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  • People will often say

  • "Accidents happen and so much of life is unpredictable."

  • Today, with the economy and technology rapidly developing,

  • the material standards of living have gradually improved,

  • but we have discovered

  • that the disaster rate around the world is rising day by day.

  • When we open the newspapers, turn on the TV, or browse websites,

  • we see reports

  • of all kinds of natural and man-made disasters more and more often,

  • such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, fires,

  • mining accidents, plane crashes, and so on.

  • They're happening more frequently

  • and the severity of these disasters is also on the rise.

  • The people in these areas hit by disaster

  • have to endure as their lives are filled with suffering, injury, and death.

  • Their great anguish and misfortune

  • serves as a constant reminder of the brevity and fragility of life.

  • This allows us to realize

  • that mankind cannot foresee exactly what kind of disasters may befall them

  • and moreover how to prepare themselves for facing future catastrophes.

  • So what can we do to change our fate and avoid annihilation?

  • After you've finished watching this short film,

  • we're certain that you will find your answer

  • and that you will find the one, true path

  • that can help you receive God's great protection

  • and survive the oncoming disasters.

  • On May 12, 2008,

  • the Wenchuan earthquake surprised the entire world.

  • People had yet to recover from the effects of this catastrophic earthquake.

  • But just past 8 am on April 20, 2013,

  • China's Sichuan Province was once again struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

  • The epicenter of the province, Ya'an City, was left in ruins.

  • Many lives were lost in the incident

  • and many families were separated or destroyed.

  • In the face of such a major catastrophe,

  • mankind appeared to be left powerless, helpless and vulnerable.

  • Even the brave efforts to rescue any survivors in the aftermath

  • seemed feeble and overwhelmingly desperate.

  • The dead were gone and the living were left distraught,

  • their mournful cries emanating across the entire city.

  • It wouldn't stop shakingit felt like I was drunk.

  • I couldn't stand up, I was swaying around.

  • On the 3rd floor, the quake felt stronger.

  • We were asleep

  • Actually, back when the Yushu earthquake struck on April 14, 2010,

  • some renowned Chinese media outlets reported

  • that "China's North-South Seismic Belt has entered a frequent earthquake period"

  • and that "The whole world is entering a seismically active period."

  • We know that the Qinghai earthquake

  • is related to the seismic belt of the Wenchuan earthquake.

  • The Wenchuan earthquake zone sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plate,

  • while Yushu is situated in the center.

  • The China Earthquakes Network Center believes

  • that the world has entered a seismically active period.

  • In the 9-month stretch of time from July 15, 2009,

  • we've been able to see that the frequency of global seismic activity,

  • that is the number of earthquakes during this time

  • has clearly increased, based on the evidence.

  • There have been 24 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or higher.

  • That gives it an average rate of 2.66 times per month.

  • However, even if the best scientists

  • can predict when these disasters will occur,

  • they have no way of stopping or restricting the devastation they cause.

  • All it does is increase people's anxiety and fear.

  • There are many among the helpless victims that keep asking:

  • Why do catastrophes like the Wenchuan earthquake strike one after another?

  • Why do the same tragedies keep playing out over and over again?

  • The materialist theories of "abiogenesis" and "accidentalism"

  • clearly can't convince everyone.

  • This level of large-scale devastation

  • could make us begin to sense the existence of a supernatural power.

  • This mysterious power is irresistible.

  • It makes us feel like we have nowhere to escape,

  • and fills our hearts with fear.

  • More and more people are starting to ask the question:

  • How do we protect the homeland that we rely on for our survival?

  • And how do we escape suffering in the midst of these disasters?

  • But then in the face of disaster,

  • all of our human efforts are useless in the end.

  • People can't help but ask:

  • Why is human life so weak and fragile?

  • Who exactly controls and commands mankind's life and death?

  • Everyone who has read the Bible knows this:

  • The Book of Revelation prophesies

  • that the Lord Jesus shall return in the last days

  • to perform His work of judging all people on earth,

  • and that there shall be large, terrible disasters

  • and great destruction in the last days.

  • Clearly, we are now in the final era of the last days.

  • The prophecies of the Lord Jesus' return have basically all been fulfilled.

  • The Lord Jesus has already come back.

  • He is now the Almighty God who becomes flesh

  • and has already appeared and been working in China.

