Just now we talked about some lawless acts. So, what specific acts are increasing lawlessness?

Answer: More lawlessness means mostly that religious leaders, pastors, and elders go against God’s will, and go their own way. They don’t obey God’s commandments, misinterpret the Bible to shackle, control, and deceive people, drowning them in biblical theology, taking them further away from God, turning churches into places of religious ritual, and they treat their responsibilities and duties as access to status and job, which leads to many hypocritical acts that resist God in the church. Many people have exposed their unbelieving viewpoints. They pursue worldly pleasures, depart from the way of the Lord, and even treat God’s words as mere myth. They do not believe at all that the Lord Jesus will come again to speak and do work. Especially religious leaders without any fear of God in their hearts, and all kinds of evil men and unbelievers who do not love the truth are exposed, openly committing evil acts, denying God’s work of the last days, and rejecting the truth. Those religious pastors and elders primarily preach biblical knowledge and theology. They strive to protect their own status, influence and income, but they refuse to follow the Lord’s way or spread the Lord’s word. They don’t exalt or testify the Lord at all. Instead, they preach things that betray the truth in God’s word, using traditions to deceive and control people, stubbornly taking the Pharisees’ path of resistance to God. Many religious pastors and elders also pursue worldly pleasures. They seek fashion, lust for money, and struggle for position. They are purely men of the world, purely unbelievers. Infuriating is that these religious leaders, pastors and elders wildly condemn God’s work in the last days to deceive and control the believers. They even collude with the CCP, standing with Satan against God, striving to create their own kingdoms, and re-crucifying God, for which God hates and curses them. These lawless acts are facts apparent to us all. They are nothing less than a betrayal from the religious world. Because of the increase in lawless acts, the faith and love of many believers has gone cold, and they are negative and weak. Because these religious leaders have chosen their own path and no longer follow God’s way, the work of the Holy Spirit has been withdrawn and the religious venues have been abandoned. The Holy Spirit’s work has moved to those who accept Almighty God’s work of the last days. These things reveal that God’s righteous disposition is intolerant of offense by man.

We just fellowshiped on some of the reasons the religious world is desolate. Now, I’d like to add my own perspective and opinion to the root causes of the desolation in the religious world. Let’s read two passages from Almighty God, which will help you better understand the causes of desolation in religion. Almighty God says, “God will accomplish this fact—everyone in the universe will come to meet God, worship God who is on earth. God’s work elsewhere will stop, man will be forced to seek the true way. Just as everyone went to Joseph to get food and bowed down to him because he had food. To escape from famine, people will have to seek the true way. The whole religious world will suffer from a serious famine. Only today’s God is the fountain of living waters, providing an endless source of water for people’s enjoyment. People will come and rely on Him” (“The Millennial Kingdom Has Come” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). “God’s work in the entire universe has focused on this group of people. He has devoted all His efforts to you and sacrificed all for you; He has reclaimed and given to you all the work of the Spirit throughout the universe. That is why I say, you are the fortunate” (“Is the Work of God So Simple as Man Imagines?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Almighty God’s word has clarified the cause of the famine in the religious world. This allows us to see the omnipotence and wisdom of God. God has not abandoned those who love the truth and thirst for His appearance. God has used the famine’s arrival to compel people to seek the true way, making them find His will and His footsteps amidst the desolation in the churches. He did this to help those in every denomination who love the truth and truly believe in God to come before His throne. So God says, “God’s work in the entire universe has focused on this group of people.” From this we can see that the work of the Holy Spirit has moved to those who accept God’s work in the last days. This proves the fact that God means for all those who come before His throne, to become those after God’s heart. These people will be made overcomers by God before the disaster, and so the Lord Jesus’ prophecy of the clever virgin attending the wedding feast with the Lamb will be borne out. The foolish virgins, who, no matter how desolate or dark their churches become, remain in them and wait for death, are just like the Israelites who died in the wilderness after being led out of Egypt. The whole religious world has become a place of ruin, primarily because the religious world’s leaders follow the path of the Pharisees and disobey the Lord’s will. They don’t follow God’s will, don’t obey the Lord’s commandments, and were abandoned by God long ago. Through the truth God incarnate expresses in the last days, their antichrist nature is exposed. They become those who re-crucify God and are cursed by God. What is God’s purpose in causing the religious world to face famine? He wants people to seek the true way. Those who long to search for God’s voice, who accept Almighty God’s work of judgment in the last days, will again receive the work of the Holy Spirit, provision of the living water of life which flows from His throne, and finally be saved to enter the kingdom of heaven. These are the people the Lord Jesus prophesied, would be raptured into the kingdom of heaven. If we refuse the judgment, chastisement, purification, and salvation of Almighty God’s words, we will be eternally abandoned and eliminated. As Almighty God says, “if you oppose Christ of the last days, and deny Him, then there is no one who can bear the consequences on your behalf. Furthermore, from this day onward you will not have another chance to gain the approval of God; even if you try to redeem yourself, you will never again behold the face of God. For what you oppose is not a man, what you deny is not some puny being, but Christ. Are you aware of this consequence? You have not made a small mistake, but committed a heinous crime. And so I advise everyone not to bare your fangs before the truth, or make careless criticisms, for only the truth can bring you life, and nothing except the truth can allow you to be reborn and behold the face of God” (“Only Christ of the Last Days Can Give Man the Way of Eternal Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

