"Faith in God" (3) - What Do God's Work and Appearance Bring to the Religious Community?

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Almighty God has expressed all truths that can save and cleanse man.
He has done His work of judgment starting from God's house,
shocking the religious world.
The pastors found out you've been witnessing Almighty God to us.
Now they're acting like crazy people.
The Eastern Lightning really does have the truth.
Powerful!
They're stealing our sheep.
That means they're stealing our meal ticket.
We should take a stand against the Eastern Lightning.
If we don't drive the Eastern Lightning preachers to death or to prison,
could we still maintain the church?
To protect their own status and eternal control over religion,
they join together to resist and condemn Almighty God,
and stop believers from studying the true way.
This ends up leading to another spiritual war.
They've only listened to the Eastern Lightning for a few days,
and they're already so incisive and insightful.
I didn't expect this.
It seems that the Eastern Lightning really does have the truth.
Powerful!
I can't let our fellow believers listen to it. (Right.)
Otherwise,
all our believers will turn to the Eastern Lightning.
If that happens, our church will shut down!
It's true.
We need a way to stop them. (Right.)
This can't continue.
They've only been studying the Eastern Lightning a few days,
and they've already changed.
If they take even more over to the Eastern Lightning,
who will follow us and listen to our preaching?
Won't we be left standing alone?
That's right.
No. It's too dangerous.
Well, it doesn't matter if they follow us.
But we must protect the flock.
I think Zheng Xun and the rest are dead set against changing their opinions.
They just want to study the Eastern Lightning.
Thank you.
What we should do
is find that Eastern Lightning preacher and turn him in to the cops.
He'll do eight to ten years!
Then we'll cast out all of them.
We'll make believers reject them, ostracize them.
Then we'll keep our church open.
Ah! Elder Sun has great ideas.
This is the only way that will work.
How can you do this?
The Eastern Lightning preachers believe in God.
Isn't this going a bit too far turning in a believer?
How would you even know?
If we don't do it, we're in trouble.
If none of us resist the Eastern Lightning,
our church would have to shut its doors.
You know the CCP takes believers and drives them close to death.
This is especially true for the Eastern Lightning people.
They're treated like the worst criminals.
If they are sent to jail,
who knows if they'll live or die?
Won't you be selling out the Lord and our friends?
You'll become like Judas.
Won't this offend the Lord?
I think sending them to prison is a terrible thing.
You're just being short-sighted.
If we don't drive the Eastern Lightning preachers to death or to prison,
they'll just continue to steal our sheep, all our good sheep.
Yes.
Could we still maintain the church?
They are forcing me to do this.
What choice do I have? There's nothing.
I'm an elder of the church. Given sermons for years.
I know more than you do.
I do this to protect the flock. I'm being loyal.
Yeah.
Yes.
In these past few years, Elder Sun has been through a lot for our church,
and he's gathered all these sheep himself.
That's right.
So it's natural that Elder Sun shepherds them.
How could he let the Eastern Lightning steal them?
They're stealing our sheep.
That means they're stealing our meal ticket.
We should take a stand against the Eastern Lightning.
Yeah. True.
How dare the Eastern Lightning steal our flock?
They deserve all this. (It's true.)
Brother Zheng! Brother Zheng!
What happened? (This is bad.)
Careful. Take it easy.
Elder Sun and some others, they're searching all our homes for Brother Yu!
For Brother Yu?!
Yes, they said they'll turn him into the police!
And they'll expel whoever houses him.
Quick, give me the bike. (Here.)
We have to hide Brother Yu.
Don't worry, Brother Yu.
My aunt and uncle are good people.
They don't believe in the Lord, but they're good people.
You should hide there for a while.
After the things settle down, I'll come get you.
Okay. It's fine with me.
I've put you all through so much.
Come on. We're all brothers in the Lord.
This is what we're supposed to do.
Almighty God!
You have used Your miraculous ways to lead me here.
I am sure there is Your good will.
As soon as the people here began examining Your work,
they were disturbed by the antichrist forces in the religious world.
The pastors and elders tried many things to stop them from finding the true way.
They're taking people searching for me door to door.
O God! Now that everything is this bad,
I just really don't know what I should do.
O God!
Please open a path for me, give me faith and strength.
Lead me to finish the commission You've given me …
You bought these boards?
No, we made them ourselves.
Wow, really?
Who is it?
It's me, uncle!
Oh, Zheng Xun! Come in, come in!
He's in here. (Thank you.)
