In each place, for the first several days the
EL teachers taught about changing the mind based on the Bible.
Five days later, they gradually admitted openly that they
were of the Eastern Lightning, and what they believed in was
the Female Christ, God’s incarnation. When we asked
when they accepted this teaching, the teachers who claimed
to be from the Haggai Institute said: In 1999, two preachers
went to Singapore from Hong Kong and shared God’s work
in this last stage to the staff members of the Institute.
In 2000, the vice president of the Institute Edward Yu accepted
the EL teaching. With President Yu’s strenuous efforts,
President Haggai joined the EL in 2001. Since then, the Institute
had become the hidden harbor from which the EL overpowered
many people. Taking advantage of the fame that the Institute
had long enjoyed, they had won over many pastors from all
denominations, those who had come to study out of admiration
for the prestige of the Institute. These included some Catholic
bishops and priests as well. The Institute had also sent many
teachers and students to different nations to reap the harvest
(note: this is an EL term which means to win converts). In
order to conduct this training ministry well, the teachers
and students of the Institute had fasted and prayed, not only
throwing a lot of finance and efforts into it, but also taking
a great risk. So they hoped that we would make the best of
this wonderful opportunity, and not let them down. After we
learned this, our coworkers felt deeply sorry for the Haggai
Institute, that such an illustrious institute would go so
far as to embrace this poor cult teaching so easily, and even
become the mission center of the Eastern Lightning, trapping
and confining people like us who were honest, simple and hungry
for truth, even by such despicable means. (Note:
later we learned that these were purely stories the EL made
up, trying to fool us with the name of the Haggai Institute.
Please read their statement here.)
When they preached, they said, “Man shouldn’t
limit God by his own mind. God always does things in new ways,
not repeating old ways. God’s way doesn’t conform
to man’s way, and He purposely does things not according
to man’s expectation in order to strike man’s
mind. Man can’t limit God with the Bible, for the Bible
is dead, but God is alive, and what God does is not restricted
by rules in the Bible. For instance, teachers of the law and
Pharisees in the old days expected the Messiah to come, but
the one who came was Jesus. So they rejected Him, and crucified
Jesus on the cross. The church today is also expecting the
Second Coming of Christ to rapture the church; however, the
one who came is not Jesus, but ‘the Almighty God,’
the Female Christ. She came not to meet the church in clouds,
but to become flesh for the second time and speak from the
secret place. She came to end the old Era of Grace, and to
start the new Era of the Kingdom, judging the believers with
her word, subjugating people into the kingdom, and destroying
all who don’t believe in the Female Christ. Therefore,
people of this age can’t accept the ‘practical
God’ who incarnated for the second time, either. As
a result, they all will fall under punishment and curses.”
They applied mechanically to the Female Christ the unfair
treatment Jesus received when He came to the earth the first
time, so as to defend her deception.
In order that the Female Christ be perfectly
justified and embraced, the EL teachers divided God’s
work down through history into three stages:
1. The Era of Law: God’s name was Jehovah.
God worked as a spirit. He manifested to people in different
ways. His words were the law, and He prophesied through
man. Man’s responsibility was to observe the law.
However, man couldn’t keep the law or overcome sin.
2. The Era of Grace: God’s name changed
to Jesus. God manifested to man by means of incarnation.
He worked and spoke in flesh. Man’s responsibility
was to know and to believe in Jesus. However, man didn’t
believe in Jesus; instead, he condemned Jesus and rejected
Him.
3. The Era of the Kingdom: God’s name
is the “Almighty One” and “the Practical
God.” They said that God incarnated the second time
through the Female Christ. Her work was to manifest God’s
nature of righteousness, to speak to man, to judge God’s
household, to conquer the whole universe, to pour out disasters
and destroy the world, and to rule over the earth. The Eastern
Lightning substituted the Lord Jesus with “the Practical
God,” and replaced the Bible with words of the “Almighty
One.” They said man’s responsibility was to
follow the female Christ. Only when man obeyed the female
Christ and her words completely, and therefore was “subjugated”
and became a “victor,” could he then enter into
the kingdom that the female Christ established on the earth.
Through this experience, we became sure that
the purpose of the EL cult was specifically to destroy any
genuine Christian church. Their slogan was to unify all religions
through reaping the harvest. They abuse the Bible, misinterpret
the Bible and violate what it means. They justify any means
to deceive believers. It is indeed an Anti-Christ cult under
the façade of Christ.