from the movie script of From the Throne Flows the Water of Life

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Gospel Movie "Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit" (3) - Differentiate Salvation from True Salvation |The Church of Almighty God

    Can man’s good deeds mean he has been transformed in disposition and has been saved? What’s the difference between salvation and true salvation? This film clip will get you the answer.

Stotyline:

    Cho Yeonghan was a pastor of a Church in Korea. He was zealous in serving the Lord for decades and earned great respect from the believers. In recent years, the church became desolate day by day. More and more evils emerged, and even he himself was often afflicted by sin. Thus, he felt extremely miserable and confused…. After much consideration, he gave up his post as a pastor and left his denomination to seek the true way that could free him from sin. He visited several other denominations, but their desolation and degeneration brought him into severer loss and helplessness. Earnestly, he prayed, “O Lord! Where are you? …” Out of surprise, when investigating the word of Almighty God, he found that the Lord Jesus has come back and He is Almighty God, Christ of the last days.

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Gospel Movie "Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit" (2) - Man Needs God's Salvation in the Last Days | The Church of Almighty God

    What is being saved? Can we be fully purified and enter the kingdom of heaven only through the Lord Jesus’ salvation? This film clip will show you the answer.

Stotyline:

    Cho Yeonghan was a pastor of a Church in Korea. He was zealous in serving the Lord for decades and earned great respect from the believers. In recent years, the Church became desolate day by day. More and more evils emerged, and even he himself was often afflicted by sin. Thus, he felt extremely miserable and confused…. After much consideration, he gave up his post as a pastor and left his denomination to seek the true way that could free him from sin. He visited several other denominations, but their desolation and degeneration brought him into severer loss and helplessness. Earnestly, he prayed, “O Lord! Where are you? …” Out of surprise, when investigating the word of Almighty God, he found that the Lord Jesus has come back and He is Almighty God, Christ of the last days.

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Seek and You Will Find | Gospel Movie "Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit" | The Church of Almighty God

    Cho Yeonghan was a pastor of a Church in Korea. He was zealous in serving the Lord for decades and earned great respect from the believers. In recent years, the Church became desolate day by day. More and more evils emerged, and even he himself was often afflicted by sin. Thus, he felt extremely miserable and confused…. After much consideration, he gave up his post as a pastor and left his denomination to seek the true way that could free him from sin. He visited several other denominations, but their desolation and degeneration brought him into severer loss and helplessness. Earnestly, he prayed, “O Lord! Where are you? …” Out of surprise, when investigating the word of Almighty God, he found that the Lord Jesus has come back and He is Almighty God, Christ of the last days.

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3. What is the difference between the work of God incarnate and the work of the Spirit? | The Church of Almighty God

Bible Verse(s) for Reference:

“And he said, I beseech you, show me your glory. And he said, … You can not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live” (Exodus 33:18-20).

“And the LORD came down on mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish” (Exo 19:20-21).

“And all the people saw the thunder, and the lightning, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said to Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die” (Exo 20:18-19).

1. The Lord Jesus Himself prophesied that God would incarnate in the last days and appear as the Son of man to do work.

Bible Verse(s) for Reference:

“Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not” (Luke 12:40).

“For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation” (Luk 17:24-25).

“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him” (Matthew 25:6).

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).

