Brother Zhen,

In the last co-workers meeting, I heard your perspectives about Eastern Lightning, and I thought Eastern Lightning is indeed worth our seeking and investigating. However, I heard witnesses of Eastern Lightning fellowship, “In the last days, God has become flesh again and is performing the work of judgment beginning from the house of God. Only if we accept the truth expressed by Christ in the last days can we be purified and enter the kingdom of heaven.” Regarding this, I am rather confused: We have received the Lord’s redemption by believing in Him, with our sins forgiven, so when the Lord comes again we will be directly raptured into the kingdom of heaven. However, Eastern Lightning witnesses said that if we don’t accept the judgment work of Christ in the last days, we won’t be able to enter the kingdom of heaven. Brother Zhen, I want to hear your opinions on this question. I’m looking forward to your reply!

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Many believers in the Lord long to be taken up to the sky where they can meet with the Lord when the Lord returns. Now disasters grow worse and worse; the prophecies of the Lord’s return have been basically fulfilled; the Lord is very likely to have returned. However, many people are confused: If the Lord has returned, why have we not seen that anyone is raptured to heaven? What’s going on here? Let’s see what the Lord Jesus said: “Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Mat 6:9-10). The Book of Revelation also prophesied: “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven … And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God” (Rev 21:2-3). “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever” (Rev 11:15). These prophecies mention “coming down from God out of heaven,” “the tabernacle of God is with men,” and “the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ.” It shows that God will establish His kingdom on earth and the destination God arranges for man is also on earth. Yet we always want to be raptured to heaven. Is that not our notion and imagination?

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Seeing the greater and greater catastrophe, many believers yearn more urgently to welcome the Lord and to be brought into the heavenly kingdom. But they are also afraid that they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because of living in sin. Don’t worry! Now the Lord has become flesh and come secretly. He expresses the truth, does the work of judgment beginning with the house of God, and brings us the path to escape from sin and enter into the kingdom of heaven. Let us look at what God’s word says.

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When witnessing frequent disasters in the last days, are you anxiously waiting for the Lord to come soon, rapture you into the kingdom of heaven and save you from the suffering? Then did you know the condition for entering the heavenly kingdom? Perhaps you will say that as long as we have good behavior such as reading the Bible more, helping the poor, and staying away from bad things, we are able to enter the kingdom of heaven. But did you know? The Lord Jesus never said that those who have good behavior could enter the kingdom of heaven. Instead, He said, “Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin. And the servant stays not in the house for ever: but the son stays ever.” (John 8:34–35)And 1 Peter 1:16 says, “Be you holy; for I am holy.”

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The Lord Jesus said, “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17). We can see from the Lord’s words that we need to achieve true repentance before we are able to enter the kingdom of God. Then have we truly repented? In fact, we have not yet achieved true repentance now, because we still often sin and resist God involuntarily. In this case, we are still unable to enter the kingdom of God. Just as Almighty God says, “You only know that Jesus shall descend during the last days, but how exactly will He descend? A sinner such as you, who has just been redeemed, and has not been changed, or been perfected by God, can you be after God’s heart? For you, you who are still of your old self, it is true that you were saved by Jesus, and that you are not counted as a sinner because of the salvation of God, but this does not prove that you are not sinful, and are not impure. How can you be saintly if you have not been changed? Within, you are beset by impurity, selfish and mean, yet you still wish to descend with Jesus—you should be so lucky! You have missed a step in your belief in God: You have merely been redeemed, but you have not been changed. For you to be after God’s heart, God must personally do the work of changing and cleansing you; if you are only redeemed, you will be incapable of attaining sanctity. In this way you will be unqualified to share in the good blessings of God, for you have missed out a step in God’s work of managing man, which is the key step of changing and perfecting. You, a sinner who has just been redeemed, are therefore incapable of directly inheriting God’s inheritance.”

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