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  • How's it going? (Some haven't been caught.)

  • Go over there. Search!

  • Cops! That way!

  • Sister Fu! Sister Fu! Open the door!

  • Are the police here to arrest people?

  • Several were taken from our church too. Lucky I was not home at the time!

  • Close call!

  • Sister Zheng, what about your church?

  • They captured three of our deacons,

  • and some brothers and sisters were arrested.

  • More than 20 at our Desheng Church were arrested.

  • Our meeting place raided.

  • Our Shengcheng Church was the same. I was lucky to escape.

  • I don't know how many brothers and sisters were captured.

  • These cops are like bandits. They've no regard for the law!

  • Yeah! Bandits!

  • Yes! Thanks to Brother Yan's timely warning,

  • several deacons at our church managed to hide.

  • Thanks be to the Lord!

  • However, some could not be contacted in time and were arrested.

  • Several meeting places were raided.

  • The cops turned our homes upside down.

  • They took away anything that was valuable.

  • They are simply robbers! (Yeah!)

  • The CCP captures and persecutes Christians.

  • It's happened many times over the years. (Yeah. Yes.)

  • Our hearts will soon break!

  • That's right! Indeed.

  • Yeah!

  • Who is it?

  • It's me!

  • Oh, it's Brother Li. You made it. Thanks be to the Lord!

  • Brother Li, take a seat!

  • Where's Elder Wang?

  • He's been arrested! (Arrested?)

  • What happened?

  • Please tell us.

  • It's just last night, armed police raided our village.

  • The police stormed straight into Elder Wang's home,

  • raiding his home, seizing people like demons.

  • They are loathsome!

  • They've always been like this! (Yeah! Yes!)

  • I wanted to warn others but it was too late, so I could only hide.

  • I found out this morning more than thirty from our church were captured.

  • The raid was similar to last time, coordinated by armed police.

  • Yeah!

  • The CCP captures believers in the middle of the night.

  • It's impossible to defend against!

  • Yes. You are right. It's impossible!

  • They grab Christians at night to avoid being spotted and angering the masses.

  • The CCP is too cunning! (Yes, they are evil.)

  • Persecution has increased since Xi Jinping came to power.

  • He is also a demon!

  • Yes, that's right! Absolutely! He truly is a demon.

  • Now, the CCP is trying to ban house churches!

  • It's malicious! (Indeed.)

  • The arrests of Christians in house churches have gotten even more outrageous.

  • No matter who is in charge, the CCP is a God-resisting demon. (Yes!)

  • They are all the same! (They are all God's enemies!)

  • They seem to have vowed to eradicate the church!

  • I fear we can no longer meet.

  • No meetings?

  • Is that OK? (No.)

  • It's widely known we believe in the Lord.

  • If we're captured, we'll be tormented to death!

  • I live in fear every day.

  • Belief in the Lord is righteous, yet why must I act like a thief? (Yes.)

  • When will these days end?

  • I feel we should lay low and not meet for a little while.

  • Is that the Lord's will? (It is not.)

  • This is wisdom. It's not cowardice!

  • I think the CCP's persecution of Christians won't stop.

  • It will only get worse. (It's true.)

  • Belief in the Lord in China requires wisdom. (Yes.)

  • I also think hiding for a while is in line with the Lord's will. (That's right.)

  • I fear that those who've been captured will spend years in prison

  • unless they sign a letter of repentance!

  • Those prisons are a living hell.

  • There's no guarantee they'll survive! (Yeah.)

  • It's too terrifying!

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • God's good intentions are contained in the persecution that befalls us.

  • As believers, we must suffer the persecution.

  • Through the CCP's persecution,

  • God's testing people and perfecting our faith, (Yeah.)

  • so when we encounter persecution, we should be cautious and wise,

  • but not afraid!

  • God is almighty.

  • Our lives are within God's hands! (Yes! Absolutely right!)

  • Though we live under Satan's domain,

  • without God's permission, Satan does not dare to take our lives.

  • Yes.

  • If we hide from fear of being sent to prison,

  • and become hesitant, afraid of death, and scared to work for Him,

  • then how can we bear witness to the Lord? (Indeed.)

  • We'd be exposed and eliminated through being tried!

  • Indeed.

  • The cowardly are not worthy of entering God's kingdom! (Amen!)

  • Therefore, the more the CCP persecutes us,

  • the more we should have faith and loyalty to the Lord, (Amen!)

  • and water brothers and sisters.

  • Thus, we can have true testimonies, (Yes!)

  • and enter the kingdom of heaven when the Lord descends with the clouds.

  • Amen! Thanks be to the Lord!

  • And when that happens, all the persecution will be over.

  • Indeed. Thanks be to God.

  • As the Lord Jesus said,

  • Amen! Praise the Lord. (Oh, how I long for that day!)

  • The Lord's faithful!

  • These words will surely be fulfilled! It'll be fulfilled! (Yes!)

  • With such a bad environment,

  • it's inevitable that believers have some fear in their hearts.

  • What's most important now is to think of ways to support them.

  • Right. Yes, it's a matter of urgency!

  • Lead others to pray and read the Bible,

  • so they will understand the Lord's will. (It's true.)

  • That way, we'll stand the testimony for the Lord through the trials. (Amen!)

  • Thanks be to the Lord! Thank the Lord! Yes.

  • We should support our brothers and sisters. (Mm, right.)

  • This is a test to us all.

  • Sister He, since undergoing the CCP's crackdown,

  • how're the brothers and sisters doing?

  • Most are feeling scared and weak.

  • Seeing brothers and sisters like this …

  • No matter how scared and weak they may feel,

  • as co-workers, we first must be strong and care for the Lord's will.

  • It's so.

  • Only then can we support brothers and sisters. (Yes.)

  • Sister Fu, to be honest, since the CCP government's crackdown,

  • we would've collapsed had we not prayed to the Lord!

  • Even now, we have not recovered from it.

  • Sister He, what you say is quite true!

  • I've also gotten through the CCP's persecution and arrest

  • through praying to the Lord.

  • Thank the Lord!

  • I could not have stood firm without the Lord's words and His promise as well.

  • Indeed. We've all relied on the Lord.

  • Sister Fu, I have a dilemma and would like your advice.

  • Sure, tell me about it.

  • All these years, we've looked forward to entering the kingdom of heaven.

  • But the Lord still hasn't come.

  • When will there be an end to this suffering?

  • We always say the Lord has arrived at the door, but yet He still has not come.

  • Our faith has become quite weak!

  • It's 2016 now; the prophecies of His return are basically fulfilled.

  • The four blood moons appeared.

  • Even non-believers know that the great disaster is imminent.

  • Therefore, the Lord should have returned.

  • So how is it that we still have not welcomed Him?

  • Yeah.

  • I'm uneasy about this in my heart.

  • If we keep watching the skies

  • and waiting for the Lord to descend with the clouds,

  • will we ever really meet Him?

  • Yeah, the CCP government's crackdown is getting much worse.

  • Our homes do not feel like homes, and who knows when we will be sent to prison?

  • How much longer do we have to endure this suffering?

  • We long for the Lord to take us to heaven and end this suffering.

  • The disaster is nearly here and yet the Lord hasn't come.

  • Just what is going on? (Yeah.)

  • Don't we all long for His arrival?

  • Yet the Lord still hasn't come. Who can see through this?

  • We've now all seen disasters getting bigger and bigger.

  • The four blood moons have appeared (Indeed.)

  • fulfilling the prophecy in the Book of Joel:

  • Amen.

  • I've been thinking about this prophecy.

  • The appearance of the four blood moons fulfills "the moon into blood."

  • Plus, the prophecy says,

  • I feel "the great and terrible day" might refer to the great disaster.

  • Oh …

  • These words show what God will do just before the arrival of the great disaster.

  • Yes, that does sound right!

  • That's how I receive this prophecy

  • that before the start of the great disaster,

  • God's Spirit will utter words to water His servants and handmaids.

  • I believe the Holy Spirit will do new work in the last days!

  • Ah! This is a new light!

  • Thanks be to the Lord! (Thank the Lord!)

  • Here, the words uttered by God's Spirit

  • and the Holy Spirit's words to the churches in the Book of Revelation

  • seem to be related.

  • Many Bible experts confirm

  • that God will make a group of overcomers before the great disaster.

  • Here is what I think.

  • The utterance of God's Spirit must relate to God making a group of overcomers.

  • In God's eyes, overcomers are all God's servants and handmaids!

  • Thank the Lord! So that's how it is! (Right.)

  • The more I pondered, the more I thought there's a great mystery here!

  • If that's the case, we should now search for the utterances of God's Spirit

  • and see where the words of the Holy Spirit to the churches appear! (Oh, right.)

  • Oh! You remind me of the Lord Jesus' prophecy:

  • The wise virgins went to the wedding banquet

  • when they heard the Bridegroom's voice.

  • As I see it, we should find the work of the Holy Spirit

  • and see where the footprints of God's work are.

  • This is most important! (Yes.)

  • What you've said is the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit!

  • Fantastic! (Thanks be to the Lord! Yeah!)

  • You say the utterance of God's Spirit

  • refers to the Holy Spirit's words to the churches.

  • This reminds me that

  • the Eastern Lightning's already witnessed the return of the Lord as Almighty God

  • who has expressed many truths and commenced the work of judgment

  • and is now making overcomers.

  • Do you think

  • this is related to God's Spirit watering God's servants and handmaids?

  • If that's the case, then we really have a path.

  • Let's investigate if the Eastern Lightning really is God's work.

  • That settles it!

  • Yeah, we should look into it at once!

  • Brother Fang, what you said today is indeed a new light. (Praise the Lord!)

  • This is something we'd never appreciated in the Bible before.

  • Yes! Thank the Lord!

  • But as for whether the Eastern Lightning really is the work of God,

  • my views are thus: The Eastern Lightning says that the Lord Jesus has returned,

  • expressed truths, and done judgment of the last days.

  • How is this possible?

  • The Lord Jesus clearly prophesied

  • that He would descend with the clouds in the last days.

  • Yet we have not seen the Lord take believers into the kingdom of heaven.

  • How could the Lord Jesus have already returned?

  • Besides, religious pastors and leaders often say

  • all of the Lord's work is in the Bible;

  • there are no words or work of the Lord outside of the Bible.

  • Therefore, our belief in the Lord is belief in the Bible.

  • If we stray from the Bible, then we betray the Lord.

  • No matter what, we must hold on to the Bible and the Lord's name.

  • Thus, we'll be brought to the kingdom of heaven when He comes.

  • Sister Fu, on welcoming the Lord,

  • we listen to pastors and elders and wait for the Lord to descend with the clouds

  • and if any say that the Lord's already returned,

  • we reject it without investigating.

  • This is not what the Lord intends!

  • Recently, I started wondering.

  • There are so many good sheep from all sects

  • who've accepted the Eastern Lightning.

  • Most of them understand the Bible,

  • and are rather thoughtful, insightful people.

  • Yeah!

  • Their acceptance of the Eastern Lightning

  • must have come only after investigating it many times!

  • Yes, they would not have accepted it blindly.

  • Therefore, we should seek and investigate the Eastern Lightning.

  • If the Eastern Lightning is the Lord's appearance,

  • won't we be able to meet the Lord? (Yeah!)

