Lies and Truths III

Lies and Truths III

On March 23, 2010, a campus murder case happened in Nanping City, Fujian Province. The murderer Zheng Minsheng was in despair because he couldn’t earn his living. Then he hacked 13 pupils, which resulted in 8 dead and 5 injured. Most of the casualties were children of local bigwigs. While the Guangshan Case caused no death and happened in a village primary school in one of the poorest areas in China. Comparing these two cases, in terms of death toll, Nanping Case caused more deaths than Guangshan Case; in regard to social influence, the former caused greater influence. But Nanping Case wasn’t concerned or exposed by the media, and many people didn’t know the occurrence of the case. Whereas, after Guangshan Case happened, the government not only hindered the journalists from investigating and interviewing it, but still distorted the facts, imputed the case to the Church of Almighty God, exerted great efforts to publicize and reported it in a high-profile way so that it was spread throughout Mainland China as well as many countries under the circumstances that Min Yongjun’s mother had said, “In recent two years, I have never let him out of my sight, nor have I seen him touch any religion, much less heard him mention doomsday.” The CCP took advantage of a psychotic murder case to make up lies and whip up public opinions, through which it has framed and discredited the Church of Almighty God. Its base means are really irritating and heinous.

No.3: A Pupil Was Murdered, With a Lightning-like Mark Left on the Foot

Brief introduction of the case: Wu Boxin, a professor of People’s Public Security University of China, fabricated a rumor publicly in a talk show, saying that in 2009, he participated in an investigation of a criminal murder case which resulted from reluctance to join the Church. At dusk, the corpse of a child whose parents were unwilling to enter into the Church was found in a pile of firewood, and there was an obvious lightning-like mark on the arch of his foot.

The truth of the facts: This rumor was not fabricated in a skillful manner and was full of loopholes. First of all, there were various versions of the rumor. Some reports said the incident happened in 2009, while some said in 2010; some reports said the victim was a boy, while some said a girl; some reports said it was because the child’s parents were unwilling to enter the Church, but some said it was because the child’s relative had a thought of leaving the Church. Since the rumor was fabricated, then the liar couldn’t make his statement consistent inevitably.

Besides, neither did Wu Boxin say the precise place where the incident happened or the situation of the party, nor could any relevant reports be found in the media. More farcically, could the murderer be so silly to leave his own name on the body of the dead? Didn’t it amount to surrendering himself to the police department? If the case turned out to be true, would the CCP government have long tried it on the court and made it public to man? It was thus evident that Wu’s words collapsed of itself, and were purely fabrications founded upon nothing and false accusations.

Another report said that some people’s nose was cut off, eyes were gouged out, and limbs were amputated by the members of the Church of Almighty God because of withdrawing from it.

The Chinese media have never reported any concrete cases of such incidents, nor can any other legally binding evidence be provided for textual research. Such a report is purely a sample that the CCP fabricates and is founded upon nothing. In China, there are at least four million people who have accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days, and there are also many people who left afterward. If what the CCP government says were true, then how many people would have had their noses cut off, eyes gouged out, and limbs amputated? If there were one case of that, wouldn’t the government be too impatient to wait to screen it in the news media, and have the criminal, victim as well as relevant witnesses tried publicly? Wouldn’t it be more convincing? However, as for these groundless accusations from the CCP, firstly, neither are there time, places, characters, or process of these incidents provided, nor are there news reports on them. They are totally fabrications founded upon nothing; secondly, the law requires evidence. Only with sufficient evidence can the conclusion drawn be objective, be in accordance with the law, and be convincing. But in fact, not only the above-mentioned cases, but all the ones by which the CCP has framed the Church of Almighty God have not been proved. They are purely rumors, slanders, and defamation with malice. How can such a case be spread as news? If we take it as news, then it’s just the false one. Of course, there are only lies and deceptions, but no truths in the state media of the CCP. This is a generally acknowledged fact.

Seeing The International Image of the CCP And Its State Media Through the International Criticisms

China has had a notorious reputation for its control and oppression of freedom of the press and religious belief in the world.

