BELIEVER BELIEVER_CAO BELIEVER_CHUN BELIEVER_DONG BELIEVER_HAO BELIEVER_HE BELIEVER_HUANG BELIEVER_LANG BELIEVER_LI BELIEVER_QUAN BELIEVER_WANG BELIEVER_YU BROTHER_LI BROTHER_QIANG BROTHER_YANG CHENS_WIFE CHEN_SONGEN CO_WORKER_LIU CO_WORKER_ZHU DEMOLITION_LEADER DEPUTY_DIRECTOR_HUANG DRUNKARD EXCAVATOR_DRIVER INFORMANT_LADY LADY_XU NEWS_ANCHOR OLD_BROTHER OLD_SISTER PASSENGER_CHENG PASSENGER_CHI PASSENGER_DONG PASSENGER_LI PASSENGER_QI PASSENGER_YE PASSENGER_YI POLICE_CAPTAIN POLICE_COMMANDER POLICE_FANG POLICE_LIU POLICE_PING POLICE_REN POLICE_WU POLICE_XIN POLICE_XU POLICE_YU POLICE_ZHENG RECITER SISTER_GAO SISTER_GU SISTER_LYU SISTER_SHEN SISTER_YU SISTER_ZHAO XIAOLING YU_CONGGUANG ZHAO_MING ZHENG_XUN

CHEN SONGEN
You can't tear down the church!
BELIEVER LI
Yeah, it's legal.
CHEN SONGEN
This is a government-approved church. Why are you tearing it down?
BELIEVER LI
Yeah, what gives you the right to tear down our church?
POLICE YU
Everyone stay back!
CO WORKER LIU
You can't tear down our church!
CO WORKER LIU
We don't oppose the ccp.
SISTER GU
Yeah, we love our country and our religion!
POLICE LIU
The government gave us an order, and we're carrying it out!
CHEN SONGEN
So now the government doesn't keep its word?
POLICE YU
You there, all of you, get back!
BROTHER YANG
If you tear down our church, where will we hold meetings?
SISTER GU
That's right!
BELIEVER LANG
That's right!
BELIEVER LI
That's right!
POLICE YU
Any more talk and we'll arrest all of you!
POLICE YU
Back!
POLICE LIU
Get back!
POLICE FANG
Get back!
POLICE XU
Get back!
POLICE REN
Get back!
POLICE LIU
Move back!
POLICE FANG
Move back!
POLICE XU
Move back!
POLICE REN
Move back!
POLICE YU 
Get back!
POLICE XU
Get back!
PASSENGER YE
Why is traffic so backed up?
PASSENGER DONG
Hey, there's an accident up there!
PASSENGER LI
An accident?
PASSENGER CHENG
Why are there so many police?
PASSENGER DONG
It's another one of the ccp's forced church demolitions.
CHEN SONGEN
You can't tear down the church!
CHEN SONGEN
The church can't be torn down!
SISTER GU
Don't tear down our church! Don't tear down our church!
SISTER GU
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER YU
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER CAO
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER LI
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER HUANG
You can't tear down our church!
EXCAVATOR DRIVER
Out of the way! Are you trying to kill yourselves?
SISTER GU
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER YU
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER CAO
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER LI
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER HUANG
You can't tear down our church!
SISTER GU
Why are you tearing down our church?
BELIEVER CAO
Lord, where are You?
DEMOLITION LEADER
Dammit! They'd rather die!
DEMOLITION LEADER
Get them out of there!
POLICE FANG
Move! Right now!
POLICE XU
Move! Right now!
POLICE REN
Move! Right now!
SISTER GU
Let go of me!
SISTER GU
If you tear down our church, where will we hold meetings?
BELIEVER HUANG
Let go of me!
POLICE XU
Take them away!
BELIEVER YU
You can't tear down our church!
BELIEVER YU
This is a Three-Self church!
BELIEVER YU
We love our country and our religion!
DEMOLITION LEADER
Tear it down!
EXCAVATOR DRIVER
Dammit!
POLICE LIU
Everyone back! Everyone back! Get back!
POLICE FANG
Everyone back! Everyone back! Get back!
POLICE XU
Everyone back! Everyone back! Get back!
POLICE REN
Everyone back! Everyone back! Get back!
POLICE WU
Everyone back! Everyone back! Get back!
CHEN SONGEN
Don't tear down our church!
CHEN SONGEN
You can't do this!
POLICE LIU
Get back! Get back! Everyone stay back!
POLICE FANG
Get back! Get back! Everyone stay back!
POLICE XU
Get back! Get back! Everyone stay back!
POLICE REN
Get back! Get back! Everyone stay back!
POLICE WU
Get back! Get back! Everyone stay back!
POLICE XU
Dammit! They still won't stop pushing! Hit them!
SISTER GAO
Ahhhh!
CO WORKER ZHU
The police are beating civilians!
CO WORKER ZHU
The police are beating civilians! …
PASSENGER YE
Oh no, the police are beating people again?
PASSENGER YI
Aren't believers in God all good people?
PASSENGER YI
Why does the ccp always have a problem with believers in God?
PASSENGER DONG
It's true!
PASSENGER CHI
Everywhere they're tearing down churches and crosses, and arresting believers in God. It's really evil!
BELIEVER LI
Lord Jesus, please move our government! Don't let them tear down our church!
SISTER ZHAO
Lord, where are You?
BELIEVER CAO
They're demolishing our church!
BELIEVER CAO
Please, Lord, stop these evildoers! Bind Satan and devils!
CHEN SONGEN
Lord! Lord! Our church is being torn down!
BELIEVER CAO
Lord, they're tearing down our church!
CHEN SONGEN
Lord, please return soon!
CHEN SONGEN
Save us from the persecution of these devils and Satan!
BELIEVER CAO
We lost our home!
BELIEVER CAO
Lord! …
PASSENGER QI
There really is no justice. If the ccp keeps doing this, they'll suffer retribution sooner or later.
PASSENGER CHI
They're too evil!
PASSENGER CHI
Right.
PASSENGER DONG
Right.
PASSENGER LI
Right.
PASSENGER CHENG
Right.
PASSENGER CHENG
They don't care whether ordinary people live or die.
SISTER SHEN
You're burying her alive! You're burying her alive!
PASSENGER LI
Buried alive?
CHEN SONGEN
SISTER GU!
SISTER SHEN
Get help!
CHEN SONGEN
SISTER GU!
BELIEVER CAO
They buried her alive!
CHEN SONGEN
SISTER GU!
SISTER SHEN
Get help!
CHEN SONGEN
Quick, someone get help!
CHEN SONGEN
SISTER GU!
BELIEVER YU
Save her!
DEMOLITION LEADER
Hey! No photos! Seal off the site! Hurry!
POLICE LIU
Get back! …
POLICE FANG
Get back! …
POLICE XU
Get back! …
POLICE REN
Get back! …
POLICE WU
Get back! …
POLICE FANG
No photos!
CHEN SONGEN
Someone help her!
SISTER GU
Someone help her!
PASSENGER DONG
The ccp really did it!
PASSENGER QI
They don't value human life at all, do they?
CHEN SONGEN

POLICE ZHENG
Get back!
POLICE LIU
Back! Get back! …
POLICE FANG
Back! Get back! …
POLICE XU
Back! Get back! …
POLICE REN
Back! Get back! …
POLICE WU
Back! Get back! …
PASSENGER CHI
They're even capable of things like this!
YU CONGGUANG
Brother Chen?
POLICE LIU
Back! Get back! …
POLICE FANG
Back! Get back! …
POLICE XU
Back! Get back! …
POLICE REN
Back! Get back! …
POLICE WU
Back! Get back! …
NEWS ANCHOR
It will be cloudy to overcast tonight,
NEWS ANCHOR
with southerly 4–5 speed winds changing to northerly 5–6 speed winds and local showers.
NEWS ANCHOR
Tomorrow, daytime will be overcast to cloudy, with southerly …
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, you're back!
ZHAO MING
It's Brother Yu, right?
YU CONGGUANG
Hey!
ZHENG XUN
No one could recognize you in that costume!
OLD BROTHER
You got that right! I almost didn't let him in the house.
YU CONGGUANG
With ccp monitoring and surveillance so intense, we all have to learn a few skills.
ZHAO MING
It's a very useful skill.
YU CONGGUANG
You brought back the books of God's word?
ZHAO MING
Yes. Tomorrow we'll hand them out to the brothers and sisters.
YU CONGGUANG
Perfect.
OLD BROTHER
Time for dinner!
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, okay.
YU CONGGUANG
I need to tell you something.
YU CONGGUANG
On the way back,
YU CONGGUANG
I saw the church Brother Chen attends being demolished.
ZHENG XUN
Brother Chen?
ZHAO MING
CHEN SONGEN?
YU CONGGUANG
Right, the Three-Self preacher.
ZHAO MING
They even tore down that church?
YU CONGGUANG
And when they were tearing it down, a sister was buried alive.
ZHENG XUN
What!
ZHAO MING
Buried alive?
YU CONGGUANG
That's so cruel!
ZHAO MING
The ccp's persecution of Christians is beyond madness!
ZHAO MING
They'll use any means they can.
ZHENG XUN
Ever since Xi Jinping came to power, persecution of religion has just been getting worse.
ZHENG XUN
You see? Even government-run Three-Self churches are being banned.
ZHENG XUN
It seems like Xi Jinping really wants to turn China into an atheist country,
ZHENG XUN
a demonic prison ruled over by Satan!
ZHAO MING
That's exactly what's going on.
YU CONGGUANG
Right.
YU CONGGUANG
I really never imagined
YU CONGGUANG
the ccp would even destroy the Three-Self churches it established itself.
YU CONGGUANG
That band of demons, the ccp looks like it really wants to fight it out with God.
YU CONGGUANG
It won't stop until it completely eliminates God's work.
ZHENG XUN
It's a demon showing its colors.
ZHAO MING
Yeah.
YU CONGGUANG
Just look at the condition of China these days.
YU CONGGUANG
Internal and external relations are strained, ordinary people can't get by, and people are starting to demonstrate in the streets.
YU CONGGUANG
Why can't the ccp do some actual governing,
YU CONGGUANG
and solve the problems making people miserable?
YU CONGGUANG
Why do they still so wildly persecute Christians?
ZHAO MING
It's pure evil.
YU CONGGUANG
The ccp's sins are so grave
YU CONGGUANG
that it has already enraged Heaven and the people, but it still won't repent.
YU CONGGUANG
It looks like it won't stop until it earns God's punishment and is destroyed.
ZHAO MING
Right.
ZHAO MING
The old saying is true, An excess of wickedness spells one's own doom.
ZHAO MING
China ruled by the ccp is just like Sodom in the Old Testament of the Bible.
ZHAO MING
Sodom resisted God to the point of madness,
ZHAO MING
and was destroyed by fire and brimstone sent by God.
ZHAO MING
Given the way the ccp resists God, it will certainly be destroyed by God.
YU CONGGUANG
That's absolutely right.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Attention all teams,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
in tonight's coordinated operation,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
we need to arrest every member of The Church of Almighty God on this list simultaneously!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Especially Team 1, they are key players, so don't let anyone of them get away!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Everyone stay alert!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Roger, chief! We won't fail the mission!
YU CONGGUANG
The ccp's persecution of Christians is so intense today.
YU CONGGUANG
So many brothers and sisters in religion are praying to God,
YU CONGGUANG
begging God to save them from their suffering under the satanic regime.
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
We need to testify God's work of the last days to them as soon as we can.
ZHAO MING
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
Right, we need to do it soon.
YU CONGGUANG
Mhmm, right.
YU CONGGUANG
We've testified God's work in the last days to Brother Chen before.
YU CONGGUANG
He didn't accept it, but he has good humanity.
ZHENG XUN
Mm. Yes.
ZHAO MING
He sincerely believes in the Lord.
YU CONGGUANG
Right.
ZHENG XUN
Right.
YU CONGGUANG
So, this time, I think we need to preach it to him again.
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
ZHAO MING
Alright.
DRUNKARD
Hey! You guys …
POLICE ZHENG
Don't shout! We're the police!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
All teams, stand by!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Begin the operation!
POLICE ZHENG
Quick! Keep up!
OLD BROTHER
Bad news! The police are coming!
ZHENG XUN
What?
OLD BROTHER
Get out of here!
ZHENG XUN
Let's go!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Inside!
POLICE ZHENG
Don't move! Police!
OLD BROTHER
Hey, what are you doing? Invading a private residence?
POLICE CAPTAIN
Shut up!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Search the place!
BROTHER LI
Let me go!
BROTHER LI
Ahh!
BROTHER LI
What are you doing?
POLICE LIU
Don't struggle! Let's go!
POLICE FANG
Freeze! Freeze!
POLICE XU
Freeze! Freeze!
POLICE FANG
Don't move!
POLICE XU
Don't move!
POLICE FANG
Cuff her!
SISTER YU
Why are you arresting me?
POLICE FANG
Because you believe in God!
XIAOLING
Grandma!
SISTER YU
XIAOLING!
POLICE FANG
Out of my way!
XIAOLING
Grandma!
POLICE XU
Freeze! Don't run!
POLICE REN
Stop running!
POLICE XU
Stop!
