God Has Brought His Glory to the East

God gave His glory to Israel then moved it away from there,bringing the Israelites and bringing all men to the East.God has led them all to the light,so that they may be reunited and associate with light,no longer have to search, search for the light.

Who is my Lord

Liu Zhizhong is a pastor at a local house church in China. He's been a believer for over 30 years, and has constantly maintained that "The Holy Bible is inspired by God," "The Holy Bible represents God, believing in God is believing in the Bible, believing in the Bible is believing in God."

Faith in God

Yu Congguang is a gospel preacher from the Church of Almighty God. Because he was pursued by the CCP government while preaching the gospel, he fled to the mountain and got help from Zheng Xun, a co-worker of the local house church.

XiaoZhen's Story

Xiao Zhen used to be a pure, kind-hearted Christian, who always treated her friends sincerely. However, when it was to their benefit, her former friends became her enemies.

The Mystery of GodLiness

Lin Bo’en had believed in the Lord for decades and was a senior preacher. Ever since his acceptance of Almighty God, Christ of the last days, he had been confronted with the condemnation and rejection of the pastors, elders, and antichrist forces in the religious world and was eventually expelled from the religion.

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Showing posts with label the Age of Kingdom. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Realization Before the Spring Festival’s Eve

Realization Before the Spring Festival’s Eve

Zhou Ying

On the morning of the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2005, snowflakes were fluttering down. After having breakfast, Zhou Ying, with a heavy heart, went outside pushing her bicycle. Two days later, it would be the Spring Festival. As the old saying goes, “One misses his family all the more on every festive day.” So her mind went to her husband, son and daughter…. I haven’t seen them for over three years. How are they? At that time, the couple of the host family went out to see her off and said, “It’s snowing. Come back earlier this afternoon. And celebrate this Spring Festival with us!” Zhou Ying nodded to them. Their short words deeply touched her heart. She couldn’t help shedding tears of gratefulness. By then she dared not turn around or speak lest they saw she was in tears.
snow
Her thoughts returned to the day in the autumn three years ago. At a gathering, she was arrested by the atheistic CCP government and beaten brutally in the detention jail. … So weak once was she that she thought about suicide for fear that she could not bear the police’s afflictions. It was God’s words that led her to stand witness and not to betray Him. After getting out of the detention jail, she had some knowledge and discernment of the evil and contemptible substance of the CCP police, and deeply appreciated God’s love and protection. To avoid being hunted and monitored again by the CCP police and not to bring the danger of being arrested to brothers and sisters, she decided to leave her hometown for other places to hide herself. What’s more, as a creature of God, she was willing to perform her duty within her power to repay God’s love and salvation. That day, the dawn was breaking, and it was raining. Her husband called a taxi. Hardly had she gotten into the car when her daughter, draped in clothes, went out to say farewell to her. Zhou Ying felt pain in her heart at that moment. Seeing her husband and lovely daughter, she didn’t know what to say. In this way, such a happy family was forced to part from each other by the atheistic CCP. She held back her tears, saying to her daughter, “It’s raining. Just get inside the house in case you catch cold.” The car drove off into a distance and the tears blurred her vision …
Day had broken when Zhou Ying boarded the train. She looked out of the window, the rain still falling. At the time, she felt somewhat desolate. Then God’s words she had read before came into her head, “For thousands of years this has been the land of filth, it is unbearably dirty, misery abounds, ghosts roam its every corner, tricking and deceiving, making groundless accusations, being ruthless and vicious, trampling this ghost town and leaving it littered with dead bodies; the stench of decay covers the land and pervades the air, and it is heavily guarded. … Forefathers of the ancient? Beloved leaders? They all oppose God! Their meddling has left all beneath heaven in a state of darkness and chaos! Religious freedom? The legitimate rights and interests of citizens? They are all tricks for covering up sin!” (“Work and Entry (8)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). God’s words enabled her to understand: China is a ghost town and is under the control of the atheistic government, which is of Satan. The CCP deceives and bounds the Chinese people with atheism to make them turn away from God and worship it. Furthermore, it