We’ve just spoken about six reasons why antichrists are pruned. The first was establishing their own independent kingdoms; second, engaging in underhanded manipulation; third, tormenting others; fourth, doing things their own way; fifth, reveling in special privileges; and sixth, deceiving those above and below them. Are there any others? (Spreading heresies and fallacies to mislead brothers and sisters.) (Never exalting or bearing witness to God, and instead always bearing witness to themselves, and spouting words and doctrines to mislead people.) (Judging, attacking and hating the man used by the Holy Spirit.) Among these three things, which one is comparatively close in essence to the six reasons we’ve already discussed? (Always exalting and bearing witness to themselves and never bearing witness to God.) That one is relatively serious in nature. Second to that is attacking and judging the man used by the Holy Spirit, followed by spreading fallacies to mislead people. There should be some other specific manifestations of antichrists, but these more or less represent everything, so we don’t need to go into unnecessary detail about each one of them today. That is not the focus for today’s fellowship; instead, today’s focus is on how an antichrist won’t accept being pruned, and how they lack an attitude of repentance when they commit any wrong, and instead spread notions and publicly pass judgment on God. In other words, an antichrist’s attitude after they have been pruned, the root of this attitude, and what their disposition essence really is—this is the focal point that we should fellowship on. The other things we just covered are smaller topics that are somewhat related to this. Since we have discussed them in enough detail before, today we just fellowshipped on them in a broad and general way, summing up our previous fellowship on the various manifestations of antichrists. Antichrists possess these manifestations, these dispositions and essences, and they have done these kinds of things, so they must be pruned and rejected. However, would a true antichrist, someone who possesses the essence of an antichrist, acknowledge these things they’ve done or that these manifestations of theirs are those of an antichrist? (No, they wouldn’t.) When have you ever seen Satan the devil acknowledge that it opposes God? It will never admit that it opposes God, and no matter what kind of mistakes it has made, it will never admit that it was in the wrong. So, let’s start on the topic for today’s fellowship from the perspective of this essence of antichrists.

II. How Antichrists Behave When They Do Not Accept Being Pruned

A. Refusing to Acknowledge That They Have Done Wrong

No matter how large a mistake an antichrist has made, and no matter how much evil they have committed, when they are pruned, the first behavior they resort to is one of completely denying that they have done anything wrong, desperately using sophistry to vindicate themselves. This is them lacking an attitude of repentance when they commit any wrong, which is mentioned in the eleventh manifestation of antichrists. Antichrists do not have an attitude of repentance, so what are they thinking deep down? Why do they not have an attitude of repentance? (Because they believe that they haven’t done anything wrong.) Right. Antichrists absolutely do not admit that they have done anything wrong. So are they able to admit that they are antichrists? This is even more difficult. If you are able to make a list of facts to expose an antichrist, will they be able to accept it? Without a shadow of a doubt, they will be even less capable of accepting this. Through these kinds of manifestations, we are able to see that the essence of an antichrist is one of resisting and betraying God, and that their disposition is one that is averse to the truth, hates the truth, and has absolutely no love for the truth. Therefore, when antichrists are exposed and pruned, the first thing they do is to look for various reasons in their defense, to look for all kinds of excuses to try and get themselves off the hook, thus accomplishing their goal of shirking their responsibilities, and achieving their aim of being forgiven. What the antichrists fear most is that God’s chosen people will see through to their character, to their weaknesses and flaws, to their Achilles’ heel, to their true caliber and work ability—so they try their utmost to package themselves in order to cover up their shortcomings, issues, and corrupt dispositions. When their evildoing is unmasked and exposed, the first thing they do is not admit or accept this fact, or do their utmost to make up for and compensate for their mistakes, instead they try to come up with various methods to use to cover them up, to hoodwink and mislead those who are privy to their actions, to not let God’s chosen people see the true face of the matter, to not let them know how harmful their actions have been to God’s house, how much they have disrupted and disturbed the work of the church. Of course, what they fear most is the Above finding out, because once the Above knows, they will be dealt with according to principle, and it will all be over for them, and they are bound to be dismissed and eliminated. And so, when the evildoing of antichrists is exposed, the first thing they do is not to reflect on where they went wrong, where they violated principles, why they did what they did, what disposition they were governed by, what their intents were, what their state was at the time, whether it was because of waywardness or because of the adulterations of their intents. Instead of dissecting these things, much less reflecting on them, they rack their brains for any way to cover up the true facts. At the same time, they do their utmost to explain and justify themselves in front of God’s chosen people, in order to hoodwink them, making major problems seem like small ones, and small problems seem unproblematic, and bluffing their way out of it, so that they can remain in the house of God recklessly committing misdeeds and abusing their power, and continue to mislead and control people, and make them look up to them and do as they say to satisfy their ambitions and desires. From start to finish, what are antichrists really doing? All that antichrists do is rack their brains trying to say things, do things, and busy themselves for the sake of their own status and reputation, instead of coming before God to pray and admit their mistakes and transgressions, and know their own intents and corrupt dispositions. They also don’t admit the harm that the mistakes they’ve made bring upon the work of the church and the brothers and sisters. Instead, they keep frantically searching over and over again in the depths of their hearts: “Whereabouts exactly have I made a mistake? Where have I not been cautious, thereby allowing someone to get leverage on me? Where have I not put in enough effort or fully considered things, thereby allowing something to go wrong, and turn into a source of criticism or a piece of leverage that can be used against me?” They think about and sift through these things again and again, unable to eat or sleep. But an antichrist never reflects on or knows themselves, much less do they pray to God and admit that they have done something wrong, and they do not search for answers based on God’s word, seek the truths they should practice or the truth principles they should abide by, and much less do they seek out brothers or sisters who understand the truth to open up to in fellowship and seek the truth with to resolve problems. When they are confronted with a matter, they don’t seek or submit, rather, they try using every means at their disposal to hide their problems, thinking that the fewer people know about them, the better, and that preserving their reputation and status is the best policy. The hearts of antichrists are this dark, and they are filled with rebelliousness and wickedness, lacking the slightest intention to submit to God. Antichrists are always looking for ways to keep their reputation and status from being harmed. No matter who fellowships the truth with them to support and help them, they don’t accept it, thinking to themselves: “I understand everything, I don’t need your help! Even when I have problems, I’m better than you. You think you can help me with what little you understand? You’re really overestimating your abilities here!” Antichrists are just this arrogant and self-righteous. They do so many bad things and yet refuse to admit that they have done anything wrong or that they have any problems. In their hearts, they are too intransigent and just won’t listen to anything anyone says. The only thing they can’t put aside in their minds is what kind of impact their actions will have on their reputation and status later on. This is the thing that worries them the most and the thing that they are most concerned about.