POLICE WU
Stop! Hurry up!
POLICE REN
After him!
POLICE XU
Freeze!
POLICE REN
Stop running!
POLICE WU
Stop!
POLICE REN
Stop!
POLICE XU
You're not going anywhere!
POLICE XU
Don't move!
POLICE XU
Move again and I'll kill you!
BROTHER QIANG
Let me go!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Get up, old man!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Now talk! Where is Yu Congguang?
POLICE CAPTAIN
Out with it!
OLD BROTHER
I don't know!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Dammit!
POLICE XU
Reporting, there's no one inside!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Old bastard!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Chief Huang.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
You're all useless!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
We worked for months, surveillance, monitoring,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
and all the key suspects got away!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
What do we pay you for?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
What am I going to say to the minister?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
The Central Committee sent out multiple classified documents, and provincial command gave repeated orders
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
that eliminating The Church of Almighty God is our most important political task!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Yes, yes.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
This is our top priority!
POLICE COMMANDER
Yes.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Then what were you doing? What?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Do everything necessary to catch the suspects who got away last night!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Yes! Yes, sir!
POLICE COMMANDER
Yes, sir!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Chief Huang, we've already activated the satellite positioning and facial recognition systems.
POLICE CAPTAIN
The moment they show their faces, we'll catch them.
POLICE PING
Sir! We've found a suspicious vehicle!
POLICE FANG
Extracting image, running comparison analysis.
POLICE FANG
Comparison analysis confirms those in the vehicle are Yu Congguang and the others we're looking for.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Notify all nearby patrol cars! Set up roadblocks!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Yes, sir!
POLICE XIN
Approaching vehicle, turn off your ignition and prepare to be inspected.
POLICE XIN
Turn off your ignition now, prepare to be inspected!
POLICE XIN
In the car! After them!
POLICE XIN
They're going toward Longcheng! Set up roadblocks! Set up roadblocks!
POLICE XIN
Quick! Quick! Pass him! Pass him!
ZHENG XUN
Hey, there's a fork in the road! Hurry!
ZHAO MING
Huh?
LADY XU
Ahhhh!
ZHENG XUN
Oh no, we're surrounded.
YU CONGGUANG
This is bad.
ZHAO MING
Everybody out!
ZHAO MING
Hurry!
YU CONGGUANG
Zhao Ming!
ZHENG XUN
It's the police!
POLICE XIN
Exit the vehicle!
POLICE WU
Get them! Quick! Hurry!
POLICE REN
Get them! Quick! Hurry!
POLICE PING
Get them! Quick! Hurry!
POLICE REN
Turn off your ignition, open the door!
POLICE WU
Don't move!
POLICE PING
Dammit! Where are they?
POLICE WU
Do not attempt to resist!
POLICE XIN
Search over there!
POLICE XIN
You two, that way!
POLICE WU
Don't struggle!
POLICE PING
Don't struggle!
POLICE XIN
Search over there!
POLICE XIN
You two, that way!
POLICE XIN
Search over there!
ZHENG XUN
Quick! Get moving!
POLICE WU
Search over there!
POLICE REN
Hurry up! Now!
POLICE PING
Hurry up! Now!
POLICE XIN
Go look that way!
POLICE XIN
Hurry!
BROTHER YANG
I guessed I'd find you here.
CHEN SONGEN
Oh, Brother Yang
BROTHER YANG
Hi.
BROTHER YANG
At first, the government said they would protect Three-Self churches.
BROTHER YANG
When we joined the Three-Self Church, we thought we wouldn't be persecuted anymore.
BROTHER YANG
I never imagined the ccp would actually burn crosses, and even demolish churches.
BROTHER YANG
They went back on their word.
CHEN SONGEN
The ccp was always a liar. Now it's just out in the open.
CHEN SONGEN
It never wanted to protect religion. It only wanted to control us.
CHEN SONGEN
At this point, if we still can't clearly see the true demonic face of the ccp, we really are fools!
CHEN SONGEN
The last few days I've been thinking that joining the Three-Self Church was a mistake.
CHEN SONGEN
Let's sit down.
CHEN SONGEN
The Bible says,
CHEN SONGEN
Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm,
CHEN SONGEN
and whose heart departs from Jehovah (Jeremiah 17:5).
CHEN SONGEN
We believe in God, but we didn't rely on God. Instead, we put ourselves under Satan's domain.
CHEN SONGEN
We thought we would be safe if we had the approval of United Front Work Department officials.
BROTHER YANG
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
But then what?
CHEN SONGEN
They demolished our church. They destroyed our place of worship.
CHEN SONGEN
The Lord didn't protect our church.
CHEN SONGEN
It proves the Lord didn't approve of the path we took.
CHEN SONGEN
Many of the house churches didn't join the Three-Self Church,
CHEN SONGEN
and they were afraid of offending the Lord.
BROTHER YANG
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
But it looks like they chose the right path.
BROTHER YANG
Hearing you say that
BROTHER YANG
reminds me of how Judaism allied with the Roman government to resist the Lord Jesus
BROTHER YANG
and crucify Him, which caused the Lord to curse and punish them.
BROTHER YANG
It led to the death of the Israeli nation, and even the temple was demolished by the government.
BROTHER YANG
We feared persecution, so we relied on an atheist government and abandoned the Lord,
BROTHER YANG
and now this has happened to us.
BROTHER YANG
I think it's very likely that this is God's punishment.
CHEN SONGEN
I remember a brother who believes in Almighty God. He testified that God has returned,
CHEN SONGEN
but I kept to the Bible's words, and refused to accept.
CHEN SONGEN
At the time, he told me taking the path of a Three-Self church was mistaken.
CHEN SONGEN
Now that I think about it,
CHEN SONGEN
people in The Church of Almighty God suffer terrible persecution by the ccp,
CHEN SONGEN
but I heard that The Church of Almighty God is thriving,
CHEN SONGEN
and that more and more people accept Almighty God.
CHEN SONGEN
Only that which comes from God thrives!
BROTHER YANG
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
I think the path he chose may have been right.
CHEN SONGEN
We took the wrong path, and have been forsaken by the Lord.
POLICE FANG
Have you seen this person?
LADY XU
I've never seen anyone like that in our village.
POLICE WU
He's about this tall.
YU CONGGUANG
Let's take a break here.
ZHENG XUN
Mm.
ZHENG XUN
China is so huge, but there's not a single place for Christians like us.
YU CONGGUANG
Huh?
YU CONGGUANG
Why couldn't we find a single one of the brothers or sisters we've tried to find?
YU CONGGUANG
I think this was a coordinated arrest by the ccp.
ZHENG XUN
The ccp is a devil,
ZHENG XUN
and it won't stop until it kills off every last Christian.
YU CONGGUANG
The Old Brother(M) and Brother Zhao were both arrested.
YU CONGGUANG
I hope they're okay.
YU CONGGUANG
If the ccp arrests you, you're in a hell run by devils.
YU CONGGUANG
Even if they don't kill you, they'll skin you alive.
POLICE CAPTAIN
Dammit!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Talk!
POLICE PING
Where is Yu Congguang? Talk!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Screw you!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Talk!
POLICE CAPTAIN
I told you to talk!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Tell us!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Tell us!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Screw you!
POLICE REN
Talk!
POLICE REN
We'll kill you!
POLICE REN
Stop!
POLICE REN
Come here! Get over here!
POLICE XIN
Talk!
POLICE XIN
Where is the church's money?
POLICE REN
Talk!
POLICE ZHENG
You old bastard! You'll die if you don't talk!
ZHENG XUN
These herbs are good for reducing inflammation.
YU CONGGUANG
Mm.
ZHENG XUN
If you believe in God in China, it's not as simple as being arrested and going to jail.
ZHENG XUN
You're putting your life at risk.
ZHENG XUN
That fulfills the Lord Jesus' prophecy,
ZHENG XUN
He that finds his life shall lose it:
ZHENG XUN
and he that loses his life for My sake shall find it
ZHENG XUN
(Matthew 10:39).
ZHENG XUN
It's not an easy thing to gain life.
YU CONGGUANG
That's right.
YU CONGGUANG
Every day the ccp holds power is a day that Christians are persecuted.
ZHENG XUN
That's right.
YU CONGGUANG
It reminds me of a passage of God's word.
YU CONGGUANG
God says, The great red dragon persecutes God and is the enemy of God,
YU CONGGUANG
so in this land, those who believe in God are subjected to humiliation and persecution. …
YU CONGGUANG
It is greatly arduous for God to carry out His work in the land of the great red dragon,
YU CONGGUANG
but it is through such difficulty that God does a stage of His work
YU CONGGUANG
to make manifest His wisdom and wondrous deeds.
YU CONGGUANG
God takes this opportunity to make this group of people complete.
YU CONGGUANG
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
ZHENG XUN
Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
In these years of persecution and difficulty,
YU CONGGUANG
we've all experienced that God's words truly are practical.
YU CONGGUANG
The more madly the ccp arrests and persecutes Christians,
YU CONGGUANG
the more we can see the depth of its hatred for God.
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
And from the evil strength of the ccp's mad hatred,
YU CONGGUANG
we can see clearly the demonic face of the great red dragon.
YU CONGGUANG
The ccp is an enemy of God!
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
The more the ccp persecutes us,
YU CONGGUANG
the more we hate it and forsake it,
YU CONGGUANG
and the stronger our faith and determination to follow God become!
ZHENG XUN
Mhmm! God is truly wise!
YU CONGGUANG
God uses the service of the great red dragon to perfect people's faith and love.
ZHENG XUN
Thanks be to God!
ZHENG XUN
When we fellowship on God's word like this, my heart is brightened.
ZHENG XUN
If we don't experience judgment, chastisement, trials, and refinement, we can never be purified and perfected by God.
YU CONGGUANG
Mhmm!
ZHENG XUN
In all these years, we've experienced arrest and persecution by the ccp, and we've suffered a lot for it,
ZHENG XUN
but we've also come to understand much of the truth.
ZHENG XUN
Isn't this God's grace and blessing?
YU CONGGUANG
Mm.
ZHENG XUN
The suffering we endure is valuable and meaningful.
ZHENG XUN
It's the greatest wealth we possess in life!
YU CONGGUANG
Yes. Thanks be to God!
ZHENG XUN
Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
Hey, tomorrow let's go find Brother Chen and preach the gospel to him.
ZHENG XUN
Alright. But let's get going early.
YU CONGGUANG
Okay.
SISTER GAO
Lord!
BELIEVER LI
Lord!
BELIEVER HE
Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
Lord, where are You?
CHEN SONGEN
Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
Lord, our church was torn down by the government!
CHEN SONGEN
We have no place to meet now!
CO WORKER LIU
We have no place to meet now!
CHEN SONGEN
Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
Please have mercy on Your children!
CO WORKER LIU
Lord! Please have mercy on Your children!
BELIEVER LI
Lord!
SISTER GAO
Lord!
CO WORKER ZHU
Lord!
BELIEVER HE
May You prepare the worshiping place for us!
CO WORKER LIU
Please forgive those who persecute us.
CO WORKER LIU
Have mercy on them, and forgive their sins,
CO WORKER LIU
because they know not what they do! …
SISTER ZHAO
Lord, where are You?
BELIEVER LI
Lord! Please move the leaders of our nation!
BELIEVER LI
Make them repent of their sins, and no longer persecute us! …
BELIEVER LI
Lord!
SISTER GAO
Lord!
CO WORKER ZHU
Lord!
BELIEVER CHUN
Lord!
CO WORKER ZHU
Please bless China, and bless the leaders of our nation.
CO WORKER ZHU
Grant them wisdom, and make them govern our country well …
BELIEVER CHUN
Lord, may You give us strength.
SISTER GAO
The ccp demolished our church.
SISTER GAO
Why are we praying for it?
BELIEVER CHUN
That's right.
BELIEVER DONG
That's right.
SISTER ZHAO
That's right.
SISTER GAO
I can't make that prayer.
CO WORKER ZHU
Praying for the ccp accords with the Bible.
CO WORKER LIU
That's right.
BELIEVER HAO
That's right.
BROTHER YANG
Brothers and sisters,
BROTHER YANG
the ccp has suppressed and eliminated religion since it took power.
SISTER GAO
Right.
BELIEVER DONG
Right.
BROTHER YANG
They labeled Catholicism and Christianity as evil cults,
BROTHER YANG
and condemned the Bible as cultic literature.
SISTER GAO
Right.
BELIEVER HE
Right.
BROTHER YANG
And now, the ccp's suppression and arrests of religious believers are worse than ever.
BROTHER YANG
Even Three-Self churches like ours are being demolished.
BELIEVER DONG
Right.
BELIEVER CHUN
Right.
BELIEVER YU
Right.
BELIEVER HAO
Right. But there's nothing we can do.
BROTHER YANG
I want all of you to think about this.
BROTHER YANG
We've been praying for the national government for so many years,
BROTHER YANG
but the ccp has never confessed its sins and repented,
BROTHER YANG
and it still madly makes itself an enemy of God and persecutes Christians.
BELIEVER YU
What should we do?
BROTHER YANG
I've been thinking about this.
BROTHER YANG
The ccp resists God so much,
BROTHER YANG
but we've been praying for the national government like this for so many years.
BROTHER YANG
Does this accord with the Lord's will? Will the Lord hear us?