disallows people to believe in God and walk on the right path. Numerous Christians suffer its arrest, are imprisoned, and even are mutilated to death, which is an obvious fact. When the incarnate Almighty God, descending into Mainland China secretly, carries out the work of judgment in the last days, the CCP does everything in its power to impair and disturb God’s work: creating fake news to frame and discredit the Church of Almighty God by using the press and buying off world-renowned media; in cities and villages, installing cameras everywhere to monitor believers in God, as well as posting up notices all over and rewarding heavily those who report believers to them; breaking into houses at will to perform investigation and search or letting neighbors trail and watch on believers; oppressing and arresting wildly the Christians of the Church of Almighty God and interrogating them by cruel tortures, as well as running the brainwashing class to brainwash them so that they can deny God and betray God…. Zhou Ying has been suffering the persecution since she began to believe in God. She can only have gatherings with a handful of brothers and sisters and dare not sing loudly; even when she walks, she needs to check whether someone tracks her, for the lackeys of the CCP are everywhere. The CCP pursues and condemns believers without restraint, but leniently deals with those who do evils, murderers, arsonists, thieves and robbers in the world, with the result that in the society run amuck the wicked. The substance of the CCP is a gang of devils, specially fighting against God. As a result, so many innocent brothers and sisters cannot go back their own home, separating from their families …
At this point, a rush of cold air drove into her face, instantly bringing her to the real world from the memory. It would be the Spring Festival two days later. Seeing others spend it with their families, she was a bit homesick. Just then God’s words appeared in her mind, “The path that I’m leading you on is My work, My responsibility, and it was ordained by God long ago so that we would be predestined to come this far, until today—that we have been able to do this is our great blessing, and although it has not been a smooth path, our friendship is everlasting, and it will be passed down through the ages. Whether they were cheers and laughter or sadness and tears, they all make up our beautiful memories! Maybe you should know that I do not have many days for My work. I have so many work projects, and I cannot accompany you often. I hope you can understand Me—because our original friendship is still the same. … I hope that the things we shared in the past may become the flower of our friendship” (“The Path… (8)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Her tears began to pour down her face. She really felt that God was by her side and was comforting her with His words. She clearly knew that in experiencing God’s work, whether it is persecution or tribulation, God’s will is to perfect and save man. At the moment, feeling God’s love, she was not lonely, because God was with her.
The snow had ceased falling and the sun came out. The sunlight shining down on her body, she felt so warm in her heart and also acquired confidence. She pedaled her bicycle to the meeting location.
On the way home, she felt she gained a lot at this meeting, realizing that every one of us, coming into this world, has our own mission, and that her mission is to cooperate in spreading the kingdom gospel of God to complete His commission. She remembered Almighty God’s words, “From the moment you come crying into this world, you begin to perform your duty. You assume your role in the plan of God and in the ordination of God. You begin the journey of life” (“God Is the Source of Man’s Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). The words of God made her understand more clearly: Everyone lives in the ordination of God and all things in the universe exist under the sovereignty of Him. Everyone’s breath is from Him; no person can exist independently and all of us enjoy the gratuitous provision and nourishment of Him. She felt assured to commit her husband and children into God’s hands and allow Him to rule over their subsequent fates. She was aware that it was due to God’s ordination that she could come before Him and that doing her duty as a created being was the performance of her own obligations, which was even more God’s exaltation. She thought that thanks to God’s care and protection, she could come this far; due to God’s leading, she walked out of the negativity and weakness and all manner of dangerous situations. At the same time, she got acquainted with a number of brothers and sisters who were strange to her and weren’t her relatives but were even closer than relatives.
She returned to the sister’s home happily, and spent the Spring Festival’s Eve with them. Although she wasn’t reunited with her family, yet having God’s love and the sister’s company, she did not feel lonely.