Gospel Movie | Disclose the Mystery of Kingdom of Heaven "Awakening From the Dream" | The Church of Almighty God

    Like hundreds of millions of followers of the Lord Jesus, Yu Fan focused on studying the Holy Bible, cast everything aside to pay the price of suffering for the Lord, and sought to serve the Lord with enthusiasm. She thought that by seeking the Lord this way, when the Lord returns she would definitely be raptured into the heavenly kingdom. When Yu Fan, in order to realize this beautiful dream, enthusiastically preached and worked for the Lord, her fellow workers raised a difficult question: Although the sins of us believers have been forgiven, although we cast everything aside and pay the price of suffering for the Lord, we still often reveal our corruption, we still sin and oppose the Lord. God is holy, so how can corrupt people like us ever be worthy of His praise? Are we qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven? This didn't inspire Yu Fan to reflect at all, not until she had a discussion with preachers from the Church of Almighty God. Then, Yu Fan was able to understand the mysteries of rapture. She finally was able to awake from her dream, and firmly believed that Almighty God was her long-awaited Savior, the Lord Jesus.

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Flee From Religious Babylon the Great | Gospel Movie "The City Will be Overthrown" | The Church of Almighty God

    Cheng Huize is a co-worker at a house Church in China. She has believed in the Lord for many years, and has worked for the Lord with unwavering enthusiasm. She takes on a lot of responsibilities for the Church, and she has compassion for her brothers and sisters. As her church grew more and more desolate with each passing day, the wickedness in her Church were more and more frequent. The pastor energetically proposed that the church should start a factory, and led the followers down the path to wealth, and also enticed them to join the Three-Self Church so they could rely on help from the Chinese government. This caused a fierce debate to unfold. The pastor stubbornly acted in his own individual interests and did not hesitate to divide the Church, leading the believers down the wrong path. Cheng Huize and a few others held fast to the way of the Lord, and fiercely opposed the Church becoming a factory and joining the Three-Self Church. Although the elders at the Church expressed that they were opposed to this, they only did so to protect their own status and livelihood.

Hear the Voice of God | Gospel Movie "Break Through the Snare" | The Church of Almighty God

    Two thousand years ago, when the Lord Jesus did the redemptive work, He suffered the wild slander and condemnation of the Jewish religious world, and was nailed to the cross by the Jewish leaders and the Roman government. In the last days, when Almighty God—the returned Lord Jesus comes to China and does the work of judgment, He again suffers the condemnation, suppression, and persecution of the CCP government and the religious world. The widespread rumors, which judge and slander the Church of Almighty God, are like an invisible snare, covering and controlling numerous believers. The tragedy of history repeats itself….

   The protagonist of this movie is one of those numerous believers. Faced with Almighty God's gospel of the last days, she was deceived and bound by the rumors of the CCP government and the religious leaders, lost in confusion… After several intense debates, she understood the truth from Almighty God’s words, and finally saw the true fact behind the rumors. She broke through the snare and beheld the appearance of the true God….

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New Gospel Movie | Know the Incarnate God | "The Mystery of Godliness: The Sequel" | The Church of Almighty God

    Lin Bo'en is an old preacher who has believed in the Lord for many decades. Since accepting Almighty God, Christ of the last days, he was convicted, excluded, and expelled from the religious community by the pastors and elders, the antichrist forces. But even though Lin Bo'en was attacked, convicted, and framed, he did not shrink back in fear. Rather, his faith became more resolute than ever, and this led him to finally understand that the pastors and elders of the religious world were faking a virtuous appearance. At the same time, he came to know that only Christ is the truth, the way, and the life, and only Christ can save and purify and perfect man. Because of this, he was resolved to follow Christ, bear witness for Christ, and do his utmost to pursue the truth, to seek to transform his disposition so that he could become a true witness for God. Once the Chinese Communist Party discovered that Lin Bo'en was released from prison and had not changed, that he had not renounced his faith in the slightest bit and even believed in the Eastern Lightning, that he went everywhere to testify that the Lord Jesus had come again and that He was Almighty God, the CCP listed him as wanted and went to arrest him. Lin Bo'en was forced to leave his family, and in each place he testified to Almighty God's work in the last days, he was able to lead a lot of sincere, good-natured believers to God's side. This video gives an account of Lin Bo'en's true story of spreading the gospel and testifying for God.

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Almighty God's Word "Beholding the Appearance of God in His Judgment and Chastisement"

    Almighty God says, "No one apart from Him can know all of our thoughts, or have such a grasp of our nature and substance, or judge the rebelliousness and corruption of mankind, or speak to us and work among us like this on behalf of the God of heaven. No one except for Him can possess the authority, wisdom, and dignity of God; the disposition of God and what He has and is are issued forth, in their entirety, from Him. No one apart from Him can show us the way and bring us light. No one apart from Him can reveal the mysteries God has not disclosed from creation until today. No one apart from Him can save us from Satan’s bondage and our corrupt disposition. He represents God, and expresses the heart’s voice of God, the exhortations of God, and the words of judgment of God toward all mankind. He has begun a new age, a new era, and brought a new heaven and earth, new work, and He has brought us hope, and ended the life we led in vagueness, and allowed us to fully behold the path of salvation. He has conquered our whole being, and gained our hearts."

