The disposition of antichrists is wicked; not only do they not accept the truth, but they can also resist God, establish their own kingdoms, and they are implacably opposed to God—this is a wicked disposition. Do you have any understanding of wicked dispositions? Most people perhaps don’t know how to discern them, so let’s take an example. Some people usually behave very normally under typical circumstances: They talk to others and interact with others very normally, they look like normal people and they don’t do anything bad. However, when they come to gatherings and read God’s words and fellowship on the truth, some of them aren’t willing to listen, some get sleepy, some feel averse toward it and find it hard to bear, they don’t want to hear it, and some unknowingly fall asleep and become totally unaware—what’s going on here? Why are so many abnormal phenomena manifested when someone starts fellowshipping on the truth? Some of these people are in an abnormal state, but some are being wicked. The possibility that they have been possessed by evil spirits cannot be excluded, and sometimes people cannot fully comprehend this or clearly discern it. Antichrists have evil spirits within them. If you ask them why they are hostile toward the truth, they say they aren’t hostile toward the truth and stubbornly refuse to admit it, when in actual fact they know in their hearts they don’t love the truth. When no one’s reading God’s words, they get along with others like they’re normal people and you’re not aware of what lies within them. However, when someone reads God’s words, they don’t want to listen and repulsion arises in their hearts. This is their nature being laid bare—they are evil spirits; they are this kind of thing. Have God’s words exposed these people’s essence or hit a nerve? Neither. When they attend gatherings, they don’t want to listen to anyone reading God’s words—is this not them being wicked? What does “being wicked” mean? It means being hostile toward the truth, toward positive things, and toward positive people without reason; not even they themselves know what the reason is, they just have to act that way. This is what being wicked means and, in layman’s terms, it is just being bad. Some antichrists say, “Someone only needs to start reading god’s words and I don’t want to listen. I only need to hear someone bearing testimony for god and I feel repulsion, and even I don’t know why. When I see someone loving and pursuing the truth, I can’t get along with them, I want to set myself against them, I always want to curse them, to harm them behind their back and torment them to death.” Even they don’t know why they feel this way—this is them being wicked. What is the actual reason for this? Antichrists simply do not have the spirit of a normal person inside them, they simply have no normal humanity—this is how it is in the final analysis. If a normal person hears God speaking so clearly and lucidly on various aspects of the truth, they think, “In such a wicked and promiscuous era, where right and wrong are indistinguishable and good and bad are confused, it’s so precious and rare to be able to hear so much truth and such excellent words!” Why is it precious? The words of God awaken the desires and inspiration of those who have both heart and spirit. What inspiration? They long for justice and for positive things, they long to live before God, for there to be fairness and righteousness in the world, and for God to come and hold power over the world—this is the cry of all those who love the truth. However, do antichrists long for these things? (No.) What do antichrists long for? “If I was in power, I’d destroy all those whom I dislike! When someone testifies to christ being god appearing and working, testifies to god being the sovereign of mankind, and testifies to god’s words being the truth, being mankind’s highest life maxim, and being the foundation for human survival, I feel repulsion, hatred, and I don’t want to hear it!” This is something that lies deep within antichrists. Don’t antichrists have this disposition? As long as someone worships them, looks up to them, and follows them, then they’re buddies, they’re on the same team; if someone is always fellowshipping on the truth and testifying for God, then the antichrists shun them and feel repulsion toward them, and even attack, exclude, and torment them—this is wickedness. When we talk about wickedness, it is always in reference to Satan’s cunning schemes; the things Satan does are wicked, the things the great red dragon does are wicked, the things antichrists do are wicked, and when we talk about them being wicked, it refers primarily to them being hostile toward all positive things and specially opposing the truth and God—this is wickedness, and this is the disposition of antichrists.