Brother Yu. (Oh, Brother Zheng, how are things going?)
Thanks be to the Lord. The Lord has given us a way out.
We've found a house we can meet in.
Ah, that's great! Thanks be to God.
Hey, everybody's there already.
You should get your things. We should go while it's still dark out.
Sounds good, I'll go now. (Great.)
Why did they turn hostile when we talked about the Lord's return? (Yeah.)
Brother Yu, come in, please!
Oh, Brother Yu! Brother Yu's here! (This is great!)
Oh, everyone's here.
Brother Yu, you've come!
I'm sorry for the wait.
How has everyone been?
Oh, Brother Yu, you don't know,
things in the church are completely chaotic. (Yeah!)
Let's sit and talk about it.
Please have a seat. Here, sit.
Brother Yu, have a seat.
I'm so glad Brother Yu's here.
Yes, let's ask him what's really going on around here. (Yes.)
Sister, please go on.
Brother Yu,
the pastors found out you've been witnessing Almighty God to us.
Yeah.
Now they're acting like crazy people,
going around spreading heresies and lies, condemning Almighty God. (It's true. Right.)
They seal off the church,
and have been constraining anyone from hearing your sermons.
It's true.
And they see us all as thorns in their eyes, the most hated.
They also say those who accept Almighty God will be expelled from the church.
Yes, it's true.
Clearly the church has split into two factions.
Some brothers and sisters want to study the true way with us.
It's true. Yeah.
Others are just following the pastors and elders in resisting the Eastern Lightning.
They treat us as though we are their enemies.
Why has the church changed so much and only in a few days?
Yes, why?
Before, we were all brothers and sisters.
How can we be enemies today?
Why did they go crazy when you bore witness to Almighty God?
Yeah. Yeah, why?
I never thought something like this could happen.
What is really going on here?
I agree.
This sudden change in the church has everyone confused.
It does.
Brother Yu, let's talk about it.
Yes, please tell us.
Yes, let's talk about it.
Everyone,
what we're going through is no less than a spiritual war.
Spiritual war?
Why do I say this?
Each time God is incarnated to do His work,
the evil forces of Satan will resist and condemn Him.
Naturally, this leads to a spiritual war.
It exposes and divides the religious community.
Just like in the Age of Grace,
the Lord Jesus' work of redemption shocked the Jewish faith.
Many people followed the Lord Jesus because of what He said and did,
but what about the Jewish leaders?
When they saw the authority of the Lord Jesus' word and work,
they became scared,
because they knew clearly if they let the Lord Jesus do His work like that,
all the believers would follow the Lord Jesus,
and the whole of the Jewish faith would soon crumble.
Yes.
So in order to defend Judaism and secure their positions,
they tried to stop believers from accepting the Lord Jesus.
When that happened, believers in God split into factions.
Some of them hated the truth and resisted God's work;
they were enemies of God.
Some had no discernment and simply became passive observers.
But there were some who had heard God's voice,
and they were able to study and accept His work.
Those people are the ones who obey the work of God.
Now I get it.
When the religious world meets the appearance and work of God,
a spiritual war will follow.
Division will naturally happen.
The Lord Jesus' words and work back then smashed the prevailing order of Judaism.
At the time they exposed and divided the Judaism.
This should be easy for us to see.
I see.
This is true. Right.
It is true now that you mention it.
When the Lord Jesus came to do His work,
a majority of the religious people stuck to the Old Testament and Judaism.
Only a minority loved the truth and accepted the Lord Jesus' work,
and they formed Christianity.
Yes.
That is how Judaism became divided.
Yes, you're absolutely right.
Therefore,
we can see our church's split is another spiritual war.
Yes, this is true.
Now everyone knows the Lord Jesus has returned,
and He is Almighty God incarnate.
Almighty God has expressed all truths that can save and cleanse man.
He has done His work of judgment starting from God's house,
shocking the religious world.
Many good sheep from all denominations
have seen the words of Almighty God are truth and have power and authority.
They recognized God's voice and returned to Almighty God.
So the leaders in the religious community are all up in arms.
They fear when believers see Almighty God's words, they'll return to Him.
This would make them isolated.
Therefore, to protect their own status and eternal control over religion,
they join together to resist and condemn Almighty God,
and stop believers from studying the true way.
This ends up leading to another spiritual war.
It fulfills the biblical prophecies:
So this is how the prophecies are fulfilled! (Yes!)
Everyone, while this spiritual war goes on,
all of us believers will be given a choice.
