Session 5

Session 5 Invitation

Introduction

• Good evening brothers and sisters, welcome back to our fellowship tonight. The fact you are here shows one thing: you have recognized God's words and you have an open heart to continue to seek and investigate. That is a very good thing, we cannot be impetuous and rash when it comes to welcoming the Lord's return.
• Tonight, we are going to learn about the truth of how to confirm God in the flesh. A lot of your questions will be answered tonight.
• For example, we are going to learn about "why does God come back in the flesh a second time?"
• Some people say "I am afraid of being deceived by false Christ." That is a valid concern because we have to be careful of false Christ. But, what is a false Christ? What make a false Christ false and what make a true Christ true? If we don't know wouldn't we mistaken the true Christ for the false?
• Two thousand years ago, Christ became flesh and came among men to redeem humankind. However, the Pharisees only looked at the Lord Jesus’ outward appearance, treating Him as an ordinary person and saying He was the son of a carpenter. They unscrupulously condemned, resisted, and blasphemed the Lord Jesus. Ultimately, they colluded with the Roman government to crucify Him, committing the heinous sin of resisting God, incurring God’s curse and punishment, completely losing out on God’s salvation.
• In the last days, God has once again become flesh and carried out the work of judgment beginning from the house of God. Being able to recognize understand God becoming flesh is the difference between a person accepting the Lord's return and a person rejecting Him. I hope you can stay until the end to listen to this entire topic tonight.

Prayer

To See To Believe

• Did you believe in the Lord Jesus because you see Him?

• God is the word become flesh.

• How do I connect the fact that hearing God's new words means that the Lord Jesus has returned?

Q. When we see packages outside the door, it means

A. delivery person has already come
B. delivery person is about to come

Review

📖 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” (John 10:27).

📖 "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3:20)

📖 “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Revelation 2, 3)

📖“I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:12–13).

Q. Do you think our Lord Jesus has already come back?

A. I think He has already secretly returned in the flesh for a second time.
B. I think His spirit is back, but not the flesh.
C. I am not sure.

The correct answer is A, the Lord Jesus has already secretly returned in the flesh for a second time. But if you picked B or C, that is okay, that is why we are here tonight to learn how to confirm God is back. I remember when I heard the good news of the Lord's return, it took me some time to confirm as well. If you cannot recognize God's words immediately it does not mean you not God's sheep, it just means you need a little bit more time to hear the power, authority and the truth within God's words. If you continue to listen, God's word is certainly going to speak to you, so don't give up brothers and sisters.

For those of you who believe that God has already come back,

Q. Why do you believe our Lord Jesus has already come back?

A. We are living in the last days and there are signs coming to pass.
B. God has already opened the Sealed book and started the work of judgment.
C. I am not sure.

• We can see the signs of the last days come to pass one by one, like earthquake, war, floods and wildfire.
• The correct answer is B. As we can see, the signs of last days have already come to pass one by one, whether it is earthquake, war, floods and pestilences. The Lord warned us about them 2,000 years ago, when you see these things, He has already come back. Second, the Lord told us He will carry out the judgment work. He is going to teach people across the world more truth we have never heard of, so we may be purified and cleansed of our sin and sinful nature. Since God has already come back, we are definitely able to read God's new words from the Sealed book. Next, a sister is going to read for us a passage of God's new words from the the Sealed book.

“As I turn My face to the universe to speak, all mankind hears My voice, and thereupon sees all the works I have wrought throughout the universe. Those who set themselves against My will, that is to say, who oppose Me with the deeds of man, will fall under My chastisement. I will take the multitudinous stars in the heavens and make them anew and, thanks to Me, the sun and the moon will be renewed—the skies will no longer be as they were and the myriad things on the earth will be renewed. All will become complete through My words. The many nations within the universe will be partitioned afresh and replaced by My kingdom, so that the nations upon the earth will disappear forever and all will become a kingdom that worships Me; all the nations of the earth will be destroyed and cease to exist. Of the human beings within the universe, all those belonging to the devil will be exterminated, and all who worship Satan will be laid low by My burning fire—that is, except for those now within the stream, all will be turned to ashes. When I chastise the many peoples, those in the religious world will, to varying extents, return to My kingdom, conquered by My works, because they will have seen the advent of the Holy One riding on a white cloud. All people will be separated according to their own kind, and will receive chastisements commensurate with their actions. All those who have stood against Me will perish; as for those whose deeds on earth have not involved Me, they will, because of how they have acquitted themselves, continue to exist on the earth under the governance of My sons and My people. I will reveal Myself to the myriad peoples and the myriad nations, and with My own voice, I will sound forth upon the earth, proclaiming the completion of My great work for all mankind to see with their own eyes”

Brothers and sisters, after you listen to this passage, do you think this is the word of God? [Yes]

There is such power and authority within those words. We can feel it is God speaking to mankind from His position as the creator.

Who can renew the sun the moon? [Only God] Who can turn His face to the universe and speak to the entire human race? [Only God] Who can exterminate all those that belong to the Devil and Satan? [Only God] So who can expressed these words? [Only God]

When we are able to read God's new words, it means God has already come back.