Think about which antichrists you have encountered and learned about who exhibit such a wicked disposition. I once encountered a shrew of a woman whose humanity was incredibly malicious. Whenever God’s house preached about the great disasters soon arriving, that there wasn’t much time, how brothers and sisters should prepare good deeds, how they should make effort to pursue the truth, how they should perform their duties well to satisfy God’s intentions, and how they shouldn’t leave themselves any regrets, whenever God’s house preached these things, this woman would curse in her heart and think, “The end of the world? Life is great. It may be the end of the world for you, but it isn’t the end of the world for me! Even if the great disasters have come, I should still live. If anyone has to die, then you can die!” Is this woman unreasonable or what? Whenever anyone fellowshipped on this aspect of the truth, she would become unreasonable and repulsion would arise in her heart, and she would think, “My life is fine as it is! I have a lot of money, I own cars, houses, I have a high income, I’m a big shot in my local area, and no one would dare offend me. My living conditions are so good, if the great disasters come, won’t I suffer loss? I’m not ready to die yet!” What was her perspective on God’s work and on God wanting to destroy this wicked world and wicked mankind? (She was hostile toward them.) No matter what God did, if it involved her interests, if it harmed her interests, then she would hate it and be hostile toward it, and she wouldn’t agree with it, thinking, “What you’re doing is wrong!” and she’d instantly deny God’s deeds. Furthermore, the most wicked thing about her was that she didn’t like fairness and righteousness holding sway; no matter who held power, even if it were God holding power and there was fairness and righteousness, if it harmed her interests, then that wouldn’t do—her interests were more important to her than God. Weren’t her actions of a demonic nature? And when a demonic nature is at play, is that not the same nature as when an evil spirit possesses someone and they say they don’t want to hear God’s words? (Yes.) Whenever anyone reads God’s words, that evil spirit will say it doesn’t want to hear it. Whenever any brother or sister fellowshipped on God’s day soon arriving or the great disasters soon coming, this shrew of a woman would hate it and curse it in her heart. Why did she curse it? If God came to destroy the world, then she would lose all her property—when anything touched upon her interests, she would curse it. Therefore, her cursing is of the same nature as an evil spirit saying it doesn’t want to hear God’s words. They share a common feature, which is that whenever anyone mentions the truth, lays bare the depths of their souls, lays bare their ugliness, their wickedness, and their insidiousness, then hatred, conflict, and resistance arise in their hearts, and then they curse and swear—this is what an evil spirit is like. From the outside, this shrew of a woman spoke and acted just like a normal person, and not like she was possessed by a demon, yet the nature of her actions was just the same as that demon. When you have the chance, you can ask the rich people in the church, “When God’s day arrives and the great disasters come, and your family property is all lost, will you feel upset? Do you look forward to God’s day arriving? Do you look forward to God taking power, and fairness and righteousness holding sway? Do you look forward to God annihilating this wicked mankind, even when you will be annihilated too? Are you willing for this to happen?” See what their viewpoint is. Some will be willing for this to happen, and some won’t. Taking all the world, all the universe, all the material things governed by God—we’re not talking here about immaterial things, only the things within the material scope: the family property, the cars, the houses, the money, and so on—taking all these things together, do they amount to as much as a grain of sand in the hand of God? (No.) However, when people get these things, they don’t want to give them up and feel like they have the capital to contend with God, saying, “If you take my family property away then I’ll hate you, I’ll oppose you, and I won’t acknowledge that you are god!” Is whether God is God or not dependent upon your acknowledgment? (No.) Do you have the capital to contend with God with that little bit of family property? You’re so ignorant! Diamonds are the most valuable things on Earth. When ordinary people see a one-carat diamond, they’re amazed and say, “Such a big diamond! It must be worth 10 or 20 thousand US dollars!” They think diamonds are so valuable. But then I heard a news report that said a planet not far from Earth was made entirely of diamond, and I suddenly realized something: People are so short-sighted. When you see a diamond sparkling, you like it a lot and think it’s a great thing, but when you hear that there’s an entire planet made of diamond, what is your perspective then? Your perspective on diamonds changes. That is, once you hear some other information, your horizon suddenly broadens, you no longer see only the tiny space right before you, you’re no longer the frog in the well, because the amount of information you have has increased, and your perception has changed and grown. Living in this world, while people are constantly encountering every single thing that happens to them and different environments, their horizons are constantly changing, while at the same time their perspectives are constantly being renewed. This is normal, and it is the process in which God causes people to make gradual progress in this life, and make constant progress in insight, in perspective, in understanding of the whole world and of God’s deeds. So, now that you’ve listened to Me recounting this matter, how should you treat it? Should you think, “Oh, people on Earth are so ignorant, they lack insight, and they know so little!”? That is to say, your views and insights about the entire universe, about the entire human race, about all things that God commands, about everything that God commands, may perhaps be the same as your understanding of a small diamond whose value is compared to a planet, right? (Right.) What conclusion can we draw from this? On planet Earth, no matter what achievements someone has made, what renown they’ve had, how magnificently they’ve performed, they mustn’t brag, as human beings are so insignificant and aren’t worth a dime! God prepared some diamonds upon the earth and people have fought for them. Don’t people know how many planets there are in God’s hand that contain even better things than diamonds? Aren’t people pitiful? (Yes.) This is how people are pitiful; people are so ignorant.

