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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Lies and Truths I

Lies and Truths I

Lyu Liang

Speaking of lies, all believers in God know they come from the devil. The Lord Jesus disclosed in the Bible, “He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). The Lord Jesus told us clearly that the devil spoke lies and also murdered with lies from the beginning. It was because of believing the devil’s lies that mankind’s ancestors Adam and Eve sinned and were thus driven from the Garden of Eden by God, losing their happy life. From then on, death came upon mankind. Therefore, lies, which originate from Satan, are negative things and Satan’s tools for deceiving and corrupting mankind. In the real world, lies are extremely harmful. They can bring man to ruin, and can also trigger a slaughter and a war, so that rivers of blood flow and people are plunged into an abyss of misery.

In the first century A.D, in order to restrict and stop the spread of Christianity in Rome, Nero, the tyrant of ancient Rome, not only fabricated the rumors that Christians were sociopaths with political designs, but also framed Christians for the crime of burning the city of Rome, instigating the populace to hate them. Immediately, scores of Christians were arrested and bloodily slaughtered by the government. Some were nailed onto the pillars as candles, some were torn alive to pieces by wild beasts in the Colosseum. However, the ignorant Romans strongly supported and cheered loudly for the government’s atrocities of massacring Christians, becoming accomplices in the tyrant’s crimes. During World War II, in order to snatch Jewish assets and exterminate Jews, Hitler fabricated rumors wantonly, saying that the Jews had stolen all money from Germans, and he had films shot on the themes of Jews, in which tens of thousands of mice ran out of the Jews’ houses. Then the Nazi Party took the Jews into the hospital to have blood tests, and “the scientific statistics” proved the Jews were transmitters of Salmonella Typhi, Escherichia coli, etc. With those “conclusive evidences,” they drew the conclusion that the Jews were the dregs of humanity and exterminating them was the only solution. The reason why Hitler slaughtered the Jews was not only “adequate,” but also “irrefutable.” The overwhelming propaganda made the Germans take each and every lie from the government as true, and respond to and participate in the Holocaust positively. As a result, six million Jews ultimately died under the Nazis’ butcher knives. Obviously, when a national government makes up lies, which are extensively publicized and spread by state media afterward, then what they bring upon mankind are inevitably tremendous disasters.

Recently, some netizens found that the English version of Wikipedia, a world-renowned website, reproduced numerous rumors of slander, condemnation and smear of the Church of Almighty God by the CCP government, some of which were particularly appalling. For instance, in 2010, a member of the Church murdered a pupil, leaving a lightning-like mark on one of the victim’s feet. In 2012, a man called Ming Yongjun (Min Yongjun) said that he stabbed an old woman and 23 students of a school in Henan Province at the instigation of the Church’s prophecy of the last days. In August of 2013, a member of the branch Churches in Shanxi gouged a boy’s eyes out because the boy’s family intended to leave the religion. On May 28, 2014, six people who claimed to be members of the Eastern Lightning attacked and killed a woman in a McDonald’s restaurant in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China. … These bloodcurdling rumors have deceived many people who are ignorant of the facts. As they believe the CCP government’s rumors, they have some misunderstanding of the Church of Almighty God, and furthermore, dare not investigate or accept Almighty God’s kingdom gospel although they clearly know Almighty God’s word is the truth and God’s voice. As for these people, if you tell them that they are fooled by the CCP government, and are deceived and cheated by its lies, then they will shake their heads and say, “How can it be possible that the Chinese government, a national government, openly fabricates rumors to frame and discredit the Church of Almighty God and cheat the people of the world?” From their perspective, it seems that every information and every news the CCP releases is true and reliable. But is this really the fact? All those who have some knowledge of the CCP government are clear that the greatest skill of it is making up lies, fabricating rumors, framing and discrediting others, and it has always been pursuing the fallacy that a lie repeated ten thousand times becomes the truth. From the time the CCP was founded until now, it has never changed its characteristic and essence of telling lies. It beautifies and builds up itself by making up lies and then repeating them, portraying itself as the great savior of the Chinese people, so that people all kneel and worship it. It also deceives and cheats people by telling lies, inciting the common people to hatred, thus achieving its purpose of attacking and eliminating dissidents. It can be said that the CCP is the government which is best at telling lies in the world, and is also the one that is most capable of using lies to deceive and murder people.