  • If the Eastern Lightning is not the return of the Lord,

  • we'd still gain discernment.

  • Isn't that quite a good thing?

  • Indeed. Rather than being trapped in the church with nowhere to go,

  • we might as well investigate the Eastern Lightning! (Yeah!)

  • Let's see if the Lord has already returned.

  • At least, we'd know how things stand. (Right.)

  • Sister Fu, isn't that right?

  • We should look into it. (Yes.)

  • Sister Fu, we have waited and waited but still the Lord has not come.

  • Just what is going on?

  • Thanks be to the Lord! (Thanks be to the Lord!)

  • Brothers and sisters, now is the late period of the last days.

  • The prophecies of the Lord's return are basically fulfilled. (Amen!)

  • In the year 2,000,

  • the Lord may descend with the clouds to take us up into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Amen!

  • O Lord! Is it wrong for us to wait for You like this?

  • Why is it that we still have not met You?

  • Lord! The Eastern Lightning testifies that You have returned.

  • Is this true or not?

  • O Lord! I really am not sure.

  • Please enlighten me.

  • Sister Fu, what you said is right.

  • The prophecies will surely come to pass.

  • But recently I checked all the prophecies regarding the return of the Lord.

  • About the Lord's prophecies of His return,

  • it not only says, "he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him,"

  • but also that He will come "as a thief." (Right.)

  • As is said in the Gospel of Matthew 24:43 through 44,

  • There's also Revelation 3:3,

  • These prophecies say the Lord will come as a thief.

  • He will come quietly, without everyone knowing. (Yeah!)

  • Therefore, when it comes to the return of the Lord,

  • we mustn't make assumptions but rather seek and investigate fully.

  • That's the only way we'll have a chance to welcome Him!

  • We must investigate more! (Yes!)

  • Brother Fang, there are many prophecies that the Lord will return like a thief.

  • But the religious world unanimously interprets this

  • as not knowing when the Lord will return.

  • Right.

  • Just as the Lord Jesus said,

  • In my mind, this is saying that when no one expects it,

  • the Lord will descend with the clouds to take the saints.

  • That sounds about right.

  • Now that you say it,

  • this reminds me of when I was hiding at my relative's house,

  • I met some people from the Eastern Lightning. (The Eastern Lightning?)

  • Yes!

  • They communed with me on some prophecies like Revelation 16:15,

  • And also Matthew 25:6,

  • As well as Revelation 3:20,

  • According to their interpretation of the Lord's words,

  • He shall return like a thief,

  • and it will be "at midnight" when someone witnesses "the bridegroom comes."

  • This explains that at a time unknown to us all,

  • God will become flesh as Son of man, and secretly descend to speak and work.

  • It is not something that all can see or know.

  • Only those who know the Lord's voice

  • can recognize that He is the Lord and accept Him.

  • Indeed, it's so.

  • They also said only those who seek the Lord's voice

  • when told someone's witnessed His return

  • can be brought before the throne to attend the Lord's banquet.

  • Ah, what they said is right.

  • The Lord Jesus said clearly in these passages.

  • Not everyone will be able to see the Lord's return.

  • Only those who recognize His voice are able to meet Him.

  • If the Lord's return is the "descend with the clouds" that we imagine,

  • then wouldn't all be able to see it? (Yes.)

  • It seems there's a mystery in how the Lord will come.

  • Sister Xu, from hearing your words,

  • it seems what was said by those from the Eastern Lightning

  • conforms with the Lord's prophecies.

  • The Lord Jesus' prophecies indeed mention listening to the Lord's voice.

  • Right.

  • We must listen to His voice in order to be able to welcome His return. (Right.)

  • All that you have said makes sense.

  • We held to the Lord descending with the clouds,

  • but ignored other prophecies of His return. (Right.)

  • This made it easy to make mistakes!

  • Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not a stroke of the Lord's words shall.

  • Right.

  • Since they're all the Lord's prophecies, they must all be fulfilled. (Yeah.)

  • His words will not be unfulfilled!

  • As to how the Lord's prophecies will be fulfilled,

  • there must be mysteries and truths that we're unable to fathom.

  • Indeed! That's true.

  • We mustn't arbitrarily delineate.

  • Yeah!

  • Over these years,

  • the Eastern Lightning has testified that the Lord has returned,

  • uttered the truth, and begun His judgment work of the last days,

  • and yet we have never sought and looked into it, (It's true. Right.)

  • but instead followed pastors and elders in condemning the Eastern Lightning.

  • Indeed! That's true.

  • From the look of things, what we were doing may be quite wrong! (Yeah!)

  • We should now investigate the Eastern Lightning

  • to see whether what they preach is the true way.

  • Yes, we should seek and investigate! (Yeah!)

  • Sister Xu, (Yes?)

  • can you invite people from the Church of Almighty God

  • to come communicate with us? (Oh, yes!)

  • We should seek and investigate!

  • Hello, brother!

  • Hi, everyone!

  • Thanks be to the Lord!

  • Take a seat.

  • If I may introduce everyone.

  • The Church of Almighty God's Brother Li, Brother Chen, and Sister Zhang.

  • Here's our church's Elder Fu.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • We welcome you to our church! (Thanks be to God!)

  • Welcome to our church!

  • Here. Please sit!

  • Welcome!

  • Thanks be to the Lord!

  • We invited you here to help us study Almighty God's work in the last days.

  • Praise God!

  • We have long heard the Church of Almighty God

  • has testified to the return of the Lord Jesus who is Almighty God! (Yes.)

  • He has begun His judgment work of the last days, (Yes.)

  • but most people think the Lord will return by descending with the clouds.

  • This is because the Lord Jesus clearly said,

  • Amen.

  • The Book of Revelation prophesied,

  • Amen.

  • I too think He'll return by descending with the clouds

  • to take us to the kingdom of heaven.

  • We refuse to accept the Lord Jesus who doesn't thus descend.

  • That is why we've never investigated the Eastern Lightning. (Yes.)

  • You say His return is returning to flesh and descending in secret.

  • But none know about this.

  • But the Lord descending with the clouds is absolute! (Amen.)

  • That's why we wait for the Lord to descend with the clouds

  • and take us up directly to the kingdom of heaven. (Amen! Indeed.)

  • Is our understanding correct or not?

  • Please speak to us on this. (Yes. Sure.)

  • Thanks be to God!

  • How could we be wrong?

  • Praise the Lord!

  • Everyone, our view cannot be wrong. (Yes! That's right!)

  • The Lord is faithful.

  • I believe He will descend with the clouds to take us to the kingdom of heaven.

  • Amen!

  • The Bible also prophesies He'll come as a thief,

  • and someone will yell "the bridegroom comes" at midnight,

  • of this, we cannot seek or investigate.

  • That's right! That's true.

  • False Christs will appear in the last days.

  • We are afraid of being deceived.

  • So I only believe in the Lord Jesus who descends with the clouds.

  • This cannot be wrong. (Amen!)

  • I will not accept unless the Lord descends with the clouds,

  • taking believers to the kingdom of heaven!

  • Yes, we cannot accept it.

  • That's my view. (Amen!)

  • Brother Jia's right! That's what I think too. (Amen!)

  • Everyone, when it comes to waiting for the Lord to descend with the clouds,

  • we can't trust our notions! (That's right.)

  • The Pharisees made a huge mistake in waiting for the Messiah's arrival.

  • True.

  • They used man's notions against the Lord Jesus who had already arrived.

  • In the end, they nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross.

  • Is this not a fact?

  • Yeah.

  • Is awaiting the Lord's arrival as simple as we think?

  • If the Lord returns,

  • and He works among mankind just as the Lord Jesus in the flesh had done,

  • and we don't recognize Him,

  • then would we also judge and condemn Him as the Pharisees had done,

  • and so crucify Him again?

  • Is this a possibility?

  • That's something we never thought of before. (That's true.)

  • The Lord Jesus said many words about His return,

  • but you only hold the one where He descends with the clouds,

  • and don't investigate the other prophecies spoken by the Lord.

  • This makes it easy to walk down the wrong path and be abandoned by the Lord!

  • The "descend with the clouds" prophecy is not the only one in the Bible.

  • There's others like He'll come as a thief and descend secretly. (Yeah!)

  • As in Revelation 16:15,

  • Matthew 25:6,

  • And Revelation 3:20,

  • All these prophecies refer to God becoming flesh as the Son of man

  • and descending in secret.

  • "As a thief" means coming quietly, secretly. (Right.)

  • None will know He's God even if they hear or see Him,

  • just as it was when the Lord Jesus first appeared.

  • The Lord Jesus looked like a Son of man, and no one knew He is God.

  • The Lord Jesus used "as a thief" analogously for the Son of man's appearance.

  • This is quite befitting!

  • Those who do not love the truth,

  • regardless of how God incarnate speaks or works,

  • do not accept.

  • Instead, they treat God incarnate as if He were a normal person

  • and condemn and abandon Him.

  • That's why the Lord Jesus prophesied that when He returns:

  • Amen.

  • So His return shall be "the coming of the Son of man."

  • As we know, "Son of man" refers to God in the flesh,

  • not the resurrected spiritual body of the Lord Jesus

  • descending with the clouds to appear before all.

  • Why is that the case?

  • Let's think about it.

  • If the spiritual body of the resurrected Lord Jesus descended,

  • then the world would be shocked.

  • All would drop right to the ground; none would resist. (Yes!)

  • If so, would the returned Lord Jesus still be rejected by this generation?

  • Of His return,

  • the Lord Jesus said "the coming of the Son of man" and "as a thief."

  • In reality,

  • it's referring to God incarnated as the Son of man arriving in secret.

  • It's true. The Lord Jesus' words are clear.

  • The returned Lord must first endure suffering

  • and be rejected by this generation.

  • Is this not God in the flesh?

  • We've seen such scriptures before, why haven't we been able to be enlightened?

  • Their communication's been so enlightening.

  • We must listen carefully! (Yeah.)

  • How is the Son of man descending in secret

  • related to God openly appearing with the clouds?

  • What is involved?

  • Let's communicate about that. (OK. Thanks be to the Lord!)

  • Thanks be to God!

  • In the last days, God is incarnated and descends secretly to speak among men,

  • and begin the judgment from the house of God,

  • purifying all who hear His voice and return before His throne,

  • and making them into a group of overcomers.

  • Then God goes to Zion and brings the great disaster,

  • refining and chastising all those

  • who don't accept God's judgment of the last days.

  • Then God shall descend with the clouds to openly appear to all.

  • The prophecy in Revelation 1:7 would then be fulfilled:

  • Amen.

  • Everybody asks why,

  • when the Lord descends with the clouds,

  • those who pierced the Lord can still see Him?

  • Just who are the people who pierced Him?

  • Humph! Do I need to say it?

  • The ones who crucified the Lord Jesus in the first place! (Yes!)

  • Some would say it's those who nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross.

  • Is that really the case?

  • Weren't those who crucified the Lord destroyed by God long ago? (That's right.)

  • Yes, that's right. Yes, that is indeed correct! Right.

  • In reality, those who pierced Him

  • are those who when God incarnate descends secretly in the last days,

  • do not seek God's voice and condemn and resist Almighty God. (That's right!)

  • At that time,

  • they will see Almighty God that they've resisted and condemned

  • is in fact the Savior Jesus they've been waiting for.

