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Six: Persecution Of Faith
9: State-Terrorism Overseas
After the persecution began, Jiang Zemin tried to extradite Falun Gong’s founder to China, even by offering a reduction of 500 million dollars in trade-surplus but failed. Next, Zeng Qinghong secretly issued an assassination order to the...
"He was very thirsty, and he called out to the Lord, 'You gave this great deliverance through Your servant, but now may I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?' So God split open the basin at Lehi, and water flowed out of it. He drank, was refreshed, and revived. Because of...
Six: Persecution Of Faith
8: Evils Broke Loose
Jiang Zemin wants to destroy Falun Gong practitioners’ reputations, cut them off financially, eradicate them physically. In May of 2000, the CCP gave the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners of their own accord without arrest...
John 3:13 - "No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven."
He was describing a lifestyle with the Father -- even though He was standing on earth He had ascended into heavenly realms in His relationship with God. That is an invitation...
1 Corinthians 4:20 - "For the kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power."
We cannot be witnesses of the Almighty God without power. When we think of power we often think of miracles, but they are only one example of God's power, not the very essence of it.
The essence of God's...
1 Chronicles 16:29 - "Give to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!"
As Believers in Jesus, we have been issued an invitation to live a life of holiness before God – to be set apart like He is. To be totally and...
Six: Persecution Of Faith
7: Plugging The Hole
Right from the beginning, Jiang Zemin’s suppression of Falun Gong was lacking followers. Even his former boss Li Peng advised him to be judicious. Premier Zhu Rongji had grown so jaded and dejected, that he was throwing his towel, ceded all his...
Six: Persecution Of Faith
6: The Crackdown
After the April 25 event, of the seven Politburo standing committee members, other than Jiang Zemin, all were against the persecution campaign. Jiang Zemin figured that everybody had a weakness, and everybody could be bribed.
As long as one was...
"'The Kingdom of Heaven is near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give." - Matthew 10:7-9
Will we, today, remain stuck in an old pattern of thinking, or an old pattern of religious performance?
We can no longer...
Six: Persecution Of Faith
5: An Easy Target
In 1999, the pseudo-scientist, He Zuoxiu published an article in Tianjin to frame-up Falun Gong. Several thousand Falun Gong followers went to the newspaper to clarify the truth. The publisher was about to issue a correction when the municipal...
"If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God." - 1 Peter 4:11
One of the greatest revelations of the New Testament is that Christ dwells within His people who live on the earth. That is why they are called the Body of Christ. We actually become the hands and feet...
John 1:1-2
~ Here we see that Christ has existed outside of time and space, and outside of Creation. This proves the fact that Christ was not a created being, but rather IS God Himself; the 2nd person of the Trinity
[Gen. 1:1 ; Rev. 3:14 ; Col. 1:17-18 ; Micah 5:2 ; Heb. 1:3]
~ We see that...
Six: Persecution Of Faith
4: The Hidden Agenda
Although Falun Gong’s spread was touching people’s heart and benefiting the nation and its citizens, in 1996 Vice Minister of the Central Ministry Propaganda, Xu Guangchun, seeking political gains for himself, summoned to a meeting the...
In our previous post we mentioned how the majority of professed believers have never fully responded to the privileges afforded them at this time.
IT IS IMPORTANT to understand that ONLY those who have fully consecrated themselves to the Lord have the merit of Christ’ righteousness imputed to...
In our previous the question was raised as to whom the “good” of the world were who would survive Armageddon, we had alluded to this in Parts 12 and 16 of this study intending to come back to it later. The question we had asked in Part 16 was:
Who exactly are the “good” (not just the innocent...
Those who wait on Him and remain faithful to obey Him will soar. They will accomplish His purpose for their life more NOW than ever before. Now is the time for the mature believers to prevail -- the tenacious ones who don't give up, who persist -- the faithful ones who set their face toward the...
Six: Persecution Of Faith
3: The Mud-Slinger
The Qigong Master Li Hongzhi had numerous students.
There were bound to be a Judas or two. During the initial period when Mr. Li was spreading Falun Gong, a few of the practice activity coordinators from Changchun City, violated multiple times the...
2 Samuel 5:19,20 - "And David inquired of the LORD, 'Shall I go up against the Philistines?... And he said, 'The LORD has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.'"
The key to breakthrough is to inquire of the Lord. David did not go forward in his own strength but he waited...