Where then do we go to seek out what the Holy Spirit says to the churches? The truth is that the Lord returned long ago as Almighty God, the Christ of the last days. He has incarnated as the Son of man and appeared in China to perform His work. He has expressed all the truths to purify and save mankind, He has performed the work of judgment beginning in God’s house, and He has brought the Age of Grace to an end and begun the Age of Kingdom. Almighty God’s kingdom gospel has now reached the West, and Almighty God’s words have been translated into over 20 languages which are published online for all mankind to seek and investigate. This has fulfilled the prophecy in the Bible that says, “For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:27). In the last days, Almighty God has unveiled the mystery of God’s six-thousand-year management work, revealed the sinful root of humans’ resistance to God, and showed us the path to be purified and saved. These truths are the true light that comes out of the East and shines even to the West. Let’s now read some passages of Almighty God’s words, and we will see for ourselves whether they are the truth, and whether they are the voice of God.

Almighty God says, “During the many years of My work, people have gained much, and forsaken much, yet still I say that they do not truly believe in Me. For people merely acknowledge that I am God with their mouths, but they disagree with the truths I speak, and, moreover, do not practice the truths that I ask of them. Which is to say, people acknowledge only the existence of God, but not that of the truth; people acknowledge only the existence of God, but not that of the life; people acknowledge only God’s name, but not His substance. I despise them for their zeal, for they only use nice-sounding words to deceive Me; none of them truly worship Me. Your words contain the temptation of the serpent; further, they are conceited in the extreme, a veritable proclamation by the archangel. What is more, your deeds are tattered and torn to a disgraceful degree; your immoderate desires and covetous intentions are offensive to the ear. You have all become moths in My house, objects to be discarded with loathing. For none of you love the truth; instead, you desire to be blessed, to ascend to heaven, to behold the magnificent vision of Christ wielding His power on earth. But have you ever thought how someone like you, someone so deeply corrupted, who has no idea what God is, could be worthy of following God? How could you ascend to heaven? How could you be worthy of beholding such magnificent scenes, scenes without precedent in their splendor?”

“The purpose of your faith in God is to use Him to achieve your own aims. Is this not further a fact of your offense against the disposition of God? You believe in the existence of the God in heaven and deny that of the God on earth, yet I do not recognize your views; I commend only those people who keep their feet on the ground and serve the God on earth, but never those who never acknowledge the Christ who is on earth. No matter how loyal such people are to the God in heaven, in the end they will not escape My hand that punishes the wicked. These people are the wicked; they are the evil ones who oppose God and have never gladly obeyed Christ. Of course, their number includes all those who do not know and, further, do not acknowledge Christ.”

“I tell you, those who believe in God because of the signs are surely the category that shall be destroyed. Those who are incapable of receiving the words of Jesus who has returned to flesh are surely the progeny of hell, the descendants of the archangel, the category that shall be subjected to everlasting destruction. Many people may not care what I say, but I still want to tell every so-called saint who follows Jesus that, when you see Jesus descend from the heaven upon a white cloud with your own eyes, this will be the public appearance of the Sun of righteousness. Perhaps that will be a time of great excitement for you, yet you should know that the time when you witness Jesus descend from the heaven is also the time when you go down to hell to be punished. That will be the time of the end of God’s management plan and it will be when God rewards the good and punishes the wicked. For the judgment of God will have ended before man sees signs, when there is only the expression of truth. Those who accept the truth and do not seek signs, and thus have been purified, shall have returned before the throne of God and entered the Creator’s embrace. Only those who persist in the belief that ‘The Jesus who does not ride upon a white cloud is a false Christ’ shall be subjected to everlasting punishment, for they only believe in the Jesus who exhibits signs, but do not acknowledge the Jesus who proclaims severe judgment and releases the true way of life. And so it can only be that Jesus deals with them when He openly returns upon a white cloud. They are too stubborn, too confident in themselves, too arrogant. How could such degenerates be rewarded by Jesus?”