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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.
Lies and Truths
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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Exposing the CCP’s Whopping Lies

Monday, September 4, 2017

"The Substance of Christ Is Obedience to the Will of the Heavenly Father" (Selected Passage)

"The Substance of Christ Is Obedience to the Will of the Heavenly Father" (Selected Passage)

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Almighty God says, "The incarnate God is called Christ, and Christ is the flesh donned by the Spirit of God. This flesh is unlike any man that is of the flesh. This difference is because Christ is not of flesh and blood but is the incarnation of the Spirit. He has both a normal humanity and a complete divinity. His divinity is not possessed by any man. His normal humanity sustains all His normal activities in the flesh, while His divinity carries out the work of God Himself. Be it His humanity or divinity, both submit to the will of the heavenly Father. The substance of Christ is the Spirit, that is, the divinity. Therefore, His substance is that of God Himself; this substance will not interrupt His own work, and He could not possibly do anything that destroys His own work, nor would He ever utter any words that go against His own will. Therefore, the incarnate God would absolutely never do any work that interrupts His own management. This is what all man should understand. The essence of the work of the Holy Spirit is to save man and is for the sake of God’s own management. Similarly, the work of Christ is to save man and is for the sake of God’s will. Given that God becomes flesh, He realizes His substance within His flesh, such that His flesh is sufficient to undertake His work. Therefore, all the work of God’s Spirit is replaced by the work of Christ during the time of incarnation, and at the core of all work throughout the time of incarnation is the work of Christ. It cannot be commingled with work from any other age. And since God becomes flesh, He works in the identity of His flesh; since He comes in the flesh, He then finishes in the flesh the work that He ought to do. Be it the Spirit of God or be it Christ, both are God Himself, and He does the work that He ought to do and performs the ministry that He ought to perform."

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Recital of Almighty God's Word "The Mystery of the Incarnation (4)" (Selected Two)

The Recital of Almighty God's Word "The Mystery of the Incarnation (4)" (Selected Two)


Almighty God says, "God’s saving of man is not done directly through the means of the Spirit or as the Spirit, for His Spirit can neither be touched nor seen by man, and cannot be approached by man. If He tried to save man directly in the manner of the Spirit, man would be unable to receive His salvation. And if not for God putting on the outward form of a created man, they would be unable to receive this salvation. For man can in no way approach Him, much like how none could go near the cloud of Jehovah. Only by becoming a man of creation, that is, putting His word into the flesh He will become, can He personally work the word into all who follow Him. Only then can man hear for himself His word, see His word, and receive His word, then through this be fully saved. If God did not become flesh, no fleshly man would receive such great salvation, nor would a single man be saved. If the Spirit of God worked directly among man, man would be smitten or completely carried away captive by Satan because man is unable to associate with God. The first incarnation was to redeem man from sin through the flesh of Jesus, that is, He saved man from the cross, but the corrupt satanic disposition still remained within man. The second incarnation is no longer to serve as a sin offering but to fully save those who were redeemed from sin. This is done so that those forgiven can be delivered from their sins and be fully made clean, and attain a change in disposition, thereby breaking free of Satan’s influence of darkness and returning before the throne of God. Only in this way can man be fully sanctified."


Thursday, August 24, 2017

Almighty God's Word "What Viewpoint Believers Ought to Hold"

Almighty God's Word "What Viewpoint Believers Ought to Hold"

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Almighty God says, "In times past, many pursued with their ambition and notions and for the sake of their hopes. These matters will not be discussed now. The key is to find a way of practice that will enable each of you to maintain a normal condition before God and to gradually break free of the shackles of Satan’s influence, so that you may be gained by God, and live out on earth what God asks of you. Only this can fulfill the desire of God."


Sunday, August 13, 2017

Inspirational Stories: Woe to the Conservative!

Inspirational Stories: Woe to the Conservative!