  • They shall weep, beat their chests, and gnash their teeth;

  • their outcome can only be punishment.

  • The Book of Revelation does not say whether such people will live or die;

  • so we cannot know.

  • Only God knows.

  • It's true.

  • Up to this point, we all should be clear.

  • Only the wise virgins who hear God's voice can welcome the Lord's return,

  • be brought before God's throne to attend the marriage supper of the Lamb,

  • and be perfected by God into an overcomer.

  • This fulfills the prophecy in Revelation 14:4,

  • Amen!

  • Thank God! Thanks be to God.

  • Those who cling to the notion that the Lord will descend with the clouds

  • but don't seek God's work in the last days,

  • are in fact foolish virgins.

  • Oh, yes.

  • In particular, those who resist and condemn Almighty God

  • are the Pharisees and antichrists exposed by God's work in the last days.

  • They all have re-crucified God.

  • And they shall endure great disasters and be punished.

  • The mistake,

  • those who only welcome the Lord that descends with the clouds have made,

  • what type of people they are, and what their outcome will be,

  • I trust we're now clear on.

  • It's clearer now.

  • Praise the Lord!

  • What they have said is right.

  • Key to receiving the Lord's return is listening to God's voice. (Yeah!)

  • That's utterly correct. (Yes.)

  • We have neglected this point. (It's true.)

  • We really are foolish! (Yes, it's true.)

  • It seems we must look into the work of Almighty God in the last days. (Yeah!)

  • Once the disasters come, it will be unimaginable. (It's true!)

  • No one can know who will live or die! (Yeah!)

  • I think their communication is quite good. We better hurry and look into it.

  • If we still do not listen to God's voice, then we will fall into the disaster.

  • Indeed, we better listen carefully!

  • You say the Lord will return secretly in the flesh in the last days,

  • make a group of overcomers, and then descend with the clouds before all.

  • This indeed makes sense.

  • But for 2,000 years,

  • most believers wait for the Lord to descend with the clouds. (Yes. Amen!)

  • Our pastors and elders often say this. (Yes.)

  • How could it possibly be wrong to wait in accordance with the Bible?

  • That's right! How could this be wrong?

  • Our pastors and elders are people who serve the Lord. (Yes.)

  • They wait for Him to return, thus.

  • I don't believe the returned Lord would abandon all these pastors and elders!

  • That's impossible! No way!

  • Utterly impossible!

  • How could that be possible?

  • Yes! We must listen to the pastors and elders!

  • Nothing wrong. Amen!

  • They've believed longer and better grasped the Bible. (That's right.)

  • We have to listen to them. (Amen!)

  • We should obey what the pastors and elders say

  • as long as it is based on the Bible.

  • That's right! Amen!

  • Obeying them is obeying the Lord! (Amen!)

  • It's enough to follow pastors and elders

  • and wait for the Lord to descend with the clouds.

  • The Lord is merciful.

  • He would not abandon us, and moreover would not punish us.

  • Amen!

  • He would not abandon us.

  • What's your basis for saying something like that?

  • Is what you have said in line with the words of the Lord Jesus?

  • Are they based on God's words?

  • If what you say is based on man's notions and imaginations,

  • it would be resisting the Lord!

  • Think of how the Pharisees waited for the arrival of the Messiah,

  • and why it was that they nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross.

  • Initially, the Pharisees were replete with notions when it came to the Messiah.

  • They saw the biblical prophecy,

  • Amen!

  • Based on the words of the prophecies in the Bible

  • and various long-held assumptions concerning the arrival of the Messiah,

  • the Pharisees felt sure the Lord would be called Messiah

  • and be born into wealth.

  • And furthermore, like David, he would become the King of Israel

  • and lead them to break free from the Roman government.

  • Many Israelites probably thought this.

  • Yes.

  • But God did not fulfill these prophecies

  • according to their notions and imaginations.

  • Therefore, the Pharisees made accusations and condemned the Lord Jesus.

  • Although at the time the Lord Jesus expressed many truths

  • and performed many miracles

  • fully demonstrating God's authority and power,

  • the Pharisees did not care how profound the Lord Jesus' words were,

  • nor even how great was His authority.

  • As long as it did not conform with their notions,

  • as long as He was not born into a wealthy and noble family,

  • as long as His name was not Messiah, they would condemn and resist.

  • Yeah!

  • Indeed. That's all true!

  • Due to their truth-hating nature,

  • they ultimately nailed the Lord Jesus,

  • who expressed truths and performed redemption work to the cross!

  • That's all true!

  • Brothers and sisters, are the Pharisees detestable?

  • Too detestable! Yes.

  • Should they not be cursed?

  • They should be cursed!

  • The Pharisees' sins in condemning the Lord Jesus

  • thoroughly exposed their truth-loathing, truth-hating satanic nature.

  • This clearly shows that their hearts

  • were not genuinely looking forward to the Messiah saving them from sin.

  • So instead looking forward to what?

  • They were looking forward to the King of the Jews

  • helping them break from Roman rule,

  • so they'd no longer have to suffer like slaves!

  • They believed in God and awaited the Messiah's arrival

  • to satisfy their own personal desires.

  • Let's think about it.

  • What mistake did the Pharisees make in waiting for the coming of the Messiah?

  • Why is it that they were cursed and punished by God?

  • This is really thought-provoking!

  • Yes, we should think about it. (Yeah!)

  • Why did the Pharisees resist and condemn the Lord Jesus

  • when He appeared to perform His work?

  • What nature of the Pharisees was demonstrated here?

  • These are problems people who long for God's appearance should understand!

  • This is indeed worthy of deep thought!

  • If we can't see through these problems,

  • then as for receiving the returned Lord Jesus,

  • we might be on the same God-resisting path as the Pharisees!

  • Do you not agree with this?

  • Yes.

  • Frightening!

  • We must not walk the Pharisees' path!

  • She's right.

  • Yeah!

  • How did the Pharisees wait for the Messiah to arrive?

  • Why is it that they crucified the Lord Jesus?

  • Just what is the source of these questions?

  • Let's look at what was said by Almighty God!

  • OK!

  • Amen!

  • Yes.

  • Thank the Lord!

  • Yes, thank the Lord.

  • Almighty God's words

  • show the essence, source of the Pharisees' resistance of the Lord Jesus

  • in waiting for the Messiah.

  • Yes!

  • So in regard to receiving the Lord's return,

  • if man relies on their notions waiting for the Lord to descend with the clouds,

  • rather than listening to God's voice,

  • then won't they be walking the same God-resisting path of the Pharisees?

  • Yeah!

  • Then just what will their outcome be?

  • They'll be cursed and punished just like the Pharisees!

  • You are right! It seems we're clear on this.

  • What you have said is all true.

  • Those Pharisees relied on their imaginations in longing for the Messiah.

  • They condemned the Lord Jesus and so they were cursed by God!

  • We're also relying on our imaginations

  • when it comes to receiving the returned Lord,

  • thinking that when He returns in the last days,

  • He'll descend with the clouds and take us to the kingdom of heaven.

  • We even think if the Lord Jesus does not so descend, He must be fake.

  • We blindly follow pastors and elders in condemning the Eastern Lightning.

  • In this way,

  • aren't we like the Pharisees resisting and even condemning the Lord?

  • That's right.

  • It's terrifying thinking of it now!

  • Sister Wei, though what they say conforms with the Bible,

  • I maintain that the Lord will descend with the clouds. (Amen!)

  • The Lord will descend with the clouds to take us to the kingdom of heaven.

  • Amen!

  • The Lord said those who wait for Him shall not be ashamed!

  • Yes.

  • It's true! I agree with Brother Jia.

  • Amen!

  • Brother Jia, we used to think the same;

  • we believed the returned Lord would descend with the clouds

  • to take us to the kingdom of heaven.

  • From the look of things, it now seems we might be wrong!

  • Yeah!

  • What they've said based on the Lord's prophecies in the Bible is clear.

  • The Lord Jesus will return in the last days secretly as the Son of man,

  • perform judgment beginning from the house of God,

  • and create a group of overcomers before the disaster,

  • then He appears publicly descending with the clouds.

  • I think this conforms with the Bible and the words of the Lord.

  • Now the coming of the Bridegroom's been testified.

  • Have we looked into it?

  • What is it then that we have been doing?

  • We've been following religious leaders in condemning the Eastern Lightning.

  • Is this right?

  • Is this in line with the Lord's intentions?

  • Even though we cannot be sure if Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus,

  • we should at least seek and investigate!

  • Yes, we must investigate!

  • Let's listen to Almighty God's word to see if it is the Lord's voice!

  • Yeah!

  • Otherwise,

  • if we're not perfected into overcomers by the Lord who arrives in secret,

  • we'll fall into the disaster and be punished.

  • Then we would really lose!

  • Oh, yes. Yeah, we can't miss the chance.

  • Sister Fu is right!

  • The suffering we've endured for believing in the Lord would be in vain.

  • Yeah! Yes!

  • Then we would be such foolish virgins!

  • Yes. Wouldn't our faith come to nothing?

  • We better ask the preachers from the Church of Almighty God

  • to communicate with us more!

  • OK!

  • Oh, brothers, please try to communicate with us some more.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • now Almighty God's kingdom gospel

  • has been spreading through China for more than 20 years.

  • It's spread to many denominations.

  • That's right.

  • During this period, due to the CCP government's furious suppression,

  • coupled with the CCP's propaganda,

  • Almighty God is already a household name everyone knows.

  • That's right!

  • And now, all truths expressed by Almighty God

  • and the films produced by the Church of Almighty God have been released online,

  • spreading across the world. (That's right.)

  • Completely beyond my expectation!

  • I trust people in religious circles

  • have all heard about the Church of Almighty God's testimony methods.

  • Yes, we have indeed heard of them.

  • Many people testified God has come, fulfilling the Lord Jesus' prophecy:

  • Then why do religious pastors and elders

  • still furiously resist the work of Almighty God in the last days?

  • There are many prophecies of the Lord's return in the Bible,

  • so why are they fixated on the prophecy of the Lord descending with the clouds?

  • Why don't they investigate when they hear testimonies of the Lord's coming?

  • Yeah!

  • Why, when they know that Almighty God has expressed many truths

  • and they've seen the reality of God's work,

  • do they stubbornly hold to their notions

  • and resist and condemn the work of God of the last days?

  • These are good questions!

  • Do these people love the truth

  • and look forward in earnest to the Lord's arrival or not?

  • Are they wise virgins or foolish virgins?

  • If they're wise virgins and earnestly look forward to the Lord's return,

  • then why, when they hear God's voice and see how the kingdom gospel flourishes,

  • do they stubbornly condemn and resist?

  • Could this be their sincerity in longing for and hoping for the Lord to appear?

  • Could this be their true expression in rejoicing the return of the Lord?

  • It could not.

  • Let's be truly honest.

  • Their longing for the return of the Lord Jesus is fake,

  • but their longing for the kingdom of heaven is real!

  • Yes! Yeah!

  • They believe in the Lord not to pursue the truth and gain life,

  • not to gain the truth and cast off sin.

  • What do they care about the most?

  • It's when the Lord will descend to take them to the kingdom of heaven,

  • and they'll escape suffering of the flesh and enjoy the kingdom of heaven.

  • That's their true purpose of belief in God!