  • He expresses all of the truths needed to cleanse and save the whole of mankind

  • and carries out the judgment work of the last days,

  • judging and purifying all of those

  • who are raptured and taken before God's throne.

  • This way, He categorizes all people according to kind,

  • and reveals the end of the various kinds of man.

  • After God's work of judgment and purification in the last days is concluded,

  • God will start to reward the good and punish the evil,

  • then send great disasters to destroy this old world

  • where the darkness and evil inhabits.

  • Any evildoers who choose to oppose God shall be punished and destroyed

  • as they fall in the midst of the great disasters.

  • Only those who truly accept Almighty God's work of judgment,

  • having themselves purified and ridding themselves of evil

  • will be protected by God and live on to survive the horrible disasters.

  • Then they will live forever in God's kingdom.

  • Almighty God very clearly issued such a warning

  • against the corrupt and evil mankind a long time ago:

  • Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days

  • completely reveals to us God's righteous, majestic,

  • and unoffendable disposition.

  • Anyone who chooses to deny, disobey, and resist God,

  • and doesn't repent of their sinful nature

  • will become subject to God's wrathful punishment.

  • Only those who truly believe in and worship God

  • can receive God's protection and escape the horrors of the disaster.

  • In this next part,

  • we will share with you the experiences and testimonies

  • of several Christians from the Church of Almighty God

  • and how they were protected by God in the disasters.

  • At 2:28 pm on the afternoon of May 12, 2008,

  • a magnitude 8 earthquake struck Wenchuan County, in the Sichuan Province,

  • shaking the earth to its core,

  • causing giant rocks to fall from the mountains,

  • large dust clouds to fill the air, and cover the land in darkness.

  • Many buildings collapsed and were reduced to a pile of rubble

  • only in a matter of moments.

  • Many people were trapped in the rubble,

  • with multiple deaths and serious injuries.

  • Everyone in the disaster zone was engulfed in a state of fear.

  • Sister Li was a member of the Church of Almighty God

  • in Hanwang Town, Mianzhu City.

  • She's well into her 60s.

  • Just before the earthquake,

  • she was having a meeting with a few other sisters at her home.

  • All of a sudden, the house began to shake violently.

  • They could hardly keep their balance, much less make their way outside.

  • So they quickly got down on their knees and began to pray,

  • because they knew that while the disasters were caused by God,

  • they're also controlled by God.

  • Man's life and death is all in God's hands.

  • At the time, we thought of how our life and death

  • are completely at the mercy of God's hands.

  • We immediately prayed to God:

  • Today, whether we live or die, it's due to God's righteousness.

  • We'll submit to God's orchestrations, and we won't complain at all.

  • After they had prayed for a while, the house finally stopped shaking

  • and they quickly ran outside together.

  • Then they found out that only Sister Li's house

  • and the building across from them did not collapse.

  • All of the other surrounding buildings had been destroyed.

  • This was all because of God's protection!

  • The other building right across from us was only 5 meters away.

  • If it had somehow collapsed, we would've been crushed as well.

  • Many people who knew Sister Li

  • saw how she and the rest of the others

  • managed to escape completely unharmed after such a massive earthquake

  • and saw how Sister Li's house had been preserved.

  • They couldn't help but exclaim that it was a true miracle!

  • Therefore, they had to admit that the Almighty God Sister Li believed in

  • must be the one true God

  • and they expressed their willingness to examine the true way.

  • Brother Tan and his wife from Jiulong County, Ganzi Prefecture,

  • are both believers of Almighty God.

  • On May 10, 2008,

  • Brother Tan went to work at the Dongfang Turbine Factory in Deyang City.

  • After just a day and a half,

  • his supervisor said his work wasn't good enough and fired him.

  • On the afternoon of May 11, all he could do was return home.

  • On May 12, he was working at a factory that was closer to his house.

  • A minute before the earthquake,

  • he suddenly heard something that sounded like a plane flying overhead.

  • He was curious and went outside to have a look.

  • As soon as he walked out, the earthquake began to strike.

  • As the violent shaking continued, the entire factory completely collapsed.

  • Everyone inside was buried by the rubble

  • and he was the only one who managed to escape.

  • Afterward, Brother Tan found out

  • that the Dongfang Turbine Factory where he had worked the day before

  • also suffered a serious collapse, with many deaths and injuries.