The CCP Beautifies Itself and Eliminates Dissidents Through Lies

Open the history of the CCP. Every page of it seems to be glorious and bright, as if telling its greatness, glory and correctness. Yet, provided that you collate it with historical facts, then you will find that the history of the CCP is nothing but lies, and none of it conforms to historical facts.

Take the Long March for example, which plays an important role in the history of the CCP, and is also boasted by the CCP as the great pioneering work of indomitably breaking through the encirclement campaign of Nationalist forces and marching north to resist Japanese aggression. But actually, the Long March was merely a great group escape for the sake of the CCP’s self-preservation, and was also called “fleeing hither and thither” or “fleeing westward” by the Nationalist forces. This has been proved in the historical textbook of Beijing Normal University, which was chiefly edited by Bai Shouyi, the professor of the university. (It is written in the book: At 8 p.m. on October 21, 1934, after the failure of the 5th counter-encirclement campaign, the central Red Army broke through southward. But immediately, it is written in the following pages of the book that at 8 p.m. on October 21, 1934, the central Red Army solemnly declared to begin the Long March and march north to resist Japanese aggression.) In addition, after fleeing to Shaanxi and Gansu in 1935, the CCP convened the Central Politburo Conference in the Russian Concession in Gansu on September 12, during which Mao Zedong said, “We will give up the policy of occupying Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. We decide to open up an international line through guerrilla warfare, and come to the region which is close to the Soviet Union to create bases via the northeastern Gansu and northern Shaanxi….” “If we can’t keep a foothold in Ningxia, then we can pass through the desert by car to Outer Mongolia for the sake of leaving these revolutionary seeds.” Thus it can be seen that the so-called Long March is, in fact, its embarrassed history of the great escape of ten thousand miles. However, through the CCP’s made-up lies, publicity and elaborate packaging, it has become a great anti-Japanese feat, which has deceived the Chinese people for seven decades.

There were “ten struggles between the lines” in the history of the CCP, and each of them was, with no exception, carried out centering around the struggle for authority. Yet the CCP prettified them as its error-correcting mechanisms and the progressiveness of the Party. Then what on earth is the truth of the facts? We might as well give two examples, through which we can know the answers. Among the so-called “ten struggles between the lines,” the ninth “Liu Shaoqi Bourgeois Headquarters” and the tenth “Lin Biao Anti-revolution Group” drew the most attention of the world.

Liu Shaoqi, the former president of the People’s Republic of China, was supported and approved by some personages inside and outside the Party because he advocated developing economy and improving the people’s livelihood. Whereas, Mao Zedong, the Party leader, felt keenly that his dominant position was threatened. Then in order to eliminate dissidents, Mao stirred up people to rebellion, planning and launching the world-shaking Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Soon, Liu Shaoqi was changed from a state president to a great traitor, a great mole and a public thief, and was “perfectly justifiably” killed by the Party finally. Lin Biao, an ever-victorious general who once swept away the millions of enemy troops, was the former Defense Minister of the People’s Republic of China, and the established successor according to the Party Constitution. However, after failing in the inner-party struggles, through the propaganda of the state media, Lin became a schemer and careerist overnight who was beaten and went over to the enemy, and betrayed the Party as well as his country. Ultimately, he ended up with the saying that his death from the plane crash would not expiate his sins. But in fact, Lin Biao had already been shot dead before the air crash. That he betrayed his country and defected to the enemy and died in the air crash was merely a pretense fabricated by the CCP to conceal the ugly fact of scrambling for power and position and killing one another within the Party.