Almighty God says

Of the human beings within the universe, all those belonging to the devil will be exterminated, and all who worship Satan will be laid low by My burning fire—that is, except for those now within the stream, all will be turned to ashes. ......All people will be separated according to their own kind, and will receive chastisements commensurate with their actions. All those who have stood against Me will perish;

Those who reject God's work in last days will perish, they will not be a part of God's kingdom. This is something really really serious. People with their sinful nature, even though they believe in Christ, they still worship Satan's words, they still live out Satan's philosophy. Satan tell people to pursue money and the world, they do that. Satan tell people, in your belief in God you just have to believe, no need to learn God's words, you are too busy for that, they listen. So how do we overcome these things, how do we free ourselves from Satan's bondage and be able to submit to God and live out God's words? We have to accept God's judgment work, we have to learn the truth Almighty God has brought to us in the last days.

Why Incarnation

Some may ask: Why did God work as the Spirit in the Age of Law, but has become flesh to carry out His work in the Age of Grace and the Age of Kingdom? Let's read a passage of Almighty Gods words to understand.

✨ Almighty God says: “God can save corrupt man from the influence of Satan, but this work cannot be directly accomplished by the Spirit of God; rather, it can only be done by the flesh God’s Spirit wears, by God’s incarnate flesh. This flesh is man and is also God, is a man possessed of normal humanity and also God possessed of full divinity. And so, even though this flesh is not the Spirit of God, and differs greatly from the Spirit, it is still the incarnate God Himself who saves man, who is the Spirit and also the flesh. No matter what He is called by, ultimately it is still God Himself who saves mankind. For the Spirit of God is indivisible from the flesh, and the work of the flesh is also the work of the Spirit of God; it is just that this work is not done using the identity of the Spirit, but is done using the identity of the flesh. Work that needs to be done directly by the Spirit does not require incarnation, and work that requires the flesh to do cannot be done directly by the Spirit, and can only be done by God incarnate. This is what is required for this work, and it is what is required by corrupt mankind. In the three stages of God’s work, only one stage was carried out directly by the Spirit, and the remaining two stages are carried out by the incarnate God, and not directly by the Spirit. The work of the Age of Law done by the Spirit did not involve changing the corrupt disposition of man, and neither did it bear any relation to man’s knowledge of God. The work of God’s flesh in the Age of Grace and the Age of Kingdom, however, involves man’s corrupt disposition and his knowledge of God, and is an important and crucial part of the work of salvation. Therefore, corrupt mankind is more in need of the salvation of the incarnate God, and is more in need of the direct work of the incarnate God. Mankind needs the incarnate God to shepherd him, support him, water him, feed him, judge and chastise him, and he needs more grace and greater redemption from the incarnate God. Only God in the flesh can be the confidant of man, the shepherd of man, the very present help of man, and all of this is the necessity of the incarnation both today and in times past.”

• Whether it is God working in the spirit or the flesh, it is all God Himself.

• In fact, the way God works in each age depends on the needs of humankind, the importance of the work, and its nature.

• In the Age of Law, God worked as the Spirit because His work was to issue the laws and lead the newborn human race to live on the earth. It did not involve changing people’s life dispositions, the word He expressed were simple and few, so He worked as the Spirit.

• In the Age of Grace, God redeemed all humankind through the work of crucificion on the cross. The Lord Jesus, in a sinless flesh, was crucified for mankind, serving as our eternal sin offering.

  • Brother and sisters, if God had worked as the Spirit, could He have been crucified? [Absolutely not] The spirt could not do the work of crucificion.
  • What about God using a human to do this work for Him? Brother and sisters, could corrupt mankind express the truth and give people the way of repentance? Could corrupt mankind serve as sin offering and forgive us? Not a single one! Only God becoming flesh is holy and sinless, and thus qualified to bear the sins of man. We can see this is the work that no one else could do. Therefore, it was necessary for God to become flesh in the Age of Grace.

Q. Why does God come in the flesh again?

A. He has returned in the flesh again to carry out the work of judgment.
B. Jesus was crucified for our sin on the cross 2,000 years ago and He will come to lift us into the clouds.
C. I don't know.

✅ A. He has returned in the flesh again to carry out the work of judgment.

The correct answer is A. The first time God became flesh was to forgive our sin and this time God comes in the flesh again to judge and purify our sinful nature. In facts, the Lord prophesized this 2,000 years ago.

📖 “For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son. … And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man” (John 5:22, 27)

Why Judgment in the flesh

So why does God need to come in the flesh to judge us? This has to do with the fact that in the flesh, God can best achieve the results of judgment. God appears in whichever way that is the most beneficial for His work and the salvation of mankind. Let's read a passage of Almighty God's words to understand.

✨ Almighty God says: “God’s saving of man is not done directly using the method of the Spirit and the identity of the Spirit, for His Spirit can neither be touched nor seen by man, neither can man draw near. If He tried to save man directly using the perspective of the Spirit, man would be unable to receive His salvation. If God did not put on the outward form of a created man, there would be no way for man to receive this salvation. For man absolutely has no way of approaching Him, much as no one was able to go near the cloud of Jehovah. Only by becoming a created human being, that is, only by putting His Word into the body of flesh that He is about to become, can He personally work the Word into all who follow Him. Only then can man personally hear and see His Word, and moreover gain His Word, and by this means come to be fully saved. If God did not become flesh, no one of flesh and blood would be able to receive such great salvation, nor would a single person be saved. If the Spirit of God worked directly in the midst of mankind, all humanity would be struck down, or else, with no way of coming into touch with God, they would be completely taken captive by Satan. … Only by becoming flesh can God live alongside man, experience the suffering of the world, and live in a normal body of flesh. Only in this way can He supply men with the practical Word that they need as created beings. It is through the incarnation of God that man receives full salvation from God, and not directly from heaven in answer to his prayers. Man is of flesh and blood, he has no way of seeing the Spirit of God, much less of approaching His Spirit, so all that he can come into contact with is God’s incarnate flesh. Only by means of this is man able to grasp all of the Word and all the truths and receive full salvation.”