International authorities and human rights organizations have evaluated China as follows:

Reporters Without Borders makes assessments of the degrees of freedom of the news media among 180 countries or regions all over the world every year. In 2016, China ranked the 176th, the fifth from the bottom. Delphine Halgand, the head of America practice, said to the Voice of America, “China has been at the bottom of the ranking of the world news freedom index for many years, and is still the country that imprisons the maximum number of journalists and bloggers in the world. The situation of freedom of the press in China is extremely terrible and worrying.”

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) pointed out, in the report on international religious freedom released in 2016, that China has been encroaching severely on freedom of religion. The CCP government continues accusing some individuals and religious organizations of being engaged in the so-called activities of cults. Underground house churches are more likely to face such an accusation.

Human Rights Watch, the international organization of human rights, pointed out, in its report on freedom of religion in China, that all activities, personnel, and financial records of religious organizations must be examined by the CCP government, and the appointment of the clergy, religious publications and the establishment of religious educational institutions are all controlled by the government. Unregistered religious groups, such as Christian house churches, are regarded illegal, and are usually searched and sealed. Besides, many believers suffer harassment and those who are in charge of churches are taken into custody and even are sentenced.
The freedom of belief and speech is the most fundamental right that every citizen should enjoy, which is expressly stipulated in writing in International Bill of Human Rights and International Law. Although the CCP government has signed these two pacts, it never complies with international laws. Instead, it has been depriving of and trampling on these most fundamental rights, and legislating to crack down on and suppress religious belief on the charge of being a threat to national security and subverting the government. The platform within the CCP states clearly and definitely that the ultimate goal of the Party is to eliminate all religions thoroughly and make China a place without God, and thereafter bring the whole country under its rule. However, no power can stand in the way of God’s work. No matter how the CCP suppresses religious belief and persecutes the Church of Almighty God, yet God’s work of the last days has still spread across the whole of Mainland China, millions of people have returned to Almighty God on account of hearing God’s voice, and He has already made a group of overcomers. Nowadays, the words expressed by Almighty God, the gospel films and videos of the Church of Almighty God, as well as experiences and testimonies of God’s chosen people who have stood witnesses under the CCP’s persecution are publicly available online to be searched and sought by people from countries and territories around the world. For the purpose of concealing its monstrous crimes of resisting God and persecuting Christians, as well as hindering people from seeking and investigating the true way, the CCP not only cracks down on and persecutes the Church of Almighty God in China, but also stretches abroad its vicious claws: taking advantage of the media abroad to spread rumors madly; whipping up public opinions; sparing no effort to condemn and defame the Church of Almighty God; cracking down on religious groups. In February of 2016, Meng Jianzhu, Secretary of Central Politics and Law Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, pointed out clearly at a special conference when indicating suppression of religious groups outside borders, “We should push the work of deepening main diplomatic channels, focus the strategy on carrying out the action of crack-down, and narrow the religious groups’ overseas room for activities. … We must seize the moment when the western countries’ demands from our country are ascending and make the struggle of counteraction abroad more and more active. … We should insist on taking the initiative in attacking and make good use of international general regulations and state laws to attack and crack down on religious groups.” The atheistic CCP government’s animosity against God has reached the hysterical extent. It attempts to use lies to continue deceiving and cheating the people of the world, and to draw democracies over to its side to resist God and be in enmity to God. Whereas, no matter how the CCP spreads lies continually and dresses them up to be convincing, and even though it repeats lies ten thousand times, lies are lies and the truths shall never be changed because of lies.

Countless Evil the CCP Has Done to Resist God Shows Its Satanic and Devilish Substance

