“God has long since hated and gnashed at this dark society. He is impatient to trample with both feet on this ancient serpent, which is guilty of the most heinous crimes, and let it be unable to stand up forever and entrap man anymore. God will not forgive its past. God will not allow it to deceive man anymore. God will settle an account with it for its sins throughout the ages one by one. God will never let this arch-criminal off and will have it exterminated!” Whenever I read this passage of God’s word, I somewhat didn’t want God to do so. Since I believed in God, I not only have not been persecuted by the government but from it I have been receiving the salary while performing my duty in God’s family. Isn’t this very good? Why does God hate the great red dragon so much and even want to have it exterminated? All along I had no hatred for the great red dragon. However, a thing in my experience woke me up completely. And I truly saw the ugly and detestable features of the brutal and inhuman great red dragon. I also tasted how difficult it is for God to do his work on earth.

On the afternoon of April 23, 2003, right after I finished a phone call, a white minivan suddenly blocked my way. From the van got off three policemen and without any words they pushed me into the minivan and took me to the public security bureau. In the interrogation room, they kept on questioning me about the matters of my belief in God. When they saw they couldn’t get what they wanted from my mouth, they put me into torture. One of them fiercely and ruthlessly turned my left arm backward from my lower left side and gave it a strong upward push with his leg, and another turned my right arm backward from my upper right side and gave it a strong downward pull, and then they handcuffed my wrists together. Immediately, I felt tearing pain in my arms; especially my left arm, I felt an unbearable sharp pain there as if it were broken. So intense was the pain that I cried out in tears. They did not release me from the handcuffs until I was almost tortured faint, and then they put me in the lock-up, where I saw six sisters believing in Almighty God were also detained. They had also been beaten black and blue, which was too horrible to look at.

In the following interrogation, one of the sisters was pushed down on the ground by six young policemen, and they took turns whipping her furiously with a leather belt. The group of wolfish policemen tortured the sister barely breathing and into a mass of bruises…. During those few days, I personally saw the brutal and inhuman tortures one after another. I could hardly believe that they were true, yet, I had seen them with my own eyes. I thought of my former knowledge of the great red dragon, and I remembered these words of God: “No wonder that God is incarnated in an extremely hidden way. In such a dark society where the devils act brutally and inhumanly, how could the murderous archfiend allow the lovely, kind, and holy God to exist? How could it clap and cheer for the coming of God? … Freedom of religious belief and civil legal rights and interests, are all the chicaneries they use to cover up their evil! … Why hinder God’s work to a watertight extent? Why use all kinds of chicaneries to deceive the people of God? Where are the true freedom and the legal rights and interests? Where is justice? Where is consolation? Where is warmth? Why use schemes to deceive the people of God? Why forcibly suppress the coming of God? Why disallow God to freely stroll on the earth created by him? Why hunt down God so much so that he has no place to lay his head? Where is the warmth of the human world? Where is the welcome of the human world? Why leave God expecting persistently and earnestly? Why leave God calling out again and again? Why make God worry about his beloved Son? Why do the dark society and the watchdogs in collusion not allow God to freely come to and leave the world created by him?” At the moment, I felt from the bottom of my heart that every word of God is the truth. Extremely remorseful, I bowed down before God and wept bitterly. I silently confessed to God in my heart: O God! I was so ignorant and blind that I was deceived all the time by such humbug of the great red dragon as “the freedom of religious belief and the freedom of human rights….” I always had doubts about your words of exposing the essence of the great red dragon, and I even couldn’t figure out why you want to exterminate this old devil. I was really ignorant! If I did not personally see the brutal and inhuman persecution by the great red dragon, I would never believe that this band of devils are so hypocritical, horrible, cruel, and inhuman, and even less would I realize the sufferings you have been undergoing when being incarnated. In today’s circumstances, I have clearly distinguished between good and evil, seen your beauty and kindness, seen the evil nature of the great red dragon, and also experienced how difficult it is for you to do your work in China, this atheistic country. I hate myself for being deeply corrupted by satan. I was fully defiled with the poison of the great red dragon, and so deceived by it that I confused right and wrong. O God! Today, it is your uplifting of me that I can have the chance to undergo such sufferings along with Christ. I will rely on the strength from you to break through the suppression of the forces of darkness; even if I have to be in prison all my life, I will uphold testimony for you, forsake satan, hate what you hate, and love what you love. In my lifetime, I will contribute my share to satisfy you and strive to become a created being truly after your heart.

Li Huiqin

Weinan City, Shaanxi Province