✨ Almighty God says: If this work were done by the Spirit of God, then it would not mean victory over Satan. The Spirit is inherently more exalted than mortal beings, and the Spirit of God is inherently holy, and triumphant over the flesh. If the Spirit did this work directly, He would not be able to judge all of man’s disobedience and could not reveal all of man’s unrighteousness. For the work of judgment is also carried out through man’s notions about God, and man has never had any notions about the Spirit, and so the Spirit is incapable of better revealing the unrighteousness of man, much less of completely disclosing such unrighteousness. The incarnate God is the enemy of all those who do not know Him. Through judging man’s notions and opposition to Him, He discloses all the disobedience of mankind. The effects of His work in the flesh are more apparent than those of the work of the Spirit. And so, the judgment of all mankind is not carried out directly by the Spirit but is the work of the incarnate God. God in the flesh can be seen and touched by man, and God in the flesh can completely conquer man. In his relationship with God in the flesh, man progresses from opposition to obedience, from persecution to acceptance, from notions to knowledge, and from rejection to love—these are the effects of the work of the incarnate God.

• The work of judgment is meant to save humankind, who have been deeply corrupted by Satan. Just expressing a few sentences won't be enough. God needs to guide mankind into all the truth and allow mankind to know God and see God's disposition. And only in this way can mankind be thoroughly purified and saved.
  • Now can God do this work in the spirit directly? [Absolutely not]. God's spirit is holy, righteouss, and majestic. As corrupt human beings, we are filled with evil and wickedness. We couldn't possibly stand before Him. It's like the sun. The sun gives light and warmth, but if we tried to approach it directly, we would be burned up instantly— we simply couldn’t survive its power. But if the sun’s light passes through a gentle layer, like the atmosphere, we can enjoy its light and warmth without being harmed. In the same way, when God becomes flesh, He “covers” His divine glory in a human form, so He can live among people, speak to them in ways they can understand, and patiently guide them into the truth — without destroying them. So only by becoming flesh, can God work and live among men, and practically express the truth to judge and cleanse people, using human language and experiences to lead mankind into all the truth enabling them to completely break free from Satan’s influence, attain God’s salvation, and become people who belong to God.
  • If God were to come on the cloud and judge us, mankind's corruption could not be revealed and exposed. Everyone would prostrate themselves before God in worship. People wouldn't have any notions, much less dare to show their corruption and disobey God. It’s like a strict teacher walking into a classroom — the moment they enter, all the students sit up straight and pretend to be well-behaved. Even if they were chatting, playing, or being lazy before, they immediately stop. In this way, the teacher can’t teach the students to recognize and correct their bad behavior and characters. Similarly, if God came on the cloud in great power and glory, people would all fall down in awe and worship. Outwardly, they would seem obedient, but their inner corruption, rebellion, and disobedience would remain hidden. God’s judgment wouldn’t be able to reveal what’s inside them. In this way, people wouldn't come to know themselves, uncover their own ugliness, and people wouldn't see a need for change.
  • Every single time God begins a new stage of His work and guide men into a new age, He does this work personally. This has always been the case, and it's epecially true in the last days when God carries out the work of judgment to purify and save mankind. Why can't this work be done by people? Because all of humanity has been corrupted by Satan. No matter how devout or experience someone may seem, they still live in sin and lack the truth. People can speak about doctrines, but they can't see through men's nature, and they certainly can't judge or purify others. Think about it this way: if someone's hands are dirty, can they clean someone else's hands. No — they would only spread more dirt. In the same way, corrupt people can't cleanse others of corruption. We can’t even change ourselves — how could we possibly judge others or purify them? Only God sees mankind’s condition. Only God can expose our deepest corruption, express the truth we need, and show us how to live. This is why the Lord Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Only through Christ returning in the flesh can we receive the truth, be judged and purified, and ultimately return to God.

What is incarnation

• If God has come, why is He not on the cloud? Let's understand what God become flesh mean.

Next we will learn about what is incarnation, what does it mean for God to become flesh. Brothers and sisters, do you think people truly understand what it means for God to become flesh? [Absolutely not] Otherwise, people would have never nailed Him to the cross 2,000 years ago. We have to understand the truth of incarnation to avoid repeating the same mistake again.

✨ Almighty God says: “The ’incarnation’ is God’s appearance in the flesh; God works among created mankind in the image of the flesh. So, as He is God’s incarnation, He must first be flesh, flesh with normal humanity; this is the most basic prerequisite. In fact, the implication of God’s incarnation is that God lives and works in the flesh, that God in His very essence becomes flesh, becomes a man.”