No matter how many wrong things an antichrist does, no matter what kind of wrong things they do, whether it be embezzling, squandering, or misusing God’s offerings, or if they are disrupting and disturbing the work of the church, making a huge mess of it and provoking God’s wrath, they always remain calm, collected, and totally unconcerned. No matter what kind of evil an antichrist does or what consequences it brings about, they never promptly come before God to confess their sins and repent, or come before the brothers and sisters with an attitude of baring themselves and opening up to admit their wrongdoings, know their transgressions and corruption, and regret their evil deeds. Instead, they rack their brains to find various excuses to shirk responsibility and shift the blame onto others to restore their own face and status. What they care about is not the work of the church, but whether their reputation and status are damaged or impacted in any way. They do not consider at all or think of ways to make up for the losses caused to God’s house due to their transgressions, nor do they try to make up for their debt to God. That is to say, they never admit that they are capable of doing something wrong or that they have made a mistake. In the hearts of antichrists, proactively admitting mistakes and providing an honest account of the facts is incompetence and foolishness. If their evil deeds are discovered and exposed, antichrists will only admit to a momentary careless mistake, never their own dereliction of duty and irresponsibility, and they will attempt to pin the responsibility on someone else to remove the stain from their record. At times like these, antichrists are not concerned with how to make up for the losses caused to God’s house, how to open up, admit their mistakes, or give an account of this to God’s chosen people. They are concerned with finding ways to make major problems seem like small ones and small problems seem unproblematic. They give objective reasons to make others understand and sympathize with them. They try their utmost to restore their reputations in other people’s minds, minimize the extremely negative influence of their transgressions on themselves, not let the Above have a bad impression of them, and ensure that the Above never holds them accountable, dismisses them, investigates the situation, or handles them. To restore their reputation and status, so that their own interests are not harmed, antichrists are willing to endure any amount of suffering, and they will think up every possible method to solve any difficulty. From the very start of their transgression or mistake, antichrists never have any intention of bearing any responsibility for the wrong things they do, they never have any intention to admit, fellowship about, expose, or dissect the motives, intents, and corrupt dispositions behind the wrong things they do, and they certainly never have any intention to make up for the damage they cause to the work of the church and the loss they cause to the life entry of God’s chosen people. Therefore, no matter what perspective you view the matter from, antichrists are people who stubbornly refuse to admit their wrongdoings and would rather die than repent. Antichrists are shameless and thick-skinned beyond all hope of redemption, and they are no less than living Satans. No matter how great the mistakes they make within the church are, they puff out their chests and hold their heads high, they are completely indifferent to this, believing that they’ve done nothing wrong and lacking the slightest intention to repent. They never shed any tears over the wrongs they have committed, nor do they ever feel any sadness or remorse because of these things. By contrast, they do feel pained or sad if they inadvertently expose themselves, thereby allowing the majority of people to see their true face and reject them. After they have made mistakes and their actions have brought harm upon God’s chosen people and caused damage to the work of the church, every word they say and everything they do is not to make up for these errors or to recover the losses, instead they are harboring their own intents and devising any possible means to defend themselves, to put on a performance and a show. Their aim is to make more people see that what they did was unintentional, that they were just careless for a moment, so that they can gain their forgiveness, have them speak on their behalf, and gain the trust and favor of God’s chosen people, and thereby attain their goal of making a full comeback.

