Eastern Lightning | Gospel Questions & Answers

We believe in the Lord and we spread the gospel as the Lord requires. We frequently give financial aid to deprived areas or to help the disabled, we donate money and items to the church, we do well at our jobs and with our children’s education and we conduct ourselves well. This way, we have glorified the Lord and been approved by Him, and when the Lord returns we will be raptured up into the kingdom of heaven. Why then do we also have to experience God’s work of judgment in the last days?

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Bible Verses for Reference:

Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity (Mat 7:21-23).

Eastern Lightning | Where do rumors come from and how are they created?

Where do rumors come from and how are they created?

Bible Verses for Reference:

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 

Gospel Movie "Break Through the Snare" - Why Pastors and Elders Convict the Eastern Lightning

     Why do the pastors and elders of the religious world resist and convict Almighty God? It is because they hate, are hostile towards and cannot accept the truth that Almighty God incarnate expresses. This is why they deny, convict and resist Christ. This exposes the satanic essence they have that hates the truth. The truth that Christ expresses is enormously powerful and authoritative.

Gospel Movie clip "Song of Victory" (3) - How Do the Overcomers Come Into Being?

     Do you know the background behind the creation of the 144,000 overcomers prophesied by the Book of Revelation? Do you understand the significance of God allowing the Chinese Communist Party to carry out its frantic oppression, suppression, and persecution of God's chosen people?

Gospel Movie "Honor and Dishonor" - Almighty God Brings Salvation of the Last Days

     If man merely holds on to the name and the way of the Lord Jesus but refuses to accept Almighty God's work of judgment in the last days, can they receive God's full salvation?

Gospel Movie "God's Name Has Changed?!" (4) - Is Being Saved Equal to Being Purified?

     Since those who have faith in the name of the Lord Jesus have already been saved, then why must God do the work of judgment in the last days to purify and save mankind?

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?

Who Is He That Has Returned (5) - No One Else Can Do God’s Work of Judgment

     Do you know why the work of judgment in the last days is done by God incarnate personally rather than using man to do it? This film clip will give you Ariadne’s thread.

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Jin Yinglu was a devout pastor in Korean religious world. He thirsted for the truth and expected the return of the LordJesus all along.

"The Mystery of Godliness: The Sequel" (1) - How Will the Lord Appear to Man When He Comes Again?

     Over the centuries since the Lord Jesus resurrected and ascended to heaven, we believers have yearned eagerly for Jesus the Savior's return. Most people believe that it will be the spiritual body of the resurrected Jesus that will appear to us when the Lord returns. But why has God appeared to man incarnating as the Son of man in the last days?

How to understand that Christ is the truth, the way, and the life?

Bible Verses for Reference:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God” (Jhn 1:1-2).

“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” (Jhn 14:6).

Why is it said that God’s two incarnations complete the significance of the incarnation?

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Bible Verses for Reference:

“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin to salvation” (Heb 9:28).

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (Jhn 1:1).

Why is it said that corrupt mankind is more in need of the salvation of God become flesh?

Corrupt Mankind Is More in Need of the Salvation of God Become Flesh

God became flesh because the object of His work is not the spirit of Satan, or any incorporeal thing, but man, who is of the flesh and has been corrupted by Satan. It is precisely because the flesh of man has been corrupted that God has made fleshly man the object of His work; moreover, because man is the object of corruption, He has made man the only object of His work throughout all the stages of His salvation work.

Eastern Lightning | He Who Has True Faith Receives God's Blessings

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The Hymn of God's Word
He Who Has True Faith Receives God's Blessings

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When Moses struck the rock and water sprang forth, a gift from Jehovah, it was by faith. When David played music to praise Jehovah, his heart full of joy, it was by faith. When Job lost his flocks and all his possessions, and was covered in boils, it was by faith. And when he could still hear Jehovah's voice, and still perceive His glory, it was by faith. It was by faith, by faith. It was by faith and nothing else, just simply faith! It was by faith, by faith. It was by faith and nothing else, just simply faith!

Eastern Lightning | On How to Achieve Results in Reading God’s Word

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7 On How to Achieve Results in Reading God’s Word

Lu Ming  Nanyang City, Henan Province

When God is incarnated in the end time, he does the work of the word, and through the word, he conquers man, perfects man, and gains man. If we want to be saved and gained by God, the most fundamental thing is to read God’s word. However, now most brothers and sisters are still unable to achieve the due results in reading God’s word, so they are slow in life entering in. Although they have believed in God for several years, they have not understood much truth, even less gained the transformation of their life disposition. Then, how can we achieve results in reading God’s word?

Eastern Lightning | We Should Truly Accept the Chastisement and Judgment of God’s word

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5 We Should Truly Accept the Chastisement and Judgment of God’s word

Danchun  Luoyang City, Henan Province

We all know that what God does in the end time is the work of chastising and judging by the word, and that only if one truly accepts the chastisement and judgment of God’s word can he gain the transformation of his disposition and be saved by God. Then, what does it mean to truly accept the chastisement and judgment of God’s word? Some people think: Now I have no notions about God’s word. Whatever God’s word says is right, and I have no opinions about it; whatever God says I acknowledge.

Eastern Lightning | One Cannot Step Onto Peter’s Path Only by Willing to Take It

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3 One Cannot Step Onto Peter’s Path Only by Willing to Take It

Yang Jing  Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

After Almighty God revealed to men the outcomes of Peter and Paul, a lot of people thought in their heart: I must take the way of Peter and never take the way of Paul. And they believed that as long as they were willing in their heart to take the way of Peter they could step onto it. Therefore, many of them took the good aspect of what they did as the sign of their having stepped onto the way of Peter.

Eastern Lightning | Why We Should Pay Attention to Knowing Ourselves

Read God's Word

2 Why We Should Pay Attention to Knowing Ourselves

Gan’en  Luoyang City, Henan Province

In the course of our believing in God, many of us brothers and sisters pay attention only to working and performing duties, and very few of us pay attention to knowing ourselves. Many times when we fellowship in a meeting about the topic concerning knowing ourselves, some brothers and sisters have questions and resistance in their heart: Since we believe in God, we just believe in God. If I am assigned to do hosting, I will do hosting; if I am assigned to preach the gospel, I will preach the gospel.

The Church of Almighty God | My Dream of the Heavenly Kingdom

Song Ruiming is a pastor of a church in South Korea. As a devout follower of the Lord for many years, he has been keenly pursuing his faith and working for the Lord while waiting to be raised to the heavenly kingdom when the Lord returns. In recent years, he has been feeling very confused and powerless when seeing that the church doesn't have the Holy Spirit's work and become increasingly desolate. That was when he heard about a sect by the name of the Eastern Lightning emerging in China that witnesses the return of the Lord Jesus—Almighty God, who is doing the judgment work in the last days by expressing the truth.

The Church of Almighty God | The Purpose of Managing Mankind

The Purpose of Managing Mankind

If people can truly fully understand the right path of human life as well as the purpose of God’s management of mankind, they would not hold their individual future and destiny as a treasure in their heart. They would no longer wish to serve their parents who are worse than pigs and dogs.