✨ Almighty God says: “The incarnate God is called Christ, and Christ is the flesh donned by the Spirit of God. This flesh is unlike any man that is of the flesh. This difference is because Christ is the incarnation of the Spirit, rather than being fleshly. He has both a normal humanity and a complete divinity. His divinity is not possessed by any man. His normal humanity sustains all His normal activities in the flesh, while His divinity carries out the work of God Himself.”

✨ Almighty God says: “God become flesh is called Christ, and so the Christ that can give people the truth is called God. There is nothing excessive about this, for He possesses the essence of God, and He possesses God’s disposition, and the wisdom of His work, that are unattainable by man. Those who call themselves christ, yet cannot do the work of God, are frauds. Christ is not merely the manifestation of God on earth, but also the particular flesh assumed by God as He carries out His work and completes His work among man. This flesh cannot be supplanted by just any man, but is a flesh that can adequately bear God’s work on earth, and express the disposition of God, and well represent God, and provide man with life.”

✨ Almighty God says: “Because He is a man with the essence of God, He is above all created humans, above any man who can perform God’s work. And so, among all those with a human shell like His, among all those who possess humanity, only He is the incarnate God Himself—all others are created humans. Though they all have humanity, created humans have nothing but humanity, while God incarnate is different: In His flesh He not only has humanity but, most importantly, divinity. His humanity can be seen in the outer appearance of His flesh and in His everyday life, but His divinity is difficult to perceive. Because His divinity is expressed only when He has humanity, and is not as supernatural as people imagine it to be, it is extremely difficult for people to see. … Since God becomes flesh, His essence is a combination of humanity and divinity. This combination is called God Himself, God Himself on earth.”

Originally, God is a spirit, but it is inconvenient for God to do a lot of things in the spirit. Spirit cannot bear the cross. Spirit cannot be approached by human. So God's spirit puts on flesh and becomes a man to come to earth to work and speak. God in the spirit is invisible, but when He becomes a man, He is visible, tangible with flesh and blood. Outwardly, He is an ordinary, normal person, not lofty or extraordinary. He eats, dresses, lives, and travels like an ordinary person, has the normal life patterns of a human being, needs to eat when hungry and rest when tired, and also has normal human emotions. No one can see based on physical appearance that He is the incarnate God.

To give an example, God becoming flesh is like a king traveling undercover. He does not wear His crown and is not surrounded by guards. He looks like an ordinary citizen. God becoming flesh also looks like an ordinary person.

Normal Humanity

Q. Do you think Christ in the flesh need to eat and sleep❓

✅ Absolutely.

Q. How does God become flesh❓

A. He comes down from heaven as an adult.
B. Through birth, like ordinary people.

✅ B. Through birth, like ordinary people.

The correct answer is B. There is one big misunderstanding people have about God in the flesh. In people's imaginations, God in the flesh must appear extraordinary, supernatural and must descend from heaven in a cloud. He must be able to fly in the sky and teleport to any place in the blink of an eye; In fact, God in the flesh is normal. 2,000 years ago, Lord Jesus did not fly or teleport to work and preach in Judea; He walked and rode boats. His feet would hurt and His body would get tired after walking long distances, and He also needed to rest, eat and drink water. Like a ordinary man, He also was born as a baby and had to grow up.

• So, why does God in the flesh have normal humanity? The very meaning of being in the flesh is to live and act according to the needs, limitations, instincts and structures of the human body. Do you know any human that does not need to eat, sleep and can fly and teleport? Do you know any human that was not born? Such human don't exist. The characterisitcs of the human body were ordained by God when He created mankind. So when God becomes a human Himself, He also have all these characteristics, that is the righteouness and faithfulness of God. If God in the flesh is supernatural, then it would completely lose the meaning of incarnation, then He cannot be called the Son of Man. When the Lord Jesus prophesized that He would become a Son of Man, it means His spirit will again be realized in the flesh, that is, becoming an ordinary and normal person, appearing and working among humans.

There are many benefits of having a normal humanity.

• God becoming an ordinary person with normal humanity allows Him to better live among men and interact with them, speaking to them in human language. This way, people will not feel distant and afraid of God. If God speaks to you at one moment and disappear the next moment or He appear with a lofty image with blinding light, people would not dare to approach Him. So, normal humanity is an expression of God's humility and hiddenness, as well as His consideration and love for humankind.

• Normal humanity also better serve God's work of sorting people according to their kind. In the last days. God wants to reveal all those who do not love the truth. God becoming flesh with a normal humanity is the greatest obstacle for foolish virgins to recognize God, so they will never believe in or accept the incarnate God. In this way, only God’s sheep can recognize God’s identity and accept Him. This is God’s wisdom.

Q. What does incarnation; God becoming flesh mean❓

A. The Spirit of God speaks through people.
B. The Spirit of God is born in the flesh and becoming ONE normal human being.
C. The spiritual body descends from Heaven.
D. Not sure.

✅ B. The Spirit of God is born in the flesh and becoming ONE normal human being.

The correct answer is B — God becoming flesh means that God Himself comes to earth in human form.

Choice A is incorrect because man will always be man. Corrupt mankind can never become God. Even when God uses people to carry out some of His work, they are still human. At most, they are cooperating with God — they are never God Himself.

For example, if a king sends a messenger to deliver his commands, the messenger is not the king. He may speak on the king’s behalf, but he does not possess the king’s identity or authority. In the same way, people used by God may speak and work for Him, but they are not God in essence.

