I’m an ordinary country woman. Due to the feudal thought of valuing sons and belittling daughters, I, who have no son, once felt unable to lift up my head before others. In my agony, I was selected by the Lord Jesus. Two years later, I accepted Almighty God’s salvation. In Almighty God’s word, I understood many truths and got real release in my heart. However, while I was performing duty to repay God’s love, I was arrested twice by the CCP government and suffered cruel tortures from the CCP lackeys. On the verge of death, it was Almighty God’s word that led and encouraged me all the time, so that I stood testimony in satan’s affliction and thus firmly resolved to follow and love God all my life.
Judgment Before the Seat of Christ—Testimonies of Life Experiences
Rising Up Through Dark Oppression
Mo Zhijian Guangdong Province
I was born in a poor, remote mountain area where we have burned incense and worshiped Buddha for many generations. There are Buddhist temples all over the land where all the families would go to burn incense; no one had ever believed in God. In 1995, my wife and I were in another part of the country where we believed in the Lord Jesus; after we returned we began sharing the gospel and the number of people who accepted it slowly grew to over 100 people. Because more and more people were believing in God, it alarmed the local government.
“‘Love’ means a pure and unblemished affection, to love with the heart, to feel with the heart, and to care with the heart; in ‘love’ there is no condition, no barrier, and no distance; in ‘love’ there is no suspicion; in ‘love’ there is no cheat, no deal, and no cunning; in ‘love’ there is no choice; and in ‘love’ there is not any mixture.” (from “Pure and Unblemished Love” in Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs) This hymn of God’s word accompanied me through the long and painful seven years and four months of prison life. The CCP government deprived me of the best years of my youth, yet from Almighty God I got the most precious and practical truths. So I have no regrets!
I’m an ordinary person. In common life, like many people who thirsted for light, I had tried many ways to seek the true meaning of human life, so that my life could be meaningful, but in the end all that was in vain. Ever since I fortunately accepted Almighty God’s end-time work, my life had a wonderful change and began to become colorful. I understood that only God is the real supplier of man’s heart and life, and that only God’s word is the true meaning of human life. I was thankful that I had finally found the right way of human life. However, once in performing duty, I was illegally arrested by the CCP, and I suffered its inhuman tortures. Thus, I had a deeply ingrained life experience in my life journey….
I’m a Christian in the Church of Almighty God. I’ve followed Almighty God for more than ten years. In the years of my following God, what is the most unforgettable is the great tribulation of my being arrested by the vicious police of the CCP ten years ago. In that tribulation, I was greatly afflicted and trampled by the devils and my life was at stake and death was imminent many times, but Almighty God led and kept me with his mighty hand, so that I was brought back to life and got safely out of danger…. It made me truly taste the supernaturalness and greatness of God’s life power and gain the precious wealth of life God bestowed to me.
I was formerly a mid-level leader in the “Stream of Recovery.” I followed the Lord Jesus in 1979 because of having hyperthyreosis. Soon afterward, I recovered from the illness miraculously, and because of this miracle, my husband, my second son, and my neighbors all believed in the Lord. So I ran around everywhere preaching the Lord’s name. The Lord particularly blessed me. All my five sons and five daughters-in-law had much filial piety, and the acquaintances in and around my village all envied me. In the church, the brothers and sisters even more treated me with special esteem. So I couldn’t help feeling self-satisfied, regarding myself as a loyal servant of the Lord and taking on airs of that. I controlled the brothers and sisters in my hand and dreamed that one day I could really ascend to the position of a “big leader.” So when Almighty God’s gospel of the last days spread to my “territory,” I was seized with terror and staged acts of viciously hindering the brothers and sisters from accepting God’s new work by all means.
My name is Li Xiushuang, and I was formerly a preaching co-worker of the Three-Self sect. Whenever I recall the days of my resisting and rejecting Almighty God’s work of the last days, my regret cannot find vent in words. It was God’s chastisement and discipline that saved me, so that I received the great salvation and saw God’s real and true love for me.
Almighty God says, "...we are searching for the footprints of God. We are not seeking spiritual figures, much less are we following famous figures; we are following the footprints of God. As such, since we are searching for the footprints of God, we must search for God’s will, for the words of God, for the utterances of God—for wherever there are the new words of God, so there is the voice of God, and wherever there are the footsteps of God, so there are the deeds of God. Wherever there is the expression of God, so there is the appearance of God, and wherever there is the appearance of God, there exists the truth, the way, and the life. While seeking the footprints of God, you ignored the word that 'God is the truth, the way, and the life.'"