  • Well said!

  • Tell me, apart from this,

  • what reason do they have to reject Almighty God

  • who expresses truths to save mankind?

  • Please think about it.

  • If someone loves the truth and truly longs for God to appear,

  • how will they act when they hear that the Lord has come?

  • Would they not listen, look nor seek? (No.)

  • Would they blindly deny, condemn, and resist?

  • They would not. (No way.)

  • That's right, there's no way.

  • People who long for God's appearance and welcome Him

  • look forward to true light appearing, truth ruling within their heart.

  • They look forward to God coming to help mankind escape sin, become holy,

  • and be gained by God.

  • Amen!

  • Isn't that right, everyone?

  • Yeah! That's indeed right! I agree.

  • But those who just wait for the Lord to descend with the clouds,

  • yet deny Almighty God,

  • especially those religious leaders

  • who resist Almighty God to protect their status—

  • these are all people who hate and despise the truth.

  • They are all antichrists, unbelievers exposed by God's work of the last days.

  • After God in the flesh completes His work of salvation,

  • they will fall into the once-in-a-million-year disaster,

  • weeping and gnashing teeth.

  • Then the prophecy of the Lord publicly descending with the clouds

  • will be completely fulfilled:

  • Amen.

  • Thanks be to the Lord!

  • We would not have known this had we not listened to them today.

  • Their communication is enlightening!

  • Everyone, let's take a look at the words of Almighty God. (OK!)

  • Thanks be to the Lord!

  • Here, drink some water.

  • What's going on?

  • I was thinking,

  • I've believed in the Lord for years, but the way I've treated His return …

  • I have never actually sought the Lord's intentions.

  • I keep living in my own imaginations,

  • foolishly waiting for the Lord to descend with the clouds

  • and take me into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Though people have shared the testimonies of Almighty God's work for years,

  • I was stubborn and refused to listen to Lord's voice and denied His return.

  • And now I think I am far too arrogant.

  • How am I any different from those Pharisees who resisted the Lord Jesus?

  • That is indeed so!

  • People from the Church of Almighty God

  • have for many years now testified the Lord's return.

  • Why didn't we go look into it?

  • Yes.

  • Thinking back, we were extremely arrogant and conceited.

  • Foolish, too!

  • Yes, indeed!

  • Finally, I understand:

  • We all want to welcome the Lord's arrival and enter the kingdom of heaven,

  • but few focus on listening for the Lord's voice

  • or seeking out the appearance and work of the Lord. (Yes!)

  • This is our biggest mistake in belief and our disobedience!

  • I agree.

  • If the preachers from the Church of Almighty God

  • did not communicate earnestly with all,

  • who among us would have been able to recognize God's voice

  • or see God's appearance?

  • Thank the Lord!

  • We must really communicate with them at our meeting today!

  • OK! Let's truly listen.

  • Brother Li, (Yes.)

  • these past days, we've heard Almighty God's words and all gained a lot.

  • We believe the words of Almighty God are truth! (Yes.)

  • Praise God!

  • However, there are still some things we don't understand.

  • Please communicate with us more.

  • Sure. Tell me what they are and we'll start.

  • Great!

  • It's like this.

  • You've testified the incarnate Almighty God has expressed millions of words

  • and performed judgment beginning from the house of God.

  • Correct.

  • But this exceeds what's in the Bible.

  • Yeah!

  • You see, our pastors and leaders would often tell us

  • God's words and work are all in the Bible.

  • There are no words and work of God outside it.

  • Amen!

  • The Lord Jesus' salvation work is done.

  • In the last days, He'll return to take believers to the kingdom of heaven.

  • Amen!

  • We've always believed belief in the Lord must be based on the Bible.

  • If we stick to the Bible, we'll enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Amen!

  • But from the look of things, our viewpoint seems to be wrong.

  • Huh? How is it wrong?

  • Yeah!

  • Yet we can't see through this,

  • and so please communicate with us more.

  • Ah! OK!

  • Ah, allow me to speak.

  • Brothers and sisters, our viewpoint can't be wrong! (That's right! Amen!)

  • All God's words and work are within the Bible. (That's right! Yeah.)

  • God would not speak and work outside of the Bible! (Amen!)

  • Our belief in the Lord has always been based on the Bible. (Amen!)

  • Straying from the Bible is the same as leaving the Lord's way.

  • It's betraying Him.

  • All pastors and elders think this is so.

  • What could be wrong with that?

  • Right!

  • In the Bible, God's salvation is complete. (Amen!)

  • That is why we must never stray from it.

  • Brothers and sisters, if we hold to the Bible,

  • when the Lord comes, we'll enter the kingdom of heaven! (Amen!)

  • We must be confident. (Yes. That's right!)

  • I'd like to hear what else you have to say!

  • All believers think the Bible contains all of God's words and His work.

  • God's salvation is complete, so none of God's words and work are outside of it.

  • Belief in the Lord is holding fast to the Bible.

  • If we don't leave the Bible, the Lord will take us to the kingdom of heaven.

  • Such a viewpoint might conform with man's notions,

  • but is it based on the words of the Lord Jesus?

  • Are you sure it conforms with the truth?

  • The Lord Jesus never said all God's words and work are within the Bible,

  • nor that none of God's words and His work are outside of it.

  • Yes.

  • Those who understand the Bible

  • know that it was put together by mankind many years after God's work.

  • God's work came first, and then came the Bible.

  • That's right. Yes.

  • That's true!

  • In other words, each time God completed a stage of His work,

  • those who experienced God's work

  • would record God's words and work from that time,

  • and these records were then compiled by people into the Bible.

  • Now think about it,

  • how could work that God has not yet done be compiled into the Bible in advance?

  • God's judgment work of the last days couldn't possibly be recorded in the Bible.

  • Yes.

  • The Bible has existed for nearly 2,000 years.

  • Almighty God just started judgment of the last days.

  • Therefore,

  • the words and work of God in the last days

  • couldn't possibly be recorded in the Bible. (Yes!)

  • Isn't that a fact?

  • Indeed! That is so true.

  • In the last days, Almighty God's begun judgment from the house of God,

  • expressing several million words.

  • These words are all truths that purify and save mankind,

  • and are the way of eternal life brought by Christ of the last days.

  • Yes.

  • They're in the Bible of the Age of Kingdom.

  • This is the book,

  • Though the truths Almighty God expressed aren't in the Bible,

  • they've fulfilled the Lord Jesus' prophecies.

  • Open please to John 16:12 through 13 and Revelation 2:17.

  • Who wants to read?

  • Allow me.

  • Amen!

  • Amen!

  • The truth expressed by Almighty God

  • shows that Almighty God is the embodiment of the Spirit of truth

  • and that He's the incarnate God. (Yes.)

  • Almighty God's words are the expression of the Spirit of truth in the last days,

  • the words from the Holy Spirit to the churches.

  • Amen!

  • Do any dare say these are not God's words?

  • Do any still deny this?

  • If one sees God's words and work in the last days,

  • would they still say all God's words are within the Bible,

  • there're no words and work of God outside it?

  • No, we can't say that.

  • That's right!

  • People don't know how the Bible was formed.

  • They don't know that it was formed after God completed each stage of His work,

  • and yet they arbitrarily conclude

  • that there are no words and work of God outside the Bible.

  • Aren't these people absurd and arbitrary? (Yeah!)

  • Yes, the Bible was compiled by man after God had completed His work.

  • How could the work of God in the last days appear in the Bible in advance?

  • Yeah. We've believed for years; how come we couldn't see this?

  • We're really ignorant!

  • Indeed!

  • Brothers and sisters, if we don't understand how the Bible was formed,

  • it is easy to deviate on the path to believing in God.

  • Yes!

  • During the two stages of God's work in the Age of Law and the Age of Grace,

  • all the words expressed by God weren't completely recorded in the Bible.

  • For instance, in the Age of Law,

  • there were some prophets whose prophecies aren't in the Bible.

  • This is a fact that many brothers and sisters know about. (Yes.)

  • Some prophecies of Ezra weren't recorded in the Bible.

  • In the Age of Grace, there were more words spoken by the Lord Jesus.

  • But the words recorded in the Bible are limited.

  • The Lord Jesus had preached on earth for three-and-a-half years.

  • How many words would He have spoken during each day? (Yeah!)

  • There were many sermons and words spoken by the Lord Jesus

  • in those three-and-a-half years.

  • There's no way anyone could calculate it.

  • Yes. I agree.

  • Just as John the apostle said,

  • Amen!

  • Let's look at the Four New Testament Gospels.

  • The words of the Lord Jesus in these are limited!

  • They are only the tip of the iceberg!

  • Yeah!

  • If the Lord Jesus had only said what was recorded in these in those years,

  • how would He have been able to conquer the people who followed Him then?

  • How could the Lord Jesus' work have shaken up all of Judea?

  • Yes.

  • Therefore, the words of God recorded in the Bible contain a limited portion,

  • certainly not all the words God spoke during His work.

  • This is a fact no one is able to deny! (Yes.)

  • We all know God's the Lord of creation, (Amen!)

  • the source of mankind's life, (Amen!)

  • the wellspring of living water that never runs dry. (Amen!)

  • God's richness is inexhaustible and always there, (Amen!)

  • whereas the Bible is merely a record of the first two stages of God's work.

  • What's recorded of God's words is limited.

  • It is like a mere drop in the sea of God's life.

  • Amen!

  • How can we limit God's words and work to just the Bible?

  • As if God could just say those limited words in the Bible.

  • Isn't this delimiting, belittling, and blasphemy to God? (Yes!)

  • Therefore, to delimit all God's words and work to the Bible,

  • and to think there are no words and work of God outside the Bible

  • is a major mistake!

  • That's right!

  • And now, let's read a few passages of Almighty God's words

  • to better see this aspect of the truth.

  • OK!

  • Great.

  • Amen!

  • Almighty God's words are indeed truth!

  • As I listen, I feel enlightened!

  • Yeah, praise the Lord!

  • God is the source of man's life, the ever-flowing wellspring of living water.

  • God's words can't be exhausted!

  • Yeah, that's right. It's true.

  • How could God's words be limited to just those in the Bible? (Yeah!)

  • We were foolish and blind and didn't know God.

  • We've believed for years, yet don't understand any truth,

  • even limiting God's words and work to the Bible,

  • as though what's recorded in the Bible were all of God's word and work.

  • This is indeed belittling and blaspheming God!

  • Yes, that's true.

  • That's indeed so!

  • If a person is arrogant and does not pursue the truth and lacks fear of God,

  • it's easy for them to resist God!

  • Absolutely! Indeed!

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • I don't deny what they said of God's words existing outside the Bible,

  • but we believers know the Bible is given by God's inspiration. (Amen!)

  • All words within the Bible are the words of God. (Yes!)

  • The Bible represents the Lord. (Right. That's right!)

  • To believe in the Bible is to believe in the Lord.

  • Straying from the Bible means not believing in the Lord! (Yes. That's right!)

  • We just need to hold on to the Bible.

  • Even if we reject God's work in the last days,

  • we will enter the kingdom of heaven! (Amen!)

  • Our understanding will not be wrong! (That's right! Yes.)

  • Brother Jia is correct!

  • Paul made it very clear in 2 Timothy, the Bible is inspired by God.