BELIEVER DONG
I don't know. But what can we do?
BELIEVER LI
I don't know. But what can we do?
BELIEVER CHUN
I don't know. But what can we do?
BROTHER YANG
If we are praying from the passions of man,
BROTHER YANG
then this could be troublesome!
CO WORKER LIU
BROTHER YANG,
CO WORKER LIU
how could praying for the ccp not accord with the Lord's will?
BELIEVER YU
Right.
BELIEVER LI
Right.
CO WORKER LIU
The Lord teaches us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
BELIEVER YU
Amen!
BELIEVER LI
Amen!
CO WORKER ZHU
Amen!
CO WORKER LIU
Even if the ccp persecutes us, we have to forgive them.
BELIEVER YU
Right.
CO WORKER LIU
This is practicing according to the Lord's word.
CO WORKER LIU
How doesn't this accord with the Lord's will?
CO WORKER ZHU
Right.
CO WORKER ZHU
The ccp is the ruling power. Obeying the ruling power is entirely in accord with God's will.
BELIEVER YU
Right.
BELIEVER LI
Right.
CO WORKER ZHU
If we pray for the ccp, and ask God to bless this nation and its people,
CO WORKER ZHU
this is love! This is glorifying God!
BELIEVER YU
You're absolutely right, this is glorifying God!
BELIEVER CAO
He is right.
CO WORKER ZHU
Yes, nothing glorifies God more!
CHENS WIFE
Brother Yu, it's you!
YU CONGGUANG
Is Brother Chen at home?
CHENS WIFE
Yes he is. Come on in!
YU CONGGUANG
Alright.
CHENS WIFE
Song'en!
CHENS WIFE
Song'en, look who's here!
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu!
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu, Brother Zheng.
YU CONGGUANG
Brother Chen.
YU CONGGUANG
It's been quite a long time.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes it has.
CHEN SONGEN
More than half a year.
ZHENG XUN
It really has been that long.
YU CONGGUANG
Yes it has.
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
ZHENG XUN
Thanks be to God!
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
Don't stand out here, let's talk inside.
CHEN SONGEN
Come in.
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, alright.
ZHENG XUN
Oh, alright.
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, are you having a meeting right now?
CHEN SONGEN
There's nothing we can do. The ccp demolished our church.
CHEN SONGEN
Some people here are praying with all their might for the ccp.
CHEN SONGEN
Right now, they're all debating the matter.
CHEN SONGEN
Should we pray for the ccp or not? No one has a reasonable answer.
CHEN SONGEN
Actually, it's a good thing you came today. Can you fellowship with us about it?
YU CONGGUANG
We certainly can.
YU CONGGUANG
But … is everyone inside a sincere believer?
YU CONGGUANG
If they find out we believe in Almighty God, will they call the police and sell us out?
ZHENG XUN
Right, we have to be careful about that.
CHEN SONGEN
How about I don't tell them you believe in Almighty God?
YU CONGGUANG
Yes, that works.
CHEN SONGEN
Good, let's go inside.
CHEN SONGEN
Alright.
YU CONGGUANG
Okay.
ZHENG XUN
Okay.
CHEN SONGEN
Brothers and sisters, let me introduce some friends.
CHEN SONGEN
These two are Brother Yu and Brother Zheng, from a house church.
YU CONGGUANG
Hello, everyone.
ZHENG XUN
Hello, everyone.
SISTER GAO
They're from the house church.
CHEN SONGEN
They are both preachers.
CHEN SONGEN
The Lord must have arranged their presence with us here today.
CHENS WIFE
Right.
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to the Lord!
ZHENG XUN
Thanks be to the Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
Let's fellowship with them.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes. Okay.
CHEN SONGEN
Sit down.
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, alright.
CHEN SONGEN
Brothers and sisters, let's all sit down.
BELIEVER LI
Let's hear what they have to say.
CHENS WIFE
Brother Zheng, have some water.
ZHENG XUN
Oh, thank you.
YU CONGGUANG
Okay.
CHEN SONGEN
Uh, Brother Zheng,
ZHENG XUN
Yes?
CHEN SONGEN
what happened to your face?
ZHENG XUN
Oh, a few days ago we were being pursued by the ccp. I got this scratch during the chase. It's fine.
CHEN SONGEN
The ccp is despicable!
CHEN SONGEN
It's like they've gone insane. They're tearing down crosses and demolishing churches everywhere.
CHEN SONGEN
Our church was demolished too. Many brothers and sisters were hurt,
SISTER GAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
and one sister was nearly buried alive.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
Everyone here is very angry about these things.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
The ccp resists God like this, and persecutes Christians,
CHEN SONGEN
but some people still insist on praying for the ccp, ask the Lord to forgive their sins,
CHEN SONGEN
and ask the Lord to bless the nation's leaders.
CHEN SONGEN
I don't think this accords with the Lord's will,
SISTER ZHAO
Mm. Right.
CHEN SONGEN
but I can't explain it.
CHEN SONGEN
We're all confused about this question right now.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
I'd like to hear what you think about it.
CHEN SONGEN
Would you be willing to fellowship with us?
SISTER ZHAO
Yes, brothers, let's discuss this together.
YU CONGGUANG
Alright. Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
Then let's fellowship about this together.
ZHENG XUN
Okay.
YU CONGGUANG
The point you just raised which you're all confused about
YU CONGGUANG
was how we as believers in the Lord should treat the ccp as the ruling power,
YU CONGGUANG
and whether we should pray for it, right?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
BELIEVER LI
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
I imagine you're all thinking,
YU CONGGUANG
We've prayed for the ccp for so many years,
YU CONGGUANG
but not only has it not repented, it actually demolished our church.
YU CONGGUANG
They took the offerings we gave to God, and smashed the altar.
YU CONGGUANG
They've left us with nothing. Isn't this a devil showing its true colors?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
CHENS WIFE
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
There's no way we can pray for them to be blessed any longer.
YU CONGGUANG
Just how should we treat the ruling power?
SISTER ZHAO
You're absolutely right about our question.
SISTER ZHAO
When we pray for the ccp government, it makes us uncomfortable.
SISTER ZHAO
It's as if we're praying for Satan,
SISTER ZHAO
as if we're asking the Lord to save and bless Satan.
SISTER GAO
Right.
SISTER ZHAO
How could this accord with the Lord's will?
BELIEVER LANG
Yes, that's exactly the problem.
BELIEVER LANG
But none of the pastors and elders can explain it.
SISTER ZHAO
That's right.
CHENS WIFE
Hah! Don't even mention the pastors and elders.
CHENS WIFE
They're the ones who say we should pray for the ccp. They say by doing so we gain God's blessing.
CHENS WIFE
Right now, I feel like I've been fooled by Satan.
SISTER ZHAO
That's right.
BELIEVER DONG
That's right.
SISTER GAO
That's right.
BELIEVER YU
How could we be fooled by Satan?
YU CONGGUANG
It's good that you're aware of it. Becoming aware of it now means it's not too late.
YU CONGGUANG
As a Three-Self church, you've prayed for the national government for years,
YU CONGGUANG
and not only have you not received the Lord,
YU CONGGUANG
the government has demolished your church
YU CONGGUANG
and smashed your altar.
YU CONGGUANG
You don't even have a place to hold meetings. There's nothing left to you now.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
CHENS WIFE
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
I don't know whether this is retribution,
BELIEVER CHUN
Retribution?
SISTER ZHAO
Retribution?
BELIEVER LANG
Retribution?
SISTER GAO
Retribution?
YU CONGGUANG
but it says in Revelation,
YU CONGGUANG
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,
YU CONGGUANG
and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit,
YU CONGGUANG
and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
YU CONGGUANG
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
YU CONGGUANG
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
YU CONGGUANG
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
YU CONGGUANG
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
YU CONGGUANG
Come out of her, My people,
YU CONGGUANG
that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues
YU CONGGUANG
Three-Self churches are today's political-religious union of Babylon.
YU CONGGUANG
If you don't come out of Babylon,
YU CONGGUANG
and if you still pray for the satanic ruling power of the ccp,
YU CONGGUANG
you will offend God's disposition, and God will not delight in what you do.
SISTER ZHAO
Offend God's disposition?
BELIEVER LANG

Offend God's disposition?
BELIEVER LI
Praying for the ccp's political power offends God's disposition?
BELIEVER DONG
Oh, it's so terrible!
CO WORKER LIU
I don't approve of what you've just said.
CO WORKER LIU
We pray for the ccp and the national government because it accords with the Bible.
CO WORKER ZHU
Right.
BELIEVER CAO
Right.
CO WORKER LIU
How could that go against the Lord's will?
BELIEVER YU
Yes
BELIEVER LI
Yes.
CO WORKER LIU
The Lord teaches us,
CO WORKER LIU
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
CO WORKER ZHU
Amen!
BELIEVER CAO
Amen!
BELIEVER YU
Amen!
CO WORKER LIU
Our pastors and elders also often say that we must love all of our enemies.
CO WORKER LIU
No matter how the ccp persecutes us, we have to forgive them,
CO WORKER ZHU
Yes.
CO WORKER LIU
treat them with love, and pray that they are blessed.
CO WORKER LIU
This glorifies and testifies the Lord.
BELIEVER CAO
Yes
BELIEVER LI
Yes.
CO WORKER LIU
How could the Lord not appreciate that?
CO WORKER ZHU
BROTHER LI
u is right.
CO WORKER ZHU
God is merciful and loving, and He forgives all of our sins.
CO WORKER ZHU
If we pray for the ccp and the nation's leaders,
CO WORKER ZHU
this is entirely in accord with the Lord's will. There's nothing wrong with it at all.
BELIEVER CAO
That's right!
BELIEVER LI
That's right!
BELIEVER YU
That's right!
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu, Brother Zheng, please continue your fellowship.
YU CONGGUANG
Alright.
YU CONGGUANG
Brothers, based on the Lord Jesus' words,
YU CONGGUANG
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
YU CONGGUANG
you believe that praying for the ccp, a satanic ruling power, is entirely in accord with the Lord's will,
YU CONGGUANG
but are you certain your understanding of that verse is correct?
CO WORKER ZHU
What's wrong with it?
YU CONGGUANG
Do you dare say that the Lord Jesus' teaching to love our enemies includes Satan and devils?
YU CONGGUANG
If you think your belief and understanding accords with God's will,
YU CONGGUANG
do you have a biblical basis for thinking so?
YU CONGGUANG
Do you have any other of God's words as proof?
YU CONGGUANG
In the whole of the Bible, did the Lord Jesus ever say specifically
YU CONGGUANG
that you should pray for the ruling power, or for Satan and demons?
CHENS WIFE
No.
YU CONGGUANG
Did Jehovah God ever say such a thing?
YU CONGGUANG
Are such words anywhere in the books of the prophets?
SISTER GAO
It doesn't say anything like that in the Bible.
BELIEVER DONG
We've never thought about that.
YU CONGGUANG
Then since the Lord Jesus, Jehovah God,
YU CONGGUANG
and all of the prophets never said such a thing,
YU CONGGUANG
on what do you base your belief
YU CONGGUANG
that praying for the ruling powers
YU CONGGUANG
and praying for the ccp satanic regime accords with the Lord's will?
BELIEVER YU
Is it actually wrong to pray?
YU CONGGUANG
Is your understanding perhaps a misunderstanding of the Lord's will, and a fallacious reading of the Lord's word?
BELIEVER YU
We misunderstand the Lord's words?
BELIEVER LI
How could we misunderstand the Lord's words?
CO WORKER LIU
Alright, you say our belief that we should pray for the ruling party, for the ccp,
CO WORKER LIU
is a fallacious reading of the Lord's word and a misunderstanding of the Lord's will.
CO WORKER LIU
Humph!
CO WORKER LIU
Then I'd like to hear what the Lord Jesus' teaching that
CO WORKER LIU
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
CO WORKER LIU
means to you.
CO WORKER LIU
What exactly did the Lord Jesus mean by that? Can you explain it clearly?
CO WORKER LIU
Can you?
BELIEVER LI
Tell us!
CO WORKER ZHU
Tell us!
BELIEVER YU
Tell us!
BELIEVER CAO
Tell us!
BELIEVER LI
Can they explain it clearly?
YU CONGGUANG
The Lord Jesus said, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
YU CONGGUANG
Who did He mean by enemies?
YU CONGGUANG
Who did He mean by those who persecute you?
YU CONGGUANG
To understand this clearly,
YU CONGGUANG
first we need to know
YU CONGGUANG
that God's work is to save mankind, who has been corrupted by Satan,
YU CONGGUANG
and not to save Satan and devils, who deceive and corrupt mankind, isn't that right?
YU CONGGUANG
Throughout mankind's history,
YU CONGGUANG
any satanic ruling powers or worldly kings of devils who resisted God or persecuted God's chosen people
YU CONGGUANG
were all punished by God.
YU CONGGUANG
God had no mercy for them at all, only curses and destruction.
YU CONGGUANG
Based on this fact, we can be certain
YU CONGGUANG
that the enemies we should love the Lord Jesus spoke of absolutely were not devils and Satan,
YU CONGGUANG
nor were they the satanic ruling powers who made themselves enemies of God,
YU CONGGUANG
because the Lord Jesus never said
YU CONGGUANG
we should pray for Satan and devils, or for satanic ruling powers.