The CCP resists God and does much evil. It has been acting against Heaven and running counter to right principles from beginning to end, and has been deceiving, cheating, and afflicting people with lies all the while. Then what on earth is the substance of the CCP? Why does it hate God so much and is in enmity of God? The answers have already been disclosed in Revelation, which says, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. … And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. … And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:9, 13, 17). What is on earth the great dragon foretold in the Book of Revelation? And what has it done among mankind? The great dragon is exactly “that old serpent,” and is also Satan that used lies to entice Adam and Eve to sin and betray God in the beginning. For thousands of years, Satan has been telling lies to deceive, corrupt, and butcher mankind. It has drunk the blood of myriads of saints, and thereby becomes the great red dragon in the last days which is the embodiment of Satan and evil spirits that resist God and devour the soul of man. As everyone knows, the Communist Party was founded by Marx, a believer of Satanism. Marx claimed himself to be Satan, the devil, declared that he would revenge himself on God, and cursed all mankind to go to hell. Accordingly, any political parties that have accepted Marxism all madly oppose God, persecute and kill Christians and slaughter mankind, which is sufficient to prove communism stems from Satan and evil spirits. When communism was brought to China and accepted by some people, then the Chinese Communist Party came into existence. The head of the CCP, the king of devils, is exactly the embodiment of Satan and evil spirits, so it makes an utmost effort to carry out atheism and materialism, and other such heresies and fallacies that deny and resist God to poison, corrupt mankind and devour the soul of man. Ever since the CCP, the king of devils, came into power in Mainland China, it has tyrannized the people and deprived of their freedom of belief, only allowing them to follow and serve it and devote themselves to its illusion of communism, but not allowing them to pursue the truth and the light of human life, much less allowing them to believe in, follow, and serve God, which is a universally recognized fact. It is perceived that the atheistic CCP government is exactly “the great dragon” foretold in the Book of Revelation, “called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world.” This is the CCP’s devilish substance, and is also the source that it always tells lies, hates God and is in enmity of Him, as well as persecutes and slaughters Christians. As long as we see through its satanic and evil substance, we can penetrate Satan’s schemes naturally, so that we will not be deceived or cheated by its lies and then we can make a correct choice between the truths and the lies.

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Lies and Truths II

Lies and Truths II

To Incite the Populace to Hatred, the CCP Has Fabricated Several Criminal Cases to Frame the Church of Almighty God

The CCP not only tells lies to frame and violently kills political opponents as well as the students who hold peaceful petition, but also has done the same to religious beliefs. Since the CCP came into power in 1949, in order to thoroughly ban and exterminate all religions, it has classified Christianity and Catholic Church as the prime objects to be attacked, driven away the western missionaries on the excuse that Christianity was the opium, through which the West intended to invade China, reinvented Chinese preachers and generally carried out atheistic education. Moreover, it has also demolished churches, burned the Bibles, arrested Christians, and even designated Christianity and Catholic Church as illegal cults and labeled the Bible as a cult book. During the nearly seven decades when the CCP is in power, Chinese Christian Churches have suffered countless cruel persecution and bloody suppression: More than a million of Christians have been arrested, sentenced and imprisoned; thousands of Christians have been killed. The Church of Almighty God is one of the churches that have suffered the most severe persecution from the CCP.

In recent years, as the returned Lord Jesus in the last days, Almighty God appears and works, millions of words expressed by Him have been widely spread and witnessed. A great many Christians who thirst for God’s appearance and long to welcome the return of the Lord Jesus have turned to Almighty God one after another after recognizing God’s voice by reading His words. The Church of Almighty God is developing rapidly and expanding increasingly. The CCP government feels extremely afraid of this, fearing to lose its dictatorial ruling status if people all follow Almighty God after hearing His voice, thus its hatred for Almighty God as well as His Church is increasingly aggravated and the degree of persecution is steadily escalating. In order to completely abolish the Church of Almighty God, it plays the same old tricks: fabricating feigned cases to frame and discredit the Church, and also instigating the state media, its mouthpieces, to whip up public opinions and stir up man’s hatred for God, thereby deceiving the common people to resist God and be in enmity to Him with it. However, these cases are all rumors, slanders, and frame-ups.

Take the 28 May 2014 McDonald’s Murder Case totally plotted by the CCP for example. Zhang Fan, Lyu Yingchun and other criminals admitted personally before the court that they had nothing to do with the Church of Almighty God which is attacked by the CCP, and that they never got in touch with the Church, nor were they the members of the Church at all. However, in this circumstance, the state media still imputed the murder case to the Church of Almighty God, fabricating rumors and telling lies publicly to deceive and cheat the world. Soon after, the CCP also used its state media to frame the Church with a series of cases, which had absolutely no connection with the Church, and kept reproducing and publishing them repeatedly in the major media abroad. As a result, some overseas people who were kept in the dark only listened to one-sided statements, and thus were deceived and cheated by the CCP. But lies are, after all, lies. The truth has already surfaced and been out in the open.