  • This means that every word in it is the word of God, (Amen!)

  • and that it represents the Lord. (Right.)

  • We only need to stick to the Bible.

  • We don't need to accept God's work in the last days.

  • That's right. The coming of the Lord Jesus will take us to His kingdom.

  • The Lord did not say to accept His work in the last days. (Amen.)

  • Therefore, as long as we stick to the Bible,

  • we will surely be taken into the kingdom of heaven. (Amen!)

  • Do you dare deny this?

  • Brother Jia, Brother Jiang,

  • you say that moving away from the Bible means not believing in the Lord.

  • So let me ask:

  • Back when the Lord Jesus was preaching,

  • those who followed the Lord Jesus came away from the Bible to accept His work.

  • Were these not believers in the Lord?

  • Yeah. I see.

  • The Pharisees resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus

  • because they clung to the Bible,

  • so they were condemned by the Lord, they were cursed by the Lord.

  • What's the problem?

  • Does holding onto the Bible represent obeying the Lord?

  • Does it mean when you hold onto the Bible that you revere the Lord?

  • Is the Bible greater or the Lord?

  • The Pharisees made it clear to us.

  • Did they believe in the Lord or resist the Lord?

  • Are you going to keep going down the path of the Pharisees and resist the Lord?

  • Don't you know the outcome of this?

  • Is knowing the fate of the Pharisees still not enough to wake us up?

  • He's right. We can't go the same path of the Pharisees.

  • Most of the religious world rely on the words of Paul,

  • "All scripture is given by inspiration of God,"

  • to think that everything in the Bible is the word of God,

  • and that by following it, they'll be let into the kingdom of heaven.

  • In the last days, most believers still believe in this.

  • But does this viewpoint align with truth and fact?

  • Did the Lord Jesus ever say "All scripture is given by inspiration of God"?

  • Did the Holy Spirit say it?

  • No!

  • Right. Never. It was Paul who said those things.

  • Many believers use the words of Paul as the basis of their belief

  • that every word in the Bible is the word of God.

  • But isn't doing this a big mistake?

  • Yes. Completely. It is.

  • Big mistake.

  • Some people believe

  • that even words spoken by people are the words of God,

  • if they're in the Bible.

  • Isn't this idea fallacious and absurd?

  • Indeed. Yes, absolutely.

  • All believers should be clear.

  • The Bible is a testimony of God and a record of His work.

  • The creation of the Bible was based on God's salvation.

  • Every stage of God's work

  • is filled with the battle between God and the forces of Satan, (That's right.)

  • which is why the Bible has not only God's word,

  • but the words of people and even the words of Satan.

  • Yes. That's right.

  • This is just a fact.

  • Hey, he's right. The Bible has the words of the apostles too.

  • Yeah. Not to mention the words of the Pharisees and Satan.

  • That's all completely true.

  • Yeah.

  • So then, are we able to say that every word in the Bible is the word of God?

  • No, of course not.

  • Isn't this confusing what is simply black and white?

  • Yes. It is.

  • How can people even think of these erroneous ideas?

  • Why think that when the facts are so clear to us?

  • Anyone who's read the Bible knows

  • there are conversations between God and Moses, and between God and Job,

  • between God and His chosen people, and between God and Satan.

  • Yeah. True.

  • If someone's conversing with God,

  • does that mean that they utter the word of God?

  • They definitely don't.

  • Not at all.

  • Isn't that idea ridiculous?

  • Yeah. Yes, it is.

  • The saying that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God"

  • cannot possibly be the truth.

  • Some people insist that man's word in the Bible is the word of God.

  • This is nowhere near the truth.

  • That notion is seriously offensive to God, it tarnishes and blasphemes God.

  • God's words are God's words, man's words are man's words. (Yes.)

  • Satan's words are just Satan's words.

  • That's right.

  • Why would people mix them up?

  • God's words are always the truth. (Amen!)

  • Man's words can never be the truth.

  • At most, they can conform to the truth.

  • Yes. Amen.

  • Satan's words will always be lies and falsehoods.

  • Even if spoken a thousand times, they will always be lies and falsehoods.

  • Amen!

  • If we were wise, we would know this for sure. (Yes.)

  • Only fools insist on a false viewpoint. (Yes.)

  • We will understand even more after we read the words of Almighty God.

  • Okay. Yes. Thanks be to the Lord!

  • That's a great point.

  • Thanks be to God. So not all the Bible is inspired by God. (Yes.)

  • The Bible has the words of man and of God.

  • If we want to find which words in the Bible were from God

  • and which were from man,

  • we simply need to read who said them. (Yeah. Right.)

  • If it's said by God, it's God's words.

  • If it's said by man, then it's man's words,

  • excluding the words spoken by God through the prophets.

  • If it's Satan's words, then we know that it's false!

  • Yes, that's right.

  • This is such a practical way to distinguish them. It's great!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Now when I think back,

  • which words in the Bible were spoken by God, which words were spoken by man,

  • and who the authors of the epistles were—

  • it's all so clearly stated in the Bible.

  • Yeah. Yes, it is.

  • It's very clear.

  • Then why are we going against facts

  • and treating all words in the Bible as God's?

  • I think Paul's words misled us

  • that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God."

  • Indeed. Of course, I agree. Right.

  • It seems those who don't understand the truth are easily deceived.

  • Yes. That's right.

  • Worshiping man makes it easy to stray from the true way. (Yes.)

  • From here on out, we mustn't blindly trust the words of Paul.

  • We have to differentiate them.

  • Amen. Yes.

  • She's absolutely right.

  • Hey, aren't we putting too much distinction

  • between the words of God and man here?

  • Is it necessary?

  • Believing in the Lord is believing in the Bible. (Right.)

  • That's what the pastors say. (Indeed.)

  • How can that be wrong?

  • Your belief is confused!

  • We should be clear about our belief.

  • Yeah.

  • It's clearer now.

  • Many believers think that the Bible represents the Lord, represents God.

  • They say that belief in the Lord is belief in the Bible.

  • This viewpoint may not seem very wrong.

  • However, for those who have experience, this view really is.

  • It shows men believe in God but don't know Him,

  • and they're unclear on the relationship between the Bible and God.

  • If anyone still insists that the Bible represents God,

  • and that belief in the Bible is belief in God,

  • I ask you: Does the Bible save people or does God save people?

  • It's God. God saves people. God saves.

  • Can the Bible replace God's work?

  • It can't.

  • Can it replace the work of the Holy Spirit?

  • No. Definitely not. Of course not.

  • God made the heavens and the earth.

  • Could the Bible do such a thing?

  • No.

  • Is God greater or the Bible?

  • Did God come first or did the Bible?

  • Have you ever considered these things?

  • No. No, I hadn't.

  • We haven't really thought about it before.

  • If believers can't understand these essential truths

  • that are little more than common sense,

  • then how can they ever hope to experience God's work?

  • Don't they know anything about the work of the Holy Spirit?

  • Do they have any knowledge of God's almightiness and wisdom?

  • We all know God is the one true God, the Lord of creation.

  • Amen!

  • God speaks words, created the heavens and the earth, and rules all things.

  • Amen.

  • God is a Spirit but can become flesh to speak and work among man

  • to redeem and save us.

  • Amen!

  • God is real and alive.

  • Amen!

  • The Almighty, who is, and was, and is to come. (Amen!)

  • The Bible is merely a record of God's work

  • in the Age of Law and the Age of Grace.

  • It's just a history book.

  • How can it possibly compare to God? (Right.)

  • That's why, no matter how you look at it, the Bible can't represent God.

  • Belief in the Bible isn't belief in God,

  • and clinging to the Bible isn't following God.

  • The Bible is the Bible, God is God. (Amen!)

  • The Bible and God are completely separate things.

  • That's a fact nobody can deny.

  • Today has finally made me understand.

  • The Bible is the Bible and God is God. They're separate things.

  • After hearing everything today,

  • I understand the Bible can't represent God at all. (That's right.)

  • But then what is the relationship between God and the Bible?

  • I think we'd all like to know some more.

  • Yes, please tell us now! Yes, please do tell us.

  • Thanks be to God. The Lord Jesus has given us a clear answer.

  • Please open up to John 5:39-40.

  • Sister, will you read it for us?

  • Sure.

  • Amen!

  • The Lord Jesus explained the relationship between them. (Yeah.)

  • The Bible is a testimony.

  • It doesn't have eternal life and can't bestow life.

  • Christ alone is the truth, the way, and the life.

  • Amen!

  • So then, only by accepting and following Christ

  • and obeying God's end-time word and work,

  • can we gain the truth and eternal life.

  • Yes.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Amen.

  • But right now, I think we should look at

  • how so many people in religious circles still think

  • that to depart from the Bible is to depart from the Lord.

  • They even think that if they stick to the Bible,

  • they'll get into the kingdom of heaven.

  • But isn't this viewpoint just ridiculous?

  • Ah, yes. It really is.

  • Actually, the Bible is just a history book, a record of God's work.

  • If people ignore this fact and hold onto the Bible,

  • then I ask you all today:

  • Can the Bible replace God's work in the last days?

  • No, it can't.

  • Can the Bible replace Christ in expressing the truth?

  • No.

  • Can one really gain the truth and life by only sticking to the Bible?

  • No. Not a chance.

  • When people hold onto the Bible like the Pharisees,

  • does this prove that they follow and obey God?

  • If people only hold onto the Bible,

  • but they don't accept the work of Christ in the last days,

  • then how can they gain the truth and achieve salvation and enter God's kingdom?

  • Yes.

  • Everyone, let's read more words of Almighty God,

  • so we understand this more clearly.

  • All right.

  • Yes, let's do that. (Yes.)

  • Amen!

  • Almighty God has exposed religious leaders who exalt the Bible above all else

  • but never exalt or bear witness to God.

  • They use the Bible to replace and impersonate God,

  • and use the words of the Bible to resist and condemn God's work.

  • That's right. Yes.

  • They have been exposed as truth-hating and God-opposing as well.

  • Think back to the time when Pharisees held onto the Scriptures,

  • limited God to the Scriptures.

  • They never sought the truth or God's footsteps.

  • Even though the Lord Jesus, when preaching and doing His work,

  • expressed many truths and performed signs and wonders,

  • and demonstrated God's authority and power,

  • what did the Pharisees do?

  • They didn't care about the Lord Jesus' profound preaching or great authority.

  • If it did not conform with the Scriptures,

  • they would condemn and resist the Lord Jesus.

  • And because the Lord Jesus expressed the word of God,

  • they condemned the words of the Lord Jesus as blasphemy. (Yes.)

  • And then, in the end they nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross alive.

  • It's true. Yes. It is.

  • It completely exposed their truth-hating, God-opposing satanic nature.

  • Yeah.

  • Today, religious leaders are just like the Pharisees of old.

  • They do all they can to exalt the Bible

  • but never exalt or bear witness to the Lord.

  • They don't proclaim and testify to the words, the truth expressed by the Lord.

  • They just talk about Bible knowledge and theology.

  • They spread empty theories to deceive, control, and bind people.

  • They say that all God's words are in the Bible,

  • and that there're no words of God outside the Bible.

  • They say to depart from the Bible means not believing in God,

  • and if you hold firm to it, you'll be taken to God's kingdom.