YU CONGGUANG
Isn't that the case?
YU CONGGUANG
So, just who are these enemies we should love?
YU CONGGUANG
We have all seen that mankind is deeply corrupted.
YU CONGGUANG
We can all deny, resist, and judge God.
YU CONGGUANG
Those who spread the gospel have experienced this most deeply.
YU CONGGUANG
When God came incarnate to save mankind, He was rejected by man.
YU CONGGUANG
This is enough to prove that all mankind is capable of denying and resisting God.
YU CONGGUANG
Without God's love and salvation, all of mankind would be destroyed.
YU CONGGUANG
Isn't this a fact?
CHEN SONGEN
It is.
BELIEVER LANG
It is.
BELIEVER DONG
It is.
CHENS WIFE
It is.
BELIEVER HE
It is.
SISTER ZHAO
We really have fallen for Satan's tricks.
YU CONGGUANG
Not one person who believes in God would dare open their mouth to say, I don't resist God.
YU CONGGUANG
So, everyone who spreads the gospel needs to do so with a loving heart.
YU CONGGUANG
Countless times, we must pray to God
YU CONGGUANG
and fellowship on the truth before we can make others' hearts turn and return to God.
YU CONGGUANG
Isn't that a fact?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
SISTER GAO
It certainly is a fact.
YU CONGGUANG
This proves that when the Lord Jesus said we should love our enemies,
YU CONGGUANG
the enemies He referred to are the mankind God wants to save,
YU CONGGUANG
the members of mankind that can be saved.
YU CONGGUANG
He was absolutely not referring to Satan and devils.
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
So that's what He meant!
BELIEVER LANG
So that's what He meant!
BELIEVER HE
So that's what He meant!
SISTER GAO
That's what it means to love your enemies!
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
CHENS WIFE
Now I understand it clearly.
YU CONGGUANG
Among the members of corrupt mankind, there are many who don't believe in God.
YU CONGGUANG
They don't know about what it is to believe in God, or they don't understand the true way, or they lack knowledge of God.
YU CONGGUANG
Perhaps they have been deceived by Satan, and judge God's work,
YU CONGGUANG
and they may condemn, slander, or persecute believers in God to some extent.
YU CONGGUANG
But, they don't hate God, and don't directly resist God.
YU CONGGUANG
If we pray for them out of love, after we fellowship on the truth with them,
YU CONGGUANG
they are capable of accepting the true way and returning to God.
YU CONGGUANG
We ought to treat such people with a loving heart,
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
pray for them, and ask God to move them to confess, repent, and turn to God.
YU CONGGUANG
Practicing that way accords with God's will.
BROTHER YANG
Amen! So that's what love your enemies means.
CHEN SONGEN
There is light in this fellowship.
BROTHER YANG
Yes. Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
But, if we interpret the Lord Jesus' teaching to love your enemies
YU CONGGUANG
as meaning that we should love the ccp, a satanic ruling power, and that we should love Satan and devils,
YU CONGGUANG
this is a biased understanding,
YU CONGGUANG
and a serious misinterpretation of the Lord Jesus' words that entirely goes against God's will.
BELIEVER LANG
Today is the first time I've understood
BELIEVER LANG
that enemies here refer to the people God wants to save.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
It doesn't include satanic ruling powers.
CHEN SONGEN
That really is the case.
YU CONGGUANG
And if there are those who still insist on believing
YU CONGGUANG
that praying for the ccp, a satanic ruling power, accords with the Lord's will,
YU CONGGUANG
then I'd like to ask you,
YU CONGGUANG
in all the years you've prayed for the ccp, have you been blessed by God?
YU CONGGUANG
Do you feel true peace in your hearts?
YU CONGGUANG
Can you verify that this idea comes from being moved by the Holy Spirit?
CHENS WIFE
No.
BROTHER YANG
We can't verify it.
YU CONGGUANG
If you can't verify it, and if you don't feel true peace in your hearts,
YU CONGGUANG
what are the results of your prayers?
YU CONGGUANG
Your church has been demolished, you wail to the heavens, you sob and gnash your teeth, and you feel endless regret.
YU CONGGUANG
These are the results of praying for blessings for the ccp.
YU CONGGUANG
Isn't this a fact?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
It really is a fact.
BROTHER YANG
Over the past few days, I've realized that too.
BROTHER YANG
It's very possible that our church was demolished because we took the wrong path in our belief in God.
BROTHER YANG
This may have been God's punishment.
BELIEVER HE
I never imagined the consequences would be so serious.
SISTER ZHAO
I never imagined the consequences would be so serious.
YU CONGGUANG
God is using this fact to give a clear answer to your confusion.
YU CONGGUANG
Praying for a satanic ruling power to be blessed is standing on Satan's side and resisting God with it.
YU CONGGUANG
This gravely offends God's disposition, and will not come to a good end.
YU CONGGUANG
But God's will is to save as many people as possible.
YU CONGGUANG
God uses Satan's frenzied persecution to make us clearly see its demonic face,
YU CONGGUANG
and to make us able to escape Satan's influence and turn to God.
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
We need to wake up to this fact.
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
CHEN SONGEN
Yes
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
If we continue to obey the political power of the ccp, and to pray for them to be blessed,
YU CONGGUANG
we are utterly foolish and ignorant.
BELIEVER DONG
Yes!
SISTER GAO
We can't be so ignorant anymore.
BELIEVER HE
We shouldn't pray for the ccp. It's wrong.
BELIEVER LANG
We can't be so ignorant anymore.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
The Bible says,
YU CONGGUANG
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).
YU CONGGUANG
Fools die for want of wisdom (Proverbs 10:21).
YU CONGGUANG
Those words are all too true.
BELIEVER QUAN
Right!
YU CONGGUANG
If we don't seek the real meaning of God's words in our belief in God,
YU CONGGUANG
if we don't seek to accurately understand what God intended to say,
YU CONGGUANG
and instead blindly understand and practice based on our own notions and imaginings,
YU CONGGUANG
if we pray for the ruling power, if we pray for Satan and devils,
YU CONGGUANG
and further say this is the Lord Jesus' requirement of us,
YU CONGGUANG
isn't this resisting and blaspheming God?
YU CONGGUANG
To do this is standing on Satan's side and humiliating God.
YU CONGGUANG
If we don't repent, we will be punished alongside Satan and destroyed.
YU CONGGUANG
We will become sacrifices to a satanic ruling power, and be buried with it.
YU CONGGUANG
Do you all think what I'm saying is a fact?
SISTER ZHAO
It is.
SISTER GAO
It is.
BROTHER YANG
It is.
BELIEVER HE
It is.
YU CONGGUANG
Do you see that it's a very serious problem?
SISTER ZHAO
I didn't realize how serious it was!
SISTER GAO
I didn't realize how serious it was!
ZHENG XUN
Right.
ZHENG XUN
The Lord Jesus said, He that is not with Me is against Me;
ZHENG XUN
and he that gathers not with Me scatters abroad
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG

Amen!
ZHENG XUN
I'll read another passage for everyone.
CHEN SONGEN
Alright.
ZHENG XUN
You can still hobnob with those demons today
ZHENG XUN
and stress conscience and love with these demons;
ZHENG XUN
is this not considered extending good intentions to Satan?
ZHENG XUN
Is it not considered associating with demons?
ZHENG XUN
If people are still unable to distinguish between good and evil today,
ZHENG XUN
and still blindly stress love and pity
ZHENG XUN
without in any way hoping to seek God's will,
ZHENG XUN
and cannot in any way have God's heart as their own,
ZHENG XUN
their endings will be all the more wretched.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
Anyone who does not believe in the God in the flesh is an enemy of God.
ZHENG XUN
If you can stress conscience and love to an enemy, do you not lack a sense of righteousness?
ZHENG XUN
If you are compatible with those which I detest and disagree with,
ZHENG XUN
and still stress love or personal feelings with them,
ZHENG XUN
are you not then disobedient? Are you not intentionally resisting God?
ZHENG XUN
Does a person like this possess truth?
ZHENG XUN
If people stress conscience to enemies, stress love to demons and stress pity to Satan,
ZHENG XUN
are they not intentionally interrupting God's work?
ZHENG XUN
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
SISTER ZHAO
These words cut right to the bone!
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
By this point, we should all be clear
ZHENG XUN
that God has no love for the devils and Satan who resist Him, only loathing and curses.
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
In our belief in God, if we don't stand on God's side and forsake and curse the ccp devils,
ZHENG XUN
but instead follow the pastors and elders down the Three-Self path of relying on the ccp,
ZHENG XUN
and pray for blessings for the ccp devils,
ZHENG XUN
we are seriously insulting God and offending God's disposition.
BROTHER YANG
Yes, that's absolutely the case.
INFORMANT LADY
Hello, police?
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu, Brother Zheng, your fellowship is very clear, and very practical.
CHEN SONGEN
It looks like there really is a problem with how we've been praying for blessings for the ccp.
CHEN SONGEN
Our understanding was incorrect.
YU CONGGUANG
Mhmm.
CHEN SONGEN
For so many years, we've prayed for the ccp.
CHEN SONGEN
I always felt it wasn't something I really wanted to do,
CHEN SONGEN
but I couldn't see the matter clearly,
CHEN SONGEN
so I didn't realize praying for the ccp completely goes against God's will,
CHEN SONGEN
and that it's actually resisting and blaspheming God!
BELIEVER LANG
Yeah, that's exactly right!
CHEN SONGEN
But now, after seeing that bulldozer demolish our church, I've come to my senses.
CHEN SONGEN
The ccp is a demonic political party.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
BELIEVER HAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
It stubbornly opposes God and refuses to repent.
CHEN SONGEN
Now, after hearing your fellowship, I completely understand.
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
ZHENG XUN
Thanks be to God!
CHEN SONGEN
In the past, we believed that idea because the Lord Jesus said we should love our enemies and pray even for those who persecute us.
CHEN SONGEN
Our understanding of His words was wrong.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes, it really was.
SISTER GAO
Yes, it really was.
CHEN SONGEN
We thought that those enemies included devils, Satan, and the ccp government.
CHEN SONGEN
Where did that lead us?
CHEN SONGEN
After praying for so many years, we achieved no effect at all.
BELIEVER LANG
It's true!
CHEN SONGEN
Instead, we became ever more distant from the Lord, and moved ever closer to Satan.
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
If we keep praying like this,
CHEN SONGEN
the Lord will certainly forsake us and destroy us alongside Satan.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
The Bible says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
CHEN SONGEN
That's absolutely correct.
CHEN SONGEN
I just never could have imagined taking the Three-Self path would see us end up like this.
CHEN SONGEN
Sometimes you only come to fear death when you see your own grave.
SISTER GAO
That's true!
BROTHER YANG
Right. It's humiliating just to talk about it.
BROTHER YANG
You also believe in the Lord, but you've received His blessings, you can understand the truth, and you see many things clearly.
BROTHER YANG
But us?
BROTHER YANG
Satan destroyed our place of worship, and we still prayed for the ccp to be blessed.
BROTHER YANG
What were we thinking?
BROTHER YANG
We've been such ignorant fools!
BROTHER YANG
We were timid, and we feared persecution,
BROTHER YANG
so we joined the Three-Self Church, thinking we would be safe.
BROTHER YANG
We never thought things would come to this.
BROTHER YANG
This is retribution!
SISTER GAO
Yes, it really is retribution.
CO WORKER LIU
No matter whether praying for the ccp government is right or not,
CO WORKER LIU
we were acting according to the Bible.
CO WORKER LIU
No one can say for sure whether we were acting correctly.
CO WORKER ZHU
That's right.
CO WORKER LIU
And even though our church was demolished, the government didn't arrest us,
CO WORKER LIU
which proves that the Lord still takes mercy on us and protects us.
CO WORKER ZHU
Thanks be to the Lord!
CO WORKER LIU
You, on the other hand, are chased every day by the ccp, you are always on the run, and you don't even have a place to rest!
CO WORKER LIU
You're worse off than we are!
BROTHER YANG
How could he say such things?
CO WORKER LIU
At least we can pray for the ccp government from the comfort of our own homes!
CO WORKER LIU
Our hearts are at peace, and no disasters have befallen us.
BELIEVER LANG
His arm hurts so badly, isn't that a disaster?
BELIEVER HAO
Our church was demolished! Isn't that a disaster?
CO WORKER LIU
My thinking is, praying for the ccp government isn't all that wrong,
CO WORKER LIU
because in the Bible it says, Let every soul be subject to the higher powers.
CO WORKER LIU
For there is no power but of God:
CO WORKER LIU
the powers that be are ordained of God (Romans 13:1).
CO WORKER ZHU
Amen!
CO WORKER LIU
Paul said any powers that be are ordained by God.
CO WORKER LIU
The pastors and elders also often say those in positions of power are established by God.
CO WORKER LIU
The ccp is the ruling power, and obeying the ruling power is entirely in accord with God's will.
CO WORKER LIU
So, praying for the ccp is entirely in accord with the Bible.
CO WORKER ZHU
Even though our church was demolished, we're better off than you, who never had one to begin with!
CO WORKER ZHU
Our church was demolished, which is God's trial for us.