Now that we’ve read these words of Almighty God which judge and expose man, I trust that those brothers and sisters who are possessed of both heart and spirit will be able to perceive the authority and power in God’s words and see the appearance of God’s righteous disposition. The words of Almighty God expose our corrupt dispositions of being sick of the truth, of being greedy, of being deceitful, of being arrogant and conceited, and more, as well as the incorrect views we hold in our faith in God. We used to believe that by toiling and working hard, by giving up everything, and by suffering and paying the price, we were the ones who loved God most. Only by accepting the judgment of God’s words do we see that our dispositions are too arrogant, and when the appearance and work of God fail to conform to our own notions, we go so far as to delimit God’s work with our own notions and imaginings. We can also see that our faith in God is too tainted; we do not believe in God so that we may gain the truth and repay His love, but rather so that we may gain blessings, evade the disasters and get into the kingdom of heaven. Though we may be able to expend ourselves for God, yet we do not truly obey God or love God. When God blesses us, we wish to expend ourselves for Him, but when adversity and trials befall us, we are unable to stop ourselves from complaining and blaming God, and we even doubt God and deny Him. Without the judgment of these words, we would have no self-knowledge at all, and we would still be singing our own praises, believing ourselves to be people who love and obey God, and who will be raised up into the kingdom of heaven when the Lord returns. After we have accepted the judgment of God’s words, however, we come to perceive how holy and righteous God is. We become aware that not to pursue the truth or seek to rid ourselves of sin in our faith in God, but instead believe in Him merely to receive blessings and gain grace, is to use God and offend His disposition. We then no longer dare to say we are obedient to God, and we feel that we have been corrupted too deeply, and that we must hurry to pursue the truth, forsake our flesh, and cast off our corrupt dispositions. At the same time, we come to understand the great care and thought Christ of the last days puts into expressing the truth and judging mankind. We come to understand that, although God’s words of judgment for man may be stern, they are all spoken so that we may reflect on ourselves and achieve true repentance and change. Within God’s righteous disposition there can be found God’s mercy for us. If we do not experience God’s judgment and chastisement, we will never be able to see just how deeply Satan has corrupted us, we will never be able to know God’s righteous, majestic disposition that brooks no offense, a God-fearing heart will not arise within us, and we will never be able to free ourselves from the bonds of sin and become people truly obedient to God. Were it not for God incarnate expressing His words, whose words could reveal God’s holy and righteous disposition that brooks no offense? Who else could judge and reveal our corrupt essence with their words? All the truths Almighty God expresses in the last days which judge and purify man entirely reveal God’s identity and position; His truths are judgment and condemnation for man, but they are also purification and salvation. In the last days and before the arrival of the great tribulation, God uses His words to seek those who yearn for His appearance. It’s just as in the time of Noah. Before the great flood descended, God commanded Noah to spread the gospel to save people, and those who were able to accept the gospel and who believed God’s words survived. The eight members of Noah’s family heard His words and obeyed. They boarded the ark and so survived, whereas those who did not see the facts and therefore did not believe were destroyed by the flood. Now in the last days, those who accept the judgment of the words of Christ of the last days are purified and changed. They are made into overcomers by God before the great tribulation arrives, they are led by God into the next age and they inherit God’s blessings and promises. Once God has made a group of overcomers, God will unleash the great tribulation and He will reward the good and punish the wicked. He will come on a cloud and reveal Himself openly to man, and those who have just waited for the Lord to descend on a cloud and who have refused to accept God’s secret work will at this time be swept up in the disasters and punished, and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. This will be the fulfillment of the prophecy in the Bible which says, “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory” (Matthew 24:30).

How then must we approach God’s work in the last days so that we may conform with God’s will? Almighty God says, “The return of Jesus is a great salvation for those who are capable of accepting the truth, but for those who are unable to accept the truth it is a sign of condemnation. You should choose your own path, and should not blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and reject the truth. You should not be an ignorant and arrogant person, but someone who obeys the guidance of the Holy Spirit and longs for and seeks the truth; only in this way will you benefit. I advise you to tread the path of belief in God with care. Do not jump to conclusions; what is more, do not be casual and thoughtless in your belief in God. You should know that, at the very least, those who believe in God should be humble and reverential. Those who have heard the truth and yet turn their nose up at it are foolish and ignorant. Those who have heard the truth and yet carelessly jump to conclusions or condemn it are beset by arrogance. No one who believes in Jesus is qualified to curse or condemn others. You should all be someone with sense and who accepts the truth. Perhaps, having heard the way of truth and having read the word of life, you believe that only one in 10,000 of these words are in line with your convictions and the Bible, and then you should continue to seek in that 10,000th of these words. I still advise you to be humble, to not be over-confident, and to not exalt yourself too highly. With your heart holding such meager reverence for God, you will gain greater light. If you carefully examine and repeatedly contemplate these words, you shall understand whether or not they are the truth, and whether or not they are life.” Within Almighty God’s words lie His expectations for us. God hopes that, when we encounter His work of the last days, we do not delimit it with our notions and imaginings, but rather that we become humble seekers of the truth, that we listen to the truths God expresses, and seek to discover whether these truths are indeed the voice of God. Only by doing this will we be able to greet the appearance of the Lord, for if we do not, then we will have spent many years believing in God only to miss this opportunity to greet the Lord, and it will be too late for regret.

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