Eastern Lightning| Almighty God's Word "The Millennial Kingdom Has Arrived"

　　Almighty God says, "The arrival of the Millennial Kingdom on earth is the arrival of God’s words on earth. New Jerusalem’s descent from heaven is the arrival of God’s words to live among man, to accompany man’s every action, and all his inmost thoughts. This is also the fact that God will accomplish, and the wonderful scene of the Millennial Kingdom. This is the plan set by God: His words will appear on earth for a thousand years, and they will manifest all of His deeds, and complete all of His work on earth, after which this stage of mankind shall come to an end."

Eastern Lightning| Eastern Lightning | Almighty God's Word "How to Serve in Harmony With God's Will"

　　Almighty God says, "If you wish to serve God’s will, you must first understand what kind of people are beloved by God, what kind of people are loathed by God, what kind of people are made perfect by God, and what kind of people are qualified to serve God. This is the very least that you ought to be equipped with. Moreover, you should know the aims of God’s work, and the work that God shall do in the here and now. After understanding this, and through the guidance of God’s words, you will first enter, and first receive God’s commission. When you actually experience based upon God’s words, and when you truly know God’s work, you will be qualified to serve God. And it is when you serve Him that God enlightens your spiritual eyes, and allows you to have a greater understanding of His work and see it more clearly. When you enter this reality, your experiences will be more profound and real, and all those who have had such experiences will be able to walk among the churches and provide to their brothers and sisters, each side drawing on the strengths of the other to make up for their own deficiencies, and gaining a richer knowledge in their spirits. Only after achieving this effect will you be able to serve God’s will and be made perfect by God in the course of your service."

Eastern Lightning| The Fourteenth Utterance

Throughout the ages, no human has entered the kingdom and thus none has enjoyed the grace of the Age of Kingdom, none has seen the King of the kingdom. Though under the illumination of My Spirit many people have prophesied the kingdom’s beauty, they know but its exterior, not its significance within. Today, as the kingdom comes into formal existence on earth, most of humanity still knows not just what is to be accomplished, what realm man is ultimately to be brought to, during the Age of Kingdom. About this, I’m afraid all men are in a state of confusion. Because the day of the kingdom’s complete realization has not fully come, all men are befuddled, unable to see it clearly. My work in divinity begins formally with the Age of Kingdom. It is with the formal start of the Age of Kingdom that My disposition begins to progressively manifest itself to man. Thus at this moment the holy trumpet formally begins to sound and proclaim to all. When I formally take My power and reign as King in the kingdom, all My people shall over time be made complete by Me. When all the nations of the world are disrupted, that is precisely when My kingdom will be established and shaped and also when I will be transfigured and turn to the entire universe. At that time, all people shall see My glorious face, see My true countenance. From the creation of the world to the present, humanity has been corrupted by Satan to the extent that exists today. With man’s corruption, I have become more and more concealed from humans and increasingly unfathomable to them. Man has never seen My true face, never directly interacted with Me. Only in hearsay and myth has there been a “Me” of man’s imagination. I therefore accord with human imagination, that is, with human conceptions, to tackle the “Me” in men’s minds, that I might change the state of “Me” that they have harbored for myriad years. This is My work principle. Not a single person has been able to know it through and through. Although men have prostrated themselves to Me and come before Me to worship Me, I do not enjoy such acts of men because in their hearts they hold not My image, but an image exterior to Me. Therefore, their mind lacking My disposition, they know nothing about My true face. Therefore, when they believe they have resisted Me or offended My administrative decrees, I yet turn a blind eye. And therefore, in their memories, I am a God who shows mercy on men rather than chastises them, or I am God Himself who does not mean what He says. These are all imaginations born of human thought and not in accordance with the facts.

Christian Crosstalk "A Plan to Go 'Fishing'" | True Story Behind the Release of Christians

Christian Crosstalk "A Plan to Go 'Fishing'" | True Story Behind the Release of Christians

Zhou Zhiyong is a Christian who was arrested by the CCP police for sharing the gospel. After half a month of brutal torture when their interrogation yielded no results, the CCP government suddenly releases him. Zhou Zhiyong quietly rejoices at leaving that evil place. But just as he is getting ready to meet with his brothers and sisters, there is one strange occurrence after another…. Finally one day he is arrested by the police again and only then does he fully understand the truth. The CCP had been using him as bait on a long line to catch the big fish all along! A three-year sentence gives Zhou Zhiyong a deeper understanding of the CCP's evil essence of resisting God, and he comes to develop a true hatred for it. He thirsts for the truth and aspires to the light even more and resolves: No matter how difficult the road ahead is, I will follow God until the end!