CO WORKER ZHU
The ccp didn't arrest or persecute us, which is God's grace for us.
CO WORKER ZHU
That proves we weren't wrong in taking the Three-Self path.
CO WORKER ZHU
By believing in the Lord like this, we all have peace in our hearts,
CO WORKER ZHU
don't we?
CO WORKER ZHU
Do you feel that kind of peace in your hearts?
BELIEVER CHUN
Why is he saying that?
BELIEVER QUAN
It's wrong to say that.
BELIEVER CHUN
Exactly, that's not right at all.
CHENS WIFE
Brothers, here, have some water.
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, alright. Thank you.
YU CONGGUANG
Brother Chen,
YU CONGGUANG
you said, at the moment your church was demolished, you realized the Three-Self path was mistaken.
YU CONGGUANG
This is priceless.
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord!
YU CONGGUANG
This is the Lord giving us a chance to repent.
YU CONGGUANG
We can't keep making the same mistake!
BELIEVER LANG
Right.
BELIEVER CHUN
Right.
BELIEVER HE
Right.
YU CONGGUANG
As to the Three-Self path,
YU CONGGUANG
after all your years of experience with it, how have you benefited?
YU CONGGUANG
Have you entered into the realities of the truth?
YU CONGGUANG
Have you practiced and experienced the Lord's words?
YU CONGGUANG
Have you gained knowledge of the Lord's work?
BELIEVER HE
I've never thought about these questions.
YU CONGGUANG
What suffering have you endured to preach and witness the Lord?
YU CONGGUANG
What persecution from satanic powers have you endured?
YU CONGGUANG
For generation upon generation, the saints who follow the Lord have suffered all manner of persecution and torment.
YU CONGGUANG
Some have even given their lives for it.
YU CONGGUANG
They stood witness. Can you bear such witness?
SISTER GAO
We should be ashamed.
YU CONGGUANG
You not only lack such witness,
YU CONGGUANG
you've even mocked Christians who can't return to their homes because they follow the Lord.
YU CONGGUANG
Don't you feel ashamed?
YU CONGGUANG
This is resisting the Lord!
YU CONGGUANG
Now look at the house churches.
YU CONGGUANG
The ccp wildly arrests and persecutes them,
YU CONGGUANG
but in such adverse circumstances, they continue to attend meetings,
YU CONGGUANG
follow the Lord, and testify the Lord.
YU CONGGUANG
Amidst such persecution by Satan, they still stand witness.
SISTER SHEN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
But you?
YU CONGGUANG
You suffer no persecution, and have no witness. You believe in the Lord in safety and comfort.
YU CONGGUANG
You use the satanic political power of the ccp as your escort, as your umbrell
YU CONGGUANG
this is standing on Satan's side.
YU CONGGUANG
The Lord doesn't approve, because you're on the wrong footing!
BROTHER YANG
That's right.
BROTHER YANG
We've been too timid.
YU CONGGUANG
The Lord Jesus said,
YU CONGGUANG
He that takes not his cross, and follows after Me, is not worthy of Me.
YU CONGGUANG
He that finds his life shall lose it:
YU CONGGUANG
and he that loses his life for My sake shall find it
SISTER ZHAO
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
Not every one that said to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven
YU CONGGUANG
but he that does the will of My Father which is in heaven.
YU CONGGUANG
Many will say to Me in that day,
YU CONGGUANG
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name?
YU CONGGUANG
and in Your name have cast out devils? and in Your name done many wonderful works?
YU CONGGUANG
And then will I profess to them, I never knew you:
YU CONGGUANG
depart from Me, you that work iniquity
YU CONGGUANG
You believe in the Lord, but you don't practice His words or keep His commandments,
YU CONGGUANG
and you suffer the bondage and constraints of Satan.
YU CONGGUANG
You are slaves in the service of Satan who only acknowledge the Lord's name.
YU CONGGUANG
You have no true testimony.
YU CONGGUANG
The Lord Jesus doesn't recognize you as believers in Him at all.
YU CONGGUANG
Given your present circumstances, shouldn't you take a moment and reflect?
ZHENG XUN
That's right.
ZHENG XUN
After experiencing so many things, if you still don't understand the Lord's will,
ZHENG XUN
and if you stubbornly insist on keeping to the notions and imaginings of man,
ZHENG XUN
it's very dangerous!
BELIEVER LANG
It's really true!
ZHENG XUN
The moment you are forsaken and condemned by the Lord, there is no chance to turn back.
BELIEVER HE
I didn't realize the consequences were so serious!
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
BELIEVER QUAN
What he's saying is really true!
ZHENG XUN
Think back to when the Lord Jesus did His work.
ZHENG XUN
Those who followed Him
ZHENG XUN
didn't rely on the Roman government, and they didn't compromise with the leaders of Judaism.
ZHENG XUN
They preached and bore witness of the Lord purely based on His words.
ZHENG XUN
After undergoing much suffering, persecution, and torment,
ZHENG XUN
they bore beautiful, resounding testimony for the Lord.
ZHENG XUN
Those are the people who gain God's approval.
SISTER ZHAO
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
BELIEVER HE
Amen!
BELIEVER DONG
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
When you relied on the ccp and went down the Three-Self path, did the work of the Holy Spirit verify that choice?
ZHENG XUN
Did you have a basis in the Lord Jesus' words for that choice?
SISTER ZHAO
No.
ZHENG XUN
The Lord Jesus said,
ZHENG XUN
When they persecute you in this city, flee you into another:
ZHENG XUN
for truly I say to you, you shall not have gone over the cities of Israel,
ZHENG XUN
till the Son of man be come (Matthew 10:23).
ZHENG XUN
When we follow the Lord, we need to do so based on the Lord Jesus' words.
ZHENG XUN
Paul's statement that we should obey the powers that be can't represent the words of the Lord Jesus.
ZHENG XUN
The Lord Jesus never said people should obey the powers that be,
ZHENG XUN
nor did He say people should pray for the powers that be.
ZHENG XUN
Isn't that the case?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
SISTER GAO
That's true!
BELIEVER HE
Yes, that's right.
ZHENG XUN
To redeem mankind, the Lord Jesus bore all manner of humiliation and suffering,
ZHENG XUN
and finally was crucified.
ZHENG XUN
Only those in Judaism dared to mock and condemn the Lord Jesus.
ZHENG XUN
They were unworthy to receive the Lord Jesus' salvation.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
Today, that we are persecuted and suffer for following God is God's grace for us,
ZHENG XUN
but some people
ZHENG XUN
see that we are pursued and hunted, and they laugh at us and mock us for it.
ZHENG XUN
How do you think the Lord will treat such people?
ZHENG XUN
Will the Lord approve of such people?
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
Absolutely not.
BELIEVER QUAN
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
The Lord Jesus said, Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
ZHENG XUN
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake.
ZHENG XUN
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
SISTER GAO
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
OLD SISTER
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
The Lord Jesus bore all manner of humiliation and suffering to redeem mankind.
ZHENG XUN
As people who follow the Lord,
ZHENG XUN
should we not also bear the torment of mockery, slander, arrest, and persecution?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes we should!
SISTER ZHAO
Yes we should!
BELIEVER LANG
Yes we should!
ZHENG XUN
Are we still followers of the Lord if we solely pursue fleshly safety?
ZHENG XUN
Only the Lord knows whether such people who claim to follow the Lord are sincere.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
As believers in the Lord, we crave comfort and safety, and we want to be blessed but not suffer.
SISTER ZHAO
How could that be in accord with the Lord's will?
SISTER GAO
They suffer persecution, yet they continue to spread the gospel and testify God.
SISTER GAO
They are the sincere believers in God, and they are the ones who gain God's approval!
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
With the demolition of your church, God's will has been completely revealed.
ZHENG XUN
Those who rely on the ccp to keep them safe will all come to disaster.
ZHENG XUN
God wants to save mankind,
ZHENG XUN
yet God allows the satanic ruling power of the ccp to suppress, arrest, and persecute His chosen people.
ZHENG XUN
God is using the ccp's behavior
ZHENG XUN
to allow people to clearly see the ugly face and evil essence of Satan and devils,
ZHENG XUN
to clearly see how Satan corrupts and harms mankind,
ZHENG XUN
to see clearly how Satan resists God and makes itself an enemy of God,
ZHENG XUN
and to give people real discernment of Satan,
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
so that they are able to loathe Satan, reject it, forsake it,
ZHENG XUN
genuinely turn to God, and be gained by God.
BELIEVER LANG/
CHEN SONGEN/
BELIEVER DONG
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
This completely reveals God's wisdom and omnipotence!
BROTHER YANG/
BELIEVER LANG/
BELIEVER HE
God is so wise!
CHEN SONGEN
These are God's good intentions for us!
ZHENG XUN
God uses the service of satanic ruling powers to perfect His chosen people,
ZHENG XUN
but this doesn't mean the powers that be are established by God.
ZHENG XUN
Do you think God would establish Satan to corrupt and harm mankind?
SISTER ZHAO/
BELIEVER CHUN
BELIEVER LANG
Absolutely not.
ZHENG XUN
Would God establish a satanic ruling power to resist Him?
BELIEVER DONG
No He wouldn't!
SISTER GAO
Certainly not!
OLD SISTER
Certainly not!
CHEN SONGEN
No He wouldn't!
ZHENG XUN
Then, when the pastors and elders use Paul's words as a basis
ZHENG XUN
to say the powers that be are established by God,
ZHENG XUN
and that praying for the ccp, a satanic ruling power, accords with the Lord's will,
ZHENG XUN
isn't this spreading evil sayings and fallacies to deceive people?
SISTER GAO
Yes, he is right!
ZHENG XUN
Yet some people hope to gain safety and security from Satan, and hope that God blesses them?
ZHENG XUN
How could such a thing ever happen?
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Zheng, you're absolutely right.
CHEN SONGEN
When we joined the Three-Self Church, those were precisely our intentions.
CHEN SONGEN
We thought we were achieving two things at once, and thought we were especially clever for thinking of it.
CHEN SONGEN
We never thought our place of worship would be demolished for it.
CHEN SONGEN
Now, I finally see clearly the evil, demonic face of the ccp, and I feel deeply ashamed.
ZHENG XUN
Thank God!
BELIEVER CHUN
Thank God!
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
CHENS WIFE
All the years we prayed for the ccp were in vain!
BELIEVER YU
Yeah, how could we be so foolish?
BROTHER YANG
You're entirely right.
BROTHER YANG
We've been praying for the ccp for over 20 years,
BROTHER YANG
but we haven't seen any hint of repentance from the ccp.
BELIEVER QUAN
That's right
BELIEVER CHUN
That's right
SISTER ZHAO
That's right.
BROTHER YANG
Instead, things have become worse. They've become even more frenzied,
BROTHER YANG
and even tore down our church.
SISTER GAO
Right!
OLD SISTER
Right!
SISTER ZHAO
They're despicable!
BROTHER YANG
The ccp really is a demon!
BROTHER YANG
We can't pray for it anymore!
BELIEVER QUAN
That's right, we can't pray for it anymore!
SISTER ZHAO
That's right, we can't pray for it anymore!
BELIEVER LANG
That's right, we can't pray for it anymore!
BELIEVER HE
That's right, we can't pray for it anymore!
BELIEVER CHUN
That's right, we can't pray for it anymore!
SISTER ZHAO
Now we finally realize. No more praying for it!
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
SISTER GAO
In the past, when I prayed for the ccp, I felt some peace in my heart.
SISTER GAO
I thought, if we love the ccp this way,
SISTER GAO
they certainly won't arrest or persecute us, and that's enough.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
SISTER GAO
I never imagined the ccp would actually demolish our church and destroy our place of worship!
BELIEVER QUAN
Right! They're detestable!
BELIEVER LANG
Right! They're detestable!
SISTER GAO
When I saw the church come down, my heart broke.
SISTER GAO
The ccp really is despicable!
CHEN SONGEN
Yes!
BELIEVER DONG
Yes!
SISTER ZHAO
Yes!
BELIEVER CHUN
When I joined the Three-Self Church, I didn't think about whether it was the right path.
BELIEVER CHUN
I only thought,
BELIEVER CHUN
since the Lord observes our hearts and minds, it didn't matter whether I joined a house church or the Three-Self Church,
BELIEVER CHUN
because as long as I sincerely believed in the Lord, I would gain salvation.
BELIEVER HE
Right. I had the same idea.
BELIEVER HE
I had the same idea too.
SISTER ZHAO
I had the same idea too.
BELIEVER CHUN
Now I finally understand
BELIEVER CHUN
that which path we choose in our belief in God is indeed a critical question.
SISTER ZHAO
You're entirely correct!
BELIEVER HAO
That's right.
BELIEVER HAO
In our years as a Three-Self church, we haven't been believing in the Lord at all.
BELIEVER HAO
We're forbidden to speak about the pure truths or Revelation in the Bible.
BELIEVER HAO
All we can speak about are the five stresses and four beauties or loving both your country and your religion.
BELIEVER QUAN
Right.
BELIEVER HAO
We aren't even allowed to hold meetings in our own houses.
BELIEVER QUAN
We aren't even allowed visits from our brothers and sisters in other denominations!
BELIEVER LI
Right, and whenever there's an incident, we have to report to the United Front Work Department! It's really …
BELIEVER HAO
Exactly.