Antichrists cannot help but resist God; they inherently hate the truth and positive things, and they cannot even leave people who pursue the truth and love positive things alone, but instead condemn, oppress, and exclude such people. As for those who collude with them, they are naturally bound together, protecting each other, sheltering each other, and licking each other’s boots. From this, we can see that these people who are antichrists are reincarnated evil spirits and unclean demons, and they are without normal humanity. No matter how much they understand the truth they hear, or how clearly they preach words and doctrines, when it comes time to practice, the only thing they choose to do is to go against the truth and resist God, and to safeguard their own position and interests—this is their wickedness. In what way are they most wicked? It is that they hate the truth; they hate the truth without explanation or reason. If you ask them why they hate the truth, they may perhaps be unable to explain, but their every action bears the disposition and methods of antichrists, and their every action misleads and entraps people, disturbs and disrupts the work of God’s house—this is the result of their every action. Make a comparison and look at the leaders and workers at every level or the ordinary brothers and sisters around you, whom you know and have contact with to see if any of them hate for no reason those brothers and sisters who pursue the truth and always want to attack and exclude these people. They themselves know that it’s not right but are unable to help it, saying pleasant-sounding words to these brothers’ and sisters’ faces but doing things quite differently behind their backs, revealing their demonic countenance and starting to oppose them. If this isn’t wickedness, then what is it? What is the most loathsome thing about antichrists? They often say right things to mislead God’s chosen people and those around them and even to hoodwink and cheat the Above, and even more so, they want to cheat God and gain people’s trust using flowery words, and then run amok, act recklessly, and do whatever they want in God’s house. They know how to speak correctly, how to speak incorrectly, and they know how they are supposed to act, how they are not supposed to act, what are principles, what are not principles, what it is to go against principles and what it is to act in accordance with principles. They aren’t unclear on these things in their hearts, and some even know these things very clearly and lucidly, but no matter how well they understand and clearly know principles, when they do things they don’t practice the truth at all, and they unstintingly do bad things in line with their own wishes. This decides their nature as being satanic and as that of an antichrist. Not only are they averse to the truth and hate the truth, but they frequently hate and condemn positive things. Why does the great red dragon hate the truth and God? This is entirely decided by its satanic nature. Some brothers and sisters are persecuted and pursued so much that they cannot return to their homes, and those devils and Satans say, “These people aren’t living normally anymore; they’ve abandoned their families.” In fact, they can’t go home because they are being persecuted by the great red dragon. This kind of thing happens a lot. What others have you heard of? (The great red dragon says that if people read God’s words too much then they become brainwashed.) The great red dragon says, “People are brainwashed by god’s words; they have been godized.” This is turning the truth on its head. Clearly it is the great red dragon that corrupts and brainwashes people, and yet it turns it around and says God’s words brainwash people—these demons are so wicked! The great red dragon claims all good deeds done by others for itself and blames others for the bad things it does. Antichrists do the same; their methods are exactly the same as those of the great red dragon and Satan. They truly are Satan’s lackeys!