People once counted that in the history of the CCP, there were over 110 lies that were similar to the above-mentioned ones which confounded black with white and distorted the truth. It does show that the history of the CCP is absolutely a history of lies.

Since the CCP was founded, whether in the struggles outside the Party or inside the Party, and in whether the repression of student movements and persecution of religious beliefs or the suppression of ethnic minorities and dissenters, it was all through fabricating rumors and telling lies that the CCP has achieved its purpose of suppressing, murdering, and safeguarding its dictatorial rule. It has been a fact obvious to all.

The world-shaking “June Fourth Incident” was originally a movement that students protested against the corruption of the government and advocated democracy and freedom, but the CCP government organized some special intelligence agents to sneak into the procession of students to beat, smash, and loot everywhere, and even burn military vehicles and kill soldiers. Later the CCP imputed the crimes to the students. When “the evidence was certain,” the CCTV Evening News as well as the major domestic media began to report and propagandize it overwhelmingly at once, exposing the “outrages” of the undergraduates. Soon after, Li Peng, Premier of the State Council, publicly labeled this student movement as a riot. After that, the extremely tragic and world-shaking massacre of the century happened, and thousands of lives of young students vanished on that night.

On March 14, 2008, in Lhasa, Tibet, over three hundred monks of Zhaibung Temple paraded, chanting the slogan “freedom of religion belief,” and then they were arrested and beaten by military police of the CCP, which gave rise to Tibetan large-scale protests. Then after driving the foreign journalists out of the region, the CCP military police disguised themselves as Tibetans to beat, smash, loot, and burn the shops owned by the Han and Hui people. They even killed the Hans and imputed the crime to the Tibetans. Soon, the pictures of the Tibetans’ killing people, which were exclusive to the state media, were speedily and continuously rebroadcast in every major media. After the rumors were accepted by the public, the CCP changed immediately into “the power of justice” of “keeping the social order,” while the Tibetans became “rioters” and thus suffered the large-scale bloody suppression from the CCP.

Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany Goebbels said, “The mission of newspapers is to transmit the ruler’s will to the ruled and thus make them regard the hell as heaven.” “The only one purpose of propaganda is to conquer the masses.” “The propaganda is based on the fundamental principle that the effective arguments should be repeated constantly and the lies should be spread continually and dressed up to be credible.” The CCP’s purposes, means, and principles of propaganda overly coincide with the Nazis’. It has turned out that the atheistic CCP government is the maker of lies and the source of evil, hence everything said by the CCP government as well as its state media is nothing but lies and is not trustworthy at all. Similarly, such information reproduced and published in whatever media or websites is not worth believing either.

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A Blade of Grass That Grows Among Thorns

A Blade of Grass That Grows Among Thorns

Yixin    Singapore

Editors’ note:

Yixin, a kind and caring beautician, came to Singapore from China. Under the Lord’s protection, she had a secure job and led a happy and steady life. Later, she heard the news about the Lord’s return. Unexpectedly, during the process of her investigation, she was paid attention to by her company and pastor. She was once afraid of a rupture with others and the loss of her job. However, God’s words led her. Depending on the guidance of God’s words, she saw clearly what came from Satan and what came from God in the hindrance and attack from her pastor and fellow believers. She understood many aspects of truths and grew gradually amid attacks and threats, ultimately solidifying her will to follow God all her life. Here is the inspiring experience she narrated.

A Sister of My Original Church Knew That I Was Investigating the Work of God in the Last Days

In November of 2016, I made the acquaintance of people in the Church of Almighty God on Facebook, a brother named Lin Quan, two sisters called Zhang Hua and Xiaoxiao. They fellowshiped and bore witness to me about God’s work in the last days combining with the prophecies in the Bible. Through their fellowship and testimony, I got to know that Almighty God has done a stage of work of judgment and purification with the word based upon the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus. In the last days, God intends to completely save man from the domain of Satan through judgment, allow man to break away from Satan’s influence, stopping disobeying Him and resisting Him and becoming someone truly obedient to Him. From Almighty God’s words, I also came to understand that God will separate wheat from tares, sheep from goats through judgment so that man shall be classified according to kind. Through Almighty God’s words and the testimonies of the brothers and sisters, I realized that Almighty God is exactly the coming of the Lord Jesus whom I longed for. I was willing to accept His work in the last days.

