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And this will not occur before the work of Almighty God on Earth is completed. In fact, Chinese anti-cult sources started associating the crime with the Church of Almighty God only in June 2014, after the McDonalds murder, and ten months after the local police had closed the case by concluding that the aunt was the sole perpetrator (Folk 2017b). The two elements, of discovering the Church of Almighty God through Facebook and being originally disturbed by the negative information on Internet, are also part of the experience of Tina and Charlie, an American couple operating their own small business in Arizona I personally interviewed after their conversion. When a group of believers will have been made perfect, and the righteous will have been acknowledged and the evildoers exposed, the work of Almighty God will come to an end and God and humans will enter into eternal rest (see below, under Millennial Beliefs.). The boy later became internationally famous for a successful ocular prosthesis surgery performed on him in Shenzhen. In fact, the notion of xie jiao was born in the Ming period, and a more correct translation is heterodox teachings. What teachings were heterodox was determined by the Emperor, and lists of xie jiao were based on both theological and political grounds. However, scholars who studied the documents of the subsequent trial, where two of the assassins were sentenced to death, concluded that the group, although using the name Almighty God, was not part of the Church of Almighty God and in fact believed in a different Almighty God, a dual deity incarnated in the two female leaders of the movement: Zhang Fan (19842015), who was executed, and L Yingchun. Dunn, Emily (2015a) Church of Almighty God / Eastern Lightning, World Religions and Spirituality Project, February 19, 2015. https://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/church-of-almighty-god/. There is no formal liturgy in the Church of Almighty God, nor sacraments such as baptism or eucharist. The state labeled Zhao Weishans fake Church of Almighty God as a xie jiao, and we label them as evil spirits. Only Zhang Fan and I, the firstborn sons, could represent the real Church of Almighty God. Zhang Fan and I are the unique spokeswomen for the real Almighty God. The government has been cracking down on the Almighty God that Zhao Weishan believes in, not the Almighty God we mention. [] Gods work is so practical (Christopher 2016). This work is final, and there will not be another incarnation of God after the present Almighty God. Six missionaries entered the McDonalds and asked for the cell phone numbers of the customers. The Church of Almighty God releases periodical statistics, and claims that between 2011 and 2013 more than 300,000 members were arrested. They are fake Almighty God, while we are the real Almighty God (The Beijing News 2014). The disasters are prophesied in the Bible, but we do not know the details. It is not willing to be defeated. It came to be accepted by the movement, and refers to a passage in Matthew 24:27: For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. This lighting that comes from the east, according to the Church, is Jesus Christ returning as Almighty God, from a country in the east, China, to inaugurate the third age of humanity. After 2014, members of the Church of Almighty God were able to practice their religion freely and openly outside China, and a number of important artistic productions followed. Although the sinful nature of humans justified Gods wrath, from the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to the Flood and beyond, God also revealed and manifested his love. Folk, Holly (2017) Cult Crimes and Fake News: Eye-Gouging in Shanxi, The Journal of CESNUR 1(2):96-109. http://cesnur.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tjoc_1_2_5_folk.pdf. While authorities in these countries claim that there is not enough evidence of the fact that asylum seekers have been persecuted, some international experts counter this with the argument that, since the Church of Almighty God is persecuted as a movement, this is sufficient evidence that the members can be viewed as genuine asylum seekers, and decisions unfavorable to applicants are unjustified (oryt 2018). Sometimes, families and opponents complain that the routine of fellowshipping takes too much time and distracts believers from their secular pursuits. The Church of Almighty God has appeared in all lists of xie jiao ever since. Folk, Holly (2018) Protestant Continuities in The Church of Almighty God. 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The Church of Almighty God is personally led and shepherded by the person it recognizes as Almighty God, while Zhao Weishan is cooperating with the work of Almighty God, and is in charge of the administrative affairs of the Church. In 1995, both the Shouters and the Church of Almighty God were included in the list. A member of the Church of Almighty God called Danny answered, and told her: God has come to do His work on earth and expressed the words to judge and purify man in the last days. [] Will Satan just do nothing as God comes to do the work of saving man and helping man break away from Satans dark influence? In fact, the Millennial Kingdom has yet to officially arrive. In fact, Gods glorification on earth is not yet complete. How was this possible, since he firmly believed he had been saved by Jesus? Speaking of God Himself, that is to say, I am God in substance. In the mid-1990s, a harsh repression targeted both the Shouters and the Church of Almighty God, whose theological differences were not necessarily clear to the Chinese authorities. After reading and carefully investigating the words