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“As the words of God were spoken, the land became lush and green, all sorts of herbs that could be enjoyed by man sprang forth and broke from the ground, and the mountains and plains became thickly populated by trees and forests…. This barren world, in which there had not been any trace of life, was rapidly covered by a profusion of grass, herbs and trees and overflowing with greenery…. ”

From “God Himself, the Unique I”

Gospel Movie "The City Will be Overthrown"

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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. Even though the pastor and elders were all harboring secrets in their hearts, locked in constant strife for their own fame and profit, fighting out of envy, when they saw that most of the good sheep and leading sheep in the church had investigated the Eastern Lightning and turned to Almighty God one by one, they joined together with the Chinese government and fought to repress the Eastern Lightning, blocking the believers from coming to study the Eastern Lightning, urging the followers to report them to the police. They set an example by reporting and arresting the brothers and sisters preaching the kingdom gospel. Cheng Huize and others saw that the pastor and the elders had deviated from the Lord's way a long time ago, and the church had already lost the work of the Holy Spirit and had degenerated into a religious place like Babylon the Great, cursed and reviled by the Lord. Because of this, they decided to investigate the Eastern Lightning to search for the manifestation and work of God. After intense debates with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God, Cheng Huize and the others finally began to see clearly that the leaders of the religious world opposed God in substance, and the reason why the religious world declined, day by day drawing nearer to its destruction: The pastors and elders of the religious world, although they could explain the Bible and hold the Bible in high esteem, they only do so for status and livelihood. They are confusing and ensnaring people. They don't hold God in high regard or bear witness for Him, they don't understand God at all. In the last days, when the incarnate Almighty God does His work, they oppose Him without the slightest scruple, they condemn God's work, even to the point where they unite with the Chinese government to arrest believers. This is enough to prove that they possess a satanic nature that hates the truth and hates God. They are modern-day Pharisees, impersonating virtuous people, antichrists who deny that God becomes flesh. The religious world has already completely become a stronghold for antichrists who are enemies of God. They will absolutely meet with God's curses and punishments. Cheng Huize and others were eventually able to differentiate the antichrist nature of the leaders of the religious world, and guided the believers to break away from the confusion and control of the Pharisees, to escape without hesitation from Babylon, the city that will be overthrown….

Since God is righteous, why is it that the wicked are prosperous and live a comfortable life while the good are bullied and oppressed, and suffer hardships and afflictions?

Bible Reference:

“There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from there. Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house: For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment” (Luke 16:19-28).

The answer from God’s word:

“Whoever receives blessings in this age will surely suffer in eternity. Whoever suffers in this age will surely receive blessings in eternity. This is My ordination and no one can change it. No one can change My heart. …”

from “The Ninety-seventh Utterance” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