  • So people mistakenly believe the eternal life is in the Bible,

  • and that they only need the Bible to enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Before they knew it, the Bible had replaced God's position in their hearts.

  • Everyone blindly believes in and worships the Bible as if it were God.

  • The Bible has become like a binding spell for believers,

  • and the Lord's position in people's hearts has gone.

  • It's true.

  • Yes, that's right. It's so true.

  • What is the consequence of this?

  • People's faith and knowledge of the Lord are reduced to nothing.

  • That's the consequence of pastors and elders' explaining the Bible.

  • Is this not true? (Yeah. It is.)

  • What you've said is illuminating.

  • I never thought that the Bible could become a spell that could bind us.

  • Yeah.

  • It seems it's better to not have blind faith in the Bible. (That's right.)

  • It could be dangerous.

  • I'm glad we know this now.

  • I feel so ashamed and embarrassed after listening to this.

  • For so many years, I believed in the Lord but didn't practice His words,

  • and I did not search for the Lord's will and truth in His words.

  • Yes.

  • All I did was equip myself with biblical doctrine,

  • thinking that the more Bible knowledge I had,

  • the more I was after the Lord's heart,

  • and that understanding a lot of Bible knowledge

  • was the same as knowing the Lord.

  • But after all that, I don't have any understanding of truth at all,

  • and I don't have knowledge of the Lord.

  • The Lord has no place in my heart whatsoever. (Indeed. That's right.)

  • I can't believe I saw the Bible as higher than the Lord.

  • Wrongly I thought that belief in the Lord is belief in the Bible,

  • and that exalting the Bible is exalting the Lord.

  • I deviated from the way of the Lord without knowing.

  • My belief had become confused and lost.

  • I think we're all like that.

  • The words of Almighty God

  • corrected my biggest mistake of belief in the Lord, (Yes.)

  • and saved me from going down the wrong path.

  • Amen! Thanks be to the Lord.

  • From now on, I won't be controlled and bound by the Bible.

  • Yes.

  • I must read the words of Almighty God!

  • Amen!

  • Thanks be to Almighty God.

  • Thanks be to God!

  • Amen. Yes.

  • We should all read more words of Almighty God.

  • We will, we'll read it properly!

  • After these last two meetings,

  • I never realized their preachings would make so much sense

  • and be all based on the Bible.

  • It's enough to convince anyone.

  • I really can't find a flaw in it. I really can't!

  • I agree.

  • But if our whole congregation believes in Almighty God,

  • wouldn't that be bad for our church? (Yeah.)

  • Brother Jia, we need to find a way to keep them back with us.

  • I don't want to lose our church, but what can we do?

  • They found the words of Almighty God to be truth, and they must accept it.

  • How can I stop them?

  • After all, none of the lies from the CCP have stopped them.

  • That's true.

  • Jia …

  • There is something.

  • Sister Fu is going to another meeting tomorrow …

  • Come in!

  • Jia Hongwei has started to gather brothers and sisters

  • along with some co-workers,

  • and is threatening them into not accepting the Eastern Lightning.

  • Listen, we need to check it out.

  • Quick. Call Brother Li and the others now.

  • Hurry! (Okay.)

  • Let's go. (Hurry.)

  • So we must stick to the Bible and cease all contact with the Eastern Lightning.

  • Right.

  • We'll stop from now on.

  • Brother Dou, Brother Zhu,

  • only after reading Almighty God's words and understanding many of the truths,

  • have I realized what it really means to believe in God. (Amen.)

  • It's strengthened our belief.

  • Our initial faith and love have all come back.

  • Yeah! Yes!

  • So in my heart I feel the word of Almighty God must be the truth. (Amen.)

  • It supplies us and resolves our problems of belief.

  • Yeah. Yes.

  • Isn't that what the Holy Spirit said to the churches? (Amen!)

  • Why won't you let us accept it?

  • Yes, why? Let us accept.

  • Why won't they let us?

  • Yeah. We all used to listen as elders analyzed the Bible,

  • but we didn't enjoy the Holy Spirit's work or receive any life supply.

  • That's right.

  • Our spirits have been dark and withered because of this.

  • Yes. She's right! That's right. That's true. Completely.

  • Thanks be to the Lord.

  • Since receiving the watering of the words of Almighty God,

  • we have found faith and love. (Yeah!)

  • I regret not reading the words sooner. (Yeah!)

  • We already worry that we're too late,

  • so why hold us back from reading Almighty God's words?

  • Yes, why try to deny us? Sister He, I must—

  • Sister Fu!

  • She's arrived!

  • Thanks be to God!

  • What's she doing here?

  • I have no idea.

  • I'm so glad she came.

  • Sister Zhang.

  • Oh, she came too!

  • Brother Li, Brother Chen, please have a seat. (Please.)

  • Take a seat.

  • Thanks.

  • Please sit.

  • Brothers and sisters, take a seat.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • you just said that pastors and elders preach Bible knowledge and doctrines,

  • which doesn't help,

  • but isn't that how pastors have done it all over the religious world?

  • That's right.

  • Pastors and elders have interpreted the Bible for us for years.

  • And even if you disagree, they worked hard!

  • They have. Amen.

  • How can you say that?

  • We ought to suffer for the Lord. Why talk about hard work and merit?

  • Pastors and elders are appointed by the Lord. (Amen!)

  • If we obey them, we obey the Lord! (Amen!)

  • If we resist them, then we resist the Lord! (Yeah, that's right.)

  • Everyone, if the pastors and elders don't want us to hear the Eastern Lightning,

  • then we must obey them. (Yes.)

  • We won't hear that. (Yes. We can't listen to the Eastern Lightning anymore.)

  • We have to obey what the pastors say.

  • We can't accept anything that's not in the Bible. (Absolutely right.)

  • We can't go wrong if we stick to the Bible. (Agree. That's right.)

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • it's wrong for us to say that.

  • What? How is it wrong?

  • It does not conform with the Bible!

  • What did Peter say?

  • Amen!

  • Pastors and elders are just men.

  • Why should believers listen to men and not the Lord?

  • That's right. Right. Yes.

  • Can the words of pastors and elders represent the words of the Lord Jesus?

  • No, they can't. Absolutely not. They cannot.

  • Right. Almighty God is the second coming of Lord Jesus. (Amen!)

  • Almighty God's words are the truth and can supply us.

  • Amen!

  • Why won't you let us hear it? (Yes! Yeah!)

  • Do you want to be like the Pharisees? (That's right.)

  • She's right.

  • What have we gained from listening to pastors all these years?

  • It's not easy to hear God's voice today,

  • so why won't you let us accept it?

  • Yeah, why?

  • Only those Pharisees and antichrists

  • would stop people wanting to seek the true way!

  • Precisely. Indeed. I completely agree. Sister Zheng is right.

  • Sister Zheng. You can't— Hey, look.

  • They've started to understand the truth,

  • yet you refuse and try to stop people from accepting the true way.

  • Yeah. That's right.

  • Isn't this just like in the Bible?

  • Brothers and sisters, we must all believe, right?

  • Pastors and elders are ordained by the Lord, that's true.

  • Amen!

  • They are people who serve the Lord.

  • Obeying pastors and elders is obeying the Lord.

  • Amen!

  • If we resist our pastors and elders, we are resisting the Lord.

  • That's true. Amen!

  • How is this resisting the Lord?

  • Can pastors and elders represent the Lord?

  • Pastors and elders cannot be compared to the Lord. (Right.)

  • Okay. Let's think about this logically, right?

  • Who preaches when you're sitting in church?

  • The pastors and elders.

  • Right. Pastors and elders. (That's right.)

  • Only pastors and elders can understand and interpret the Bible.

  • They alone can shepherd us all. (Amen!)

  • Yes.

  • Therefore, if what the pastors and elders tell us

  • conforms to the Bible and has basis in it,

  • we should comply and obey.

  • Amen!

  • As long as pastors' and elders' actions conform with the Bible,

  • we should accept it and follow them.

  • Amen!

  • Tell me this, obeying and listening to pastors and elders—

  • where can we go wrong? (Exactly! I agree. That's right.)

  • I think we should listen to God instead of people.

  • I mean the pastors and elders have been leading us for years.

  • Everyone, calm down. One moment.

  • Everyone,

  • regarding whether pastors and elders were chosen and appointed by the Lord,

  • we can find out.

  • Let's listen to the fellowship from the Church of Almighty God.

  • Let's hear from the Church of Almighty God.

  • Yes. Let us hear it.

  • Please!

  • What they preach is profound. We cannot listen!

  • Let's hear what they come up with.

  • Brother Li, communicate with us.

  • Yes, do it, please. (Tell us!)

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Everyone, please allow me to share my knowledge on this. (Sure.)

  • In religion,

  • many believe religious pastors and elders are chosen, appointed by the Lord,

  • and therefore, people should obey them.

  • Is such a view founded in the Bible?

  • Is it proven by the Lord's word? (No.)

  • Does it have testimony of the Holy Spirit and confirmation of His work?

  • No, it doesn't.

  • If all the answers are no,

  • then doesn't that mean

  • this belief that the pastors and elders are appointed by the Lord

  • is just a figment of people's own imaginations?

  • Yeah.

  • Think about it: In the Age of Law, Moses was set up by God.

  • However, does that mean all Jewish leaders in the Age of Law were set up by God?

  • No.

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • the twelve apostles were appointed by the Lord Jesus Himself.

  • Does this mean that all of the pastors and elders in the Age of Grace

  • were appointed by the Lord?

  • No. Of course they weren't. Definitely not.

  • A lot of people like to follow rules

  • but don't approach things according to facts.

  • That's why they worship people instead.

  • You see the problem?

  • Why can't people make the distinction?

  • Why can't they seek the truth on these things?

  • Yeah.

  • We've never thought of it that way before.

  • It seems the truth is there to find.

  • Right. Brother Li, fellowship with us please.

  • Yes, please communicate more.

  • We can see from what's recorded in the Bible,

  • in every age of His work, God chooses some people to cooperate with His work.

  • And those personally appointed and used by God have confirmation of His word.

  • Like in the Age of Law,

  • God appointed Moses to lead the Israelites. It's proven by God's words. (Yes.)

  • Let's look at Exodus 3:9-10.

  • Who would like to read?

  • Here, let me.

  • Amen.

  • It's proven by God's word. (Yes, that's God's word.)

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • the Lord Jesus appointed twelve apostles to shepherd the church.

  • As the Lord Jesus said when He appointed Peter,

  • Amen!

  • Yes, indeed.

  • From this,

  • we can see anyone appointed and used by God is personally witnessed by God,

  • and God's word is proof, it's confirmed by the Holy Spirit's work.

  • Yes. That's right.

  • All their work is upheld by God.

  • Obeying their work and leadership is obeying God.

  • Anyone resisting these people is to resist God,

  • he will be cursed and punished by God.

  • Yes.

  • Just like in the Age of Law,

  • what happened when Korah, Dathan, and their people resisted Moses?

  • They were directly punished by God.

  • God caused the earth to swallow them all. (Yes.)

  • Right. Everyone knows, that's a fact.

  • Yeah. That's true.

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • the apostles appointed by the Lord have confirmation of His word.

  • But are today's pastors appointed by the Lord?

  • Is it evidenced by the word of the Lord?

  • No.

  • Most of them have certificates in theology or attended theological school.