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Gospel Movie clip "The Bible and God" (1) - The Desolate Church Has Been Revived 02 | The Church of Almighty God

    After the brothers and sisters at the meeting place of Elder Liu Zhizhong's Church cast aside the shackles of the Bible, they read online about the work of Almighty God in the last days. By reading the words of Almighty God, they were nourished by the living water of life, and were able to restore their original faith and love and to confirm in their hearts that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus' second coming. When Elder Liu Zhizhong saw this happen, was he able to put down the Bible and seek to investigate God's work in the last days? Please watch this short Video!

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Gospel Movie clip "The Bible and God" (1) - The Desolate Church Has Been Revived 01 | The Church of Almighty God

    After the brothers and sisters at the meeting place of Elder Liu Zhizhong's church cast aside the shackles of the Bible, they read online about the work of Almighty God in the last days. By reading the words of Almighty God, they were nourished by the living water of life, and were able to restore their original faith and love and to confirm in their hearts that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus' second coming. When Elder Liu Zhizhong saw this happen, was he able to put down the Bible and seek to investigate God's work in the last days? Please watch this short Video!

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Gospel Movie "Break Through the Snare" (1) - Awakening From Deception | The Church of Almighty God

    Listen to their experiences and testimonies, and you will understand how Almighty God does the work of judgment to save man from Satan’s influence. As long as you thirst for the truth and yearn for the light, you’ll surely break through the snare and return before God’s throne.

Storyline:

    Two thousand years ago, when the Lord Jesus did the redemptive work, He suffered the wild slander and condemnation of the Jewish religious world, and was nailed to the cross by the Jewish leaders and the Roman government. In the last days, when Almighty God—the returned Lord Jesus comes to China and does the work of judgment, He again suffers the condemnation, suppression, and persecution of the CCP government and the religious world. The widespread rumors, which judge and slander the Church of Almighty God, are like an invisible snare, covering and controlling numerous believers. The tragedy of history repeats itself….

   The protagonist of this movie is one of those numerous believers. Faced with Almighty God's gospel of the last days, she was deceived and bound by the rumors of the CCP government and the religious leaders, lost in confusion… After several intense debates, she understood the truth from Almighty God’s words, and finally saw the true fact behind the rumors. She broke through the snare and beheld the appearance of the true God….

Recommendation: Eastern Lightning

A Mystery Puzzling the Religious World | Gospel Movie "Ironclad Proofs—Exploration of the 'Trinity'"

    

    He was a leader of a house Church in China. For many years, he had been exploring the mystery of the “Triune God”: What’s the relationship between the three Spirits, the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit? What’s the difference of them? The Bible says that there is only one Spirit. If there is only one Spirit, why is it said that there are three? If there are three Spirits, how can they be one? One day, the words expressed by God who reappeared finally unlocked the mystery of the “Triune God,” which had puzzled him many years and puzzled the religious world for two thousand years….

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1. What Is the Incarnation? What Is the Substance of the Incarnation? |The Church of Almighty God

Almighty God Is the Returned Jesus

1. What Is the Incarnation? What Is the Substance of the Incarnation?

Relevant Words of God:

The first incarnate God lived upon the earth for thirty-three and a half years, yet He performed His ministry for only three and a half of those years. Both during the time He worked, and before He began His work, He was possessed of normal humanity. He inhabited His normal humanity for thirty-three and a half years. Throughout the last three and a half years He revealed Himself to be the incarnate God. Before He began performing His ministry, He appeared with ordinary, normal humanity, showing no sign of His divinity, and it was only after He began formally performing His ministry that His divinity was made manifest. His life and work during those first twenty-nine years all demonstrated that He was a genuine human being, a son of man, a flesh; for His ministry only began in earnest after the age of twenty-nine. The meaning of incarnation is that God appears in the flesh, and He comes to work among man of His creation in the image of a flesh.