of Almighty God, Ann converted and concluded: Ive fully ascertained that Almighty God is really the return of the Lord Jesus. She still encounters opposition based on charges that she has joined a cult, but Tina and Charlie maintain a good relationship with their daughter and neighbors, and do not despair of eventually bringing some of them to believe in Almighty God, not through insistence but through example, cordiality, and good grace. Words of Almighty God about the Millennial Kingdom. My family has no money, should I start making money? Max was born in the United States but his parents soon returned with him to their home country, China. The figure is disputed by scholars, and the situation in China makes statistics difficult. Almighty God does not announce the end of the world, but its transformation. At age 14, he came back to the United States to attend high school there. In 2000, Zhao and Yang went to the United States, which they entered on September 6, and in 2001 they were granted political asylum. However, an examination of available sources supports the conclusion that the crime was perpetrated by Guo Bins aunt, a mentally disturbed person who later committed suicide, and had nothing to do with the Church of Almighty God. In the Age of Kingdom, Almighty God speaks to make people perfect, to purify that which is dirty within them, and to make them holy, and righteous before God. During this necessary purification period, the Millennial Kingdom is merely a microcosm, living as a prophecy in the believers who are being made perfect by the words of God. One of the distinctive characteristics of the new kingdom of God is beauty (The Church of Almighty God 2017a: 46, 88). Between 2014 and 2017, members of the Church of Almighty God produced some 2,000 paintings and fifty movies (as well as more than 600 religious videos). Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code makes proselyting and being otherwise active on behalf of a xie jiao a crime, punishable with jail penalties from three to seven years and more. Christopher (not his real name) was a pastor of the International Christian Life Center (ICLC) in the Philippines. A Churchs video about family life and worship. The most recent attempt to date resulted in Rule 1 of the Interpretations on the Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Criminal Cases Relating to Organizing and Utilizing Evil Organizations to Destroy Law Enforcement, issued on January 25, 2017, by the Peoples Supreme Court and the Office of the Peoples Supreme Attorney. the time of the Old Testament and the Age of Grace, which went from the birth of Jesus to the advent of Almighty God in the twentieth century. In light of the great disasters and various signs of the last days mentioned in Revelation, I was more convinced in my heart that the last days have arrived, and the little scroll [of Revelation 10:10] shall have been opened now. God still has another part of glory: coming to earth to actually work and make perfect a group of people (The Church of Almighty God 2015). What won him was the doctrine of the two stages of salvation, and the idea that saved and purified are different concepts. Fellowshipping today is often done by Internet, and it may happen that believers from different countries and even different continents fellowship together. The beliefs of the Church of Almighty God derive from The Word Appears in the Flesh, first published in 1997, which is a collection of the utterances of Almighty God, amounting to more than 1,000,000 words, considered by the Church as normative and including what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17; 3:12) and the truths to be expressed by the Spirit of truth (John 16:13) in the last days, as prophesied in the Bible (The Church of Almighty God 2017a). They also see clearly the satanic and demonic essence of the leaders of the [mainline] religious world and the atheistic political regime of the Chinese Communist Party. The headquarters of the Church of Almighty God in Seoul. The Church defines as its member whoever truly believes in God, has good humanity, and is certain that Almighty God is the returned Jesus in our days from China, a country that, according to the Church, represents at the same time the place where the evil dragon of the Book of Revelation manifested itself in the semblance of the Chinese Communist Party and the place where the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Eastern Lightning, must manifest himself. The Scroll Has Been Opened! A video posted on the movements Web site in 2015 distinguishes between the Age of Kingdom, in which we now live, and the Age of the Millennial Kingdom: How do you see the vision of the Millennial Kingdom? If you like, I can invite her to have a meeting and fellowship with us about it as well as how the little scroll prophesied in Revelation is opened. Interestingly, and following a pattern repeated in other stories of conversions by Westerners, fellowshipping with the more experienced believer, Sister Flora, also took place on Facebook. 