The Cases That the CCP Has Framed Against the Church of Almighty God

No.1: A Six-year-old Boy Had His Eyes Gouged out in Shanxi

Brief introduction of the case: At around 7 p.m. on August 24, 2013, a vicious crime of injuring a child happened in Fenxi County, Shanxi Province. Guo X, a six-year-old boy who was playing at the gate of his home, was brought to the wilds and had his eyes gouged out, which caused severe personal injury to him. The state media released false news, saying that the crime was committed by the Church of Almighty God. They also reproduced and spread the news through Wikipedia and other media so as to instigate the common people to hate the Church and hinder people from investigating and accepting Almighty God’s kingdom gospel.

The truth of the facts: The police of Mainland China announced that according to the DNA tests, Zhang Huiying, the boy’s aunt, was the murderer, and she had committed suicide to escape punishment; Zhang’s husband said that he accepted the result of the case. The motive for the murder was to take revenge because the two families conflicted with each other about the living expenses of their parents. The facts have proved the case had nothing to do with the Church of Almighty God at all and was purely false accusation from the CCP.

No.2: Knife Attack Case at a Primary School in Guangshan, Henan by Min Yongjun

Brief introduction of the case: On December 14, 2012, an incident that pupils were chopped wound happened in Wanquan Primary School of Chenpeng Village, Wenshu Township, Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, China: Twenty-three pupils and an old person were chopped wound by Min Yongjun, a psycho, with a kitchen knife. After the occurrence of the case, Guangshan Prefectural People’s Government blocked the information at once and used all sorts of means to raise obstacles, attempting to prevent journalists from entering the place to have an interview and investigation. Several days later, the state media released the news that the murderer had touched the believers of the Church of Almighty God and was influenced by eschatology, so he chopped people everywhere in a trance. The CCP intended to shift the case onto the Church of Almighty God.

The truth of the facts:

1. The murderer is called Min Yongjun. According to the appraisal given by Wuhan Municipal Psychiatric Hospital, Hubei Province, he had two-decade medical history of epilepsy, which resulted in mental disorder (schizophrenia) with a severe propensity for violence. The police claimed that Min suffered from the mental disease with intermittent paroxysms. As is known to all, psychos lose their own ability of recognition and behavior control. Moreover, they are subject to acousma and hallucinations, and their criminalities are related to the disease they catch.

2. The state media claimed that Min was influenced by the relevant words of doomsday. At the night of December 13, 2012, Min ran away from home and didn’t go back that whole night. However, the statement was denied outright by his mother. She said, “In recent two years, I have never let him out of my sight, nor have I seen him touch any religion, much less heard him mention doomsday.”

3. Let’s have a look at the general security condition in Chinese campuses and the plots behind the CCP’s high-profile reports on Guangshan Case.

In October of 2011, Liu Peng, a 17-year-old student of No. 2 High School of Guangshan County, was stabbed to death; in November of 2012, Cheng Qian, an 18-year-old student of No. 1 High School of Guangshan County was stabbed to death at the school gate; on December 14 of the same year, Min Yongjun Campus Murder Case happened. Three cases occurred in Guangshan County in the period of more than one year, but why did the CCP only report the Min Yongjun Case wantonly? In addition, within fifty days from late March to mid-May of 2010, six campus murder cases happened in China, but why did the CCP not report them in a high-profile way? And why do such incidents occur repeatedly in China? You can learn the reasons through the following contrast.

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Question (3)

Question (3)

You say only those who obey the will of the Father in heaven receive the way of everlasting life. Since we believed in the Lord, we’ve suffered much and paid much to spread the Lord’s gospel. We’ve shepherded the Lord’s flock, taken up the cross and followed the Lord, practiced humbleness, patience, and tolerance. Are you saying we haven’t been following God’s will? We know that if we continue, we will become holy and be raptured to the kingdom of heaven. Do you mean our understanding and practice of God’s word is wrong?

