God has once again become flesh in the East—in China.

In 1991,

Almighty God, Christ of the last days, formally took up His ministry.

Since then, Almighty God has expressed millions of words

and carried out the work of judgment beginning from the house of God.

God's sheep hear His voice.

The people of various sects and denominations

who loved the truth and yearned for God's appearance,

have recognized that Almighty God's words are the truth,

and that this is the voice of God.

They believed that Almighty God was the return of the Lord Jesus,

and one by one they came before Almighty God.

The appearance and work of Almighty God sparked panic in the CCP.

The CCP issued numerous secret documents

and mobilized the armed police and the army

to maniacally oppress and eradicate the Church.

The whole of mainland China rained blood,

dark clouds descended,

and there was universal outrage and indignation.

Today, the Christians of all the house churches,

particularly those of The Church of Almighty God,

are experiencing even more brutal and bloody persecution by the CCP government.

These Christians' bloodshed and loss of life

are like a song of victory over the forces of Satan,

and tell the grisly tale of Chinese Christians' persecution.

One day in March, 1998, deep in the night,

the moon shone dimly and the night wind blew fiercely.

A dog's barking shattered the mountain village's peace.

Suddenly, more than 10 dark figures climbed over a wall into a farmer's home.

After prying open the door,

they overturned furniture and searched every corner, just like burglars.

What were they looking for?

The next day

when Yang Jing'en and his wife Li Xinyi,

Christians from The Church of Almighty God,

returned from her mother's house,

they saw their home had been ransacked, that it was a mess.

They were baffled.

They learned from one of their cousins

that the plainclothes police had broken into their home,

coming to secretly arrest them.

This made the couple extremely angry.

They only believed in God and spread the gospel of the kingdom

and had not done anything illegal.

Why would the CCP government want to arrest them?

To avoid this, they left home that same night.

Yang Jing'en is from Qingzhou City in Shandong Province.

He came to believe in the Lord Jesus in 1996.

In February 1998,

he and his wife Li Xinyi investigated and realized

that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus returned.

They accepted Almighty God's work of the last days

and enthusiastically shared and bore witness to the gospel of the kingdom.

As the gospel spread

many true believers in the area accepted Almighty God.

This drew the attention of police.

Before long, the police listed them as wanted people.

His wife advised him to leave the area to avoid the danger,

but he couldn't bear to leave.

His daughter was just 4 months old,

and his wife was very weak after giving birth.

They needed his care.

But to avoid the CCP's arrest and persecution,

he had no choice but to leave his family and his home.

After he left, Li Xinyi hid at her parents' home.

But the police were still looking for them everywhere.

She had to go into hiding.

She lived every single day in fear.

Seeing her soundly sleeping child made Li Xinyi's heart ache.

So that her daughter wouldn't suffer alongside her,

she entrusted her to her parents, and then left home.

She continued preaching the gospel while on the run.

From then on, husband and wife had to be far apart.

They embarked on the long road of exile.

April 1998, Zouping County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province.

That evening, Yang Jing'en and others fled to a village in the twilight,

but they never imagined they would quickly be reported by CCP informants.

After such a close call,

Yang Jing'en realized that in atheist, communist China,

following Christ is a rocky road.

But he resolved that since he had decided

to believe in the true God and take the right path,

it was his duty to keep on.

From 1999 to 2002

Yang Jing'en fled to Tianjin, then Hebei, then Henan,

facing the danger of being arrested at any moment.

But he continued to uphold the responsibilities of a Christian.

He never stopped spreading the gospel of the kingdom,

and as this good news spread,

the CCP's arrests and persecution of The Church of Almighty God ramped up.

In July, 2002, Yang Jing'en went to the Tacheng prefecture in Xinjiang

to spread the gospel of the kingdom.

A report from a wicked person

led to the arrest of 20 other Christians that he had preached to.

When the police came, luckily he wasn't there.

He dodged that bullet.

However, he became a most wanted person for the Xinjiang police.

In 2003, the CCP once again carried out

a nationwide crackdown oppressing The Church of Almighty God.

They bribed idle people, drifters, and ruffians from all over the place

to act as their spies to surveil and follow those who believe in Almighty God.

The entire country was on edge, people were jittery.

The CCP dispatched a special working group

from Beijing to Xinjiang for supervision

to manage the secret operation to arrest Christians.

In Korla alone they arrested over 200 from The Church of Almighty God

and confiscated a large number of the church's funds.

All of Xinjiang descended into panic.

Yang Jing'en went all over Xinjiang

continuing to preach the gospel under the intense pressure of persecution.

But in every new place, before long, he discovered he was being monitored.

He couldn't even remember how many "tails" he had shaken that year

or how many times he had moved.

He only remembered

frequently hearing news of his brothers' and sisters' arrests, sentences, and torture.