BELIEVER HAO
If we believe in the Lord under the bondage and constraints of the ccp, how can we ever gain the truth as life?
BELIEVER DONG
That's right!
BELIEVER LANG
We can't gain anything!
BELIEVER HAO
How can we do things according to God's will?
BROTHER YANG
Exactly.
BELIEVER HUANG
It's basically believing in vain.
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
The ccp doesn't allow us to spread the gospel and bear fruit.
BROTHER YANG
How are we meant to practice the Lord's words this way?
BROTHER YANG
How are we meant to obey the Lord or bear witness for the Lord?
BELIEVER DONG
Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
We gain no testimony at all!
SISTER ZHAO
That's right!
BROTHER YANG
If you ask me, believing in the Lord in a Three-Self church
BROTHER YANG
is letting ourselves be put under detention and controlled by the ccp, by demons!
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
We become prisoners under Satan's bondage!
BELIEVER DONG
He is absolutely right!
BELIEVER HAO
That's precisely the ccp's purpose.
YU CONGGUANG
Yes, that's exactly right.
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
He hit the nail right on the head.
SISTER ZHAO
In our years believing in the Lord in a Three-Self church, it feels like we've only been performing religious rituals.
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
We haven't felt the Holy Spirit's work at all.
SISTER ZHAO
And the fact that we always talk about patriotism, and have to salute the national flag and sing the national anthem before meetings
SISTER ZHAO
is utterly disgusting to me!
CHEN SONGEN Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
It doesn't seem like we're believing in the Lord at all!
SISTER ZHAO
Now, I clearly understand that the Three-Self path doesn't have the Lord's blessing.
SISTER ZHAO
If we take it, we compromise with Satan, and lose our testimony.
SISTER ZHAO
I really regret taking that path!
CHENS WIFE
Bad news! The police are coming this way!
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yang, take these two brothers out the back door!
CHEN SONGEN
Brothers and sisters, make your way home!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Where is Yu Congguang?
POLICE CAPTAIN
Damn you!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Start talking!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Dammit, I told you to talk!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Will you talk now?
POLICE CAPTAIN
Talk!
POLICE CAPTAIN
This is the last damn time I'll ask you!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Where is Yu Congguang? Where is the church's money?
POLICE CAPTAIN
Start talking!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Now!
ZHAO MING
I don't know.
POLICE CAPTAIN
Talk!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Damn you! You bastard!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
You know, you should realize
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
that the ccp's policy is to completely eliminate all religious faith.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
In China, as long as the ccp holds power,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
no one will be allowed to believe in God.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Christians won't be allowed to exist.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
A long time ago, the Central Committee said, for you Church of Almighty God people,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
we could deal with you however we want. We can kill you and nothing will happen to us.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
So, I suggest you be a good boy, cooperate,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
and tell us everything you know.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Otherwise, you won't leave this place alive.
ZHAO MING
It's natural and right to believe in God. It's honest and upright, and doesn't violate any national laws.
ZHAO MING
I have nothing to tell you.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Electrocute him!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Yes, sir!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Screw this guy!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
You're sure about your decision? Hm?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Dammit! More power!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Yes, sir!
POLICE XU
Chief Huang, we've found evidence of Yu Congguang's whereabouts!
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Wait until I catch Yu Congguang, and then watch what I do with you.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Let's go!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Chief Huang, this image was captured this morning on a security camera near Chenjiazhuang.
POLICE CAPTAIN
Next …
DEPUTY DIRECTOR HUANG
Send a coordinated search notice to all the nearby villages!
POLICE CAPTAIN
Yes, sir!
BELIEVER HAO
Thanks be to the Lord that everyone got away safely today.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
Have arrangements been made for the two brothers?
BROTHER YANG
Yes, they're safe.
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord!
BELIEVER HAO
Thanks be to the Lord!
SISTER ZHAO
Thanks be to the Lord!
SISTER ZHAO
Their fellowship today was very insightful.
BROTHER YANG
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
Right.
BELIEVER HAO
I've never heard such good preaching.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
My heart feels brightened.
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord!
SISTER ZHAO
It was very beneficial.
BROTHER YANG
Brother Chen,
CHEN SONGEN
Yes?
BROTHER YANG
are they the brothers who tried to preach the gospel to you before?
CHEN SONGEN
That's exactly right.
CHEN SONGEN
They're from The Church of Almighty God.
BROTHER YANG
They believe in Almighty God! No wonder they spoke so well!
CHEN SONGEN
Right!
BELIEVER HAO Right!
SISTER ZHAO
Right!
SISTER ZHAO
I heard long ago that The Church of Almighty God possesses the truth. It turns out that's actually the case.
BELIEVER HAO
It really is.
CHEN SONGEN
Actually, half a year ago they testified about Almighty God's work in the last days to me.
CHEN SONGEN
What they said sounded very correct and insightful,
CHEN SONGEN
and I was entirely convinced.
CHEN SONGEN
Afterward, Pastor Wang discovered what I thought,
CHEN SONGEN
and that, plus the ccp's suppression and arrests of Eastern Lightning,
CHEN SONGEN
made me too afraid to continue investigating.
CHEN SONGEN
But I had always hoped
CHEN SONGEN
that one day I would see them again and hear their fellowship.
CHEN SONGEN
And then, out of the blue, at the height of our confusion, they showed up.
BELIEVER HAO
I'm very grateful to the Lord for that.
BROTHER YANG
It truly was ordained by the Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Thanks be to the Lord!
CHEN SONGEN
We can't allow ourselves to be constrained by the ccp and the pastors and elders anymore.
CHEN SONGEN
We need to investigate Eastern Lightning.
CHEN SONGEN
If Almighty God really is the returned Lord Jesus,
CHEN SONGEN
we have to follow even if it costs us our lives.
BELIEVER HAO
I completely agree.
SISTER ZHAO
You're absolutely right.
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
We also need to arrange for our other brothers and sisters to hear them too.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
But the ccp is watching us so closely right now. How can we meet like this?
CHEN SONGEN
We have to find a safe place.
CHEN SONGEN
Hey, what if we hold separate meetings?
BELIEVER HAO
That's the only way to do it.
SISTER ZHAO
It could work.
BROTHER YANG
Then let's go notify our brothers and sisters.
BELIEVER HAO
Alright.
SISTER ZHAO
Alright.
BELIEVER HAO
Okay. And let's leave separately.
CHEN SONGEN
Let's go.
BROTHER YANG
Let's go.
BELIEVER HAO
Oh, right, it will be cold tomorrow, so tell everyone to wear another layer.
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu,
YU CONGGUANG
Yeah?
CHEN SONGEN
I didn't realize we'd be holding our meeting in a cowshed today!
BROTHER YANG
That's what the ccp forces us to do.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes it is.
CHEN SONGEN
You know, at first, I thought following my pastor in joining the Three-Self Church
CHEN SONGEN
was a way of gaining two things at once.
CHEN SONGEN
I could gain peace of mind and God's blessings.
CHEN SONGEN
The sound of that bulldozer, and the roar of our church crashing to the ground
CHEN SONGEN
was the sound of our dream being smashed to bits.
CHEN SONGEN
But this time I understand,
CHEN SONGEN
all the years we prayed for the ccp were in vain!
CHEN SONGEN
The ccp is an evil demon that resists God, and it will never repent!
YU CONGGUANG
Yes, that's right.
BROTHER YANG
The ccp resists God and makes itself an enemy of God, which God will curse and destroy,
BROTHER YANG
but we followed the pastors and elders in relying on the ccp and praying for it to be blessed.
BROTHER YANG
Isn't this opposing God and going against God?
BROTHER YANG
This gravely offends God's disposition!
CHEN SONGEN
We have truly sinned against the Lord,
CHEN SONGEN
and we really need to reflect, confess our sins to the Lord, and repent.
BROTHER YANG
Mm.
YU CONGGUANG
That you've gained this understanding now is turning a bad situation good.
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord!
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
BELIEVER HAO
Hey, BROTHER YANG!
YU CONGGUANG
Oh, you're here!
BROTHER YANG
Hey, go up to the loft first, we're coming!
CHEN SONGEN
Let's go.
YU CONGGUANG
Go.
BELIEVER HAO
Alright, let's go up to the loft.
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu, why do you think the pastors and elders always deceive and constrain us,
CHEN SONGEN
and ask us to pray for the ccp?
CHEN SONGEN
Do they really not see the demonic essence of the ccp?
SISTER ZHAO
Right. They've believed in the Lord for so many years. Do they really lack this discernment?
BROTHER YANG
Right.
SISTER GAO
Right.
YU CONGGUANG
This is actually a very easy question to answer.
YU CONGGUANG
The pastors and elders always ask you to pray for blessings for the ccp government
YU CONGGUANG
for no other reason than that they are timid and fearful, so they wish to please Satan, and to survive even as cowards.
YU CONGGUANG
They believe that praying this way will keep them safe, that the government won't arrest them,
YU CONGGUANG
and that they will be given extra privileges.
YU CONGGUANG
Do you remember
YU CONGGUANG
how Satan tempted the Lord Jesus as it pointed to the wealth and luxury of all the nations?
SISTER ZHAO
All these things will I give You, if You will fall down and worship me
SISTER ZHAO
That's what Satan said.
SISTER GAO
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
Right!
YU CONGGUANG
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
Satan has done things this way since ancient times,
YU CONGGUANG
and today, it again uses wealth and luxury to seduce believers in God into relying on it.
YU CONGGUANG
This is how the pastors and elders lead people into relying on Satan.
BROTHER YANG
We're being led by the blind!
YU CONGGUANG
They ally with the government, stand on the side of satanic power, and make themselves enemies of God.
YU CONGGUANG
The path they walk is precisely the path of the Pharisees in Judaism.
SISTER GAO
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
That really is the case.
YU CONGGUANG
They crave to live and fear death, and beyond selling out the Lord for profit,
YU CONGGUANG
they also want to bring you under the control of Satan's domain
YU CONGGUANG
and stop you from seeking and investigating the true way and accepting God's work of the last days.
YU CONGGUANG
Precisely what is the problem here?
SISTER ZHAO
They are betraying the Lord!
SISTER GAO
Right!
CHEN SONGEN
Right!
YU CONGGUANG
Not only are they betraying the Lord and relying on Satan,
YU CONGGUANG
they are preventing others from entering the kingdom of heaven!
BELIEVER LI
This is really serious in nature!
BELIEVER YU
This is really serious in nature!
BELIEVER HAO
Right! They harm us so deeply!
YU CONGGUANG
What does the Lord Jesus say about this issue?
CHEN SONGEN
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
CHEN SONGEN
for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men:
CHEN SONGEN
for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in
YU CONGGUANG
Mm.
BELIEVER HAO
The Lord Jesus also said,
BELIEVER HAO
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
BELIEVER HAO
for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte,
BELIEVER HAO 
and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell
CHEN SONGEN
and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell
BELIEVER HAO
than yourselves
CHEN SONGEN
than yourselves
BELIEVER YU
than yourselves
BELIEVER HAO
than yourselves
YU CONGGUANG
Yes!
YU CONGGUANG
Now let's look at what Almighty God says about it.
BELIEVER HAO
Alright.
CHEN SONGEN
Alright.
YU CONGGUANG
Almighty God says, Just look at the leaders of every denomination—they are all arrogant and self-righteous,
YU CONGGUANG
and they interpret the Bible out of context and according to their own imagination.
YU CONGGUANG
They all rely on gifts and erudition to do their work.
YU CONGGUANG
If they were incapable of preaching anything, would those people follow them?
YU CONGGUANG
They do, after all, possess some knowledge, and can preach on some doctrine,
YU CONGGUANG
or know how to win over others and how to use some artifices.
YU CONGGUANG
They use these to bring people before themselves and deceive them.
YU CONGGUANG
Nominally, those people believe in God, but in reality they follow their leaders.
YU CONGGUANG
If they encounter someone preaching the true way, some of them say,
YU CONGGUANG
'We have to consult our leader about our faith.'
YU CONGGUANG
Their faith has to go through a human being; is that not a problem?
YU CONGGUANG
What have those leaders become, then?
YU CONGGUANG
Have they not become Pharisees, false shepherds, antichrists,
YU CONGGUANG
and stumbling blocks to people's acceptance of the true way?
YU CONGGUANG
Brother Chen,
CHEN SONGEN
Yes?
YU CONGGUANG
you read the next passage.
CHEN SONGEN
Alright.
CHEN SONGEN
Those who read the Bible in grand churches recite the Bible every day,
CHEN SONGEN
yet not one understands the purpose of God's work.
CHEN SONGEN
Not one is able to know God; moreover, not one is in accord with the heart of God.
CHEN SONGEN
They are all worthless, vile men, each standing on high to teach God.
CHEN SONGEN
Though they brandish the name of God, they willfully oppose Him.
CHEN SONGEN
… and are stumbling blocks that impede the path of those who seek God.
CHEN SONGEN
Though they are of 'robust flesh,'
CHEN SONGEN
how are their followers
CHEN SONGEN
to know that they are antichrists who lead man in opposition to God?
CHEN SONGEN
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
SISTER GAO
That's exactly right.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes it is.