Confirm God Incarnate

So, how should we recognize God in the flesh?

✨ Almighty God says: “He who is God incarnate shall possess the essence of God, and He who is God incarnate shall possess the expression of God. Since God becomes flesh, He shall bring forth the work He intends to do, and since God becomes flesh, He shall express what He is, and shall be able to bring the truth to man, bestow life upon him, and point the way for him. Flesh that does not have the essence of God is decidedly not the incarnate God; of this there is no doubt. If man intends to inquire into whether it is God’s incarnate flesh, then he must corroborate this from the disposition He expresses and the words He speaks. Which is to say, to corroborate whether or not it is God’s incarnate flesh, and whether or not it is the true way, one must discriminate on the basis of His essence. And so, in determining whether it is the flesh of God incarnate, the key lies in His essence (His work, His utterances, His disposition, and many other aspects), rather than external appearance. If man scrutinizes only His external appearance, and as a result overlooks His essence, this shows that man is benighted and ignorant.”

• From God’s words, we can see that knowing the incarnate God is not based on His appearance, the family He was born into, whether He has status and power, or whether He has prestige in the religious world. It is not based on these things—these are the ways humans judge one another. It is like that saying people say all the time "Don't judge a book by its cover".

• To recognize God incarnate, we should look at whether He has the essence of God, whether He can express the truth, and whether He can carry out God’s own work. This is the most crucial point. If He can express the truth and save mankind, then even if He appears ordinary and has no status or power in society, He is still God.

• Just as when the Lord Jesus came to work, He was born in a manger. He was not tall and had no status or power. So, how did people recognize that He was divine? It was through His words and His work. The Lord Jesus could express the truth, give people the way of repentance, forgive sins, and perform many signs and wonders. The Lord’s disciples, such as Peter and John, saw from His work and the truths He expressed that He had God’s authority and power. They recognized that the Lord Jesus was the Messiah who was to come, so they followed Him and received His salvation.

• On the other hand, those who despised the truth and did not focus on His words and work treated Him as an ordinary person. They used their physical eyes, saw that the Lord Jesus looked ordinary and had no status or power, and condemned and judged Him, saying, “Isn’t that the Nazarene?” “Isn’t that the son of a carpenter?” Ultimately, they crucified the Lord Jesus, for which they were cursed and punished by God.

Q. How should we confirm Christ who has returned❓

A. Focus on His words and work.
B. Focus on His family background and social status.
C. Focus on how many people follow Him.
D. Not sure.

✅ A. Focus on His words and work.

• In the last days, God has returned in the flesh, speaking and working among men. This is the incarnate Almighty God. If people want to determine whether Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus, it depends on whether they have a heart that seeks the truth and whether they can discover and recognize the truth.

Almighty God has expressed all the truths necessary for cleansing and saving mankind—amounting to tens of millions of words, thousands of times more than were spoken in the Age of Grace. In experiencing Almighty God’s work, we have personally heard His utterances and seen with our own eyes that He has revealed all the mysteries of God’s management plan. This includes the inside story of God’s three stages of work in saving humankind, the purpose of God’s management plan, the mystery of the incarnation, how Satan corrupts humankind, the essence and reality of humankind’s corruption by Satan, how God cleanses, saves, and perfects people, the purpose and significance of God’s judgment work, as well as whom God blesses and whom He curses, who will be saved and who will be destroyed, the future destination of humankind, the outcome for each kind of person, how God’s kingdom will be realized on earth, and more. This has completely fulfilled the prophecy:

📖 “And I saw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. … behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof”(Revelation 5:1–5).

Apart from God Himself, who can express the truth? Apart from God Himself, who can unveil God's management plan?

It is by reading Almighty God's words that brothers and sisters have come to recognize and welcome Christ in the last days.

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Almighty God also judges and exposes people’s satanic dispositions and their nature essence of resisting God. This has enabled us to recognize the true essence of our deep corruption by Satan, to see that we are arrogant, conceited, selfish, base, crooked, and deceitful, without any human likeness, and simply unworthy to live before God.

This fulfills the Lord Jesus prophesies:

📖 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." (John 10:27)

The Lord Jesus said: 📖 "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17)

✨ Almighty God says: "In the past, when man did not have God's word as his life, it was Satan's nature that controlled him. What things are contained in that nature? Take some examples: Why are you selfish? Why do you defend your status? Why are you controlled by your emotions? Why do you like that which is unrighteous and evil? So what are the causes of those things? Where do they come from? Why do you like and accept them? Now you understand that it is mainly because you have Satan's poisons within you. What are Satan's poisons? They can be fully expressed in words. Suppose you ask some evil-doers, 'Why did you do that?' They will say 'every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost.' These words express the root of the problem: Satan's logic has become man's life. Whatever man does, it is all for himself, and they all think if they do otherwise the devil will take them. And this being so, they must act only for themselves. Everything is done for material gain'— this is man's life, man's philosophy, and also represents man's nature. This saying of Satan's is precisely Satan's poison. It has been instilled into man and become his nature. Satan's nature is revealed and represented by this saying. And this kind of poison has become man's life and the foundation of his existence."

Do you think accepting Almighty God means betraying the Lord Jesus?

The answer is clear: No.