Answer: Many people have the notion that if they labor, sacrifice for the Lord, or perform good deeds, they are obeying God’s will. But are these imagined notions of men after God’s heart? Do they have a basis in God’s word? Let’s see what the Lord Jesus said. The Lord Jesus said, “Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:21-23)

From the Lord Jesus’ words, we can see that those who prophesy, cast out devils, and do many wonderful works in His name are the ones who suffer and do works for the Lord. They serve the Lord. It’s true that they devote all their time to Him and behave very well. But why does Jesus call them those who work iniquity? How should we understand this? By man’s notions, any who suffer and do works for the Lord, and devote their time to Him, are obeying God’s will. The priests and scribes and the Pharisees in Judaism also appeared very pious. They traveled far and wide to preach the gospel. But why did the Lord Jesus condemn them and also curse them? That’s something worth reflecting on, isn’t it? We can’t determine obedience to God’s will using the notions of man. True obedience to God’s will refers to those who can obey God’s works and words, practice God’s words, follow God’s commandments, and fulfill their duties according to God’s will and requirements. You say any who suffer and do works for the Lord are obeying God’s will. Then let’s evaluate them using the Lord Jesus’ requirements. What was Jesus’ most important commandment for man? Jesus’ most important commandment for man is “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39) But are people doing this? Obeying God’s will means loving God with all of our heart, and soul, and mind. No matter how much work we do or how much we suffer, there shall be no impurity or ambition, just pure devotion to satisfying and obeying God, to carrying out God’s will. We should be happy to sacrifice everything for God, without demand for recompense. In the face of trials and tribulation from God, we should not complain or betray Him but put ourselves at the mercy of God’s arrangements, like Abraham, Job, and Peter. When God’s trials come, we should accept with utter obedience and without complaint, and bear good and resounding testimony for God. And this is obedience to God’s will. Given those demands, it should be obvious whether or not we are people who truly obey the heavenly Father’s will.

We see many are capable of suffering, doing work and sacrificing in the Lord’s name, but in their suffering and sacrifice, there’s personal ambition and desire. They seek to enter the kingdom of heaven. Is this not using and defrauding God? How is this practicing the truth to satisfy God? But there’s an even bigger tragedy going on. Although the religious pastors and elders often work and preach in their churches, and outwardly appear to do good acts, and yet when Almighty God does the work of judgment in the last days, to protect their own influence and their position and income, they wildly judge, condemn, profane Almighty God, and try to stop people from seeking the true way. Doesn’t this make them enemies of God? How is this any different from the crimes of the Pharisees who resisted the Lord Jesus? These facts are enough to prove that people have no knowledge of God, that people’s satanic nature remains and people haven’t gained truth as life. Even those who can suffer, labor, and sacrifice for God do so to barter with Him. They believe in God with the aim of gaining blessings for themselves. Such people are not practicing God’s words at all and do not care for God’s will. They’re not testaments of obedience and love for God. How could such people obey God’s will? And how could they be qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven and gain the way of everlasting life? Almighty God says, “I decide the destination of each man not on the basis of age, seniority, amount of suffering, or least of all, the degree of misery, but on whether they possess truth. There is no other choice but this. You must realize that all those who do not follow the will of God will be punished. This is an immutable fact.” (from “You Ought to Do Enough Good Deeds to Prepare for Your Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh)

God decides the destination of each man not on the basis of how much work he does or suffering he undergoes, but on the basis of whether he possesses truth, practices God’s word, and obeys God’s will. Because only those who obey God’s will can enter the kingdom of heaven and gain eternal life. This is decided by God’s righteous disposition and cannot be changed. So, we all need to reflect on the path we’ve taken to belief in God. Why, while we believe in and follow God, do we also sin and resist God? It’s caused entirely by the sinful nature hidden within man. With man’s sinful nature, it’s very difficult to truly obey and love God. Thus man’s sinful nature makes it hard to avoid trying to barter and gain blessings while he sacrifices for God. And man’s sinful nature creates complaints, betrayal and negativity in man when faced with the trials of God. So, with man’s sinful nature, how can he become someone who obeys God’s will? How can he become holy? It’s completely impossible! For man to truly obey God’s will and become holy, the problem of his sinful nature must be solved. If people don’t accept Almighty God’s work of judgment and chastisement, then they will never be approved by God. If they don’t experience God’s work of judgment in the last days, they will never receive the truth, achieve dispositional change or be after God’s heart. That is a fact that no one could ever deny.

from the movie script “From the Throne Flows the Water of Life”

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