Have we now pretty much finished fellowshipping on the wicked, insidious, and deceitful manifestations of antichrists? Is what I’ve fellowshipped today not different and more real than that which you can understand literally? God’s house has produced many videos in recent years, and including some hymns and movies and so on, they have all been uploaded online. An antichrist in mainland China saw these things online and said, “You’ve produced these programs abroad and we can do this in China too.” He then went on a recruiting drive, found a gang of people, and started a choir in the nation of the great red dragon. In the end, these people were arrested. Why did the antichrist have to do this? Did he have an aim? (Yes.) What was his aim? (Controlling people.) It wasn’t as simple as him wanting to control people. He wanted to set up his own faction. His idea was, “God’s house can have a choir, and so can I! If I succeed, I’ll have my own faction. With just one wave of my arm, many people will come!” In this way, he could supplant God’s church. Isn’t this the aim he wanted to achieve? But the result was that the great red dragon clamped down and his wishful thinking came to nothing. God’s house performs this work under the premise of ensured security. Was this condition present for him in the country ruled over by the great red dragon? This condition was not present for him, yet he still wanted to show off. He didn’t show himself off very well, and in the end things went wrong for him. A few years ago, another group of people produced a program and put it online. They sang old tunes accompanied by dances and wore ethnic minority style floral dresses. It was too conventional and outdated. Tell Me, didn’t these antichrists just cause disturbances? (Yes.) The nonbelievers and religious people didn’t know the actual situation and believed these things really were done by the church. Antichrists always do foolish things; not only are they wicked, but they are also foolish. Why are they foolish? Is it because they are so wicked that they have become stupid with wickedness? No. No matter what caliber a person has, if they understand some truth, then even if they have no way forward when they do things and don’t know what is appropriate or inappropriate for them to do, they have a bottom line in their heart: They will not act recklessly or blindly. Isn’t this the case? (Yes, it is.) However, those people who don’t understand the truth and who are so arrogant as to be without reason act wantonly. What does it mean for them to act wantonly? People like this have no sense of reason, and people with no sense of reason cannot consider issues. What do I mean by “consider”? I mean what to do in the early stages, what to prepare, what things are needed when taking action, why this program must be made and, after the program is produced, how many people can be affected, how many people can be edified, and whether there are any consequences or drawbacks—all this needs to be evaluated. This evaluation process is called “considering.” Can these foolish people consider things? (No.) People who cannot consider issues are without rationality; do they have any understanding of the truth? Certainly not. If someone truly does understand some truth, their sense of reason will become clearer and more sound. They can become clearer on what is positive, what is negative, what is right, what is wrong, and what scope such-and-such a principle lies within; that is, no matter what they do, whether they do something good or bad, they have a standard in their heart. For instance, if someone told you to go run naked along the street, would you go do it? (No.) Would you go do it if someone hit you? Would you go do it if someone gave you ten thousand yuan? (That would be a shameful thing to do. I couldn’t do it.) Knowing that this would be a shameful thing to do, this is a kind of thinking, a kind of verdict, and a kind of attitude that arise out of rationality, that is, only with this rationality are you able to have such thinking and such an attitude. Therefore, no matter whether you are enticed with money or cruelly tortured and tormented, no matter how you are forced, you still would not go do it, then you would not be affected at all, and you would stand firm. Antichrists don’t understand the truth, and that’s why they have no concept of anything they do. What does “concept” mean here? It means that they don’t know what to do to bear testimony for God. This antichrist believed he had a tremendously loving heart, he put together a group of people to make a choir video and wound up spending a lot of money and putting himself at risk. The situation in mainland China is worse than it is abroad, so what if something goes wrong? Did he consider this? He may have considered the situation to some extent, but he didn’t know which programs to make or what results to achieve—he didn’t understand at all. Why didn’t he understand? He was without this rationality. How does rationality come about? Only through understanding the truth can people’s reason become gradually clear and sound. Antichrists have a truth-hating nature, they inherently oppose positive things, and in