Recommendation: The Church of Almighty GodEastern LightningLord Jesus
Paul once said, “I am the foremost of sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15). I today feel very much the same, because I was once an “activist” who resisted Almighty God’s end-time new work. For as long as six years, I had frenziedly resisted and condemned God’s new work and never made any investigation, shutting the door on the salvation coming upon me over and over again. … Looking back to the past, I feel extremely regretful. No words can express the feeling of indebtedness in my heart.
I have
committed monstrous sins. I resisted the Almighty God’s end-time
work by every possible means all along. I even condemned and
blasphemed God’s flesh, burned up the book of the Almighty God’s
word, and beat, abused, and insulted the brothers and sisters many
times who preached God’s new work. However, the Almighty God, who
is full of mercy and love, did not put me to death but stretched out
his hand of salvation and gave me the opportunity to be saved. Today,
facing God’s grace of salvation, I am in floods of tears and
overwhelmed with sorrow and regret….
I believed in Jesus with my mother when I was a child. In 1989, I joined the Three Grades of Servants Church. At that time, the preacher often said in the meetings that the way the servants and the maidservants walked was the way of suffering that the Lord Jesus had walked, and that the servants were like Moses and Paul. Gradually, my love for the servant exceeded that for my parents, and even exceeded that for the Lord.
In 1995, I turned to the Lord Jesus because of my illness. After believing in the Lord, I was soon healed by the Lord. Because of that, I pursued very hard and often preferred to go to the nearby villages to preach the gospel rather than go to work to earn money. Only one year later, I became a preacher of the Church of Truth.
Jiagedaqi, Elunchun Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
I was formerly a preacher of the Born Again Church. I once thought that I had already had the seal of salvation and was the holiest one who loved God the most. And I had set my heart on pursuing to be a good shepherd after God’s heart. However, when Jesus whom I had been earnestly expecting for many years came back, I did not know him and acted as a blind guide. I had broken God’s heart.
I was formerly a dedicated team co-worker of the Wilderness Church in Qing’an County, Heilongjiang Province. In 1994, I believed in the Lord through grace. Inspired by the Lord’s love, I pursued very hard, and several months later, I began to preach. Only one year later, I began to formally lead the brothers’ meeting and the youth meeting. From then on, I studied the Bible even harder, and I gave up my prosperous business to dedicate and expend myself for the Lord with all my heart and strength. As time went by, all these became my capGod is most pleased.
1. God’s work in passing judgment is not, in two or three words, to make clear man’s whole nature, but slowly to reveal, deal with, prune him over time. Such forms of treatment can’t be changed for common words, only for truth, which lies beyond man’s compass. Only such work is deemed judgment; only such judgment can make man obey God in heart and mouth, within, without, and truly come to know Him.
2. The work of judgment brings man to know the very face of God, and the truth of his rebellion. It teaches him the purpose and intent behind God’s work and of mysteries man doesn’t understand. It helps him to know his corruption and see the ugliness of his own. Only such work is deemed judgment; only such judgment can make man obey God in heart and mouth, within, without, and truly come to know Him.
3. These effects of the work of God come about through the work of judgment. For in substance, it’s just to open up the truth, the way, and life of God to all those that believe in Him. This is what God works in His judgment. Only such work is deemed judgment; only such judgment can make man obey God in heart and mouth, within, without, and truly come to know Him.
from “Christ Does the Work of Judgment With the Truth” in The Word Appears in the Flesh Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.
I am Sun Yongping,
formerly a co-worker of a house church. Because I was single, without
family burdens, and was willing to pursue to make progress, the
church paid special attention to training me. So I often had chances
to work and study in other places. In recent years, every time I went
to work out of town, I came back loaded with rumors about “theEastern Lightning.” Unconsciously, I was deeply poisoned.
Especially after I read a book called Refute the Cult the EasternLightning, I was more encouraged to resist the Almighty God. Without
verification or investigation, I had a strong aversion and hostility
to this “way” that I knew nothing about. So, I joined others in
rebuking and refuting “the Eastern Lightning,” and even mobilized
all the brothers and sisters to curse “the Eastern Lightning” in
their daily prayers. Meanwhile, I also heard the rumors say, “The
means of ‘the Eastern Lightning’ is extremely cruel. If you do
not accept what they preach, they will use violence on you, such as
gouging out your eyes, cutting off your nose, or cutting off your
ears. Besides, they will seduce you with beauty or buy you off with
money. And as long as you accept their ‘way,’ they will give you
whatever you lack. …” Soon those rumors were spread everywhere.