One day, Sister Zhu of my original denomination suddenly asked what I was up to recently. Then I told her my investigation on Almighty God’s work in the last days. Upon hearing the Church of Almighty God, she began to slander the Church and blaspheme Almighty God by repeating many online rumors and words of condemnation of God. She also advised me not to contact the people of the Church of Almighty God. I said, “I have engaged with those brothers and sisters for a while and felt good to communicate with them. They are different from what you said. What’s more, Almighty God’s words are very practical and easy to understand and remember. They can supply man and be the bread of life and show man the way to practice, giving me much more than the pastor’s sermons.” Seeing my determined attitude, she quit trying to persuade me but asked me whether to tell my investigation on the work of Almighty God in the last days to Sister Yun, who preached the Lord’s gospel to us. I answered, “No. There are still many things I don’t understand. I will tell everyone when I fully verify it.” She promised me not to speak to Sister Yun until I was clear about it.

My Investigation on God’s Work in the Last Days Was Given Away and I Was Attacked by My Boss

Against all expectations, five days later, my boss found me and said, “Yixin, Sister Yun asked me to pray for you. Although I don’t know how to pray, I will try my best….” Upon hearing these words, I realized that Sister Zhu had told Sister Yun my investigation on Almighty God’s work of the last days. Such behavior of hers was so immoral and full of deceit and betrayal to me, making me feel that even brothers and sisters in the Lord were untrustworthy…. As I thought of this, my boss, without asking me the ins and outs, accused me of not believing in the Lord properly and going astray in the presence of over ten people in the company. She also spoke many words resisting Almighty God and condemning the Church of Almighty God. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t know what to do, with a very awful feeling. So I prayed silently, “O Lord! Why did they say those words of resistance and condemnation without investigation? How could they put so much trust in the online rumors? O Lord! What should I do? Am I really wrong? O Lord! I wish for You to protect me. I don’t know what to do….”

Almighty God Guided Me to See Through Satan’s Plot

Later, I told Brother Lin Quan what happened to me. He sent me some God’s words, “Satan is constantly devouring the knowledge that men hold of Me in their hearts, and constantly, with teeth bared and claws unsheathed, engaged in the last throes of its death struggle. Do you wish to be captured by its deceitful stratagems at this moment? Do you wish, at the moment that the last phase of My work is completed, to cut off your own life? Surely you are not still waiting for Me to dispense My leniency one more time? Seeking to know Me is the key thing, but neither should you neglect to pay attention to actual practice. I am revealing insights to you directly in My words, in hopes that you will be able to submit to My guidance …” (“The Sixth Utterance” of God’s Utterances to the Entire Universe in The Word Appears in the Flesh). And “When God is working in the flesh, He is actually doing battle with Satan in the flesh. When He works in the flesh, He is doing His work in the spiritual realm, and makes the whole of His work in the spiritual realm real on earth” (“Corrupt Mankind Is More in Need of the Salvation of God Become Flesh” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Brother Lin told me, “God’s words make us understand that it is a spiritual battle and that Satan’s harassment has come upon you. God incarnate expresses words for man to know Him, His work and His disposition so as to save them. While Satan follows on the heels of God to disturb and disrupt God’s work, deny God’s work and Christ, and reject the truth so as to hinder man’s return to God. The Bible says, ‘And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not’ (John 1:5). ‘He came to his own, and his own received him not’ (John 1:11). When the Lord Jesus came to do His work, the leaders of Judaism, like the chief priests, scribes and Pharisees, not only rejected Him but also became Satan’s servants, making every effort to defy His work. They mainly used the means of creating rumors and giving false testimonies to oppose God. For example, they slandered and blasphemed the Lord Jesus, saying that He drove demons out by the prince of the devils. They also framed Him for perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar. What’s more, after the Lord Jesus’ resurrection, they even bribed the soldiers to give the false testimony that the body of the Lord Jesus was stolen by His disciples. It is even recorded in the books other than the Bible that the Lord Jesus was an illegitimate son. In the last days when God carries out His new work, the CCP government fabricates numerous rumors in order to establish an atheistic place in China, and many pastors and elders in the religious world give lots of false testimonies for the sake of maintaining their status and jobs. So that people might be blinded, frightened, and hindered from investigating and accepting God’s new work. Therefore, we must see clearly that the atheist CCP government is the enemy of God, that the pastors, elders and the wicked who prevent man from investigating God’s work of the last days are the Pharisees of modern times, and that the online rumors are Satan’s schemes. Only in this way can we stand at God’s side in this spiritual struggle, without being taken captive by Satan….”