  • They did this to become pastors,

  • not because the Holy Spirit personally used them.

  • Is this not a fact?

  • Yes. That's true. It's definitely true.

  • Has anyone seen or heard the Holy Spirit personally appoint a pastor?

  • No. I haven't.

  • This simply doesn't happen.

  • That's true.

  • There would be testimony of the Holy Spirit if they were,

  • and believers to witness.

  • So we know pastors and elders are not appointed by the Lord.

  • This is certain.

  • Thank the Lord. That's true.

  • I've even heard some of them

  • don't think the Lord Jesus came from conception by the Holy Spirit.

  • They don't think "conception by the Holy Spirit" is scientific.

  • They might not even admit that Christ is the appearance of God.

  • Indeed. Yes. Yeah.

  • If such pastors existed back in the time when the Lord Jesus worked,

  • they would not have accepted the Lord Jesus.

  • Then how would they treat

  • the appearance and work of God incarnate in the last days?

  • They would all be like the Pharisees, scribes, and chief priests,

  • condemning the Lord Jesus and opposing Him.

  • That would be the case. (That's right.)

  • Yes.

  • Are such pastors and elders people who genuinely obey God?

  • No, they resist God.

  • They don't even believe in God incarnate

  • and don't acknowledge truth expressed by God incarnate.

  • Isn't antichrist an accurate thing to call them?

  • Yes, antichrists.

  • So the idea that pastors and elders are all appointed by the Lord,

  • does this still make sense?

  • It does not. No, it definitely not. There is no question about that.

  • If one insists these pastors and elders are appointed and used by the Lord,

  • isn't this slander and blasphemy against God?

  • Indeed. Yes! It is.

  • Would God ever use unbelievers and antichrists to lead God's chosen people?

  • No. Of course not.

  • Isn't this idea completely absurd and wrong, fallacious?

  • Yes. Absolutely ridiculous.

  • Isn't this just confusing facts black and white?

  • Yeah. So true.

  • It's so true.

  • There's no way we can see through anything without knowing the truth.

  • Everyone, I hope now we've cleared things up.

  • Those appointed and used by God are personally testified by God,

  • and have the confirmation and effects of the Holy Spirit's work,

  • and can help God's chosen people attain life supply and true shepherding.

  • Yeah.

  • He's absolutely right.

  • God is righteous, holy.

  • Amen.

  • So, all those appointed by God are in line with God's will.

  • They won't be like the hypocritical Pharisees,

  • and they won't be like truth-hating, God-opposing antichrists.

  • Yes. That's right.

  • God won't use antichrists. He's absolutely right.

  • Definitely. Amen.

  • Let's look at today's religious pastors and leaders.

  • Most of them come from theological schools.

  • But they're not personally appointed by God.

  • They merely study theology and the Bible.

  • Their work and preaching focuses only on Bible knowledge and theology,

  • and its characters, stories, and history, biblical trivia.

  • Yeah. That's true indeed. That's indeed true.

  • The other thing they teach is how to follow religious rituals and rules.

  • They don't try to communicate the truth of God's words,

  • nor do they lead people to experience His words or observe God's commandments.

  • They never talk about knowing themselves and real life experiences, (Yeah.)

  • or discuss true knowledge of God.

  • Can such work and preaching attain the work of the Holy Spirit?

  • No.

  • Can such service satisfy God's intentions? (Surely not.)

  • No.

  • Can it lead people to practice the truth

  • and enter the right track of faith in God?

  • No. That's not possible.

  • Explaining the Bible this way,

  • aren't they following their own path, resisting God?

  • They surely are. Yes, indeed. They are. Yes, it's definitely resisting God!

  • And when Almighty God expresses truths and performs His judgment work,

  • these religious leaders know

  • that Almighty God's words are the truth and can purify and save people,

  • yet they do not accept it.

  • Even worse, they don't allow believers to read Almighty God's words.

  • Yes. Indeed. Right.

  • Just to protect their position, they furiously condemn Almighty God.

  • They even work with the CCP to arrest and persecute evangelists.

  • It's completely evil. How could believers in God do such a thing? How could they do such a thing?!

  • How are these pastors any different from the Pharisees

  • who resisted the Lord Jesus back in the day?

  • They are the modern Pharisees. (Yeah.)

  • Are they not preventing people from accepting the true way? (Yeah!)

  • How could these truth-hating, God-opposing people

  • possibly be appointed and used by God?

  • Yeah! He's right!

  • Would God choose these people who hate the truth and get in the way of His will

  • to lead His chosen people?

  • Definitely not. No. Not a chance! No, He wouldn't.

  • That's right, He never would. That's just the truth. (Amen.)

  • Praise God. The more I listen to you, the more enlightened I feel.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • So all people appointed and used by God are personally witnessed

  • and confirmed by God's word.

  • In the very least, there should be confirmation of the Holy Spirit's work.

  • Yes! Amen. It's so obvious.

  • Pastors and elders aren't confirmed by God's word

  • or by the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • How could they be appointed or used by God?

  • Yes. That's right!

  • We believed in the Lord for so long, yet we couldn't even see this.

  • We've really been ignorant and blind. (Yes.)

  • Without such fellowship, I would never have understood.

  • Thanks be to the Lord. Today has been enlightening.

  • Amen. Thanks be to God.

  • Wait a minute. You're wrong.

  • In the Bible, Paul clearly said,

  • Amen.

  • That proves that pastors and elders are appointed by the Holy Spirit.

  • Yeah. Yes.

  • And doesn't that represent being appointed by God? (Yes!)

  • God appointed them as overseers to the flock.

  • There's no way that's wrong. (Yes!)

  • Isn't that right? That's how it is!

  • Yes, indeed. It's right.

  • That's exactly right.

  • Right.

  • Brother Dou, I've been thinking these past few days

  • while we've talked about this on how we used to blindly interpret the Bible,

  • misuse verses, and twist its words.

  • That's right. Yes.

  • Most of what we say is based on our own notions and imaginations,

  • our own absurd ideas.

  • This violates the Lord's words.

  • We don't understand the truth. We have been foolish.

  • Yes, we have been. Completely.

  • I think we should treat each word of the Bible correctly from now on.

  • The words of the Bible are against certain backgrounds.

  • Right.

  • We can't just take any verse and use it applying it however we see fit.

  • Right! That's right.

  • If we use the verse

  • "and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers"

  • to refer to all pastors and elders,

  • isn't that ridiculous?

  • Yes, it is. Absurd. Completely. Yeah.

  • We must understand.

  • Who said

  • "and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers"?

  • Just who were these words talking about?

  • If you can't answer that and just apply it however you want,

  • aren't you removing the context? (Yeah!)

  • Isn't it distorting the Bible?

  • Yeah, they are distorting it!

  • Oh, yes, that's what they are doing.

  • Can Paul's words show what the Lord Jesus intended? (No.)

  • Can Paul represent the Lord Jesus?

  • No. He can't.

  • Only God's words are the truth. Only God's words can be used as proof!

  • Amen!

  • As for Paul, he is not Christ. He's just a person. (Amen!)

  • His words are not truth.

  • Even if he was enlightened by the Holy Spirit,

  • we can only say his words conform with truth. (Yes. Amen.)

  • We cannot treat the words of Paul as the truth and use them as proof.

  • Absolutely! Amen! Yes. She's right.

  • Sister Fu is right. Paul's words do not represent the Lord's will. (Yeah.)

  • Brother Dou,

  • how can you use Paul's words

  • as proof that all pastors and elders are appointed by the Holy Spirit?

  • You say that they are appointed by the Holy Spirit,

  • but do they have confirmation of the Holy Spirit's work?

  • Can they give testimony to experiencing the Lord's words?

  • They can't. They cannot.

  • Can they show us the path of entering into God's words?

  • He's right, there's no path.

  • And can they bring true supply into our lives? (They can't.)

  • What have we gained from listening to pastors and elders

  • after all of these years?

  • Can't you see the truth?

  • These preachers from the Church of Almighty God have enlightened us today.

  • How can you still use Paul's words

  • to say pastors and elders are appointed by God? (That's right.)

  • Don't you understand or is this false confusion? (Right.)

  • They're just pretending to be confused.

  • Yeah. I agree.

  • I really don't understand.

  • Yeah, it's so obvious. Don't they understand?

  • They use these methods to deceive us.

  • Yeah, we can't listen to them anymore. (Yes.)

  • Brothers and sisters, let's communicate more on this issue please.

  • All right. Yes, let's. I agree.

  • Some people in religious circles often misuse the Bible to make up rules.

  • They claim the hypocritical Pharisees and pastors

  • are all appointed and used by the Lord.

  • Isn't this severely resisting and blasphemy to God?

  • Yes. She's right.

  • Doing that is so wrong.

  • Many people don't know how to distinguish.

  • They believe but don't magnify God and advocate gifts and status and power,

  • blindly believing in the pastors and elders. (Yes.)

  • They can't tell whether one has the reality of the truth

  • and the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • They just think if one is certified as a pastor and can explain the Bible,

  • that they are appointed by God, and that we have to obey them.

  • That's how we've been.

  • Some people even more absurdly

  • think that obeying pastors and elders is obeying God,

  • and resisting pastors and elders is resisting God.

  • If we go according to such ideas,

  • well then, remember the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees,

  • who knew the Bible well and often taught it to others, (Yes. Yeah.)

  • but resisted the Lord Jesus when He appeared to work back in the day,

  • and even eventually had Him crucified. (Yeah.)

  • I ask, were these people appointed and used by God?

  • No. Definitely not. No way.

  • If one followed the Jewish leaders and condemned the Lord Jesus,

  • then does that mean they were obeying God?

  • No, no way. It doesn't mean that.

  • It does not mean that.

  • Would you say that

  • those who rejected Jewish leaders and followed the Lord Jesus,

  • they were resisting and disobeying God?

  • They weren't. Certainly not.

  • The view that obeying pastors and elders is obeying God,

  • and resisting pastors and elders is resisting God,

  • it really is a ridiculous and harmful one. (Yes. That's true.)

  • It is absurd. (Yes.)

  • As believers of God, we should know:

  • if religious pastors and elders resist God,

  • and if their path opposes God and betrays the truth,

  • then we should stand on the side of God and expose them, reject them. (Amen!)

  • That is true obedience of God. (Amen!)

  • That is what it means to satisfy God's intentions. (Amen!)

  • We won't listen to them anymore. (Right.)

  • Well then, now when it comes to pastors and elders,

  • we should all understand the truth and God's intentions.

  • If pastors and elders really pursue the truth,

  • then they will surely have the work of the Holy Spirit, (Yeah! Yes.)

  • and lead us to practice God's words to fear God, shun evil. (Amen!)

  • Following and respecting people like that

  • is certainly in line with God's intentions. (Amen!)

  • Praise God. Thanks be to the Lord.

  • But if they don't love the truth,

  • if they only care about theology or Bible knowledge,

  • only to show off to have people obey them,

  • if they don't bear witness to God,

  • if they don't lead people to experience God's words,

  • then they are people who are condemned and cursed by God.

  • And it would be opposing God if we were to worship them to follow and obey them.

  • That's right. Right!

  • That would be against God's intentions. (Yeah! Yes.)

  • Everyone, isn't that right? (Yes.)

  • We should reject those who resist God.