The entire religious world accepted them to be true. And I felt more
hatred, hostility, and fear toward this “way.” All day long I
lived in dread, fearing that I might “lose my footing” and fall
into the “trap” of “the Eastern Lightning.”
Do
you know how the overcomers come into being? Do you know why God
allows the deranged satanic forces to repress and persecute God's
chosen people? The Lord Jesus said, "Blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:10). Almighty God says,
"Have you ever accepted the blessings that you were
given? Have you ever sought the promises that you were made? You will
surely, under the guidance of My light, break through the
stranglehold of the forces of darkness. You will surely not, in the
midst of darkness, lose the light guiding you. You will surely be the
master of all creation. You will surely be an overcomer before Satan.
You will surely, at the downfall of the kingdom of the great red
dragon, stand up amid the myriad throngs to bear witness to My
victory. …" (From The Word Appears in the Flesh).
Storyline:
The judgment work
of Almighty God in the last days has reverberated throughout every
sect and group. Following the spreading of the kingdom gospel,
Almighty God's words are accepted and spread by more and more people,
true believers in God who thirst for Him to appear have been
returning one by one before God's throne. In the meantime, the
Chinese government and religious pastors and elders have ceaselessly
repressed and persecuted the Church of Almighty God from start to
finish. The heroine of this movie, Zheng Xinjie, is a member of the Church of Almighty God who spreads the gospel. She has faced the
deranged oppression and attacks from the Chinese government and
religious leaders. Together with her brothers and sisters, relying on
God, how will she triumph over these dark, satanic forces to sing a
song of victory? …
I. Having Listened to the Rumors and Believed the Lies, I Blindly Resisted God;
For “Guarding the Church” and “Defending the Way,” I Shut Out the Lord.
Wang Haijun
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
I am Wang Haijun, formerly a preacher in the “Justification by Faith Church.” Like other brothers and sisters, I believed in God for the purpose of going to heaven and gaining eternal life, and I served God for the purpose of gaining the crown of righteousness. While I was earnestly expecting the Lord to return to reward me, I actually shut the door on the Lord and became one who resisted God, because I was foolish and ignorant and believed the rumors.
Since it came to power in Mainland China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been unceasing in its persecution of religious faith. It has frantically arrested and murdered Christians, expelled and abused missionaries operating in China, confiscated and burned countless copies of the Bible, sealed up and demolished church buildings, and tried to eradicate all house churches. Recent years have also seen the CCP government's wide-scale introduction of policies aimed at the "Sinification" of Christianity. Thousands of church crosses have been demolished, many church buildings have been knocked down, and a great number of Christians in house churches have been arrested and persecuted. Christian churches in China suffer cruel and bloody persecution. …
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 Godof 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 theLordJesus; 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.
I was formerly a
leader in the Born Again Church. Since 1997, the believers in the
Almighty Godhad been constantly preaching the gospel to me, no
matter whether it was windy or rainy, extremely hot or bitterly cold,
daytime or nighttime. However, I always retorted upon them, saying,
“‘The Eastern Lightning’ you preach is a female Christ. Don’t
deceive me. Moreover, you cannot deceive me. I have searched the
whole Bible. It never says that God will be incarnated the second
time, much less as a female Christ. You say that God has been
incarnated the second time. It is a deceitful lie and is purely a
heresy, a cult! Believers in God should takethe Bibleas the
standard. Anything apart from the Bible is not to be believed.Even
if you come ten thousand times, I absolutely will not accept!” And
I often used Alarm Bell (a handbook printed by our Born Again Church
specially for blaspheming and resisting the Almighty God’s end-time
work) to seal the churches and said to the brothers and sisters many
times, “‘The Eastern Lightning’ is a heresy, a cult.
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.
One day in
September 1999, I was collecting cotton on our own threshing floor,
because it was going to rain. Two sisters who preached the work of
the last days of Almighty God came to me.