He was constantly on edge and felt like he could barely breathe.

It was one piece of bad news after another.

Yang Jing'en was bitter and distressed.

So many Christians in Xinjiang had been arrested,

and half of those who went there from other provinces had been taken.

They were tortured and mistreated.

For some, no one knew if they were alive or dead, there was no news.

Since circumstances were becoming more dire,

Yang Jing'en and his co-workers were forced to leave Xinjiang.

Yang Jing'en fled from one place to another

but the CCP's persecution was everywhere.

Although the road ahead was full of hardship and danger,

that did not stop him from following God.

While on the run, every time he saw a cute child in someone's home,

it was very stirring for Yang Jing'en, who thought of his own daughter.

When he left home his daughter was still a swaddled baby.

He knew she had to be so much bigger now,

just as lively and adorable as this girl …

He missed his family but could not return home.

He heard his family was closely monitored by the village cadres and the police,

and even his relatives from the Three-Self Church had been bought out by the CCP police.

They were looking everywhere for information on him.

All these years without seeing his family,

he often suffered, and felt helpless and tormented.

In Spring of 2007,

Yang Jing'en went to Guilin in Guangxi Province to preach the gospel.

Many local true believers accepted Almighty God's work of the last days,

which stirred up the animosity of local pastors and elders.

One day when Yang Jing'en was spreading the gospel

he was threatened and beaten by a pastor and an elder.

They even called the police on him.

He had to leave that same night.

From 2007 to 2011,

the CCP ramped up the nationwide arrests of Christians from The Church of Almighty God.

Huge numbers were arrested. The situation was grave.

The CCP also carried out blanket searches under the guise of a census

with a focus on people from outside the region.

Any Christians with house churches or dissidents that were found

were arrested and persecuted.

In such a hostile environment,

Yang Jing'en and his wife both returned to their hometown in Shandong.

After more than 10 years,

the family of three could finally be together again.

Yang Jing'en couldn't wait to see his daughter.

He kept imagining what it would be like to see her.

How tall would she be? Would she recognize him?

He was both excited and nervous.

Hearing the word "uncle," he felt a wave of sadness.

It was like a sword to the heart.

Because of the CCP's oppression,

he had been on the run for over 10 years

and couldn't take care of his daughter,

so she had never felt a father's love.

And now facing her, he felt so guilty, so remorseful.

Watching his sleeping daughter,

Yang Jing'en quietly basked in the happiness and warmth of family,

but he knew it was temporary

because they could be arrested at any time.

In 2012, the preaching of Almighty God's gospel of the kingdom reached a peak in China,

causing panic in the CCP.

To wipe out The Church of Almighty God,

they held many emergency meetings and issued confidential documents

to mobilize armed police and the military to crack down on the Church.

They also carried out mass arrest operations on Christians across the country.

The Shandong police used measures like video surveillance,

phone tapping, and following people.

They learned the whereabouts of some church leaders and co-workers,

then arrested them.

The afternoon of September 4, 2012, after days of being followed by the CCP,

Yang Jing'en was unlawfully arrested while in a gathering.

After being on the run for 14 years, he could not escape the CCP's claws.

He was taken to a secret interrogation location the next day.

The CCP arranged for 12 officers to take shifts to watch him day and night,

plus 5 officers just to interrogate him.

They repeatedly demanded to know who the church leaders were

and where the church funds were

but he wouldn't answer,

so they punched and kicked him,

and tortured him in all sorts of ways.

They didn't let him sleep for 7 days and nights.

They wouldn't let him close his eyes.

When the police saw he was in a daze,

they used both threats and inducements to have him sell out the church,

and even wanted him to go back to church as an undercover CCP agent.

Otherwise, they'd torture him so badly he'd wish he were dead.

They also threatened that if he did not cooperate,

they would say he had sold out when arresting Christians,

and let him take the blame.

Hearing the police say such evil things,

he felt that those in the CCP had no humanity,

that they were true demons!

When the police saw that neither enticements nor threats were working,

they became enraged and tortured him in all sorts of ways.

After his family and church's brothers and sisters heard of his arrest,

they were distressed and tried to pull all the strings they could to save him.

By then, he had been tortured for 11 days.

His whole body was in unbearable pain

and his head felt like it would split open.

He was about to have a mental breakdown— he was at his last gasp.

But in his heart, he kept praying to God and relying on Him.

He never revealed anything to the police.

Just as Yang Jing'en was facing more and more brutality,

his family spent money to find a connection to a high-level central government official.

This was the only way he escaped this nightmare.

He was sentenced to 1.5 years of reeducation through labor while on probation.

Because of the CCP's close surveillance,

Yang Jing'en couldn't lead a normal life or practice his faith and fulfill his duty.

In November 2012,

he escaped to an old brother's house

in a remote mountainous area in Shandong to hide.