Nine International NGOs Issued a Joint Statement Condemning the CCP’s Persecution of The Church of Almighty God

    Since it took power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been carrying out atheistic education throughout the country. Christianity has been designated as a tool of imperial “cultural invasion,” with Western missionaries expelled and Chinese preachers subjected to “thought reform.” All religions, including Christianity, have been regarded as “feudal superstition” and suffered severe suppression and banning. Over the past more than sixty years, The Chinese Communist Party has never ceased its persecution of religious beliefs; instead, it has step by step “legitimized” its crackdown and persecution of Christianity through legislation, and The Church of Almighty God suffered the most serious suppression. Since The Church of Almighty God was established in 1991, the CCP government has held numerous emergency meetings and drawn up and issued many secret documents. It has made use of television, radio, newspaper, and internet media to start libelous rumors and false accusations; it has defamed The Church of Almighty God, and has manufactured public opinion in order to confuse and deceive the populace; and it has conducted nationwide arrests of The Christians of The Church of Almighty God.

In the Middle of a Disaster I Saw God’s Protection

In the Middle of a Disaster I Saw God’s Protection

Zhang Min, Beijing

August 6, 2012

On July 21, 2012, it started to rain heavily in the morning. By the afternoon when I was supposed to go to a meeting, I saw the rain was so heavy that I didn’t want to go. But it was just once a week, if I didn’t go I’d have no way to do my church work. Whatever there was going on outside, I still had to fellowship with them. When I thought of that, I hurried myself to the meeting. After four o’clock that afternoon, the brother of the meeting place ran back home, saying: “You’re still holding meeting, get yourselves home, there’s a whole lot of water coming down out there.” I went out and looked and there was a lot of water coming down, the river was swollen and running very high. I’d never seen so much water, I had no way to get home. (My place was half a li outside this village.) I was very anxious. There was nothing I could do, I had to go back to the meeting place, because the place was high up, and safer. After a while I heard a clamor of voices outside. I went out to look, and it was the adults and children of my village coming their way with ropes and poles. I rushed to ask how my house was doing, and someone told me it hadn’t been washed away, but the waters were high outside of the wall of the yard. I thought to myself: All things are in God’s hands. Even if the house is washed away, there is the good purpose of God in it.

A Hymn of God's Words “The Creator's Authority Never Changes ” | Eastern Lightning

A Hymn of God's Words      The Creator's Authority Never Changes

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God is with authority and power;

they are real, not merely words.

Revealed in steps,

shown in His creation

and His control over all things.

Seen in how He guides

and manages man.

The Real Meaning of “Rebellion Against God” | Eastern Lightning

46. The Real Meaning of “Rebellion Against God”

Zhang Jun    Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

The Real Meaning of “Rebellion Against God” | Eastern Lightning

In the past, I believed that “rebellion against God” meant betraying God, leaving the church, or walking away from one’s duty. I thought these behaviors constituted rebellion. Therefore, whenever I heard of people engaging in such behaviors, I would remind myself that I should not rebel against God as they did. Furthermore, I was cautious in all my endeavors and abided by all the tasks assigned to me by the church. I neither retreated from my duty when I was dealt with and pruned nor withdrew from the church when I was tried, regardless of the hardship. Thus, I believed that I never rebelled against God. I felt that I had already acquired some stature and was confident that I would follow God until the end and ultimately achieve salvation.

My Life Principles Left Me Damaged | Eastern Lightning

45. My Life Principles Left Me Damaged

Changkai    Benxi City, Liaoning Province

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The common phrase “All lay loads on the willing horse” is one with which I am all too personally familiar. My husband and I were all particularly guileless people: When it came to matters that involved our own personal benefit or loss, we weren’t the type to haggle and fuss with others. Where we could be forbearing we were forbearing, where we could be accommodating we also did our best to be accommodating. As a result, we often found ourselves cheated and abused by others. It really seemed that in life, “All lay loads on the willing horse”—if you have too much kindness in your heart, if you’re too accommodating and modest in your affairs, you’re very liable to be cheated. With these thoughts in mind, I resolved to not subject myself to all this abuse and live in frustration anymore: In future matters and in dealings with others, I vow not to be too accommodating. Even after I accepted Almighty God’s work, I still applied this principle in conducting my behavior and interactions with others.

The Hymn of God's Word The Authority and Significance of God's Incarnation | Eastern Lightning

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The Hymn of God's Word
The Authority and Significance
of God's Incarnation
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Man's stature, knowledge,
love, and loyalty,
obedience, and all that man sees
have come from
judgment by the word.
Your faith stands
because of His word.
Through this man sees
God's amazing work.

A Hymn of God's Words The Incarnate God Has Greater Concern for His Followers | Eastern Lightning

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A Hymn of God's Words

The Incarnate God

Has Greater Concern

for His Followers

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After God became flesh,
living life among mankind,
He saw man's depravity,
the situation of their life.
God in the flesh
deeply felt man's helplessness,
how pitiful they are;
He felt their sadness.
God gained more compassion
for the human condition,
and more concern for His followers
from His instincts in the flesh.