Answer: God has become flesh twice. Twice He encountered the collective resistance, condemnation and persecution of the religious community and the world’s governments. This proves that “The true way has been persecuted since ancient times.” Many people cannot discern this matter. They particularly feel incredible about the religious leaders’ frantic condemnation of God’s work. Actually, there is nothing strange about this. Back then, when the Lord Jesus appeared to work, He was first frantically condemned, blasphemed and arrested by the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees of Judaism. These facts were clearly written in the Bible. Those chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees, were supposed to teach the Bible and serve God. Why did they condemn, persecute, and hunt the incarnate Lord Jesus? Could it be that their belief in God was intended to crucify the Lord Jesus when He came? Absolutely not! Why did they commit such acts against God? Yeah, why did they? Almighty God has revealed the mystery here. Let’s read a few passages of Almighty God’s word.
Almighty God says: “Do you wish to know the root of why the Pharisees opposed Jesus? Do you wish to know the substance of the Pharisees? They were full of fantasies about the Messiah. What’s more, they believed only that the Messiah would come, yet did not seek the truth of life. And so, even today they still await the Messiah, for they have no knowledge of the way of life, and do not know what the way of truth is. How, say you, could such foolish, stubborn and ignorant people gain God’s blessing? How could they behold the Messiah? They opposed Jesus because they did not know the direction of the Holy Spirit’s work, because they did not know the way of truth spoken by Jesus, and, furthermore, because they did not understand the Messiah. And since they had never seen the Messiah, and had never been in the company of the Messiah, they made the mistake of paying empty tribute to the name of the Messiah while opposing the substance of the Messiah by any means. These Pharisees in substance were stubborn, arrogant, and did not obey the truth. The principle of their belief in God is: No matter how profound Your preaching, no matter how high Your authority, You are not Christ unless You are called the Messiah. Are these views not preposterous and ridiculous? I ask you again: Is it not extremely easy for you to commit the mistakes of the earliest Pharisees, given that you have not the slightest understanding of Jesus? Are you able to discern the way of truth? Can you truly guarantee that you will not oppose Christ? Are you able to follow the work of the Holy Spirit? If you do not know whether you will oppose Christ, then I say that you are already living on the brink of death. Those who did not know the Messiah were all capable of opposing Jesus, of rejecting Jesus, of slandering Him. People who do not understand Jesus are all capable of denying Him, and reviling Him. Moreover, they are capable of seeing the return of Jesus as the deceit of Satan, and more people shall condemn Jesus returning to flesh. Does not all of this make you afraid? What you face shall be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the ruination of the words of the Holy Spirit to the churches, and the spurning of all that is expressed by Jesus. What can you gain from Jesus if you are so befuddled? How can you understand the work of Jesus when He returns to flesh on a white cloud, if you obstinately refuse to realize your errors? I tell you this: People who do not accept the truth, yet blindly await the arrival of Jesus upon white clouds, will surely blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, and they are the race that shall be destroyed” (“When You Behold the Spiritual Body of Jesus Will Be When God Has Made Anew Heaven and Earth“ in The Word Appears in the Flesh).
“Those who read the Bible in grand churches recite the Bible every day, yet not one understands the purpose of God’s work. Not one is able to know God; moreover, not one is in accord with the heart of God. They are all worthless, vile men, each standing on high to teach God. Though they brandish the name of God, they willfully oppose Him. Though they label themselves believers of God, they are ones who eat the flesh and drink the blood of man. All such men are devils who devour the soul of man, head demons who purposefully disturb those who try to step onto the right path, and stumbling blocks that impede the path of those who seek God. Though they are of ‘robust flesh,’ how are their followers to know that they are antichrists who lead man in opposition to God? How are they to know that they are living devils who specially seek souls to devour?” (“All Who Do Not Know God Are Those Who Oppose God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).
“Look at the leaders of every denomination. They are all arrogant and self-right, and they interpret the Bible out of context and according to their own imagination. They all rely on gifts and erudition to do their work. If they were incapable of preaching anything, would those people follow them? They do, after all, possess some learning, and can speak a little of doctrine, or know how to win over others and how to use some artifices, through which they have brought people before themselves and have deceived them. Nominally, those people believe in God—but in reality they follow their leaders. If they encounter those who preach the true way, some of them would say, ‘We have to consult our leader about our belief in God.’ They require someone’s consent to believe in God; is that not a problem? What have those leaders become, then? Have they not become Pharisees, false shepherds, antichrists, and stumbling blocks to people’s acceptance of the true way?” (“Only the Pursuit of the Truth Is the True Belief in God” in Records of Christ’s Talks).