YU CONGGUANG
Through what is revealed in Almighty God's words,
YU CONGGUANG
we can see that the actions of the pastors and elders of the religious world
YU CONGGUANG
are no different than those of the Pharisees in Judaism, aren't they?
CHEN SONGEN
They're exactly the same.
BELIEVER YU
They're the same.
BELIEVER LI
They're the same.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER HAO
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
As believers in God, we must be certain that Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
SISTER GAO
Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
We absolutely must not follow the pastors and elders down the path of betraying the Lord.
OLD SISTER
That's right.
BELIEVER LI
Amen!
BELIEVER YU
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
The pastors and elders deceived you for so many years,
YU CONGGUANG
and asked you to pray for the powers that be, with what result?
YU CONGGUANG
You've all fallen into darkness.
OLD SISTER
Yes we have.
SISTER ZHAO
That's right!
SISTER GAO
That's right!
OLD SISTER
They've ruined us!
BROTHER YANG
Look how deeply they've harmed us!
CHEN SONGEN
That's right!
BELIEVER YU
That's right!
YU CONGGUANG
Today, the Holy Spirit has expressed the words He shall speak to the churches,
YU CONGGUANG
yet the pastors and elders still prevent you from seeking and investigating the true way.
YU CONGGUANG
So, aren't the pastors and elders obstacles and stumbling blocks on your path into the kingdom of heaven?
CHEN SONGEN
That's entirely correct.
BROTHER YANG
That's entirely correct.
SISTER GAO
That's entirely correct.
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu, you really have penetration into the pastors and elders.
CHEN SONGEN
The pastors and elders really are false shepherds who resist God.
BELIEVER HAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
When they led us to join the Three-Self Church and pray for blessings for the ccp,
CHEN SONGEN
we felt it was wrong at the time,
BELIEVER HAO
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
but what did the pastors and elders say?
CHEN SONGEN
They claimed to be God's servants, that they were established by God,
CHEN SONGEN
and that not obeying them was disobeying the Lord,
SISTER GAO
That's what they said.
SISTER ZHAO
That's what they said.
CHEN SONGEN
so we had constraints put upon us.
CHEN SONGEN
The result was that we followed the pastors and elders in surrendering to Satan, and lived an ignoble, cowardly existence.
CHEN SONGEN
We followed the pastors and elders in our belief in the Lord for more than 20 years, but we've gained nothing.
BELIEVER HAO That's right!
BROTHER YANG
That's right!
SISTER ZHAO
That's right!
CHEN SONGEN
They really have ruined us!
CHEN SONGEN
Now, I clearly see
CHEN SONGEN
that the pastors and elders led us down the path of resisting and betraying God.
BELIEVER HAO
Exactly.
BELIEVER LI
Exactly.
CHEN SONGEN
If we follow them in our belief in the Lord, not only will we not enter the kingdom of heaven,
CHEN SONGEN
we will actually go to hell and be punished.
BELIEVER HAO
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
BELIEVER YU
The pastors and elders hurt people so badly!
BELIEVER LI
They're utterly evil!
BROTHER YANG
These pastors and elders are just despicable!
BROTHER YANG
Rather than guiding us to practice the Lord's words and keep to the Lord's way,
BROTHER YANG
they lead us in relying on the ccp, a satanic ruling power, resisting the Lord, and betraying the Lord.
SISTER ZHAO
Exactly!
OLD SISTER
Exactly!
BELIEVER YU
Exactly!
SISTER GAO
Exactly!
CHEN SONGEN
Exactly!
BROTHER YANG
They also deceived us by saying we were using wisdom to deal with the ccp.
BROTHER YANG
They said that by believing in the Lord in a Three-Self church, we would gain the Lord's approval all the same,
BROTHER YANG
and that as long as we acknowledge the Lord's name, confess our sins to the Lord, and repent,
BROTHER YANG
we will be lifted up and enter the kingdom of heaven when the Lord returns.
SISTER GAO
They're so deceptive!
BROTHER YANG
Now it looks like everything the pastors and elders told us were just lies to deceive us!
BELIEVER HAO
Right!
BELIEVER YU
Right!
SISTER GAO
Right!
BROTHER YANG
They put us in bondage under the satanic power of the ccp.
BROTHER YANG
They're nothing more than accomplices of the devil Satan!
SISTER GAO
That's right!
YU CONGGUANG
That's right!
SISTER ZHAO
Exactly.
CHEN SONGEN
Exactly.
BELIEVER HAO
Exactly.
BELIEVER YU
Exactly.
BROTHER YANG
We should completely forsake these pastors and elders!
SISTER ZHAO
Amen!
SISTER GAO
Amen!
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
Amen!
BELIEVER YU
Amen!
BELIEVER LI
Amen!
OLD SISTER
Amen!
BELIEVER HAO
You're completely right!
BELIEVER HAO
What we need to do now is kick away these obstacles and stumbling blocks.
BELIEVER YU
Yes.
BELIEVER HAO
We should never again accept the constraints of these pastors and elders!
BELIEVER YU
Yes!
SISTER GAO
Yes!
OLD SISTER
Yes!
CHEN SONGEN
Yes!
BELIEVER LI
Absolutely! If we follow the pastors and elders, we will go to hell!
SISTER ZHAO
Right.
SISTER ZHAO
The pastors and elders always ask us to obey the ccp and pray for the ccp government to be blessed
SISTER ZHAO
to keep us within the limits of the Three-Self Church and controlled under Satan's domain,
SISTER ZHAO
so that we give them offerings and provide for them.
BELIEVER HAO
That's their goal!
SISTER ZHAO
Every day they enjoy our offerings to God,
SISTER ZHAO
yet they keep their hands around our necks and forbid us from reading Almighty God's words
SISTER ZHAO
and prevent us from seeking and investigating the true way.
BELIEVER HAO
They're so evil!
SISTER ZHAO
They do this because they want to keep us trapped in the Three-Self Church.
SISTER GAO
That's exactly what they want. The pastors and elders are so despicable!
BROTHER YANG
Yes!
SISTER ZHAO
If you ask me, they're no different from the ccp,
SISTER ZHAO
simply devils who resist God!
SISTER ZHAO
They're completely ruthless!
BROTHER YANG
Yes!
BELIEVER YU
Yes!
SISTER ZHAO
We can't allow them to constrain us anymore!
SISTER ZHAO
We not only need to reject the ccp, we need to reject the pastors and elders, and completely escape from the Three-Self Church!
BELIEVER LI
Yes!
BELIEVER YU
Yes!
BELIEVER HAO Yes!
SISTER GAO
Yes!
CHEN SONGEN
Exactly!
SISTER ZHAO
We also need to seek and investigate the true way and accept God's salvation in the last days.
SISTER ZHAO
That's the only way we can completely escape the influence of Satan!
SISTER GAO
Right!
OLD SISTER
Right!
BELIEVER LI
Right!
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord!
BELIEVER YU
Yes, that's exactly what we're all thinking.
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
CHENS WIFE
We should have started investigating Almighty God's work in the last days long ago.
SISTER YU
That's right.
BELIEVER CHUN
That's right.
CHENS WIFE
Today is an opportunity the Lord has prepared for us, and we shouldn't let ourselves miss it.
SISTER YU
That's right.
BELIEVER LANG
That's right.
BELIEVER QUAN
That's right.
SISTER LYU
That's right.
SISTER SHEN
That's right.
BELIEVER HE
Thanks be to the Lord!
BELIEVER CHUN
We can't pass up opportunities like this.
CHENS WIFE
Brother Zheng.
ZHENG XUN
Yes?
CHENS WIFE
Can you tell us about Almighty God's work in the last days?
SISTER YU
Yes, tell us about it.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes, tell us about it.
BELIEVER QUAN
Yes, tell us about it.
SISTER LYU
Yes, tell us about it.
SISTER SHEN
Yes, tell us about it.
ZHENG XUN
Alright.
ZHENG XUN
We all know that when the Lord Jesus preached, He said,
ZHENG XUN
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 4:17).
ZHENG XUN
Now, 2,000 years later, the Lord Jesus has returned.
ZHENG XUN
He is the incarnate Almighty God, who has appeared to work, speak new words
ZHENG XUN
and do the work of judgment beginning with God's house.
ZHENG XUN
This fulfills the Lord Jesus' prophecy,
ZHENG XUN
I come quickly 
ZHENG XUN
If I go and prepare a place for you,
ZHENG XUN
I will come again, and receive you to Myself;
ZHENG XUN
that where I am,
CHENS WIFE
that where I am,
ZHENG XUN
there you may be also
CHENS WIFE
there you may be also
SISTER SHEN
there you may be also
SISTER LYU
there you may be also
BELIEVER QUAN
there you may be also 
SISTER YU
Amen!
SISTER SHEN
Amen!
SISTER LYU
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG
Amen!
BELIEVER QUAN
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
It also fulfills this prophecy in Revelation:
ZHENG XUN
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches
ZHENG XUN
(Revelation 2:7).
ZHENG XUN
The words of the Holy Spirit are undoubtedly the words of God.
ZHENG XUN
When God comes incarnate as the Son of man to speak,
ZHENG XUN
this is the Holy Spirit speaking to the churches.
ZHENG XUN
Those who believe in Almighty God have all turned to Him because they have heard God's voice.
BELIEVER LANG
Oh, so that's what they believe.
SISTER LYU
Oh, so that's what they believe.
CHENS WIFE
That's what it is.
BELIEVER LANG
Then we have to read Almighty God's words as soon as we can.
BELIEVER WANG
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
Brothers and sisters, let me show you some pictures from The Church of Almighty God's website.
CHENS WIFE
There's a website?
BELIEVER HE
Sister Li,
BELIEVER HE
hand me the computer.
BELIEVER HE
Let's get a good look at this today!
BELIEVER CHUN
We must get a good look at this today!
ZHENG XUN
Look at this, these are all gospel films.
BELIEVER WANG
So many videos!
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
And crosstalk!
BELIEVER CHUN
And comedy skits!
BELIEVER LANG
And musicals!
CHENS WIFE
You have so much content!
SISTER SHEN
Right.
BELIEVER LANG
This is wonderful!
BELIEVER WANG
So many kinds!
ZHENG XUN
Right now, Almighty God's words are on the internet,
ZHENG XUN
publicly available to people of all nations and walks of life, to spread and bear witness to Almighty God's appearance and work.
ZHENG XUN
More and more people are reading Almighty God's words,
ZHENG XUN
and are determining that it is the truth, the voice of God,
ZHENG XUN
and that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus. And more and more people are turning to Almighty God.
SISTER SHEN
That's great.
SISTER YU
That's great.
CHENS WIFE
Almighty God's gospel has even spread overseas!
BELIEVER CHUN
Yes.
SISTER SHEN
Yes.
BELIEVER LANG
Yes.
BELIEVER CHUN
That which comes from God must thrive!
BELIEVER HE
Amen!
SISTER SHEN
Amen!
BELIEVER WANG
Amen!
CHENS WIFE
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG

Amen!
ZHENG XUN
This entirely fulfills the prophecy in the Bible,
ZHENG XUN
For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west;
ZHENG XUN
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matthew 24:27).
BELIEVER LANG
Amen!
SISTER LYU
Amen!
BELIEVER QUAN
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
CHENS WIFE
Amen!
BELIEVER WANG
Amen!
ZHENG XUN
It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established
ZHENG XUN
in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;
ZHENG XUN
and all nations shall flow to it 
CHENS WIFE
and all nations shall flow to it 
SISTER SHEN
and all nations shall flow to it 
BELIEVER WANG
and all nations shall flow to it 
SISTER LYU
and all nations shall flow to it 
BELIEVER LANG
and all nations shall flow to it 
ZHENG XUN
Amen!
CHENS WIFE
Amen!
SISTER SHEN
Amen!
SISTER YU
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG
Amen!
BELIEVER QUAN
Amen!
SISTER LYU
Amen!
BELIEVER HE
Brother Zheng, show us one of the church's videos!
SISTER SHEN
Yes.
SISTER YU
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
Alright.
ZHENG XUN
I'll show you a video of readings of Almighty God's words.
BELIEVER CHUN
Okay.
SISTER SHEN
Okay.
BELIEVER HE
That's great.
BELIEVER CHUN
Let's get a good look at it!
RECITER
Throughout the universe I am doing My work,
RECITER
and in the East, thunderous crashes issue forth endlessly, shaking all nations and denominations.
RECITER
It is My voice that has led all men into the present.
RECITER
I shall cause all men to be conquered by My voice,
RECITER
to fall into this stream, and submit before Me,
RECITER
for I have long since reclaimed My glory from all the earth and issued it forth anew in the East.
RECITER
Who does not long to see My glory? Who does not anxiously await My return?
RECITER
Who does not thirst for My reappearance? Who does not pine for My loveliness?
RECITER
Who would not come to the light? Who would not look upon the richness of Canaan?
RECITER
Who does not long for the return of the Redeemer?
RECITER
Who does not adore the Great Almighty?
RECITER
My voice shall spread throughout the earth;
RECITER
I wish, facing My chosen people, to speak more words to them.
RECITER
Like the mighty thunders that shake the mountains and rivers,
RECITER
I speak My words to the whole universe and to mankind.
RECITER
Hence the words in My mouth have become man's treasure, and all men cherish My words.