AlmightyGodsays, "You always wish to see Christ, but I exhort you not to exalt yourselves so; everyone may see Christ, but I say none are fit to see Christ. Because the nature of man is filled with evil, arrogance, and rebellion, when you see Christ, your nature will ruin you and condemn you to death. Your association with a brother (or a sister) may not show much about you, but it is not so simple when you associate with Christ. At any time, your conceptions may take root, your arrogance bud, and your rebellion bear figs. How can you with such humanity be fit to associate with Christ? Are you truly able to treat Him as God every moment of every day? Will you truly have the reality of obedience to God? You worship the lofty God within your hearts as Jehovah but regard the visible Christ as a man. Your sense is too inferior and your humanity too lowly! You are unable to forever regard Christ as God; rather, you simply pull Him over and worship Him as God when it strikes your fancy. This is why I say you are not believers of God, but accomplices to those who fight against Christ. Even men who show kindness to others are repaid, yet Christ, who does such work among you, is not loved or repaid by man, nor does He receive man’s obedience. Is this not a most saddening thing?"
Since 1996, people
had begun to preach God’s new work to me. I had abused, cursed, and
driven away the gospelpreachers many times. At first, an elderly
sister came to preach to me. I didn’t seek or investigate and
blindly condemned, saying, “The Lord left on the white cloud, and
He will also come with clouds. You say that the Lord has already come
back. It’s exactly a cult, a deceptive, false way! …” Later,
two sisters came to preach to me many times. I not only didn’t
accept it but shouted abuse, “You’re Satans and evil spirits.
Out! I will never listen to you! …” What’s more, I wildly
spread my “righteous deeds” of resisting God’s new work at the
meetings and asked the brothers and sisters to do so. And I often
prayed to curse believers in Almighty God, hoping that they all would
perish and go to hell…
In 1991, I believed in the Lord Jesus in the Seven-day Adventist Church. The church was greatly revived in the first couple of years. The number of the believers gradually increased, and at peak time, it reached several thousand. As a co-worker of the church, I busied myself working for the Lord every day, waiting for the Lord’s advent.
From the Throne
Flows the Water of Life: How should we seek to receive the way of
everlasting life?
Storyline:
Tao Wei was
formally a preacher of a house church. The church was faced with the
deteriorating famine. Her spirit was dry and dark. She felt perplexed
and confused: The word of the Lord is the living water of life which
can nourish our life and provide our needs. However, why are we human
beings not able to feel the work of the Holy Spiritwhen reading the
word of the Lord? Why does the Lord not work in the religious world?
Has His work moved? Has He appeared and pursued His work in another
place? … Tao Wei was eager to find out the answers, and yearned to
receive the supply of the living water of life. She sought the
appearance and work of God with brothers and sisters. They finally
found the Church of Almighty God, and had fellowships and debates
with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God. … Could they
find the source of the living water of life in the Church of Almighty
God? Were they able to receive the water of life flowing from the
throne?
In autumn of 2001,
I went back home for the National Day holiday. Before I arrived at
home, I heard from a classmate that now there was a very powerful
“heresy” called the “Eastern Lightning,” and my mother had
been “deceived” by it for seven months. At the news, I was
overwhelmed with anxiety, and I hurried to my uncle’s home (who was
a preacher I adored). Before I asked anything about my mother, he
said to me, “Your mother has accepted the ‘Eastern Lightning,’
and she runs around outside all day long. She went to the brothers’
and sisters’ homes to preach the gospel and even didn’t leave
when they drove her. She has really disgraced me. Brothers and
sisters in the church all came to ask me what to do with her, and I
said to them that I didn’t acknowledge her as my sister anymore,
she had been expelled by the church, and they could just drive her
away. I heard that those people had discarded the Bible but read a
so-called little scroll. That book is very powerful. Once you read
it, you will be captivated. Do be careful, Xiao-ni. You must stand
the ground. Though she is your mother, this is about belief. That
doesn’t count…” Every word of my uncle pierced my heart, and I
couldn’t help feeling nervous. “So it is true that the ‘Eastern
Lightning’ is a heresy! Otherwise, how could my uncle speak about
my mother in that way? How could my mother become like this now? Is
it really true that she refused to leave others’ homes even when
they drove her? …” I was sad and frightened. How I hoped that my
uncle could draw her back! But from his words, I could know that my
mother was already “irredeemable.” At that time, I just wanted to
go home quickly to see my mother.
In May 1990, I
accepted Jesus in the Three-Self sect because of illness. In 1993, I
turned to the Church of Truth and later became a junior leader there.