“The reason that man opposes God stems, on the one hand, from the corrupt disposition of man, and on the other hand, from ignorance of God and lack of understanding of the principles of God’s work and His will toward man. These two aspects merge into a history of man’s resistance to God” (“All Who Do Not Know God Are Those Who Oppose God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).
The words of Almighty God have clearly spoken about the root cause of the Pharisees, religious pastors and elders’ resistance to God. The religious pastors and elders only focus on pursuing biblical knowledge and theological theories, but not pursuing the truth. The pastors and elders are weary of and hostile to the truth. When they see the expressions of Almighty God are all the truth, they are filled with hostility, and they begin to judge, condemn and resist God. When the Pharisees of Judaism listened to the word of the Lord Jesus, they openly acknowledged that the word of the Lord Jesus was authoritative and powerful that originated from God. Why did they still condemn, incarcerate and crucify the Lord Jesus? Based on reasoning, since they discovered that the word of the Lord Jesus was the truth, they should have prayed to God to seek the answer: Is the Lord Jesus the Messiah? God would certainly have enlightened them. But they neither prayed to God nor sought. They directly condemned the Lord Jesus for blasphemy. In particular, they repeatedly asked the Lord Jesus, “Are you the Messiah?” When the Lord Jesus directly answered them, they refused to believe. This is enough to show that the Pharisees were too arrogant! They worshiped the Bible too much! They had no regard for Christ who was expressing the truth. Their logic was no matter how much truth the Lord Jesus could express, no matter how authoritative and powerful the word expressed by the Lord was, as long as He was not named the Messiah, they would condemn, resist and even nail the Lord Jesus on the cross. Do you say that those leaders of Judaism were demons who hated the truth? If the Lord Jesus could not express the truth, would they have such hatred for Him? This had completely exposed the satanic nature of the Pharisees that detested the truth. This was where the roots of the Pharisees resistance of the Lord Jesus lie! Just as how the Lord Jesus exposed the Pharisees: “But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God … And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me? He that is of God hears God’s words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God” (Jhn 8:40, 46-47). We see clearly why the Jewish leaders resisted and killed the Lord Jesus. Then why the religious pastors and elders in the last days frantically resist and condemn Almighty God is not hard to understand. Those of us who have experienced the work of God would realize that people who detest the truth inevitably judge, condemn and resist God. The judgment work of Almighty God in the last days is to cleanse the satanic disposition of man. It is by expressing the truth to judge and cleanse man. Those who accept the truth will receive cleansing and salvation. The satanic disposition of those who reject the truth will not be changed. They will still resist and betray God. In The Church of Almighty God, some people who were weary of and hostile to the truth were completely revealed. These unbelievers and antichrists were purged and expelled. As for the religious pastors and elders, why do they deliberately condemn and blaspheme Almighty God? Isn’t it because Almighty God expresses many truths, and He has conquered and saved a group of people? The work of Almighty God has revealed them, so they hate and condemn God. Their satanic nature is completely exposed. Why does God detest and curse these exposed antichrists? It is because they compete with God for His chosen people by firmly controlling the sheep of God in their hands, and forbidding people to study and receive the true way. They engage in independent kingdom building and become demons that harm and devour the human lives. They are condemned and cursed by God, for offending God’s disposition.
What is the basis of the pastors and elders condemnation of Almighty God? We have to discern this matter. First, they only go by the lack of record of Almighty God’s work in the Bible. They only believe that God’s word was all written in the Bible and God’s word does not exist outside the Bible. So they deny the work of Almighty God. Second, they do not understand how the prophecies of the Bible are fulfilled. Like the Pharisees, they only follow regulation. No matter how profound and authoritative the sermon spoken by the Lord Jesus was, how much truth He has, as long as the Lord was not called the Messiah, they would condemn, resist and even nail the Lord Jesus to the cross. Third, they do not recognize Christ in the flesh, nor do they admit that God will become flesh. “ According to the apostle John, they are antichrists.” Fourth, they go by the rumors and lies fabricated by the CCP government to deny and condemn the work of Almighty God in the last days. They even take side with the CCP. They can’t wait for the CCP to thoroughly ban The Church of Almighty God. This makes us think, why didn’t the Lord Jesus go to the synagogue when He preached and worked? “Why did He look for someone in the wilderness who was after God’s heart? “If the Lord Jesus had gone to the synagogue, He would surely have been expelled. He would surely have been taken away by the Jewish leaders and surrendered to those in power. If we went to the church to bear witness for Almighty God, what would be the outcome? they will certainly report to the police. The ways religious pastors and elders resist Almighty God are identical to how the Pharisees resisted the Lord Jesus back then. They are the antichrists and evil servants that detest the truth. They are the demons that obstruct us from entering the kingdom of heaven!
from the movie script of Perilous Is the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom
from the movie script of Perilous Is the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom
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