I am Liang Yanli, living in Zhaodong City. I was formerly a preacher of the Pentecostal Church and was also one of the sons of disobedience who desperately resisted Almighty God’s work of the last days.

In July 1990, because my husband had an affair with another woman, I was deeply hurt and began to believe in the Lord. Half a year later, I began to preach. After I was baptized on August 9, 1991 in particular, my faith and love became greater and greater, and I could hardly tear myself away from the Bible and invariably recited five verses every day. Whenever I thought of John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”, I was greatly encouraged. One year later, I quit my job and served God full time. I was responsible for shepherding the churches in my area and attended various conference trainings. I often received overseas pastors and domestic brothers and sisters and also often fellowshipped and communicated with the co-workers from Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and those from Henan Province, Anhui Province, and so on. From 1997 on, what I fellowshipped most with the co-workers of various places was how to resist “Eastern Lightning.” And I preached in the churches, saying, “‘Eastern Lightning’ is a heresy, a cult. They say that the Bible is outdated, that we should read the little scroll, and that God has come. If you don’t accept what they preach, they will cut off your nose or ears, gouge out your eyes, or break your legs. They can get quite a lot of money if they convert one person. They are purely apostates. So we must hold on to the Bible. Only holding on to the Bible is holding on to the true way. We cannot read any other book but the Bible. We shall never fellowship with anyone whose belief is different from ours.” From then on, I began to resist the work of Almighty God and did that for as long as five years. As I look back now, my heart breaks and I only wish that I hadn’t done those things. Here, I write out how I resisted Almighty God, hoping that brothers and sisters can take warning from it and do not repeat my mistakes.

In the fall of 1997, Almighty God’s end-time work was preached to our churches. At that time, the churches in the whole northeast were in utter chaos. In each church, there were people accepting Almighty God’s new work. Facing such a situation, I spared no effort to close the churches to outsiders with several other co-workers and asked all the brothers and sisters to fast and pray, asking the Lord to stop the people of “Eastern Lightning” stealing the Lord’s sheep from our churches. From dawn to night, I went to the homes of the brothers and sisters who had accepted Almighty God to “save” them. I tried to persuade them to deny “Eastern Lightning” and told them that “Eastern Lightning” was a heresy, a cult. But regardless of how hard I persuaded them, it was to no avail. Exasperated and at my wits’ end, I condemned and blasphemed Almighty God’s work and attacked and slandered them wherever I met them. In the end, I expelled them all from the churches. But what puzzled me was that no matter how I treated them, they always smiled and never got angry. I thought to myself, “Does the book really contain a magic potion that people will change and not be angry after they read it?” Later, a sister wanted to come to my home to preach Almighty God’s work to me, yet I said, “Don’t come. I’ll drive you out even if you come. I’d rather die than accept it.” At the end of October 1997, a sister preacher of Wuzhan meeting place (which had over 40 people) accepted God’s new work of the last days, and then over 20 people in that church followed her and accepted it too. After I heard that, my lungs almost burst with anger. I hurried there and fasted and prayed for them. And I went to “save” them from house to house for seven days. I said in tears, “‘Eastern Lightning’ is a false christ, a deceiver. They talk nonsense, saying that the Lord has come. You are deceived because you don’t know the Bible and have no discernment. That way is absolutely a false way. Turn back quickly! May the Lord forgive your sins.” But no matter how I persuaded them, they had no intention of turning back, but on the contrary, they advised me to accept it. I became furious and said resentfully, “I’d rather go to hell or the lake of fire than accept it.” In the end, seeing that none of them turned back, I expelled them all from the church and informed the other meeting places that no one was allowed to have any contact with them. I left Wuzhan in hatred, grief, and disappointment. From then on, I went even further to close the churches to outsiders and assigned special people to watch over the churches. If anyone was found to have contacted the people of “Eastern Lightning,” he would be stopped from doing any church work and taking communion.

Not long afterward, Sister Gao, a co-worker assigned to preach on Sundays, who had served with me, also accepted Almighty God’s new work. She once preached how to guard against “Eastern Lightning” every day under my influence, but today she became the first to accept “Eastern Lightning” among the co-workers. I was so angry that I went to question her, “Why do you believe in the heresy?” “It’s not a heresy. I’ve read God’s word for seven days. It’s the true way. You’d better read it too!” “Even if you can talk the dead back into life, I won’t read it,” I said angrily. Later, she went to Shangdong Province and brought many brothers and sisters there (about 100 people) into “Eastern Lightning.” Hearing that, I hated “Eastern Lightning” more deeply, so much so that I could not eat or sleep well and was even in no mood to look after my child, and my eyes turned red with worry. The more I thought about it, the angrier I became. So I went to Sister Gao’s home again and roared at her, gnashing my teeth, “Why did you do that? Do you want those who are ignorant of the truth to go to hell with you? Are you human or not? Do you know the Bible or not?”