While they confined the two brothers Shen in
Shang Hai, they taught about church history and some books
of the Bible for the first 20 days, and didn’t show
any sign of the EL teaching. However, in the other five places
they started the EL teaching from the 5th day of the confinement.
Their purpose in doing so was to settle down the two leaders
first. Then they soothed the rest of the team with a letter
written by these two leaders. They also imitated the handwritings
of the two and wrote, “The two Mr. Shens have received
the teaching very well.” Their attempt was to fool the
rest of the team in the other five locations, to make them
think, “If our two top leaders have received, why should
we resist?” Some coworkers indeed let down their guard
as a result. After twenty days, they started to indoctrinate
the two Shens with the EL teaching, but the strategy of these
two was to not listen, not think, not read, not argue and
not believe. When the EL had run out of other means, they
applied a sex trap, but the two Shens saw through their snares
and rejected them. As for the man who claimed to be Edward
Yu, the head of the Singapore Haggai Institute, he was sharply
rebuked by Brother Shen on May 6, and sneaked out at that
time (this was only a false Edward Yu posed by an EL member).
Two other core leaders pretended to have received
the EL teaching, and consented to cooperate with the EL, so
they gained the trust of the EL and were released in advance.
After they came back home, they started to work with their
own CGF coworkers to rescue the rest of the confined leaders.
They adopted the policy of “being shrewd to the crooked,”
and their plan was to “pay back the EL with their own
coins.” On one hand, they stopped the gradually released
coworkers from participating in any ministry in the church,
and had people keep them well watched, so as to create a tense
atmosphere. On the other hand, they kept informing the EL
about the pressing situation and forced them to release more
people. Meanwhile, they worked with the police by providing
them clues and urging them to solve the case. On the whole,
their purpose was to put pressure on the EL so that they would
release the coworkers as soon as possible. Their efforts achieved
very positive results, and the EL started to release the kidnapped
coworkers gradually.
May 17, two more core leaders, Brother Jing
and Brother Wang were released. Brother Xing and Qi went to
see them. They shared with each other their experiences during
the confinement, and a great burden for the released brothers
arose in their hearts. They didn’t take the time to
see their own families, but immediately decided that each
of them should go and visit different released coworkers.
With what they had learned from their own experiences, they
exposed the El schemes, disclosed their vile practices, and
de-brainwashed the coworkers and cleaned the EL poison from
their minds.
May 25, the released coworkers met in Zheng
Zhou to have fellowship with each other. They discussed together
how to rescue the remaining confined brothers as well as how
to set up precautionary measures against the EL. They agreed
with one heart and one mind that they would rescue those still
confined and protect the released and their families. There
were a few brothers who became ill as a result of the confinement,
and some were poisoned. The coworkers decided to have them
receive proper medical treatment. Decisions about the present
ministry of the church like coworker training and missionary
sending were also made during the meeting.
June 3, the two brothers Shen came back. They
had been so tormented and become very skinny and weak. At
that time, they figured it was the end of the church family,
imagining that all the coworkers had been won over by the
EL. Praise be to God! When they learned that there were only
five who were still held, and that all the released had hardly
been affected by the EL, their hearts felt a little bit comforted.