Xiaowen
There is an ancient Chinese story called Carving the Boat to Seek the Sword. It goes like this: During the Spring-Autumn and Warring States periods, when a man from the state of Chu was crossing a river, his sword dropped into the water. He hurriedly carved a mark on gunwale. And after the boat came alongside the bank, he jumped into the water to seek his sword from where he had made the mark. Seeing this scene, people burst into an uproar: The sword doesnt move but the boat has sailed away. Isnt it too foolish to seek the sword in this way? The lesson of the story is that things are constantly changing and developing forward, and so if man views things as static and through conservative eyes, he will ultimately gain nothing.
Perhaps you deem that it is simply a ridiculous story and there is no such a foolish man in real life. But is it really the case? The answer is no, because such a story has been repeatedly presented in the history of human development, making numerous sinners of all time.
Two thousand years ago, that is, at the end of the Age of Law, the people became ever more degenerate and were in the danger of being sentenced to death by the law for committing sins. Jehovah God saw that. He loved the world. Therefore, He concluded the work of the Age of Law and was incarnated as the Son of man in the human world to do the work of redeeming mankind under the name of Jesus, so that man could continue to exist. During His work, the Lord Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom of heaven throughout the land, forgave mans sins, healed the sick, cast out demons, and so on. He displayed numerous signs and wonders, which caused an uproar throughout the Jewish state. A lot of people saw, heard, and also spoke of the Lords great power and authority, from which many people recognized that the Lord Jesus was the coming Messiah, the ever-existing God Himself with unique authority and power, and thus accepted Him as their God and received His salvation. The chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees of the religious community also heard the preachings given by the Lord Jesus and saw His extraordinary power and authority, but they simply clung to their own conceptions and imaginations, believing that Gods work was forever unchanging and could only remain in the Age of Law, and that Gods name would always be Jehovah, because God once said, I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior (Isaiah 43:11). They thought that when God came back, He should only be called Messiah rather than Jesus. Therefore, they unscrupulously opposed and condemned the Lord Jesus work on the pretext that the name of the Lord Jesus was not that of the Messiah who was prophesied to come and His work transcended the laws of the Old Testament, treated Him as their enemy, and condemned His words with authority as blasphemies. And they blasphemed the Lord Jesus, saying, “This fellow does not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils” (Matthew 12:24), so as to deceive the ignorant people. As a consequence, the people rose up to oppose, defy, and condemn the Lord Jesus, and eventually crucified the merciful Lord Jesus alive—committed a heinous crime—and provoked the righteous disposition of God. Ultimately, the Jews were expelled from Israel and fled to countries around the world.
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In the last days, God becomes flesh again and does the work of judgment beginning with God’s family under the name of Almighty God. He expresses a variety of truths to judge and purify man, and brings mankind the way of casting aside their corrupt disposition. Many people who truly thirst for God’s appearance are certain that Almighty God is actually the returned Lord Jesus through reading His words online, and watching the Church of Almighty Godvideos of hymns and gospel movies, and more. More and more people havereturned under the name of Almighty God. They are being led and shepherded by Almighty God andenjoying the provision of the truth and life bestowed by God, and their life disposition is being transformed gradually. However, some religious people still hold on to the work done by God in the Age of Grace and deny and reject God’s salvation in the last days when they know that Almighty God brings a new age, the Age of Kingdom, does the work of judgment with the word, and no longer heals the sick and casts out demons, andthat God’s name has changed, is no longer the Lord Jesus but Almighty God. They believe that when God comes again, He should still do the work of healing the sick, casting out demons, and forgiving man’s sins, and His name should still be the Lord Jesus, because the Scripture says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8), and “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). They think that only by trusting in and keeping the name of the Lord Jesus, can they enter the kingdom of heaven and gain the eternal life. So they blaspheme, slander, condemn, and oppose Almighty God on the grounds that departure from the Lord’s name and way is a betrayal of the Lord, and they spread various fallacies to deceive and control people and hinder them from seeking and investigating the true way. Besides, they abuse and driveout the brothers and sisters preaching Almighty God’s gospel of the last days, and even call the police and collude with the CCP government to arrest the brothers and sisters from the Church of Almighty God.