In July 1999, our
church leader told us at a meeting, “In recent years, a biggest
‘heresy,’ ‘cult,’ called ‘Eastern Lightning,’ has
appeared in mainland China. They preach that God has come, and as a
female. The spirit in them is very powerful. Once you talk with them,
it will enter into you, and you will be controlled by them in spite
of yourself and do whatever they say. … Co-workers, brothers, and
sisters, none of you should come into contact with the people of
‘Eastern Lightning,’ nor receive them, lest you share in their
sins….” Hearing the leader’s words, I firmly believed that
“Eastern Lightning” was a “heresy,” a “cult.” And I
thought, “This has fulfilled the words in the Bible. The end time
has arrived, and false christs have appeared.” So, I made an inward
resolution: I must be watchful and prepare myself, and even more, I
must keep a good guard over the brothers and sisters so that no one
will be taken captive by “Eastern Lightning.” Otherwise, I won’t
be able to give an account to the Lord.
In the fall of
2000, a sister in our church accepted Almighty God’s new work.
Later, she brought me a book of God’s word to read and asked me to
make an investigation, but I said without thinking, “It’s not
worth reading. No doubt it’s false.” As she kept pleading with
me, I casually glanced through a few pages, and with hatred I wrote
several big words on the book—“Where is the incarnated God?”
And then I said to her seriously, “Return the book soon. This is
not at all God’s word. It seems to be written by a third-grade
pupil.”
I was formerly a
district leader of the Joseph Church. In 1998, in a co-workers’
meeting, my senior leader warned me in particular, “Brother Dong,
the situation of the churches in your district is rather messy, so
you have to work harder. Now the preachers of Almighty God are very
rampant, and they grow very fast in number. And their little scroll
is even more intriguing. You must guard the flock carefully and not
let any of them be taken captive. If you neglect your duty, you will
have no crown.” From then on, I began to wantonly seal off all the
churches in my charge. I said to the brothers and sisters, “Those
who believe inAlmighty God have departed from the Bible. Any belief
departing from the Bible is heresy. Any of you mustn’t come into
contact with the believers in Almighty God or receive them. They are
as dangerous as poisonous hooks. Once you have contact with them, you
will become swollen and sore all over, which no doctor can cure. Shut
your ears to the words of their little scroll. Once you listen, you
will be bewitched and be unable to escape even if you want….”
Like this, I regarded the believers in Almighty God as enemies and
strongly resisted Almighty God’s new work, and brought the
believers in the churches under my control.
The
Church of Almighty God's brothers and sisters endure the severe
obstruction and persecution from the Chinese Communist Party and the
religious world. Why do they continue to refuse to surrender,
continuing to preach the gospel and testify for God? How does
Almighty God lead them to undergo God's judgment and tribulations to
attain purification and become overcomers? Watch this video!
Storyline:
The judgment work
of Almighty God in the last days has reverberated throughout every
sect and group. Following the spreading of the kingdom gospel,
Almighty God's words are accepted and spread by more and more people,
true believers in God who thirst for Him to appear have been
returning one by one before God's throne. In the meantime, the
Chinese government and religious pastors and elders have ceaselessly
repressed and persecuted the Church of Almighty God from start to
finish. The heroine of this movie, Zheng Xinjie, is a member of the
Church of Almighty God who spreads thegospel. She has faced the
deranged oppression and attacks from the Chinese government and
religious leaders. Together with her brothers and sisters, relying on
God, how will she triumph over these dark, satanic forces to sing a
song of victory? …
from:Ironclad Proofs of Almighty God's Words | (7) - Become Overcomers Through Experiencing Judgment and Tribulation
AlmightyGodsays, "As man lacks rest, so does God. When God once again enters into rest, man will also enter into rest. The life in rest is one without war, without filth, without persisting unrighteousness. This is to say that it lacks Satan’s harassment (here 'Satan' refers to hostile forces), Satan’s corruption, as well as the invasion of any force opposed to God. Everything follows its own kind and worships the Lord of creation. Heaven and earth are entirely tranquil. This is humanity’s restful life. When God enters into rest, no more unrighteousness will persist upon the earth, and there will be no more invasion of any hostile forces. Humanity will also enter a new realm; he will no longer be a humanity corrupted by Satan, but rather a humanity that has been saved after having been corrupted by Satan."