  • We mustn't follow their evil ways.

  • Pastors and elders are all like that.

  • They hate the truth and resist God like the Pharisees.

  • Yeah, It's true. That's right. They are.

  • We should despise them and abandon them.

  • Indeed. If we continue to obey them,

  • we'll be on the side of Satan opposing God. (Amen.)

  • We must see through these things. (Yes, right.)

  • We can't listen to them anymore!

  • Right.

  • Everyone, most people in religious circles

  • are unable to see the pastors' and elders' essence of resisting God. (Yes!)

  • They believe that as long as pastors and elders explain the Bible,

  • and as long as everything they say conforms with the Bible,

  • then they should follow and obey.

  • That may sound reasonable.

  • But think about it, do pastors and elders really know the Bible?

  • Do they really know God's work?

  • Does having biblical knowledge mean they understand God?

  • No.

  • Can listening to them, explain the Bible

  • really guide people to know and obey God?

  • I don't think anyone in religious circles are able to answer this.

  • Yeah.

  • Let's think about this:

  • Back when the Pharisees appeared to others as if they understood the Bible,

  • well, they did not recognize the Lord Jesus when He appeared.

  • Instead, they relied on rules in the Bible to try and trap the Lord Jesus.

  • They resisted and condemned Him. (Right.)

  • Because the Lord Jesus expressed God's words,

  • they condemned the Lord Jesus, said He was blasphemous.

  • In the end, they even nailed the Lord Jesus to the cross.

  • What was the problem?

  • Were they not arrogant and unknowing of God?

  • Yes.

  • This story proves to us

  • that knowing the Bible and explaining the Bible

  • does not mean one understands the truth,

  • and does not mean he knows God and His work. (Yes. True. Exactly.)

  • Those who truly experience God's work pay attention to practicing God's words.

  • In God's words, they see all God's wondrous deeds,

  • understand the care and thought God has for mankind,

  • they see all the words expressed by God in His work

  • are really the truth that people should enter. (Yes. Yeah!)

  • They also understand why God expresses these truths, what His intentions are,

  • and what He seeks to achieve through His work on people.

  • Those they truly understand.

  • Yes. Yeah.

  • Such people truly understand God's work.

  • Only such people truly understand the Bible. (Amen!)

  • Only after today do I really understand. (Yes.)

  • People who truly understand the Bible

  • focus on communicating God's words,

  • God's own intentions, His requirements, His work and His disposition, (Yes.)

  • and can lead people into the truth, and can make them fear God and obey Him.

  • Amen.

  • What do pastors and elders preach instead? Answer that.

  • Bible facts and theology.

  • What is the consequence of teaching such things?

  • Consequence?

  • It only serves to make people more arrogant.

  • They feel superior with their biblical knowledge.

  • As a result, when God becomes flesh to express the truth,

  • they deny God, resist God, and oppose God!

  • Absolutely right.

  • It seems that pastors and elders explaining Bible knowledge

  • is really resisting God! (Yeah. Right.)

  • They're just like the Pharisees from way back when. (Yeah, I agree.)

  • Why aren't these pastors and elders

  • able to communicate their knowledge of practicing God's words?

  • Why can't they communicate their understanding of God's work and disposition?

  • It's because they don't have genuine experience of God's words and the truth.

  • They only focus on studying the Bible to attain biblical knowledge,

  • which is why they cannot receive the work of the Holy Spirit.

  • Yeah, that's right.

  • So how could their service possibly receive God's approval?

  • He's right. God would not approve. (Of course.)

  • God has become flesh as the Son of man to express the truth

  • and do the judgment work, revealing each person.

  • Those who love the truth, hate the truth, good servants, evil servants,

  • those who serve God or serve mammon will all be revealed. (Yes.)

  • As for those pastors and elders,

  • they continue to take verses out of context and misconstrue the Bible,

  • even believing "There is no utterance and work of God outside the Bible,"

  • spreading lies and fallacies to resist God's work in the last days.

  • Yes. He's absolutely right. Surely is. True.

  • Tell me, is this not deceiving people and misleading them?

  • Yes, that is right.

  • Pastors and elders deceive us.

  • Who knows how many believers

  • have been led astray, harmed and ruined by these lies?

  • Yeah.

  • How many people have lost the chance

  • to come before God's throne to attend God's banquet

  • and lost the chance to be made into an overcomer?

  • So harmful.

  • How can they do such a thing?

  • Everyone,

  • aren't these pastors obstacles for us trying to accept and find the true way?

  • Amen. I agree. They are doing that.

  • We won't be deceived again. (Absolutely.)

  • We weren't able to see it for so long. (That's true.)

  • Yeah. It is true.

  • Let's read the words of Almighty God

  • to discern the pastors and elders even better. (All right. Yes.)

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Yes. Thanks be to the Lord.

  • Thanks be to God. (Be to God.)

  • Yes, well. Oh! Yes! It's true.

  • Amen!

  • Agreed.

  • How did we not know before?

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • before when pastors explained Bible knowledge and theological theory,

  • we blindly worshiped and followed them.

  • Now I know we were so foolish, with no ability to distinguish.

  • Yes. I agree. We were so ignorant.

  • Yeah. Biblical knowledge and theology are too harmful. (Amen.)

  • If not for the words of Almighty God, we'd still be deceived by our pastors!

  • Yeah! Yes. That's right.

  • That's right. I used to think if I followed the pastors,

  • I'd go to the kingdom of heaven.

  • Now I realize the path they lead is not the right path! (Amen!)

  • They're the modern Pharisees.

  • We mustn't be deceived any longer! (Yeah! That's right!)

  • They are demons!

  • But pastors have more knowledge than us. They know the Bible.

  • They're still capable.

  • But they don't know God. They're hypocrites.

  • They'll be cursed by God! (Yeah, that's right.)

  • God will curse them.

  • Following pastors and elders is definitely dangerous. (That's right.)

  • They cannot lead us into the kingdom of heaven! (Right! Yes.)

  • We must reject them. (We will.)

  • We won't be deceived anymore. (We won't be.)

  • I agree. Yeah!

  • We must reject these pastors and elders. We won't listen to them anymore.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • Almighty God has exposed the true essence of pastors and elders

  • who resist God and deceive man. (Yes.)

  • Pastors and elders often misinterpret the Bible when explaining it.

  • They rely on imagination to explain Bible knowledge and theory,

  • just to show off, build themselves up, and make people follow them.

  • But they never exalt the Lord or bear witness to Him,

  • they just want to place people under their control. (Yeah. Yes.)

  • Why is it there are so many people who worship their pastors and elders

  • and those who can explain the Bible, but so few who can magnify the Lord?

  • What's the problem here?

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

  • many people don't investigate for the truth.

  • They don't pray to God. They just follow the orders of their pastors and elders.

  • Do these people believe in the Lord or their pastors?

  • We've been following pastors, not the Lord at all. (Yes.)

  • We should all look inside to see if we have done this.

  • Yeah. I agree. Yes, he's right.

  • Long ago, the Lord Jesus exposed the Pharisees' resistance against God,

  • so why can't we discern when it comes to pastors and elders in the last days?

  • Yeah.

  • And there are still those who worship them, follow them.

  • They have embarked on the path of resisting God,

  • and as a result are despised and hated by God.

  • Where's the sense in this?

  • Haven't they been deceived by pastors, elders for too long?

  • Yes, he is right.

  • Yes.

  • Now, many who love the truth and hunger for God's appearance

  • have seen right through the antichrist nature of religious leaders.

  • They have left the religion

  • and accepted Almighty God's work of the last days for the Lamb's banquet.

  • Amen!

  • Praise God.

  • As for those who still worship and follow these religious leaders,

  • they will surely only encounter disasters. (Yeah. Yes. This is all true.)

  • Brothers and sisters, listen, we don't have much time left.

  • Great disaster will soon descend.

  • Yes.

  • If we do not accept Almighty God's work in the last days,

  • we will fall into disaster, weeping and suffering. (Yes. It's true.)

  • This is true.

  • It is true.

  • Brothers and sisters,

  • disasters all around the world are getting bigger.

  • Four blood moons have appeared, and the celestial events have occurred.

  • Yes.

  • It seems the destructive disasters are about to happen.

  • Yes. Indeed.

  • The incarnate God's work of judgment starting from the house of God

  • will be completed soon. (Yes.)

  • We've been so lucky to hear God's voice

  • to accept Almighty God's judgment in the last days.

  • This is true rapture into the kingdom of heaven. (Amen! Thanks be to God. Yes.)

  • To attend the marriage supper of the Lamb is our greatest blessing surely.

  • Amen. Thanks be to God.

  • Almighty God has rescued us from the deception of pastors and elders, it's true.

  • We have abandoned the darkness to be brought before God's throne.

  • Amen! Thanks be to Almighty God!

  • Amen! Thanks be to God.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Recently, we've read many words of Almighty God

  • and talked of many problems that exist inside religion.

  • Yes.

  • We finally see our belief in God deviated

  • only because we had worshiped and obeyed pastors and elders.

  • Yeah.

  • We had blind faith in the words of religious leaders.

  • And for that reason, we treated the words in the Bible as letters and doctrines,

  • held onto them as they were rules. (Right. Yes. That's right.)

  • We didn't understand God's words or know how to experience God's words.

  • We didn't. That's right.

  • We never knew to seek the truth when we prayed,

  • and we didn't have a true communion with God.

  • Right.

  • I see. How was that even believing in the Lord?

  • We called it that,

  • but really, we were just worshiping and obeying pastors and elders.

  • She's absolutely true. Absolutely right.

  • This way without knowing it, we embarked on a path of resisting God,

  • becoming hypocritical Pharisees.

  • That's right. Yes. I agree.

  • Great thanks be to Almighty God.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Today, Almighty God … Almighty God has saved us all.

  • Amen!

  • Almighty God's words let us understand what believing in God is.

  • Yes.

  • Almighty God's words let us know the truth and gain discernment, (Amen!)

  • so we no longer have blind faith in the Bible or religious pastors and elders.

  • Yes. Thanks be to God.

  • We have broken free from

  • the control of the letters of the Bible and religious leaders. (Amen!)

  • We have broken the spell that trapped our belief in the Lord for years! (Amen!)

  • Praise God.

  • We'll no longer suffer under their control.

  • Now finally,

  • we can come before God's throne and enjoy the supply of God's words,

  • and attend the wedding supper of the Lamb, (Amen!)

  • receiving God's personal watering, supply, shepherding.

  • Amen!

  • I believe we're so blessed.

  • Yes. So blessed.

  • We're too lucky! Thanks be to God!

  • In all my wildest dreams,

  • I never thought we'd go before God's throne

  • and enter into the training of the kingdom.

  • Amen! Praise God.

  • This is a chance, a rare opportunity for us to be made perfect by God!

  • Amen! Thanks be to God!

  • We have all been exalted by God!

  • Amen! Praise God. Amen!

  • Many thanks be to Almighty God. (Amen!)

  • Thanks be to Almighty God.

  • Thanks be to God's grace and mercy.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Brother Li, Yangzhuang is up ahead.

  • Up there are many people who believe in the Lord.

  • Thanks be to God.

  • Right then, let's hurry. (Good. Let's go.)

  • Let's do it. (Yes.)

How's it going? (Some haven't been caught.)

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