  • Thanks to God's protection,

  • he somehow managed to survive in such a wondrous way.

  • During the earthquake,

  • Brother Tan's 5-year-old son hid under the stairs of their home,

  • only suffering a small injury on his forehead.

  • Through surviving this earthquake, the couple was able to see

  • God's almightiness and sovereignty through their own eyes.

  • They knew for sure that Almighty God had protected everyone

  • in their small family of three from the earthquake,

  • and that God's love had been placed upon them.

  • They sincerely thanked Almighty God with all their hearts.

  • The Church of Almighty God in the Sichuan Province contains similar stories

  • told by the many brothers and sisters within the Church's membership,

  • all of whom escaped calamity

  • and personally experienced God's wondrous protection.

  • After the earthquake,

  • these brothers and sisters were filled with gratitude toward God

  • and shared their testimony with their neighbors, relatives, and friends,

  • testifying about the deeds of Almighty God,

  • hoping that more and more people could become just like them

  • and receive Almighty God's salvation.

  • In the Ji County fire in Tianjin,

  • there were many more Christians in the Church of Almighty God

  • who also received God's wondrous protection.

  • Laide Commercial Building is Ji County's largest shopping mall.

  • On June 30, 2012, a Saturday,

  • Laide Commercial Building was running a sales event, attracting many customers.

  • Later, at 3:40 pm, the building suddenly caught fire.

  • The owner had been worried about the customers stealing products

  • during all the mayhem,

  • so he had every roller door on the first floor locked

  • and all of the customers were driven up to the second and third floors.

  • No one anticipated that the fire would keep growing

  • or eventually get to the point where it was completely out of control.

  • All of the electricity in the building was cut off,

  • so the elevators from levels 1 through 4 could not be used.

  • The situation was becoming dire,

  • so the owner finally allowed the roller doors to be opened.

  • But by that point, the fire had already filled the building with smoke

  • and people couldn't see or find their way back to the outside.

  • Many of those people were burned to death,

  • while many who were left stranded chose to jump out of the building to escape,

  • some of whom ended up plunging to their deaths.

  • It was a horrific scene.

  • The entire building became engulfed in flames,

  • and a thick smoke swept across the county.

  • Despite the fact

  • that the fire department was only about a 10-minute walk away from the scene,

  • 25 minutes had passed before any of the fire engines finally arrived,

  • completely missing the chance to save most of those people.

  • After firemen rescued 7 or 8 people,

  • the rescue ladder became too hot due to the heat from the flames.

  • Those who were still trapped inside the building couldn't escape,

  • and some of them fell straight to their deaths.

  • The fire raged on from 3:40 pm to sometime past 7 pm later on that night.

  • The bystanders tried to take photos with their phones,

  • but in order to cover up the truth behind the fire,

  • the police snatched away their phones and throw them to the ground.

  • Some people refused to hand over their phones.

  • Those that were refused were tasered by the police.

  • Some people were quick enough to instantly upload their photos

  • and news of the fire at the Laide Commercial Building directly to the Internet,

  • but only half an hour later,

  • the government deleted any and all news stories

  • related to the fire that had been posted online.

  • Certain insider sources

  • revealed that more than 300 people had been killed in the fire,

  • but the government's official announcement

  • said that only 10 people had perished.

  • The circumstances around this fire

  • brought immense fear and pain to the people of Ji County,

  • but there were several sisters who believe in Almighty God

  • saying that they received God's great protection during the fire,

  • which enabled them to see all of God's wondrous deeds.

  • In early June 2012, Sister Gao and her mother

  • had just accepted Almighty God's work of the last days.

  • Her mother was already 73 years old

  • and all she was able to do was stay at home because of her poor health.

  • Just two days before the fire, her mother had suddenly fallen.

  • Her leg had swollen up so badly and she couldn't take care of herself,

  • so Sister Gao looked after her.

  • On the day of the fire,

  • Sister Yang invited Sister Gao to go to the Laide Commercial Building.

  • Sister Gao had never refused Sister Yang's invitations before,

  • but this time she felt she had to say no.

  • At the time, I told Sister Yang:

  • My mother can't look after herself right now.

  • I have to stay here, so I'm not going.

  • Why don't we go another time.

  • Upon hearing about what happened with the Laide fire,

  • Sister Gao suddenly realized that

  • she had unknowingly been blessed by receiving God's wondrous protection.