Brother Lin’s fellowship allowed me to know the root cause of the rumors. None of the people who attacked me had investigated Almighty God’s work of the last days before resisting it. They got really carried away with those rumors. Wise people would draw a conclusion after investigation. However, since belief in God was a serious matter, I feared taking a wrong path and had some misgivings. After I got home from work, I prayed to the Lord in tears, “O Lord! You are the God who observes the depths of man’s heart. You once guided me when I was most in need, making me happy and joyful. O Lord! I am very bewildered right now. May You guide and lead me. O Lord! Today I won’t listen to others and follow the crowd. I am willing to act in harmony with Your will.” As I was sleeping that night, without knowing the time, I felt in a daze that something was pressing on me. I wanted to open my eyes but failed and my struggling was in vain. I shouted hurriedly, “Lord Jesus, save me!” But it was useless although I had shouted twice. I was very fearful and was at a loss what to do. Suddenly I thought of Almighty God. So I cried out “Almighty God” twice and then I woke up. I was seized by panic and it was quite a while before I recovered. I thought to myself: Why was it useful to cry out to Almighty God while calling out to the Lord Jesus was not? At that time, I remembered Brother Lin’s fellowship: Almighty God has come and continued the work of the Lord Jesus. He has ushered in a new age and concluded the old by the name of Almighty God. Because there is one name for each age, the Holy Spirit upholds His new name in the new age. Now it is the last days. Almighty God set about His work in 1991. So, God only answers our prayers when we pray in the name of Almighty God. Only then did I realize that what happened just now was not accidental, but the confirmation given by God after He heard my prayer. Thanks be to the Lord! Thus, I had confidence to face the attacks from my boss and my colleagues.

I Was Again Attacked Because I Persisted in Believing in Almighty God

When I was at work the next day, my boss again criticized me in front of all the employees, saying that I was walking the wrong path. She also spoke very harsh words to blaspheme God. I was indignant at those words and asked her, “What is evil? We all believe in God. Why do you condemn others in this way?” After saying this, I stormed away. A few minutes later, my boss came for me and blamed me for losing my temper with her. I said, “I did not mean to get mad. But you shouldn’t have said those words. We believers in God should not say the words profaning, resisting or condemning God, which is sinning against God. If you feel I will be detrimental to the company, I can choose to leave. All I want is to believe in God properly. I won’t hurt you or affect the company. You think you mean well. But I’m an adult with rational thinking. Concerning whether Almighty God is the coming of the Lord Jesus, I have sought and investigated it rather than believed it by listening to others casually.” She then asked me if I had read the statements on TV and online. I answered, “Anything negative comes from Satan. What I have seen differs from what you have seen. The Church of Almighty God has never made people do those evil things. Rather, quite the opposite, we’re asked to be good and honest people.” Then she was speechless and left.