“How should one understand, how should one comprehend the righteous disposition of God? How does one come to know this righteousness? The righteous man receives God’s blessing, and the evil person meets the curses of God. Such is the righteousness of God, right? Is this how it is? I will ask you, if a righteous person has not received God’s blessing, and cannot obtain God’s blessing, and if God does not bless him, and an evil person on the contrary is wealthy in family property, has numerous children, and everything goes smoothly and successfully, is this the righteousness of God? Yes! How do we explain it? There is a saying that God rewards the good and punishes the evil, and that each person receives retribution according to his or her actions. Is this saying correct? Now there is a thing like this: A person who worships God is killed or is cursed by God, or God has never blessed him or paid attention to him, and further worship is ignored. Then there is an evil person whom God has neither blessed nor punished, but he is wealthy in family property, has numerous children, and everything goes smoothly and successfully. Some people say: ‘God is not righteous. We worship Him, yet we have not received His blessing. The evil person, however, who has not worshipped Him but resisted Him, is better than us in everything, higher than we are. God is not righteous!’ What does this thing allow you to see? Of the two examples that I just gave, which one illustrates God’s righteousness? Some people say: ‘They are both God’s righteousness!’ Why would they say this? The understanding that people have of the disposition of God is erroneous. All of man’s knowing is within his thinking and point of view, from a standpoint of trade, or from viewpoint of good and evil or right and wrong, or from the point of view of logic. If you go about knowing God while holding these viewpoints, there will be no way to be compatible with God, and you will still resist God, and make complaint. There was a beggar that appeared to be a fool. He knew only to worship God, but God just ignored him, God did not bless him. Perhaps you are thinking, ‘Even if God will not bless him in the world to come, certainly God will bless him in eternity and reward him ten thousand times over. Would that not make God righteous? That rich man, he enjoys hundredfold blessings, and in the ever-after is extinguished. Is this not also the righteousness of God?’ … According to human conceptions, the good is rewarded and the evil is punished, evil persons must not receive reward, and those who do no evil should all receive reward, and be blessed, because God is righteous. It seems that people should receive what they deserve, and that God is said to be righteous only when people receive what is due to them. What if someone does not get his or her share? Should you then say that God is not righteous? … Knowledge of God is not saying this or that about God based on how humans view things. There is no truth in the way humans view things. You must see what the essence of God is, what the disposition of God is. People should not see the essence of God based on the external phenomena of what God has done or has dealt with. The human race itself has been corrupted by Satan. It essentially does not know what its nature is, or what the corrupted human race is before God, and how it should be dealt with. Consider Job, a righteous man blessed by God. This is God’s righteousness. Job undergoes trials, and Satan makes a wager with Jehovah: Why does Job worship You? It is because You give him such reward. If You take all of that away from him, will he still worship You? Jehovah God said, ‘As long as you don’t take his life, you may do whatever you please.’ Satan went to Job and later Job encountered trials. Everything he had was stripped away, and his children died. Is the righteous disposition of God contained in Job’s trials? Yes! Where? You can’t explain it, right? Even if you are a righteous person, God still has a right to try you, and allow you to become a witness for God. The disposition of God is righteous. He treats everyone equally, which does not mean that because the righteous person can endure trials that he does not need to undergo them, that the righteous person needs to be protected. It is not like this. He has the right to try you. This is an expression of His righteous disposition. Finally, after Job underwent trials and bore witness for Jehovah, He blessed him even more than before, blessing him doubly and better. Furthermore, Jehovah appeared before him, and spoke to him in the wind, as if Job saw Him face to face. This is a blessing given to him, yes? This is God’s righteousness. What if it is the opposite? Jehovah saw Job accepting these trials, bearing witness for Him in Satan’s presence, and shaming Satan. But Jehovah turned and left ignoring him. Job did not attain blessing afterward. Is God’s righteousness in this? Regardless of whether Job was blessed after the trials or not, or whether Jehovah appeared before him or not, all of this contains God’s good pleasure. Appearing before him is God’s righteousness, and not appearing before him is also God’s righteousness. As part of the creation, on what basis do you make demands on God? Man is not qualified to make demands on God. To make a demand of God is the most unwise thing. God will do what He wants, and God has a right not to do it this way. He has a right to handle these things on His own. His own disposition is righteous. Righteousness is by no means impartial and reasonable, cutting one in two, giving you as much work as you can do or paying you according to how much work you have done. This is not God’s righteousness. You believe that each person does his share, with distribution according to work done, and that each person receives his due according to what he puts out; none other than this is righteousness. … The essence of God is righteousness. Though it is not easy to understand what God does, all that He does is righteous. It is simply that people do not understand, no mistake about that. You see that when God gave Peter to Satan, how Peter responded: ‘Man is unable to penetrate what You do, but all of what You do contains Your good pleasure. There is righteousness in all of it. How can I not utter praise for Your wise deeds?’ … Everything that God does is righteous. Though you are unable to discover it, you should not make judgment as you please. If it appears to you as irrational, or if you have a conception about it, and then say God is not righteous, this is the most unwise. Just now I raised a few negative examples for you to differentiate, and you don’t dare to speak. You see that Peter found some things incomprehensible, yet he was sure that God’s wisdom was present here, that God’s good pleasure was in it all.”

from “How to Understand the Righteous Disposition of God” in Records of Christ’s Talks With Leaders and Workers of the Church

The Hymn of God's Word "Fallen Is Babylon the Great"

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Now the world is falling!