56 Why do people always use the Bible to define God? Why is it wrong to define God within the Bible?

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The answer from God’s word:

“The Bible has been accompanying man for several thousand years of history, and people all treat it as God, and in the last days people even replace God’s place with the Bible, which is a thing greatly loathed by God. So, in His leisure time, God has to make clear both the inside truth and the origin of the Bible. If not, in man’s heart the Bible can still take the place of God, and people will still condemn and measure God’s doings with the letters of the Bible. By explaining the substance and structure of the Bible and the flaws in it, God is not denying the existence of the Bible or condemning the Bible, but giving a proper and appropriate statement about it and showing what the Bible really is, correcting people’s erroneous knowledge about the Bible, so that they all can have an accurate view about the Bible, no longer worship the Bible, and no longer lose the direction—considering blindly believing in the Bible as believing in God and worshiping God, and even daring not to face the true background of the Bible and the flaws in it. After people all have a pure knowledge of the Bible, they will cast it off without any misgiving and accept God’s new word boldly. …

Gospel Movie | Know the Judgment in the Last Days "Song of Victory" | The Church of Almighty God

    The judgment work of Almighty God in the last days has reverberated throughout every sect and group. Following the spreading of the kingdom gospel, Almighty God's words are accepted and spread by more and more people, true believers in God who thirst for Him to appear have been returning one by one before God's throne. In the meantime, the Chinese government and religious pastors and elders have ceaselessly repressed and persecuted the Church of Almighty God from start to finish. The heroine of this movie, Zheng Xinjie, is a member of the Church of Almighty God who spreads the gospel. She has faced the deranged oppression and attacks from the Chinese Communist government and religious leaders. Together with her brothers and sisters, relying on God, how will she triumph over these dark, satanic forces to sing a song of victory? …

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Praise Song | "Almighty God, You Are So Glorious" (Music Video) | The Church of Almighty God

Almighty God, You Are So Glorious

The last Christ, Almighty God, You are the Redeemer come again.

You speak to the people, using the truth to judge and purify them.

Your words bear authority and power, purifying people’s corrupt disposition.

Your words reveal omnipotence, and even more God’s righteousness.

God’s word judges the old world, judges nations, judges peoples.

God’s words achieve all; God has already thoroughly defeated Satan.

Praise God, praise God. Oh Almighty God, You are so glorious!

Your miraculous deeds! All nations and all peoples jump for joy.

God’s work is wise and almighty, using the great red dragon to serve.

Satan rushes frantic to persecute; tribulations make a group of overcomers.

All the people are completed by God, utterly forsaking the great red dragon.

The kingdom of Satan has been thoroughly destroyed; the kingdom of God has appeared on earth!

We prostrate ourselves in worship, praising God’s assumption of power on earth.

Truth and righteousness is revealed to the world; all nations and all peoples raise their voices in praise.

Praise God, praise God. Oh Almighty God, You are so glorious!

Your miraculous wisdom! All nations and all peoples jump for joy.

God’s great work is completed, God is returning to Zion.

Humanity has received great salvation from God, escaped the dark influences of Satan.

Each line of God’s words bears fruit. The outcomes for different people have been revealed.

Those with the truth are blessed by God, those who hate God shall meet with punishment.

Great disasters will destroy the world; God’s people will be left.

All nations and all peoples will come before God’s throne, and all the people will praise God with all their hearts.

Praise God, praise God. Oh Almighty God, You are so glorious!

All things in heaven and earth jump for joy, praising the glory of Almighty God!

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs

Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.

9. I See the Path to Knowing God | The Church of Almighty God

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9. I See the Path to Knowing God

Xiaocao    Changzhi City, Shanxi Province

One day, I saw this following passage of God’s word in the piece “How Peter Came to Know Jesus”: “Over the time he followed Jesus, Peter observed and took to heart everything about His life: His actions, words, movements, and expressions. … From his time in contact with Jesus, Peter also realized that His character was different from that of an ordinary man. He always acted steadily and never with haste, never exaggerated nor underplayed a subject, and conducted His life in a way that was both normal and admirable. In conversation, Jesus was elegant and graceful, open and cheerful yet serene, and never lost His dignity in the execution of His work. Peter saw that Jesus was sometimes taciturn, yet other times talked incessantly. He was sometimes so happy that He became agile and lively like a dove, and yet sometimes so sad that He did not talk at all, as if He were a weather-beaten mother. At times He was filled with anger, like a brave soldier charging off to kill enemies, and sometimes even like a roaring lion. Sometimes He laughed; other times He prayed and wept. No matter how Jesus acted, Peter grew to have boundless love and respect for Him. Jesus’ laughter filled him up with happiness, His sorrow plunged him into grief, His anger frightened him, while His mercy, forgiveness, and strictness made him come to truly love Jesus, developing a true reverence and longing for Him. Of course, Peter only gradually came to realize all of this once he had lived alongside Jesus for a few years.”