RECITER
The lightning flashes from the East all the way to the West.
RECITER
My words are such that man is loath to give them up and at the same time finds them unfathomable, but rejoices in them all the more.
RECITER
Like a newborn infant, all men are glad and joyful, celebrating My coming.
RECITER
By means of My voice, I shall bring all men before Me.
RECITER
Thenceforth, I shall formally enter into the race of men so that they will come to worship Me.
RECITER
With the glory that I radiate and the words in My mouth,
RECITER
I shall make it such that all men come before Me and see that the lightning flashes from the East
RECITER
and that I have also descended unto the 'Mount of Olives' of the East. They will see that I have already long been on earth,
RECITER
no longer as the Son of the Jews but as the Lightning of the East.
RECITER
For I have long since been resurrected, and have departed from mankind's midst, and then reappeared with glory among men.
RECITER
I am He who was worshiped countless ages before now,
RECITER
and I am also the infant forsaken by the Israelites countless ages before now.
RECITER
Moreover, I am the all-glorious Almighty God of the present age!
RECITER
Let all come before My throne
RECITER
and see My glorious countenance, hear My voice, and look upon My deeds.
RECITER
This is the entirety of My will; it is the end and the climax of My plan,
RECITER
as well as the purpose of My management.
RECITER
Let every nation worship Me, every tongue acknowledge Me, every man repose his faith in Me, and every people be subject unto Me!
RECITER
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
ZHENG XUN
Amen!
CHENS WIFE
Amen!
SISTER SHEN
Amen!
SISTER YU
Amen!
BELIEVER CHUN
Amen!
BELIEVER LANG
Amen!
BELIEVER QUAN
Amen!
Amen!
CHENS WIFE
These words really are the voice of God!
BELIEVER WANG
Yes.
SISTER SHEN
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
CHENS WIFE
God's words have authority and power. No human could speak these words.
BELIEVER CHUN
It really is the voice of God.
BELIEVER WANG
Yes.
ZHENG XUN
Yes.
SISTER YU
Yes.
BELIEVER HE
Yes.
SISTER SHEN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
Now let's read another two passages of God's word.
OLD SISTER
Alright!
BELIEVER LI
Alright!
BELIEVER YU
Alright!
CHEN SONGEN
Alright!
BELIEVER HAO
Alright!
SISTER GAO
Alright!
SISTER ZHAO
Alright!
BROTHER YANG
Alright!
YU CONGGUANG
Almighty God says,
YU CONGGUANG
When Jesus came into the world of man, He brought the Age of Grace and ended the Age of Law.
YU CONGGUANG
During the last days, God once more became flesh,
YU CONGGUANG
and when He became flesh this time, He ended the Age of Grace and brought the Age of Kingdom.
YU CONGGUANG
All those who accept the second incarnation of God will be led into the Age of Kingdom,
YU CONGGUANG
and be able to personally accept the guidance of God.
SISTER GAO
Thank God.
BELIEVER HAO
Thank God.
YU CONGGUANG
Though Jesus did much work among man,
YU CONGGUANG
He only completed the redemption of all mankind
YU CONGGUANG
and became man's sin offering, and did not rid man of all his corrupt disposition.
YU CONGGUANG
Fully saving man from the influence of Satan
YU CONGGUANG
not only required Jesus to take on the sins of man as the sin offering,
YU CONGGUANG
but also required God to do greater work
YU CONGGUANG
to completely rid man of his disposition, which has been corrupted by Satan.
YU CONGGUANG
And so, after man was forgiven his sins,
YU CONGGUANG
God has returned to flesh to lead man into the new age,
YU CONGGUANG
and begun the work of chastisement and judgment,
YU CONGGUANG
and this work has brought man into a higher realm.
YU CONGGUANG
All those who submit under His dominion shall enjoy higher truth
YU CONGGUANG
and receive greater blessings.
YU CONGGUANG
They shall truly live in the light, and shall gain the truth, the way, and the life.
YU CONGGUANG
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
YU CONGGUANG
Amen!
CHEN SONGEN

Amen!
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to God!
CHEN SONGEN
Brother Yu,
YU CONGGUANG
Yes?
CHEN SONGEN
I'll read the next one.
YU CONGGUANG
Okay.
CHEN SONGEN
Christ of the last days brings life,
CHEN SONGEN
and brings the enduring and everlasting way of truth.
CHEN SONGEN
This truth is the path through which man shall gain life,
CHEN SONGEN
and the only path by which man shall know God and be approved by God.
CHEN SONGEN
If you do not seek the way of life provided by Christ of the last days,
CHEN SONGEN
then you shall never gain the approval of Jesus,
CHEN SONGEN
and shall never be qualified to enter the gate of the kingdom of heaven,
CHEN SONGEN
for you are both a puppet and prisoner of history. …
CHEN SONGEN
Christ is man's gateway to the kingdom during the last days,
CHEN SONGEN
which none may bypass.
CHEN SONGEN
None may be perfected by God except through Christ.
CHEN SONGEN
You believe in God, and so you must accept His words and obey His way.
CHEN SONGEN
You must not just think of gaining blessings without receiving the truth, or accepting the provision of life.
CHEN SONGEN
Christ comes during the last days
CHEN SONGEN
so that all those who truly believe in Him may be provided with life.
CHEN SONGEN
His work is for the sake of concluding the old age and entering the new one,
CHEN SONGEN
and is the path that must be taken by all those who would enter the new age.
CHEN SONGEN
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
BELIEVER HAO
Thanks be to God!
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
BELIEVER LI
Amen!
OLD SISTER
Amen!
BELIEVER HAO
Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
Amen!
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
SISTER GAO
Now I finally understand.
SISTER GAO
When we believe in the Lord, we only have our sins forgiven, but that doesn't mean we can enter the kingdom of heaven.
CHEN SONGEN
That's right.
BELIEVER YU
That's right.
BELIEVER HAO
That's right.
That's right.
CHEN SONGEN
First God needs to purify our corrupt dispositions and we need to gain the truth as life.
SISTER GAO
Right.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes, and only by accepting Almighty God's work in the last days
SISTER ZHAO
do we have the chance to be purified and enter the kingdom of heaven.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Amen! Thanks be to God!
BROTHER YANG
Amen! Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
Mm. Amen!
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
That you can have this kind of understanding and recognition after hearing Almighty God's words
YU CONGGUANG
is truly a wonderful thing.
SISTER GAO
Thank the Lord for enlightening us.
YU CONGGUANG
This is what it means for God's sheep to hear His voice.
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
SISTER ZHAO
God is enlightening us.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
Now we all understand
YU CONGGUANG
that in the Age of Grace, the Lord Jesus only did the work of redemption,
YU CONGGUANG
not His work of judgment and purification in the last days.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
The Lord Jesus only forgave our sins,
YU CONGGUANG
but He didn't resolve our sinful natures.
CHEN SONGEN
Right.
SISTER ZHAO
Right.
SISTER GAO
Right.
YU CONGGUANG
So, the Lord Jesus prophesied that He would come again.
YU CONGGUANG
But what work will He do when He comes again?
YU CONGGUANG
Will it be to rapture all the believers up into the sky to reunite with Him?
BELIEVER LI
Isn't it?
YU CONGGUANG
No.
YU CONGGUANG
When the Lord Jesus returns, He will do the work of judgment beginning with God's house.
BELIEVER YU
Judgment?
YU CONGGUANG
He will lift up those who accepted the Lord Jesus' redemption before God's throne,
YU CONGGUANG
do the work of judgment and purification, and then bring them into God's kingdom.
BROTHER YANG
Thanks be to God!
SISTER GAO
Thanks be to God!
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
Those who hear God's voice and are lifted up before God's throne
YU CONGGUANG
will dine at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
BELIEVER YU
Thank the Lord.
YU CONGGUANG
Those who accept Almighty God, who experience the judgment and chastisement in God's words,
YU CONGGUANG
whose corrupt dispositions are purified, and who are made overcomers by God
YU CONGGUANG
are those who will truly be lifted up into the kingdom of heaven.
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to God!
BELIEVER HAO
Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
Such people will gain God's approval and blessings, and will gain a beautiful destination.
SISTER ZHAO
Wonderful!
CHEN SONGEN
Amen!
SISTER GAO
They are blessed!
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
BELIEVER LI
I hope to be one of them!
BELIEVER YU
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
On the other hand, those who resist, condemn, and refuse to accept Almighty God
YU CONGGUANG
are the tares revealed by God's work in the last days.
YU CONGGUANG
They are servants of evil and antichrists who resist God,
YU CONGGUANG
and they will be punished and destroyed in the great disaster.
YU CONGGUANG
These are the different endings of the wise virgins and the foolish virgins.
SISTER ZHAO
Then we have to be wise virgins.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
Truly, thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
That you've been able to awaken and accept Almighty God's appearance and work today
YU CONGGUANG
means you are wise virgins who have been lifted up before God's throne
YU CONGGUANG
to dine at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
BELIEVER CHUN
Thank God.
SISTER ZHAO
Thank God.
YU CONGGUANG
In this, haven't we been blessed by God?
CHEN SONGEN
Yes!
SISTER ZHAO
Yes!
SISTER GAO
Yes!
BELIEVER YU
Yes!
OLD SISTER
Yes!
Yes!
SISTER ZHAO
I never expected this!
SISTER GAO
I never expected this!
BELIEVER HAO
Thank God.
OLD SISTER
Thank God.
BELIEVER HAO
I never thought we would really dine at the marriage supper of the Lamb!
BELIEVER LI
Yes, this really is God's mercy for us. We are truly blessed!
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Yes.
BELIEVER YU
We are.
BELIEVER LI
Thanks be to God!
BROTHER YANG
Thanks be to God!
BELIEVER YU
Thanks be to God!
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
Brother Yu, you've only believed in Almighty God for several years, and you understand so much of the truth.
BROTHER YANG
I genuinely admire you for that.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
BROTHER YANG
I've been in a Three-Self church for so many years,
BROTHER YANG
but the only understanding I gained was of rote letters and doctrine from the Bible. I gained no understanding of the truth at all.
BROTHER YANG
I'm so far behind you.
CHEN SONGEN
Right.
BELIEVER LI
Right.
BELIEVER YU
Right.
BROTHER YANG
I need to escape the Three-Self Church, accept Almighty God,
BROTHER YANG
and follow God's footsteps!
YU CONGGUANG
Amen! Thanks be to God!
BROTHER YANG
Amen! Thanks be to God!
SISTER ZHAO
Amen! Thanks be to God!
OLD SISTER
Amen! Thanks be to God!
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to the Lord! He hasn't abandoned us!
BELIEVER LI
Yes.
BROTHER YANG
Yes.
CHEN SONGEN
We followed the pastors and elders down the Three-Self path, and were controlled by Satan.
CHEN SONGEN
We entirely lost our testimony.
BELIEVER LI
Right.
BELIEVER HAO
Right.
BELIEVER YU
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
It took having our church demolished, our place of worship destroyed,
CHEN SONGEN
for us to come to our senses.
BELIEVER LI
Right.
BROTHER YANG
Right.
OLD SISTER
Right.
CHEN SONGEN
If God hadn't moved these two brothers to fellowship with us
CHEN SONGEN
and testify Almighty God's work in the last days,
CHEN SONGEN
we would still be in darkness, with no way out.
BELIEVER LI
That's right.
BELIEVER YU
That's right.
SISTER GAO
That's right.
CHEN SONGEN
But today, God has truly saved us, and helped us escape Satan's clutches.
YU CONGGUANG
Amen.
BELIEVER HAO
Amen.
SISTER GAO
Amen.
CHEN SONGEN
Now, we finally have hope of salvation!
BELIEVER LI
Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
CHEN SONGEN
It's a very good thing our church was torn down.
CHEN SONGEN
Otherwise, we would be doomed and not even know it!
SISTER GAO
Yes!
CHEN SONGEN
We were really ignorant fools.
CHEN SONGEN
Today, we've had the good fortune to hear the words of Almighty God.
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
CHEN SONGEN
This truly is the voice of God!
SISTER GAO
Yes!
BROTHER YANG
Yes!
YU CONGGUANG
Amen!
CHEN SONGEN
Thanks be to Almighty God!
BELIEVER HAO
Amen!
CHEN SONGEN
We can't miss this final opportunity!
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
BELIEVER YU
Amen!
SISTER GAO
Amen!
SISTER ZHAO
Amen!
BELIEVER LI
Thanks be to God!
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to God!
OLD SISTER
We can't miss this final opportunity!
SISTER GAO
It's a wonderful thing our place of worship was destroyed.
BELIEVER LI
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Without the fall of our church, we might never have had the chance to repent.
CHEN SONGEN
Yes.
SISTER ZHAO
Yes.
SISTER GAO
Thanks be to Almighty God for saving us from the clutches of Satan!
BROTHER YANG
Amen!
SISTER ZHAO
Amen!
BELIEVER HAO
Amen!
BELIEVER LI
Amen!
BELIEVER YU
Amen!
BELIEVER LI
Thanks be to Almighty God!
BELIEVER YU
We can't let this opportunity slip by!
YU CONGGUANG
Thanks be to Almighty God!
SISTER GAO
Let's pursue as best we can.
SISTER ZHAO
Right.