Those who thirst for the truth and the manifestation of God,
have heard God's voice by studying Almighty God's work in the last days,
and now know that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus' return.
Amen.
They have broken free of the control of religious antichrist forces.
They've been raptured before God's throne for cleansing, salvation, and to be made perfect.
These people are the overcomers that God will make in the last days.
Thanks be to God!
But those who follow the religious leaders,
who reject, resist, and condemn Almighty God,
they are the tares and dogs God has exposed in the last days,
the antichrists and unbelievers.
They have already been forsaken by God and have fallen into darkness.
Of course.
Almighty God's appearance and work brought great famine to the religious world,
and all is revealed.
The wheat and tares, sheep and goats,
wise and foolish virgins, good and evil servants,
have all been categorized, separated in the spiritual war.
I see.
From this, we can see the wisdom of God's work and the wonder of His deeds. (Of course!)
Yes, that's how wheats and tares are separated.
God's work is marvelous.
God's deeds truly are wonderful. (Thanks be to God.)
The manifestation and work of God do expose people. (Yes.)
Ah, that's why our church became two factions when Brother Yu bore witness to Almighty God.
Right. Of course.
We usually believe in the Lord together.
We can't tell true from false believers.
When we bear witness to Almighty God,
the wheat and the tares, the good and evil servants,
the lovers and haters of the truth, are all revealed. (Indeed.)
The Lord Jesus' prophecies are fulfilled in this way.
God is so almighty and wise.
Amen.
Praise the Lord. We have discernment.
Yes, God is so great!
That's right. Hearing this today, I understand.
Antichrists have long controlled the religious world.
So when we examine Almighty God's work,
pastors and elders hate us
and try to stop us from seeking the true way. (Yeah.)
Well, Almighty God's work
has exposed the antichrist essence of the religious leaders as truth hating.
To protect their jobs and status,
the pastors and elders condemn and resist Almighty God.
And believers in Almighty God are like their enemies.
It's true.
They're exactly the same as the Pharisees who opposed the Lord Jesus back in the day. (Right.)
They should be cursed!
Right!
Yes!
Now we understand,
since Almighty God's judgment work in the last days began,
He encountered fanatical resistance and persecution from the CCP regime and the religious world.
Among corrupt mankind, there aren't many who truly love the truth.
Not many people in the religious world truly yearn for God's appearance.
This completely fulfills the prophecy of the Lord Jesus:
No matter how much the CCP and religious antichrists condemn and oppose it,
what comes from God will triumph.
This is a fact. (Amen!)
Hear this,
in just twenty years,
Almighty God's gospel of the last days has spread through mainland China.
It's become common knowledge in this country now.
Yes, spread throughout the land. God's work is amazing.
Almighty God's word, The Word Appears in the Flesh was posted online.
More truth lovers all over the world who hunger for the appearance of God
go study Almighty God's work in the last days.
How great!
We can study God's word online. (Yes, we can.)
Almighty God's words and work are like the lightning, flashing from the East over to the West.
It fulfills the Lord Jesus' words:
The words have come true. (Yes.)
Almighty God's work is the appearance and work of God in the last days,
the work of the returned Lord Jesus. (Amen.)
The result of God's appearance and work will improve,
with more people accepting it and testifying to it.
Time and facts will prove all of this. (Right. Yes.)
Thanks be to God.
It's like the Lord Jesus' work.
In the beginning, no one acknowledged it was God's work,
but then, the gospel spread and more people accepted it.
By the last days, it's spread everywhere. (Yes.)
It's true.
Almighty God's work is the same.
Now that Almighty God's words have spread around,
more people accept them as the words of God.
Thank God.
It proves God's words are almighty
and every sentence will be fulfilled. (Amen.)
God's words will accomplish all. (Amen.)
We've read the prophecies before, but didn't understand them.
Yeah, today they've been fulfilled,
and we understand when we hear witness of God's work. (That's right.)
That's how prophecies go.
Until they happen, people don't understand. (Yeah.)
Everyone, let's watch a video reciting Almighty God's words. (Okay.)
Thanks be to God. That will be wonderful.
A video of Almighty God's words? Great!
Wow!
Almighty God's words are ever so moving. They're filled with power and authority!
When you hear them, you know they're God's voice.
Indeed.
Only God's words can shake the whole religious community.
God's sheep hear His voice, it is totally genuine. (Yes!)
We all are truly blessed to be able to hear God's voice today! (Praise the Lord!)
No person could say something like this!
Yes!