Babylon is being paralyzed!

The religious world—

how could it not be destroyed by God’s authority on earth?

Who dares to disobey and oppose God?

Who dares to disobey and oppose God?

Are they all the religious officials?

Are they the teachers of the law?

Are they “the rulers and authorities” on earth?

Are they the angels?

Who does not celebrate the perfection and fullness of God’s body?

Among all peoples, who does not sing God’s praises without cease,

who’s not unfailingly happy?

Who does not celebrate the perfection and fullness of God’s body?

Among all peoples, who does not sing God’s praises without cease,

who’s not unfailingly happy?

from “The Twenty-second Utterance” of God’s Utterance to the Entire Universe in

The Word Appears in the Flesh

Discern the Substance of the Pastors and Elders

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Why do the pastors and elders in the religious world keep the believers from investigating Almighty God’s work in the last days? They always read the Bible and give sermons to others, but is it proof enough that their deeds are in accordance with the Lord’s will? What are their nature and substance? Is their service approved of by God?

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….

The Hymn of God's Word "How God Rules Over All Things"

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1. From the moment you come crying into this world, you begin to perform your duty. In the plan and ordination of God, you assume your role, and begin the journey of life. Whatever your background or the journey ahead of you, none can escape the orchestration and arrangement that Heaven has in store, and none are in control of their destiny, for only He who rules over all things is capable of such work.

2. Since the day man came into existence, God has been steady in His work, managing this universe and directing the change and movement of all things. Like all things, man quietly and unknowingly receives the nourishment of the sweetness and rain and dew from God. Like all things, man unknowingly lives under the orchestration of God’s hand. The heart and spirit of man are held in the hand of God, and all the life of man is beheld in the eyes of God. Regardless of whether or not you believe this, any and all things, living or dead, will shift, change, renew, and disappear according to God’s thoughts. This is how God rules over all things.

from “God Is the Source of Man’s Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

God Is the Source of Man’s Life

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"God created this world and brought man, a living being unto which He bestowed life, into it. In turn, man came to have parents and kin and was no longer alone. Ever since man first laid eyes on this material world, he was destined to exist within the ordination of God. It is the breath of life from God that supports each living being throughout his growth into adulthood. During this process, none believe that man lives and grows up under the care of God. Rather, they hold that man grows up under the love and care of his parents, and that his growth is governed by the instinct of life. This is because man knows not who bestowed life or from whence it came, much less how the instinct of life creates miracles. Man knows only that food is the basis of the continuation of life, that perseverance is the source of existence of life, and that the belief in his mind is the wealth of his survival. Man does not feel the grace and provision from God. Man then squanders the life bestowed upon him by God. … Not one man whom God looks upon day and night takes the initiative to worship Him. God continues to work as He has planned on man for whom He holds no expectations. He does so in the hope that one day, man will awaken from his dream and suddenly comprehend the value and purpose of life, understand the cost at which God has given man everything, and know how fervently God longs for man to turn back to Him. None have ever considered the secrets to the origin and continuation of man’s life. And yet, only God who understands all of this silently endures the hurt and blows from man, who has received everything from God but is not thankful. Man takes for granted all that life brings, and “as a matter of course,” God is betrayed, forgotten, and extorted by man. Is the plan of God truly of such importance? Is man, the living being that came from the hand of God, truly of such importance? The plan of God is of absolute importance; however, the living being created by the hand of God exists for His plan. Therefore, God cannot lay waste to His plan out of hatred for this mankind. It is for the sake of His plan and the breath He exhaled that God endures all torment, not for the flesh of man but for the life of man. He wishes to take back not the flesh of man but the life He breathed out. This is His plan."

                                                                                     from The Word Appears in the Flesh