1951), a native of the Heilongjiang Province in China, who was at that time a leader in an independent branch of the Shouters movement. These figures are impossible to verify, but do not appear unbelievable if one considers the frequent references to successful campaigns against the Church of Almighty God in Chinese anti-xie-jiao propaganda and other official sources. oryt, Rosita (2018) Religious Persecution, Refugees, and Right of Asylum: The Case of The Church of Almighty God. The Journal of CESNUR 2(1):78-99. http://cesnur.net/wp-content/u Ann (2017) Behold! There is no pattern of the religious lifes frequency or duration, which depends on the needs and situations of the members of each local community. The disasters prophesied in the Book of Revelation will follow, in the shape of earthquakes, wars, and famines. Almighty God came to inaugurate the third age of humanity, the Age of Kingdom, which follows the Age of Law, i.e. Although humans sin, God loves them to the point of taking personal care of their clothing. He believed to be a good and effective Christian pastor, yet after years of service to his church he still looked on himself as a sinful and less than perfect human being, who easily lost his temper with his family. Since the Zhaoyuan McDonald's murder of 2014 (discussed in the Controversies section), the repression in China has intensified, and several thousand members have escaped abroad, where they have founded churches in South Korea, the United States, Italy, Canada, and other countries, in addition to those established in Hong Kong and Taiwan. L Yingchun is also God in substance (The Beijing News 2014). As Almighty God revealed, all that is beautiful and pure in this world will survive: This life, this beauty, from time immemorial and forevermore, will not change. As happened with Tibetan Buddhism, the persecution in China and the international diaspora of the Church of Almighty God had two unintended consequences. Despite governmental repression, and hostility by some leaders of the mainline Christian churches, the Church of Almighty God grew in China and, according to Chinese official sources, had reached four million members in 2014. The Church clarifies its teachings about the Millennial Kingdom. Beauty, however, is also produced by those who give great praise to Almighty God in an artistic form. In the same year, the person identified by the movement as Almighty God formally entered the House Church movement. Some of them entered the circuit of the Christian film festivals, the theology of which is undoubtedly far removed from that of the Church of Almighty God but, nonetheless, they have honored some of the movies, including the musical Xiaozhens Story and the docudrama Chronicles of Religious Persecution in China, with several significant awards. Christian, Eastern Lightning, Messianic, China, Yang Xiangbin, Zhao Weishan, Book of Revelation. There are only a handful of photographs of both Yang and Zhao, allegedly taken many years ago and whose authenticity cannot be proved. The Church also reports that many of its members were tortured in China, and some died while in custody in suspicious circumstances. A painting by the Church of Almighty God depicting the Last Days. A miracle follows: nature itself reacts to the efforts and prayers of the believers and becomes more beautiful. The Chinese expression xie jiao is translated in Chinese official documents into English as evil cults or destructive cults. The translation, however, is wrong, and is connected to an attempt to argue that the problem of destructive cults is not only Chinese, but international. When people give great praise before Me, Almighty God revealed, I am exalted among all things, and thus the flowers on earth grow more beautiful beneath the hot sun, the grass becomes more verdant, and the clouds in the sky seem more blue (The Church of Almighty God 2017a: 121). Not all members of the Church of Almighty God will survive the disasters and live forever, only those purified by Gods work. The Word Appears in the Flesh also mentions the piteous state of those who, remaining outside the new kingdom, are deprived of this beauty, watching the beautiful scenes within the kingdom but unable to enter (The Church of Almighty God 2017a: 166). Since 1996, the Church of Almighty God has been severely persecuted in China. The testimony and the strenuous activities of the followers of Almighty God are in themselves beautiful (The Church of Almighty God 2017a: 9). At that time, the words spoken by God will guide people step by step, and reveal all of the mysteries of Gods work from the time of creation until today, and His words will tell people of Gods actions in every age and every day, how He guides people inside, the work He does in the spiritual realm, and will tell man [sic] of the dynamics of the spiritual realm. The visible sign that the Age of the Millennial Kingdom has arrived will be that all nations will come under Gods name, and all come to read Gods words, a situation obviously not yet realized in the present Age the Kingdom. It doesnt mean that he has been completely purified. The sinful disposition remains, and is only being eradicated now, by the second appearance of Christ as Almighty God in the Last Days. Other incidents are also mentioned, but the most frequent accusations concern the Zhaoyuan McDonald's murder of 2014, which was at the center of a BBC World Service news item (BBC World Service 2014). The scroll has been opened! (Ann 2017). Official Website: http://www.holyspiritspeaks.org. Tagged: Understandably, his testimony is much more theological, yet grounded on his personal experience. Certainly, opponents of the Church of Almighty God resort at time to questionable tactics. Other Christian churches have accused the Church of Almighty God both of heresy and of sheep-stealing through devious strategies. Since then, they have lived and directed the movement from New York. First, it led to a globalization of the movement, as non-Chinese started joining it in South Korea, the United States, and elsewhere, although ethnic Chinese still form the majority of the communities in most diaspora countries. Planet Earth, however, will not be destroyed. What is the Millennial Kingdom? In the Last Days, he learned, under the guidance of Gods words, more and more people are able to distinguish the evil forces that originate from Satan.

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