I was an assistant co-worker of the Union Mission Church, and also an arch-criminal that resisted Almighty God’s end-time work. Because I had listened to various rumors and read the false testimonies that resisted Almighty God, I desperately resisted and blasphemed God’s new work while holding that it was of an underworld organization. I didn’t wake up to reality until I was smitten by God and came down with a serious illness. Although my flesh suffered the smiting and discipline of God, I saw the salvation and love of Almighty God. If God had not disciplined me strictly in that way, I would never have come before God or received the truth, the way, and the life bestowed by God. Today, I see that there are still many brothers and sisters who are infatuatedly waiting for the return of the Savior doing the same thing as I did. Because they have listened to various rumors and fallacies and regarded “Eastern Lightning” as an underworld organization, a heresy, and a cult, they dare not come into contact with it or investigate it, and even shut the door on the returned Jesus—Almighty God, taking the painstaking care God has expended and the price God has paid as satan’s schemes and something that deceives people. I feel deeply grieved for that, and at the same time, I cannot help remembering God’s word: “They are poor, pitiful, blind, and at a loss, wailing in darkness: Where is the way? … Have you ever thought how grieved and worried God’s heart is? How could he bear to see the innocent mankind he created with his own hands suffering such torment? After all, mankind are the victims who have been poisoned. Although they have survived today, who knows that they have long been poisoned by the evil one? Have you forgotten that you are one of the victims? Are you not willing to, out of your love for God, endeavor to rescue all these survivors?” Because of the many voices God is calling out, I am willing to share my testimony with brothers and sisters about how I resisted Almighty God’s work, how I was disciplined, and how I received God’s salvation. I hope that brothers and sisters can take warning and gain some inspiration and help from this.

In recent years, I had come into contact with lots of adverse materials that resisted Almighty God’s work and had also heard countless “well-intentioned” exhortations and warnings. Among them, what impressed me most was a book called Resist Chinese Satanic Church—Eastern Lightning. The false testimonies in the book were deeply printed in my mind, and I fully believed them to be true. Since then, I had been very afraid of “Eastern Lightning.” I thought to myself, “I must be cautious from now on. If I happen to meet the people of ‘Eastern Lightning,’ I will never get in touch with them.” My uncle was the leader of our church, and he often said, “The head can be cut off and the blood can be shed, but ‘Eastern Lightning’ can never be accepted!” That made me more convinced that “Eastern Lightning” was a cult. So, in all these years, I had been taking a hostile attitude toward “Eastern Lightning.”

However, the last thing I had expected happened: One day in April 2002, my uncle called and asked me to go to his home for a matter of the utmost urgency. After I arrived at his home, I saw that four or five strangers sat in the room and there lay some books on the table. A sister passed me a book. I took it and found it was The Lightning Coming From the East. I was startled. “Isn’t this ‘Eastern Lightning’?” Immediately, the rumors about it flashed into my mind one after another. I asked in puzzlement, “Uncle, what actually is all this about?” He answered, “We have misunderstood ‘Eastern Lightning.’ Actually, it is the new work that God is doing now. I have accepted it. You’d better accept it now!” It was truly a 180-degree turn! I wondered if my uncle had got mental illness. So I answered firmly, “I need to make an investigation (actually I had no intention to do so at all). I can’t accept it rashly. I can’t betray the Lord Jesus and let him down!” With that I left in anger. During the following days, the same thing happened to many other co-workers in our church, so we gathered together to discuss how to resist “Eastern Lightning.” Then, without even taking a meal, two brothers and I rode to the villages to give instructions and closed all the churches to outsiders.

One day, a brother who lived in the town came to my home to borrow some materials, and we began to talk about “Eastern Lightning” again. He said, “The believers in Almighty God are just like glue. Even if you chucked them out, they still came to preach. Later, I simply slapped them on the face. We shouldn’t be soft on these people. They are of an underworld organization and do whatever they want under the banner of religion. If you join them, you won’t be able to get out. If you try to do so, they will cut off your ears or break your legs.” At his words, I was greatly frightened and hated the people of “Eastern Lightning” all the more. At the same time, I felt grateful: “Thanks to Jesus’ keeping and the brothers and sisters’ reminding, I did not listen to my uncle’s words and thus avoided this disaster luckily.” Before long, some brothers and sisters in our church followed my uncle and accepted Almighty God, while I and a few other co-workers led the rest of the brothers and sisters to continue believing in Jesus. We broke away from them resolutely. From then on, no matter how busy I was, I would take time to check if anyone in the church had accepted “Eastern Lightning.” I also told the co-workers that they must guard the flock properly for Jesus and must not let him down. At that time, I felt that only by doing so was I truly caring for God’s intention and being faithful to the Lord.