their innermost hearts they can never love the truth, so can they understand the truth? (No.) If they can’t understand the truth, can they possess the thinking of normal humanity? They can never possess this. Do people without the thinking of normal humanity have rationality? No, they don’t. When antichrists do and say something, their perspectives and all those things they do are no different from the things done by devils and evil spirits. Why do I say there is no difference? For example, someone really loves to preach and show himself off, so he’s always looking for people to hear him preach sermons. Even if people don’t like listening to him, he still preaches; when other people feel such repulsion toward him, he can’t tell, and he doesn’t try to observe them, he doesn’t see what others need, and he just satisfies himself. Isn’t this disgraceful? It is disgraceful and he is without rationality. Is there any difference between this lack of rationality and the random and wanton speech and actions of someone possessed by Satan and evil spirits? Although he may not appear like a mental patient madly running naked down the street, you can see that he acts without rationality. When he is asked to water several brothers and sisters, or spread the gospel, or perform some duty, he is totally without principles and just acts recklessly however he wants. There are some people who have been spreading the gospel for 20 years without gaining a single person, and yet they still want to become leaders. Are there such people? Yes, there are. They have no principles whatsoever, they make a mess of everything they do, and yet they want to become leaders and lead other people—there are many people like this, for sure. They’ve believed in God for so many years, they’ve read many of God’s words, and they’ve listened to many sermons, but they don’t understand any truth. So, what is their lack of understanding related to? What cause has led them to not understand? Is it that they are too lacking in caliber and in comprehension ability, or that their character is bad and they don’t love the truth? (It’s related to their essence.) Why is it related to their essence? (It’s because their essence is wicked, they can’t receive the work of the Holy Spirit, and God doesn’t work on such people, so no matter how they eat and drink God’s words, they will never understand the truth.) This is an objective cause. The objective cause is of course that the Holy Spirit doesn’t work on them and so they definitely won’t be able to understand anything—this applies to anyone. There is also a subjective cause, and what is that? (Such people hate the truth.) And how do people who hate the truth regard the truth? (As their antithesis.) They regard it as their antithesis; that is one aspect. What else? Are they able to comprehend the practical side of the truth? Never. If they cannot even comprehend this level, then tell Me, are they capable of understanding the truth? Never, they cannot understand the truth. The objective cause is that such people are unable to receive the work of the Holy Spirit, and God does not enlighten them. The subjective cause is that they are hostile to God, to truth, and to positive things, and no positive thing is a positive thing as far as they’re concerned. So what things do they believe in their hearts to be positive? They’re the kind of things that Satan advocates—things that are all wicked, empty, and vague. So, are these wicked people who hate the truth capable of understanding the truth? They can never understand it because they don’t accept it. Now, tell Me, is there any point in fellowshipping on the truth with such people? Can they be willing to listen when you read God’s words to them? They’re all nonbelievers and demons, so how could they listen to God’s words? Some people cannot penetrate this matter and say, “Why don’t they understand when I fellowship on the truth with them? Are they not human?” You feel puzzled and you cannot get through to them. Some people’s words you just cannot listen to and the things they do are simply preposterous—these are nonbelievers, demons, and they are deaf to all reason. Why do I say these four words, “deaf to all reason”? You believe that God exists and that God holds sovereignty over all things—are these not positive things? (They are.) And what do these people believe? “This is how god holds sovereignty over all things? He’s not much to write home about.” Are they not deaf to all reason? (They are.) There is no way to communicate with such people; they are a kind apart, beasts, deaf to all reason. Beasts never understand what positive things are or what the truth is, so there is no way to communicate with them. The fact that you are unable to communicate with them is not a problem of time, or of whether you make a strenuous effort or how much effort you make, but rather it is that they are simply not capable of understanding, so what else is there to say to them? What exactly is within these people? There is no honesty, no uprightness, and no goodness in their hearts, only wickedness, they are filled with wickedness. This is the reason why these people are deaf to all reason and beyond saving.