A Hymn of God’s Word Gave Me Confidence to Fight

However, from then on, my boss has been freezing me out and even satirizing me in order for me to give up my faith in Almighty God. One day, my boss suddenly told me, “Sister Yun will talk to you when she comes back from her business trip.” At those words, I felt somewhat bad and nervous. It was Sister Yun who spread the Lord’s gospel to me. She was also a VIP client in our beauty salon. If she was offended, it would be hard for me to deal with her and my boss would be unhappy. As the day of Sister Yun coming back approached, I became more nervous and scared. One afternoon, I prayed to God in a VIP room. Just after my prayer, my boss phoned to say, “Sister Yun will come in a moment. Give a facial treatment to her.” Though reluctant, I had no excuse to wriggle out of it. I went to the staff room, listening to hymns of God’s word in order to quiet my heart before God. I listened to the 210th hymn “I Am Determined to Love God”: “… I wish for You to open the eyes of my spirit, I wish for Your Spirit to touch my heart, so that before You I am divested of all passive states, and unconstrained by any person, matter, or thing; my heart I completely lay bare before You, such that my entire being is devoted before You, and You may test me however You wish. Now, I give no thought to my prospects, nor am I bound by death. Using my heart that loves You, I wish to seek the way of life.” God’s words gave me faith. Gradually, my heart calmed down and was at ease. Yes. Whatever others say, I should seek the truth, search for the appearance and work of God and pursue to love Him without the constraint of anyone. How my boss sees or treats me and how my relationship with Sister Yun is going to be rest in God’s palm. Therefore, I got the faith to face all this.

I Triumphed in the Test by Praying to and Depending on God

A few minutes later, Sister Yun arrived. I prayed to God silently, “Almighty God! I am afraid that she will speak words that blaspheme, resist and condemn You…. May You protect and help me.” She started by only talking with me about what she reaped from her business trip to Israel. In the end, however, she asked me in a roundabout way, “In the last days, many false Christs and false prophets have appeared to deceive people….” I said, “Yes. The Lord Jesus indeed reminded us of that. But He also said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27). The Lord will lead us onto the right path. We should not only worry about deception from false Christs in the last days, because God has told us that His sheep listen to His voice.” However, she didn’t listen to me at all but kept telling me to be careful of false Christs that appeared in the last days to deceive people. She then spoke negative words about the Church of Almighty God. I ignored her words. Seeing me not respond to her, she no longer said anything. I thanked God for protecting me. As such, I passed this test.

God’s Words Guided Me Again and Gave Me Discernment

Later, my boss was still not pleased about me believing in Almighty God, keeping freezing me out and attacking me in front of my colleagues. During that time, brothers and sisters from the Church of Almighty God constantly fellowshiped and shared with me in order to allow me to understand God’s will. They told me: God gives people freedom of choice and He never forces them, which is His working principle. People volunteer to accept or not accept Almighty God’s work in the last days without being compelled. They also sent me a passage of God’s words, “Now what I set is the exercise for your life to grow, so that your spirit will be acute, your spiritual eyes will be opened and thus you will know what is from God. If it is from God, you will be capable and burdened in your service and be assured in your spirit. If it is not from Me, everything will be empty, and you will gain nothing, feel down in your spirit, lose faith, become distant from Me, and sink into mind. Now, living in the spirit, you can transcend all the worldly things. Living in the mind, you will fall into Satan’s trap and come to a dead end. Now, it is very simple. Look up to Me with your heart, and immediately you will be strong in your spirit and have ways of practice. I will lead you at your every step, and My word will be revealed to you anywhere and anytime. No matter when and where it is and how adverse the environment is, as long as your heart looks up to Me, I will surely let you see clearly, My heart will surely be revealed to you, and you will not get lost when running forward” (“The Thirteenth Utterance” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). I gained a bit of knowledge about this passage of God’s words through their fellowship. There was always God’s permission no matter what happened to me. He created such an environment to try me and test me whether or not I had true faith in Him. Meanwhile, God wanted to open the eyes of my spirit so that I could distinguish between what came from God and what came from Satan. God also wished me to learn to rely on and look up to Him in trials because He would be with me to lead, guide, care and protect me.

