I was formerly a leader of the Born Again Church. Since 1997, the believers in Almighty God had been constantly preaching the gospel to me no matter whether it was windy or rainy, extremely hot or cold, daytime or nighttime. However, I always retorted upon them by saying, “The ‘Eastern Lightning’ you preach is a female Christ. Don’t deceive me. And you cannot deceive me either. I have studied the whole Bible. It doesn’t say at all that God will be incarnated the second time, much less that God is a female Christ. You say that God has been incarnated the second time. It is a deceitful lie and is purely of a heresy, a cult! The believers in God must take the Bible as the standard. Anything apart from the Bible is not trustworthy. Even if you come ten thousand times, I absolutely will not accept it!” And I often closed the churches to outsiders with Alarm Bell (It was a handbook printed by our Born Again Church, which focused on blaspheming and resisting Almighty God’s end-time work), and said to the brothers and sisters many times, “‘Eastern Lightning’ is a heresy, a cult. Do take strict precautions against it! Do not receive them or dispute with them, because you cannot beat them in argument. Even less listen to them, because once you listen, you will be deceived, and once you join them, you cannot get out. They will even cut off your nose, gouge out your eyes, or force you to commit adultery. They are the ones who drag people to hell and to the lake of fire…. Only our Born Again Church is the true way. The Lord has promised us that once saved always saved, and he will definitely come and take us to heaven. We absolutely cannot accept ‘Eastern Lightning’!” In this way, I condemned and resisted Almighty God’s end-time work all along.

One Sunday in early June of 2002, I prayed in the church: “O Lord! May you curse and punish the people who preach ‘Eastern Lightning,’ because they deceive your children everywhere. They are the ones who kill lives, destroy souls, and drag people to hell. They are much more the ones who act in opposition to you. O Lord! May you treat them with your righteousness and strike them down with the sword of the Holy Spirit!” As soon as I finished those words, I felt dizzy as if the sky and the earth were spinning round, and felt extremely ill as if I were dying. Only after a long time did I go back to normal. On the following Sunday, I prayed again in the church, still asking the Lord to curse and strike down the people who preached “Eastern Lightning,” but the same thing happened again, and it was even worse than last time. Then I examined myself: “Could ‘Eastern Lightning’ be the true way? Otherwise, the Lord would not discipline me like this. I cursed them in prayer without listening to, reading, or investigating it. Isn’t this drawing conclusions blindly? I shouldn’t do this anymore. If anyone comes to preach again, I will listen. If it is the true way, I will accept it.”

On June 21, a relative of mine came to preach God’s end-time gospel to me again. So, I prayed to God, “O Lord who created the heavens and the earth and all things! You know man’s heart best. I believe in you for no other purpose but to gain you. May you keep me from being deceived. If the end-time work they preach is really done by you, please inspire me and guide me. I am willing to seek. For you have said: ‘Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you….’” After the prayer, I asked him, “What is the three-stage work? You have to make it clear. If it is true, I will accept it.” He said, “This time God has come and explained all the truths clearly and unlocked all the mysteries to us. We’d better read God’s word.” Then, he read me this piece of God’s word—“The ‘Savior’ Has Already Returned on the ‘White Clouds.’” God says: “In each age and in the work at each stage, my name is representative, not taken without a basis. That is, each name represents one age. ‘Jehovah’ represents the Age of the Law, which is a respectful title by which the Israelites addressed the God they worshipped. ‘Jesus’ represents the Age of the Grace, which is the name of the God of all those who were redeemed in the Age of the Grace. If in the end time the Savior Jesus still came and came with his image in Judea, as people expect, then the entire six-thousand-year management plan would stop at the Age of the Redemption and could not move forward. And the end time would never come, and the age would never end. For ‘Jesus the Savior’ only redeemed and saved mankind, and I took the name ‘Jesus’ only for the sake of all the sinners in the Age of the Grace, but not for the purpose of bringing all mankind to an end. Although Jehovah, Jesus, and Messiah all represent my Spirit, these several names only represent the different ages in my management plan and do not fully represent me. The names by which people on earth call me cannot thoroughly tell all my nature and being. They are only different names by which people call me in the different ages. Therefore, when the final age, that is, the last age comes, I will again change my name, not being called Jehovah or Jesus, much less Messiah, but the powerful and almighty God Godself. And I will conclude the entire age with this name. I was once called Jehovah, and I was once called Messiah by people. And people once called me with love the Savior Jesus. Today, I am no longer Jehovah or Jesus whom people knew before but the God who has returned in the end time and who will conclude the age, and the God Godself who arises from the ends of the earth, with all my nature and full of authority, honor, and glory. People have never come into contact with me, known me, or known my nature. From the creation of the world till today, no one has ever seen me. This is the God who has appeared to people in the end time and yet who is hidden among people, living among people in a lively way, like the burning sun and a flame of fire, full of power and authority. No one and no thing will not be judged by my word. No one and no thing will not be purified under the burning of the fire. Ultimately, all nations will be blessed through my word and be smashed to pieces by my word. I will let all people in the end time see that I am the returned Savior and that I am the Almighty God who conquers all mankind. And I will let all people see that I was once man’s sin offering, but in the end time I have become the fire of the burning sun that burns all things and the sun of righteousness that exposes all things. This is my end-time work. The purpose of my taking this name and having such nature is to let all people see that I am the righteous God, the burning sun, and the flame of fire, to let all people worship me—the only true God, and to let all people see my true identity: I am not only the God of the Israelites or the Redeemer, but the God of all created beings in heaven and on earth and in the sea.” As I listened, I pondered over these words. I felt that each word was with power and with authority and that no created being was able to speak such words. This was indeed the true way and the expression of the true God! At that time, I had great enjoyment in my heart and also felt very brightened.