• 2,000 years ago, the Lord Jesus came to do the work of redemption. Today, Almighty God comes to do the work of judgment in the last days. It is the same spirit incarnated in the flesh. In other words, Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus.

• Accepting the returned Lord is not "changing" our faith; it is not following a "different" God. It is following the footsteps of the Lamb. The name may be different. The work may be different. But the Spirit is the same.

• Let's look at a riddle together. Think about this:

  • A young boy leaves home in the morning, hugs his father, and says, "Goodbye, Dad!"
  • Later that afternoon, the boy is at school. He sees a man in a blue uniform holding a broom, cleaning the hallway—the school janitor. The boy runs up to him with a big smile and shouts, “Hey, Dad!” Why did the boy do that?
  • The janitor is his father. The boy's father works as a school janitor. Clothing changed, but the person is the same. Did the boy betray his father at home by recognizing him at school? Of course not.
• It is the same with the Lord’s return. Two thousand years ago, He came with the name “Jesus” and did the work of redemption. Today, He returns with a different name, “Almighty God,” to do the work of the last days. When we recognize Him and follow Him, we are not changing our God. We are welcoming His return.

True and False Christ

Seeing that God has already returned and accomplished such great work on earth, we all feel very excited and thrilled. However, some brothers and sisters still have concerns in their hearts—that in the last days, false christs will appear to deceive people, so they dare not seek or investigate. Some even say, “If I hear any good news of the Lord’s return, I will simply not believe it.”

Brothers and sisters, is this the correct way to welcome the Lord’s return?

Did the Lord Jesus ever tell us to reject all news of His return? Absolutely not. He said, “At midnight there was a cry made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet Him.’” We can see that rejecting people’s testimony that the Lord has come is certainly not in line with God’s will. No matter how many false christs appear, we can be certain that the Lord will surely come again. So if we flat-out reject all news of the Lord’s return, how will we ever welcome Him? Wouldn’t we also be denying the true Christ in the process? If you do not welcome the Lord, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and cannot be saved.

The correct approach is to learn how to differentiate between the true Christ and false christs—to understand the characteristics of false christs, so that we can have discernment against them and welcome the true Christ.

Let’s first read Almighty God’s words.

✨Almighty God says: “There are some who are possessed by evil spirits and cry out vociferously, ’I am God!’ Yet, in the end, they are revealed, for they are wrong in what they represent. They represent Satan, and the Holy Spirit pays them no heed. However highly you exalt yourself or however strongly you cry out, you are still a created being and one that belongs to Satan. I never cry out, ’I am God, I am the beloved Son of God!’ But the work I do is God’s work. Need I shout? There is no need for exaltation. God does His own work Himself and does not need man to accord Him a status or give Him an honorific title: His work represents His identity and status. Prior to His baptism, was not Jesus God Himself? Was He not the incarnate flesh of God? Surely it cannot be said that it was only after receiving witness that He became the only Son of God? Long before He began His work, was there not already a man by the name of Jesus? You are unable to bring forth new paths or to represent the Spirit. You cannot express the work of the Spirit or the words that He speaks. You are unable to do the work of God Himself, and that of the Spirit you are unable to do. The wisdom, wonder, and unfathomability of God, and the entirety of the disposition by which God chastises man—all of these are beyond your capacity to express. It would therefore be useless to try to claim to be God; you would have only the name and none of the substance. God Himself has come, but no one recognizes Him, yet He continues on in His work and does so in representation of the Spirit. Whether you call Him man or God, the Lord or Christ, or call Her sister, it does not matter. But the work He does is that of the Spirit and represents the work of God Himself. He does not care about the name by which man calls Him. Can that name determine His work? Regardless of what you call Him, as far as God is concerned, He is the incarnate flesh of the Spirit of God; He represents the Spirit and is approved by the Spirit. If you are unable to make way for a new age, or to bring the old to an end, or to usher in a new age, or to do new work, then you cannot be called God!”

The key difference between the true Christ and false christs is whether they can express the truth and possess divine essence. The words of the true Christ unveil mysteries, judge our corruptions, provide practical paths for practice, and bring confirmation to our spirit when we read them. False christs are wicked, embodiments of evil spirits, so they absolutely cannot express the truth. The words of false christs are human words and satanic philosophies that only mislead people. Whoever can express the truth is Christ; whoever cannot express the truth is a false Christ.

To gain greater discernment of false christs, let’s also understand how they deceive people.

The Lord Jesus said, 📖 “For there shall arise false christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so that, if it were possible, they shall mislead the very elect.” (Matthew 24:24)

✨Almighty God says: “If, during the present day, there is to emerge a person who is able to display signs and wonders, cast out demons, heal the sick, and perform many miracles, and if this person claims that they are Jesus who has come, then this would be a counterfeit produced by evil spirits which imitate Jesus. Remember this! God does not repeat the same work. Jesus’ stage of work has already been completed, and God will never again undertake that stage of work. The work of God is irreconcilable with the notions of man; for example, the Old Testament foretold the coming of a Messiah, and the result of this prophecy was Jesus’ coming. This having already happened, it would be wrong for another Messiah to come again. Jesus has already come once, and it would be wrong if Jesus were to come again this time. There is one name for every age, and each name contains a characterization of that age. In the notions of man, God must always display signs and wonders, must always heal the sick and cast out demons, and must always be just like Jesus. Yet this time, God is not like that at all. If, during the last days, God still displayed signs and wonders, and still cast out demons and healed the sick—if He did exactly the same as Jesus—then God would be repeating the same work, and the work of Jesus would have no significance or value. Thus, God carries out one stage of work in every age. Once each stage of His work has been completed, it is soon imitated by evil spirits, and after Satan begins to follow on the heels of God, God changes to a different method. Once God has completed a stage of His work, it is imitated by evil spirits. You must be clear about this.”