  • Her mother's sudden injury had prevented her from going out to the shopping mall,

  • and so she escaped the disaster.

  • Also unexpected was that the next day after the fire,

  • Sister Gao's mother was able to walk around by herself again.

  • Both Sister Gao and her mother

  • were able to see God's love and wondrous deeds through this incident.

  • Even though I may have suffered just a little bit of physical injury,

  • God used me and the situation with my health as a means to protect my daughter.

  • My heart is full of thanks and incredible love for Almighty God!

  • Sister Gao also said that Sister Yang

  • who invited her to the Laide Commercial Building that day

  • had also received God's wondrous protection.

  • As soon as Sister Yang heard Sister Gao say no,

  • she called her husband to see if he would want to go with her

  • to the Laide Commercial Building.

  • Later, around 2:50 pm,

  • her husband returned home and tried to get her to hurry up,

  • but by then she was suddenly not in a rush to go out.

  • She told him that she wanted to go there later.

  • At around 3:30 pm, her husband tried again.

  • It was only then that Sister Yang, her husband and their two children

  • started to make the drive to Laide.

  • Halfway there, they saw the black smoke

  • coming from the direction of the Laide Commercial Building.

  • Upon asking around, they came to find out that the mall was on fire.

  • Sister Yang couldn't help but saying

  • "Thank You, Almighty God, for protecting everyone in our family."

  • At the same time, she realized

  • that her delay in getting ready to leave the house

  • was all part of an arrangement by God

  • and not something that happened by her own will.

  • It's just as Almighty God says in His word,

  • As long as we sincerely believe in Him, then whenever disaster might strike,

  • God will use all sorts of methods

  • to rescue us from the pain and suffering of disaster.

  • On the morning of June 30,

  • Sister Zhao and her daughter went to the hospital

  • to visit her sick older sister.

  • It was almost noon by the time they left the hospital.

  • Sister Zhao originally wanted to go home to eat lunch,

  • and then go out to Laide to buy shoes with her daughter.

  • But her daughter wanted to go to the mall right then.

  • No matter how she tried to persuade her,

  • her daughter wouldn't agree to go home first,

  • so she had no choice but to buy the shoes before going home.

  • Sometime around 4 pm, she saw from her house

  • that the sky in the distance had been lit up by fire.

  • Only when she asked somebody did she realize

  • that the Laide Commercial Building was on fire.

  • She could sense that it was God's wondrous protection

  • that had helped her and her daughter avoid the fire.

  • Sister Zhao praised God and His mighty power from the bottom of her heart.

  • At the time,

  • my daughter insisted that we go to the mall before we returned home.

  • That was all dictated and planned by God!

  • Otherwise, if we had gone to the mall after we had lunch,

  • we probably would have been killed in that fire.

  • This experience has showed me how to see God's wonderful deeds

  • and His almightiness and sovereignty.

  • I've experienced Almighty God's immense protection

  • and His great love that He's shown for me!

  • On the day of the fire,

  • many other brothers and sisters were also able to see God's great deeds:

  • One sister who was shopping at the Laide Commercial Building

  • coincidentally received a phone call and had to leave to take care of something.

  • The moment after she walked out was when the building caught fire.

  • One sister was walking down the stairs of her building also heading to the mall,

  • but she suddenly got an intense stomachache and had to go back upstairs,

  • which helped her avoid the disaster.

  • Each of these true testimonies of Christians from the Church of Almighty God

  • shows us that only Almighty God is mankind's stronghold and shelter.

  • Almighty God is the One who controls the fate of mankind

  • as well as all of the disasters.

  • If we want to be wise, then it's time to wake up:

  • Even if you're incredibly wealthy or have a prominent social status,

  • whenever a disaster strikes,

  • it will never move itself away from you or your loved ones

  • just for the sake of your money and position.

  • You might live a comfortable and luxurious life for the moment,

  • but when the disaster falls, all of this is nothing, like fleeting clouds.

  • If mankind wants to escape from the disaster,

  • the only path is to accept Almighty God's salvation in the last days,

  • truly return to bask in God's presence and bow down to worship Him.

  • Only then can we be worthy enough

  • to receive God's protection during a disaster,

  • survive against the odds and enter into God's kingdom.

  • It's just as Almighty God says,

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