Anyone who has read Almighty God's words will admit
Almighty God's words are truth,
they're the voice of God. (Amen!)
This proves Almighty God is the second coming of the Lord Jesus. (Amen! Yes!)
Since we believe in the Lord, we must accept the return of the Lord Jesus.
This is what it means to follow the Lamb's footsteps. (Yes!)
No matter how long people have believed in the Lord,
if they don't accept His return, they will be forsaken.
The Lord Jesus' return will indeed reveal people.
Only those who listen to the Bridegroom's voice and can accept it are the wise virgins.
Only those who attend the Lamb's wedding banquet
have the opportunity to obtain God's approval,
be cleansed, and enter Christ's kingdom. (Yes!)
If people only believe in the name of the Lord Jesus
and don't accept His return and the truth Christ of the last days expresses,
then how could the Lord Jesus ever acknowledge them?
Right.
The Lord Jesus will condemn them and say,
Yeah.
They're just like the Pharisees who only believed in the name of Jehovah God,
and didn't accept the Lord Jesus incarnate,
and so resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus.
Did their belief in God earn His approval?
No!
Right! No!
Not only did God disapprove of them,
they also were cursed and punished by Him.
It's true. Right.
Therefore, believers who only keep the Lord's name and faith in a vague God in heaven,
but don't obey God's work in the last days,
nor accept the truth uttered by Almighty God, Christ of the last days,
they're exactly the same as were the Pharisees, both believe in God in name.
In practice, both resist and both betray God.
They must all be forsaken by God.
It's true. Yes, true.
The Lord Jesus' return will expose all men.
This is something that all who believe in the Lord should clearly understand! (Yes, we all need to understand.)
You're correct!
I finally realize that believing in God is not all that simple! (Right.)
The Pharisees believed in God just in name.
They just kept the Messiah's name,
but crucified the Lord Jesus to the cross.
They committed a terrible sin.
Yes.
Not only did their faith in God fail to lead to blessings, it resulted in them suffering curses.
Yes.
We've believed in the Lord for years, but still don't know Him.
We follow pastors to resist and condemn His return.
Aren't we behaving just like the Pharisees:
believing in the Lord in name while in fact resisting Him? (Yes.)
How is this true faith in the Lord?
Our faith really is quite muddled!
Yes.
Believing in the Lord like this while resisting Him, not knowing Him,
yet still waiting for Him to rapture us to the kingdom of heaven,
isn't this simply daydreaming?
Right.
Following pastors to believe in the Lord like this is too dangerous!
We will be punished by God before we know what's going on!
Yes. Aren't pastors and elders leading us to resist God?
Tell me, are we not being sold to Satan? (Yes!)
And yet we still trust in them. Just how stupid are we?!
This is really foolish! (Sure it is!)
Right, it's so stupid.
Elder Sun,
the government is working hard to repress the Church of Almighty God.
Your information will help.
If the Eastern Lightning preacher's still here,
he'll have nowhere to run!
We'll increase our police presence and cut off every exit,
giving him nowhere to hide!
Also, you must work quite closely with us.
If you learn anything, you must report it at once!
Yes, yes, Captain Huang.
I follow the government's wishes.
I will work with the government to capture those who believe in the Eastern Lightning.
Besides,
this will help me to protect and defend our own church! (Yes.)
Therefore, we'll definitely cooperate as much as we can.
Do not worry, Captain Huang.
Right.
We believe in the Lord so we always must obey the ruling authorities,
because the ruling authority comes straight from God.
Captain Huang, if the government requires anything,
we'll cooperate no matter what.
You must believe us. (Yes.)
You're right to work with us.
You're indeed pretty smart.
Now you—
Hello. It's Director Wang.
OK, I'll get right on it.
Yes, yes, yes, I understand.
The national government has made "repressing the Church of Almighty God"
one of its utmost important tasks.
It seeks to attack the Eastern Lightning.
We'll work to apprehend and punish
the pillars of the Church of Almighty God. (Yes.)
We'll jail one group and kill another.
We'll completely ban the Church of Almighty God.
As for how you should deal with the Eastern Lightning,
if you believers stand on the side of the government,
working with us to repress and capture those who believe in the Eastern Lightning,
the government will support you.
Yes. We understand.
Otherwise, even your faith will be banned!
Yes, yes, Captain Huang.
We will … we will cooperate with the government. (Yes, yes.)
When we find the Eastern Lightning followers,
we will report them to you.
Yes, we'll report to you at once.
We'll be on our way. Thank you.
Okay. (Bye.)