With the guidance of God’s words and the help of brothers and sisters, I was even more aware of what was the right path. I ascertained that following Almighty God was keeping pace with the footsteps of the Lamb rather than taking the wrong path. Brothers and sisters in the Church of Almighty God fellowshiped about the truth and God’s will with me, and bore witness to what God has and what God is. They never forced me to believe but allowed me to choose freely. They only communicated with me on God’s will and helped me learn to discern various views. Whereas Sister Yun and my boss kept saying the words of profanity and resistance to God according to the online rumors in order to obstruct me from accepting God’s work of the last days by compulsion. When I didn’t listen to them, they just denounced and took digs at me. This made me thoroughly understand that only what was from Satan would push, attack and force man. Thanks be to God! It was obvious for me that who was from God and who was from Satan.

I Was Attacked and Threatened by the Pastor of My Original Church

I had thought things had come to an end, but something unexpected again happened. One day, I had just finished a beauty treatment for a client when my boss came to take me to the next building. I remembered she was out for a couple of hours, but I didn’t know she was actually talking with Sister Yun and the pastor of my original church in the next building. She didn’t tell me that Sister Yun was waiting for me until when we were almost to the door. I entered and saw that Pastor Liu and his wife and Sister Yun were there. I was a little nervous at that time for I had no idea what they would do. So I prayed to God silently, “Almighty God! They come to me for another talk. I ask You to protect me, help me and give me Your wisdom to respond to them.” About ten minutes later, I was no longer nervous or flustered. I thought to myself: Are they here to force me to leave Almighty God? If I don’t agree, will I lose my job? But I then called to mind that everything was in God’s hand and He would make proper arrangements. I wouldn’t leave Almighty God even if my job was lost. Pastor Liu asked me when I started believing in the Lord and spoke many things about belief in the Lord. Then he asked, “Do you know the Church of Almighty God? Are you still in touch with them? …” He also said many words that blasphemed Almighty God and vilified the Church. I said with some anger, “Why do your knowledge and opinion of the Church of Almighty God conflict with what I’ve learned through contact? We all browsed on the Internet. I saw both negative and positive information. But you started to condemn it without considering the positive or investigating. Is that proper?” Instead of answering me, Pastor Liu said, “The Church of Almighty God develops rapidly and has stolen the lambs from many churches. If you don’t listen to our admonitions and persist in believing in Almighty God, we won’t be courteous to you. We will tell all the brothers and sisters in the church that you have believed in Almighty God and they will think that you want to steal lambs if you go to the church.” He then intimidated me by saying some false testimonies. I wasn’t scared of his words but on the contrary, I asked him with confidence, “Have you seen these things with your own eyes? Are you sure that people in the Church of Almighty God did them? You blindly condemn the Church and blaspheme Almighty God by echoing others’ views without seeking or investigation. Aren’t you the same as the Pharisees who resisted the Lord Jesus?”

