Eastern Lightning | Gospel Questions & Answers

Question 4: Through seeking and investigating the words of Almighty God, we are certain that Almighty God is the appearance of the Lord. But after we decided to follow Almighty God, some unfortunate things and mishaps happened in our lives. We have read so little of God’s words and we still don’t understand the truth, so it is possible for our states to be disturbed which leads us to doubt God. How then should we experience these things when we encounter them?

picture of The Church of Almighty God

Bible Verses for Reference:

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour (1Pe 5:8).

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God (Zec 13:9).

Breaking Through Satan’s Tight Encirclement (Part 2)

Breaking Through Satan’s Tight Encirclement (Part 1) 

It was bitterly cold this past November in Northeast China, none of the snow that fell to the ground melted away, and many people who walked outside were so cold that they stuffed their hands into their armpits and walked along cautiously, bodies bent over. The other day in the early morning the winds were blowing from the northwest, when I, my brother-in-law and his wife and about a dozen brothers and sisters were sitting in my home on the warm kang (a heatable brick bed).

What will the outcome of the CCP government and the religious world be after they madly condemn and resist God?

Bible Verses for Reference:

All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven to men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come (Mat 12:31-32).

How can you pursue the truth so that you are not taken in by lies? What are the principles of practice? (2)

The Man’s Fellowship:

Some people listen to so many of God’s words, yet when they listen to one sentence of the great red dragon’s negative propaganda, they start to be suspicious all of a sudden. It is as if God’s words are not true and the work that God does is false. Do these kinds of people have faith in God? This is not faith. Look at the faith of Abraham and Job.

How does God treat those who believe Satan’s rumors and turn their backs on Him?

Bible Verses for Reference:

And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die: For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. … Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from from where he was taken (Gen 3:4-6, 23).

What is the nature of the issue of believing the rumors of the CCP government and the religious world?

Relevant Words of God:

Those who shake their heads when they hear the truth, who smile widely when they hear talk of death are the offspring of Satan, and they are all objects to be eliminated. There exist in the church many people who have no discernment, and when something deceptive happens they just stand by Satan’s side. When they are called Satan’s lackeys they feel so wronged.

What wisdom and omnipotence of God is revealed in His using the service of the CCP government and the religious world? (2)

The Man’s Fellowship:

Look at how the great red dragon blasphemes and slanders God, is it not, as a foil, rendering service to Him? What results are achieved through the service rendered by this foil? For those of you who do not love the truth, it overthrows and binds you and blocks your path to the entrance of the kingdom of heaven. For those who love the truth, it allows them to be perfected.

What wisdom and omnipotence of God is revealed in His using the service of the CCP government and the religious world? (1)

Relevant Words of God:

My entire management plan, which spans six thousand years, consists of three phases, or three ages: first, the Age of Law; second, the Age of Grace (which is also the Age of Redemption); and finally, the Age of Kingdom. My work in these three ages differs according to the nature of each age, but at each stage it accords with man’s needs—or rather, it varies according to the tricks that Satan employs in My war against it.

Eastern Lightning | What really is the evil essence of the CCP government and the religious world?

What really is the evil essence of the CCP government and the religious world?

Bible Verses for Reference:

You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? (Mat 23:33).

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world (Rev 12:9).

Examples of analyzing and discerning the rumors and lies of the CCP government and the religious world (2)

Examples of analyzing and discerning the rumors and lies of the CCP government and the religious world (2)

     (3) Analysis of the third rumor of the Chinese Communist Party and religious community: The Church of Almighty God was created by man.

Relevant Words of God:

     Some may wonder, Why must the age be ushered in by God Himself? Cannot a created being stand in His stead?

Why does the religious world put so much effort into condemning and madly resist Almighty God and the Church of Almighty God?

Bible Verses for Reference:

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dig a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to farmers, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, that they might receive the fruits of it.

Eastern Lightning | What will the outcome of the CCP government and the religious world be after they madly condemn and resist God?

What will the outcome of the CCP government and the religious world be after they madly condemn and resist God?

Bible Verses for Reference:

All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven to men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come (Mat 12:31-32).

What is the nature of the problem of man not knowing the significance of God’s name and not accepting God’s new name?

Relevant Words of God:

In each period of time, God will begin new work, and in each period, there will be a new beginning among man. If man only abides by the truths that “Jehovah is God” and “Jesus is Christ,” which are truths that only apply to a single age, then man will never keep up with the work of the Holy Spirit, and will forever be incapable of gaining the work of the Holy Spirit.

Search for our roots!

Search for our roots!

“The lonely soul is from far away, Seeking the past, searching the future, struggling hard, And chasing the dream. I don’t know where I’m from and where to go, Born in crying and gone in despair”

How to know God’s creation?

How to know God’s creation?

Looking up to the sky, who is the One that arranges the moon as the satellite of earth to protect it from being attacked by meteorites? Who is the One that placed us mankind to live on earth? Who is the One that makes the earth's axis tilt that the sun can illuminate every corner of the land? Who is the One that makes the earth to revolve round the sun so that we have the interchanging of four seasons, and the change of the weather, the wind, frost, snow, and rain? …… Are all of the rules and principles just by chance?

God’s hands!

God’s hands!

Wonderful! Wise! Great!

The vast universe is in motion regularly. All living beings live and multiply following an unchanged principle of living, which cannot be changed or bypassed by no one. Only the Ruler can command and manage all of these with His mighty hands and ceaselessly provide for us humans, comfort and care for us, so that humans live for generation after generation. Then, how should we know the wonderfulness, wisdom and greatness of the One that holds sovereignty over everything?

There's a mystery not known to anyone!

There's a mystery not known to anyone!

God’s words say, “Mankind does not know who is the Sovereign of all things in the universe, much less does he know the beginning and future of mankind. Mankind merely lives, perforce, amidst this law. None can escape it and none can change it... ” So who can reveal the mystery to us?

Gospel Movie "The Mystery of Godliness" (5) - How to Know That Christ Is the Truth, the Way and the Life

     God's two incarnations both testify that "Christ is the truth, the way and the life." Why is it said that Christ is the truth, the way and the life? And those apostles and great spiritual people who followed the Lord Jesus also said many things, things which are of great benefit to man, so why aren't they the truth, the way and the life? How should we understand the difference between these two aspects?

Gospel Movie clip "The Mystery of Godliness: The Sequel" (6) - Is the Lord Jesus the Son of God or God Himself?

     It is recorded clearly in the Bible that the Lord Jesus is Christ, that He is the Son of God. Yet the Eastern Lightning testifies that the incarnate Christ is the manifestation of God, that He is God Himself. So is the incarnate Christ the Son of God? Or is He God Himself? 

Why is it only through experiencing and obeying the work of God incarnate that one can know God?

Bible Verses for Reference:

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (Jhn 1:14).

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me. If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from now on you know him, and have seen him” (Jhn 14:6-7).