False christs and false prophets primarily deceive God’s chosen people by performing signs and wonders. Why do they use signs and wonders? It is because they have no truth at all—they can only rely on performing signs and wonders to deceive people; this is all they know how to do. False christs have no ability or authority to usher in a new age or do new work, so they can only imitate the past work that the Lord Jesus has already done to mislead people. False christs cannot teach people about purification or overcoming their sinful nature. They are wicked and evil themselves and cannot teach what they do not know.

So, to tell true Christ apart from false christs, we must examine their essence, not their appearance. Let’s look at an example.

Brothers and sisters, which basket of flowers do you think is real—the one on the left or the one on the right? The left basket is real because of the bees. Real flowers have life; they give off fragrance and nectar, so bees are attracted to them. Fake flowers have the look but none of the substance.

In the same way, true Christ has the essence of God Himself. He can express the truth, do God’s own work, and possess God’s disposition. Anyone who claims to be Christ but does not have these characteristics is definitely a false Christ.

Signs and Wonders?

At this point, some people may ask, “The Lord Jesus could perform miracles and wonders at that time, and people could see that He had a divine essence. So, will Almighty God also perform miracles and wonders in the last days?”

Brothers and sisters, do you think Almighty God will also perform miracles and wonders in the last days? Let’s read Almighty God’s words to understand.

✨Almighty God says: “God’s work during the last days is practical work. During the age of Jesus, He did not come to make man perfect, but to redeem man, and so He displayed some miracles to make people follow Him. For He principally came to complete the work of crucifixion, and showing signs was not part of the work of His ministry. Such signs and wonders were work that was done in order to make His work effective; they were extra work, and did not represent the work of the entire age.”

✨Almighty God says: “In the last days, God principally uses the word to make man perfect. He does not use signs and wonders to oppress man, or convince man; this cannot make plain the power of God. If God only showed signs and wonders, then it would be impossible to make plain the reality of God, and thus impossible to make man perfect. God does not make man perfect by signs and wonders, but uses the word to water and shepherd man, after which is achieved the complete obedience of man and man’s knowledge of God. This is the aim of the work He does and the words He speaks. God does not use the method of showing signs and wonders to make man perfect—He uses words, and uses many different methods of work to make man perfect. Whether it be the refinement, dealing, pruning, or provision of words, God speaks from many different perspectives to make man perfect, and to give man a greater knowledge of the work, wisdom and wondrousness of God.”

• In the Age of Grace, God’s purpose was to lead people to believe in Him. As long as they believed, they could repent and receive forgiveness. Since people didn’t know that God could become flesh, the Lord Jesus performed miracles and wonders to draw their attention and build their faith. These signs and wonders testified that the one true God had come to save humanity and confirmed Jesus’ identity as the Christ. However, the Lord Jesus didn’t perform miracles for their own sake. His goal was to lead people to seek His words and accept His work. Miracles such as healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, and raising the dead showed His authority and power, beyond human capability. Through these acts, many accepted His salvation, and His gospel became widely spread. We can see, signs and wonders supported God's work in the Age of the Grace but they were never the focus. How many times did the Lord Jesus turn water into wine? Once. How many times did He raise Lazarus from the dead? Once. Signs and wonders were a tool to draw people to God, but they cannot help people understand the truth, much less purify their sinful nature. In the last days, God is not trying to get people to believe in Him, God wants to purify our sinful nature and judge our corruptions. So, signs and wonders serve no purpose in this step of God's work, instead showing signs and wonders become detrimental to the work of judgment.

• God can certainly perform miracles and wonders, but whether He performs them depends on the needs of His work and the needs of mankind. In this final stage of God’s work, if God were to perform some signs and wonders—say, feeding ten thousand people with one loaf and one fish—it would instantly shake the whole world, and all of humankind would come to believe in Almighty God. But then, how could those who love the truth be distinguished from those who do not, and true believers from false ones? It would be impossible to reveal people and sort them according to their kind. God’s judgment work in the last days is targeted only at those who can accept and love the truth. This time, God saves only those who recognize His voice and are willing to follow Him. As long as they see that what is expressed is the truth, they can accept it and follow. Saving these people does not require performing signs and wonders. Therefore, in this stage of work, God only expresses the truth and does not perform signs and wonders—this alone is enough to fully achieve His purpose of saving people.

• From the pattern of God’s work, we can see that He gradually reduces the number of signs and wonders He performs. In the Age of Law, He descended on Mount Sinai with great glory and power, and the Israelites witnessed God’s majesty firsthand. In the Age of Grace, God became flesh for the first time and performed only some signs and miracles. In the work of judgment in the last days, God has completely stopped showing signs and miracles. We can see that God is turning mankind’s attention toward knowing and practicing the truth. It is like when parents lead and guide their children: in the beginning, parents help their children do everything—babies don’t even have to go to the bathroom themselves—but later, the children grow more independent and begin to take on more responsibilities. Likewise, God wants mankind to mature and grow up. Instead of relying on signs and wonders, people are called to use the truth to resolve their problems and overcome challenges. God’s goal is for His people to learni to live by His words and not by miracles.

