it be because people from Eastern Lightning have stolen good sheep?

Well, if the Lord came to steal treasures,

would you be able to prevent that? (Absolutely not.)

Why don't you seek what the Lord's will is

about Eastern Lightning stealing sheep?

Why don't you earnestly seek and investigate?

Does what you are doing conform to the Bible?

If Eastern Lightning is the true way, and is the Lord becoming manifest,

wouldn't you be afraid that you were resisting the Lord?

I can't get it.

Pastor Qiao, whether or not Eastern Lightning is truly the return of the Lord,

you can only be sure if you do thorough investigation!

Right.

If you blindly condemn without investigating or seeking,

it would be too easy to condemn the true way and resist God.

When you wildly condemn Eastern Lightning,

don't you fear resisting God?

Have you no reverence for God at all?

Your words and deeds are unprincipled,

and are too dangerous!

Indeed.

We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,

and you believe in Almighty God.

We are different in our ways. How can you lecture me?

You really have a lot of nerve, to dare to brazenly steal our sheep.

Who allowed you to preach on our turf?

Your words, do they conform with the word of the Lord?

Believers are the Lord's sheep and do not belong to one person or another.

Yes!

How can you say that a sheep belongs to you?

How could Pastor Qiao say we're his sheep? That's wrong.

In the last days, the Lord returns for His sheep.

If you were truly loyal to the Lord,

responsible for the brothers' and sisters' lives,

and heard talk of the Lord's return,

then you should lead the brothers and sisters in seeking out the Lord's voice,

and in welcoming His return.

Only this would be the way of a loyal and far-sighted servant. (Yes. That's right.)

And what do you do?

Why do you always prevent the brothers and sisters from seeking the true way?

How do I see your actions and words?

Aren't they like those hypocritical Pharisees who resisted the Lord Jesus and His teachings?

Do you know what you are doing?

I think you should do some soul-searching in the Lord's presence about your actions.

I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ on the basis of the Bible.

This cannot be wrong!