I Saw Through the Pastor’s Lie

I continued to ask, “It is prophesied in the Bible that the Lord will be rejected by this generation when He comes again. What does it mean? Is people’s resistance against Almighty God the same as that of the Pharisees against the Lord Jesus? What did the Lord Jesus say when the Pharisees opposed Him? He said, ‘But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in’ (Matthew 23:13). Why was it that they opposed the Lord Jesus while His disciples followed Him? The Lord Jesus once said that His sheep hear His voice and that He would separate sheep from goats. I haven’t believed in God for a long time and don’t understand the Bible. Pastor Liu, you studied theology. I think you’ll have some answers.” He was incapable of replying to my questions. He only said, “We can obtain everlasting life since we believe in the Lord and have been baptized.” I said, “What? Is it this simple to obtain everlasting life? Does everyone who was baptized in the church treat the Lord with sincerity? There are always sermons to encourage offerings in the church. But the Lord never said giving offerings is love for Him. Then what does it really mean to love the Lord? Please talk about it.” He answered, “Loving the Lord is to read the Bible more and pray more.” At that point, I thought: Although I don’t know what true love for the Lord is, his answer is purely fooling me. The Pharisees read many scriptures and offered a lot of prayers. Could it be said that they loved the Lord? If they did, why did they blaspheme and condemn the Lord and nail Him to the cross? Pastor Liu has no idea at all about what it is to love the Lord. It turns out that having biblical knowledge and theology doesn’t mean understanding the truth. When my thoughts went there, I felt that it was meaningless to argue with him. So I didn’t want to say more. But Pastor Liu still continued, “Do you know they claim that the Lord has returned through incarnation as a female to do His work?” On hearing this question, I said, “What form the Lord takes when He becomes flesh is His own business. We are just small and insignificant men. Can we define the work of God? Men are mere dust before God and cannot even compare with ants. It is not necessary for God to seek our advice about how to perform His work.” Seeing that they did not at all have a heart of seeking and investigating God’s work of the last days, I didn’t want to go on talking with them. At last, I asked, “Have you ever thought that your arrival to the company for me like this would affect my work?” I didn’t expect that Pastor Liu lied to me, “Your boss has no idea about the content of our conversation.” Upon hearing his words, I didn’t say anything but forced a smile. I prayed silently to God in my heart, “Dear God, You have allowed me to see clearly the pastor’s true face. He is full of lies. He spent the whole afternoon talking with my boss. What’s more, since my boss heard it from Sister Yun that I believe in Almighty God, she has got a sharp tongue and kept attacking me. Now the pastor actually tells me that the content of our conversation is unknown to my boss, which is really blatant deceit of me.” I didn’t want to speak to him anymore, and felt like leaving.

Sister Yun’s “Persuasion” and the Pastor’s Warning

Seeing me not want to go on with the conversation, Sister Yun said, “Yixin, you have parents and children. You should think about them.” I said, “My family are all good and safe. I have God’s blessings and guidance when I believe in Almighty God. We will get better and better.” Pastor Liu and Sister Yun suggested making a prayer for me but I refused. Then Pastor Liu warned me by saying, “If you don’t leave the Church of Almighty God, nobody of our church will admit you in the future.” I thought: How does the church look like now? It has become a den of thieves, just like the temple when the Lord Jesus came to do His work. I can’t receive any provision there. There is nothing I cannot bear to part with. I have accepted God’s work in the last days, followed the Lamb’s footsteps, come before God’s throne, being supplied by the living water of life flowing from Christ. The Church of Almighty God is my only true family.

I Saw the Fulfillment of Almighty God’s words

Thanks to God’s mercy. I have gained discernment through the disturbance from the religious force. I saw that the pastor told a pack of lies. What he lived out and what he did totally came from Satan. Besides, the believers in religion deceived each other and were unworthy of trust. The religious circle has lost the work of the Holy Spirit, been completely shrouded by darkness and dominated by Satan. In the meanwhile, I also saw that the brothers and sisters in the Church of Almighty God solve people’s problems and difficulties with God’s words, living under the guidance of God’s words. It is the truth that rules in the Church, it is the word of God that rules, it is the Holy Spirit that rules. The sun shines resplendent here. No wonder Almighty God says, “Now what I set is the exercise for your life to grow, so that your spirit will be acute, your spiritual eyes will be opened and thus you will know what is from God” (“The Thirteenth Utterance” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). After experiencing these words from Almighty God, I’ve recognized that He is as good as His word and that His word shall be accomplished. This is absolute. Almighty God’s words are indeed the truth, and I am even more certain that the Church of Almighty God is the real church and that Almighty God is the Creator who has appeared to work. I am willing to follow Him all my life.

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