When the Lord Jesus said, "My sheep hear My voice", it also means that in the last days, people wil have to get to know the incarnate God through His words, and not signs and wonders.

Consequence of Rejection

Q: If someone tells you that Almighty God looks like an ordinary person and has ordinary family background and that you are believing in a man, what would you do❓

A. I would stop believing.
B. God in the flesh suppose to have normal humanity, I will continue to investigate His words and work.

✅ B. God in the flesh suppose to have normal humanity, I will continue to investigate His words and work.

Whether someone is truly man or truly God cannot be decided by His normal humanity—that approach is too shortsighted and shallow. Didn’t the Lord Jesus have normal humanity 2,000 years ago? Didn’t He have parents and experience childhood? Whenever God becomes flesh, He naturally has normal humanity.

Does this normal humanity prevent God from saving mankind? Does it stop Him from expressing the truth? Absolutely not. God becoming flesh—being ordinary and normal, having normal humanity—is actually the greatest way to protect and reach humankind. It allows God to draw near to people and save them more effectively.

So why do some people condemn the Lord’s return simply because He has normal humanity? These are people who believe in God only in name; their faith is vague and shallow. They cannot recognize the truth expressed by God incarnate and refuse to submit to God’s work in the last days.

If they had lived 2,000 years ago, wouldn’t they have rejected the Lord Jesus along with the Pharisees and crucified Him? Therefore, if people deny the returned Christ and reject His salvation in the last days because of His normal humanity, these are the foolish virgins exposed by God's work in the last day and what will be their outcome?

Let’s read a passage of Almighty God’s words to understand.

✨Almighty God says: "Those who wish to gain life without relying on the truth spoken by Christ are the most ridiculous people on earth, and those who do not accept the way of life brought by Christ are lost in fantasy. And so I say that the people who do not accept Christ of the last days shall forever be despised by God. Christ is man’s gateway to the kingdom during the last days, which none may bypass. None may be perfected by God except through Christ. You believe in God, and so you must accept His words and obey His way. You must not just think of gaining blessings without receiving the truth, or accepting the provision of life. Christ comes during the last days so that all those who truly believe in Him may be provided with life. His work is for the sake of concluding the old age and entering the new one, and is the path that must be taken by all those who would enter the new age. If you are incapable of acknowledging Him, and instead condemn, blaspheme or even persecute Him, then you are bound to burn for eternity, and shall never enter the kingdom of God. For this Christ is Himself the expression of the Holy Spirit, the expression of God, the One whom God has entrusted to do His work on earth. And so I say that if you cannot accept all that is done by Christ of the last days, then you blaspheme the Holy Spirit. The retribution that should be suffered by those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit is self-evident to all. I also tell you that if you oppose Christ of the last days, and deny Him, then there is no one who can bear the consequences on your behalf. Furthermore, from this day onward you will not have another chance to gain the approval of God; even if you try to redeem yourself, you will never again behold the face of God. For what you oppose is not a man, what you deny is not some puny being, but Christ. Are you aware of this consequence? You have not made a small mistake, but committed a heinous crime. And so I advise everyone not to bare your fangs before the truth, or make careless criticisms, for only the truth can bring you life, and nothing except the truth can allow you to be reborn and behold the face of God."

📖 "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

✨Almighty God says: "Christ is man’s gateway to the kingdom during the last days, and there are none who can go around Him. None may be perfected by God except through Christ."

📖 “Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.” (Matthew 12:31)

✨Almighty God says: "If you are incapable of acknowledging Him, and instead condemn, blaspheme or even persecute Him, then you are bound to burn for eternity, and shall never enter the kingdom of God. For this Christ is Himself the expression of the Holy Spirit, the expression of God, the One whom God has entrusted to do His work on earth. And so I say that if you cannot accept all that is done by Christ of the last days, then you blaspheme the Holy Spirit."

• Christ is the only path to the kingdom of heaven. Only by accepting His work of judgment can one be purified of their sinful nature and be qualified to enter God’s kingdom. Is there any other path to God’s kingdom? Can you build a ladder to heaven yourself? Therefore, people who reject the returned Christ are the most foolish—wanting to enter the kingdom of heaven but rejecting the very Christ who wants to lead them there.
• Christ, incarnate in the flesh, is still the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Rejecting Him is not rejecting a mere person. The consequence of rejecting Christ is being thrown into the lake of fire to be burned for eternity.
• As the Lord tells us, whoever does not believe in the Son will not have everlasting life and will incur the wrath of God. What does it mean to believe in the Son? It is not simply believing in the Lord Jesus who came 2,000 years ago, but also believing and accepting His return in the last days. Those who hold only to the name of Jesus but reject the Lord’s return are giving up halfway—their faith and belief will have been in vain. Such faith is not recognized by God.

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Tonight, we learned that Lord Jesus has already returned in the flesh for a second time. Do you want to know where He is? Do you want to see the testimonies of brothers and sisters who have been judged and purified by God? Join us tomorrow night to uncover this truth.

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