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Eastern Lightning | Almighty God's Word "Those Who Believe in God Should Submit to Him"

　　Almighty God says, "The key to submission to God is the capacity to receive the newest light, accept it and put into practice; that is true submission. If one does not have such will to thirst for God, one cannot attain submission to God in his heart; instead one will resist God due to his satisfaction with his current status. One cannot submit to God because one is preoccupied by what one originally has, which has molded various conceptions within, leading to different imaginations of God. These have become images of God in human mind. Therefore, one believes in one’s own conceptions, one’s own imagined standard. If you measure the God who performs actual work today with your own imaginary God, then your faith comes from Satan; such faith is colored by your personal preference, and God does not want such faith. One who believes in God in this manner will not receive commendation from God, no matter how senior he is, how much he has spent, even if he has exerted his entire life to do God’s work, to the point of martyrdom. God only gives him a little grace for his temporary enjoyment. Such people simply cannot practice the truth and the Holy Spirit will not work in them; God will eliminate such people one by one. No matter whether one is old or young, if one believes in and yet will not submit to God, or has a wrong motive, then he is a person who resists and causes disruption. Doubtlessly such people are targets of elimination. For those who do not submit to God at all, but only acknowledge the name of God and feel a bit the kindness and loveliness of God, yet who cannot follow the footsteps of the Holy Spirit nor submit to the present work and word of the Holy Spirit, they live in God’s grace but cannot be gained and perfected by God. God’s perfection of man is through man’s submission, through man’s eating and drinking and enjoying the word of God, and through painful refinements in his life. Only through such faith can one be transformed in his disposition, and gain true knowledge of God. One is not satisfied with just living in the grace of God, but takes the initiative to thirst after and seek the truth, working toward being gained by God; this is conscious submission, which is the faith God truly wants."

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The Pharisees of the religious world are all very well-read in Scripture and they have served God for many years, and yet not only do they not seek and investigate the appearance and work of God incarnate but, to the contrary, they wildly judge, condemn, and resist. This really is unbelievable! So why do the Pharisees of the religious world condemn and resist God? God says, "Those who read the Bible in grand churches recite the Bible every day, yet not one understands the purpose of God's work. Not one is able to know God; moreover, not one is in accord with the heart of God." "The reason that man opposes God stems, on the one hand, from the corrupt disposition of man, and on the other hand, from ignorance of God and lack of understanding of the principles of God's work and His will toward man. These two aspects merge into a history of man's resistance to God" (The Word Appears in the Flesh).

Eastern Lightning| The Thirteenth Utterance

Hidden within the proclamations of My voice are a number of My intentions. But man knows and understands nothing of these, and keeps receiving My words from the outside and following them from the outside, without being able to realize My heart or intuit My will from within My words. Even if I have made My words clear, has anyone understood? From Zion I came into mankind. Because I have put on the humanity of an ordinary man and clothed Myself in the skin of a man, men merely come to know My appearance from the outside, but they do not know the life that lies within Me, nor do they recognize the God of the Spirit, and only know the man of flesh. Could it be that the real God Himself is unworthy of your trying to know Him? Could it be that the real God Himself is unworthy of your making an effort to try to “dissect” Him? I detest the corruption of the whole human race, but I feel compassion for their weakness. I am also dealing with the old nature of the whole human race. As one of My people in China, are you not also a part of the human race? Among all My people, and among all My sons, that is, among the ones that I have chosen out of the whole human race, you belong to the lowest group. For this reason, I have expended the largest amount of energy on you, the greatest amount of effort. Do you still not cherish the blessed life that you enjoy today? Are you still hardening your hearts to rebel against Me and set upon your own designs? Were it not that I still have pity and love for you, the whole of humanity would long ago have fallen captive to Satan and turned into “delectable morsels” in its mouth. Today, in the midst of all humanity, those who genuinely expend themselves for Me and who genuinely love Me are still rare enough to be counted on the fingers of one hand. Could it be that today the title of[a] “My people” has already become your personal property? Has your conscience simply grown ice-cold? Are you truly worthy to become the people that I require? Thinking back on the past, and looking again at today, which of you has satisfied My heart? Which of you has shown genuine solicitude for My intentions? Had I not prompted you, you would still not have awakened, but would have remained as if in a frozen state, and again, as if in a state of hibernation.

Eastern Lightning| The Twelfth Utterance

When lightning issues forth from the East—which is also precisely the moment that I begin to speak—at the moment the lightning comes forth, the whole empyrean is illuminated, and all the stars begin to transform. It seems as though the entire human race is subjected to a proper cleaning and sorting out. Under the glow of this shaft of light from the East, all of mankind is revealed in their original form, eyes dazzled, stymied in confusion; still less are they able to conceal their ugly features. Again, they are like unto animals fleeing from My light for refuge in mountain caves; yet, not one among them can be effaced from within My light. All human beings lie in the grip of terror and alarm, all are waiting, all are watching; with the advent of My light, all rejoice at the day they were born, and likewise all are cursing the day they were born. Conflicting emotions are impossible to articulate; tears of self-castigation form rivers, and are borne away on the sweeping torrent, gone without trace in a twinkling. Once again, My day is pressing close upon the human race, once again arousing the human race, giving humanity a point from which to make a new beginning. My heart beats and, following the rhythms of My heartbeat, the mountains leap for joy, the waters dance with joy, and the waves, keeping time, beat upon the rocky reefs. It is difficult to express what is in My heart. I want all unclean things to burn up into ashes under My gaze, I want all the sons of disobedience to disappear from before My eyes, never more to linger on in existence. Not only have I made a new beginning in the dwelling place of the great red dragon, I have also embarked on new work in the universe. Soon the kingdoms of the earth will become My kingdom; soon the kingdoms of the earth will forever cease to exist because of My kingdom, because I have already achieved victory, because I have returned triumphant. The great red dragon has exhausted every conceivable means to disrupt My plan, hoping to erase My work on the earth, but can I grow disheartened on account of its deceitful stratagems? Can I be frightened into losing confidence by its threats? There has never been a single being in either heaven or earth that I do not hold in the palm of My hand; how much the more is this true of the great red dragon, this device that serves as a foil to Me? Is it not also an object to be manipulated with My hands?