The Lord Jesus said, 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 7:22-23). As for those who have preached, cast out devils, and done many wonderful works in the Lords name, why will the Lord Jesus say that He never knew them and condemn them? The reason is that because of their ignorance of Gods work which is always new and never old and continues to advance, and moreover, because of their arrogance and self-righteousness and obstinately holding to themselves, when they hear the Lord Jesus has returned to flesh and done the work of judgment andchastisement under the name of Almighty God, they not only have no intention of seeking, but alsomisinterpret the Bible out of context, and openly oppose and condemn Almighty Gods work in the last days. Thats why God will call them evildoers. And their ending is self-evident.
Today, people in the religious world awaiting the return of the Lord Jesus are just like the man who made a notch on the boat to mark where his sword had fallen overboard. They neither seek nor investigate the words and work of the returned Lord Jesus—Almighty God, but oppose and condemn them, and nail God to the cross again. They repeat the historical tragedy of the Jewish people who awaited the coming Messiah yet opposed and condemned and crucified the Lord Jesus, which eventually led to the destruction of their nation. Isn’t this worth thinking deeply about?
Almighty God says, “In each age, God does new work and is called by a new name; how could He do the same work in different ages? How could He cling to the old? The name of Jesus was taken for the work of redemption, so would He still be called by the same name when He returns in the last days? Would He still do the work of redemption? Why is it that Jehovah and Jesus are one, yet They are called by different names in different ages? Is it not because Their work in these ages is different? Could a single name represent God in His entirety? In this way, God must be called by a different name in a different age, must use the name to change the age and represent the age, for no one name can fully represent God Himself. And each name can only represent God’s disposition during a certain age and needs only to represent His work. Therefore, God can choose whatever name befits His disposition to represent the entire age.  There are those who say that God is immutable. That is correct, but it refers to the immutability of Gods disposition and substance. Changes in His name and work do not prove that His substance has altered; in other words, God will always be God, and this will never change.  God is not as simple as man imagines, and His work will not stop in one age. Jehovah, for example, will not always stand for the name of God; God also does His work under the name of Jesus, which is a symbol of how Gods work is always progressing forward” (“The Vision of God’s Work (3)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). From Almighty God’s words, we can see that God is always new and never old; because of the change in era, God must take a new name to represent His disposition and His work in that age; and although God’s way of working and His name change, His substance and righteous disposition will never change. When God did the work of the Age of Law under the name of Jehovah, He expressed the disposition of wrath and curse, making people at that time know what was sin; when the Lord Jesus came, He condemned and cursed those Pharisees who served God but opposed Him, saying, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:13), allowing people to see that God not only possessed the disposition of love and mercy, but also revealed majestic and wrathful disposition to the enemy force opposing Him; and Almighty God—the returned Lord Jesus—expresses more of His righteous and majestic disposition in the last days. He expresses the truth to judge man and reveal the facts and truth of man’s corruption by Satan, so that man can get rid of sin, gradually be cleansed and changed, know God’s righteous disposition, and have reverence for Him through experiencing His work in the last days. This type of work from God is all to make man know more of His disposition, what He has and is, and His wisdom and almightiness, be more obedient to and reverent of Him and thus satisfy His will.
Therefore, when it comes to a major issue concerning the Lord’s coming, if man always sticks to his own belief, regards his own conceptions as the truth and God’s intention, stubbornly clings to the wrong viewpoints such as “The Lord Jesus Christ’s name will never change,” and “Any departure from the Lord’s name is a betrayal of the true way,” and defines God’s name and His work by a set of rules, he will never meet the Lord’s return, but ultimately be forsaken by God and fall into the darkness with weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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