Some antichrists, after having been pruned, don’t reflect on themselves to understand why they were pruned, to find where their mistake really lay in the matter that was exposed, and how they should make up for it going forward. Instead, they exploit being pruned, they fellowship with others about how they accepted being pruned, how they learned a lesson from it, how they were able to submit, and how they gained the appreciation of the Above after having had closer contact with the Above. At the same time, these antichrists also create a facade by fellowshipping about how they accepted being pruned to disseminate their own dissatisfaction and notions about the Above, leaving people with the impression that the Above doesn’t have principles for pruning people, that the Above prunes people at random, and is unsympathetic, inconsiderate of people’s feelings, and inconsiderate of human weaknesses, and that, despite all this, they still submitted entirely, and were still able to do their absolute best at the work that falls to them, they did not become negative, weak or resistant, nor did they throw in the towel. When an antichrist says all these things, it not only fails to make people submit to the truth and willingly accept pruning, on the contrary, it makes people develop notions and opinions about God and become guarded against God, while developing envy, admiration, and respect for the antichrist themselves. Once these two results have been produced, the greatest oversights that people make are what transgression the antichrist committed, what they did wrong, and the fact that they incurred losses for the work of the church, for God’s house because they were not capable in their work and recklessly committed misdeeds. This is one of the tactics of an antichrist—making a false countercharge, and thereby misleading others. They never mention the fact that they brought so much trouble upon the work of the house of God, and such great losses to the lives of brothers and sisters because they were negligent in their duty, because they were foolish and ignorant, because they tried to establish their own independent kingdom. They never admit or dissect these things, they never mention the truth of these matters, they never mention the reason for their dismissal, or why they were pruned. All they talk about is how the Above pruned them, how brutal the Above’s pruning was, how severely the Above spoke to them, how much they cried, how they were scapegoated, and how much they suffered, how they nevertheless hung in there as always, continuing to unfailingly do their duty. From beginning to end, does an antichrist ever have the slightest attitude of acknowledging their own wrongdoing? They do not. When foolish and ignorant people who don’t know the real situation, who don’t understand the truth hear about this, they think, “The Above doesn’t have any principles in how they prune people. No matter how well someone does in their work or how they pay a price, they’ll be pruned all the same, and afterward they can’t show any weakness, they just have to submit.” After a round of an antichrist’s fellowship and misleading, and after them putting a considerable amount of effort into doing things, the result they achieve is to engender misunderstandings and guardedness toward God in people’s hearts, so that when people are pruned, they will feel more antipathy and resistance, instead of being able to better understand God’s heart or being able to gladly submit to and accept the pruning, followed by knowing their own corrupt disposition, their foolishness and ignorance, and knowing who they really are. Throughout this antichrist’s fellowship, do they ever mention what they did wrong? Do they ever show a little bit of an attitude of admitting their wrongdoing? Not in the slightest. All throughout the process, they never acknowledge their own error. Have you ever heard of an antichrist, after being dismissed, admitting that their mistake had caused a loss to the house of God? (No.) If that person were an antichrist, they would not admit it. We’ve talked about a few antichrists before, like that “female leader” and a few other well-known antichrists, whose actions resulted in losses of tens of thousands to God’s offerings, but in the end they never acknowledged that they had done anything wrong. They didn’t utter a single word about what they did wrong, and instead did nothing but blame others for being hard to work with. They pushed all the responsibility, the wrongdoing, the blame onto other people’s shoulders while taking credit for all the good things, whatever was done right, and all the correct decisions. Throughout the entire incidents, even though they were the main people in charge, they claimed that all the mistakes were made by other people. If that’s the case, then what were they doing? Antichrists cause losses to the house of God, and other people must take the responsibility for this. And yet whenever there is the slightest achievement, antichrists immediately pop up, saying they were the ones who did it, itching to let everyone in the church know about it, even nonbelievers. When they make the slightest mistake, they rush to find a scapegoat, to offload the responsibility. They make major problems seem like small ones, and small problems seem unproblematic, trying to nip any issues in the bud. This is so no one finds out about it, and so everyone forgets about it as soon as possible, and no one knows what really happened, so that they can regain others’ esteem right away, and quickly recover their original status and power. When an antichrist has done something wrong, no matter how practically people prune them or hit the nail on the head, they will be resistant, oppositional, and completely unaccepting, and even if there are witnesses or evidence, they will stubbornly refuse to admit their mistakes, and they will not acknowledge or accept it within their heart. The antichrist will say, “Even if I was wrong in this, there were other people involved, too. Why aren’t they being pruned, but just me? Why am I the only one being investigated for accountability and not anyone else?” No matter how in line with the truth and with reality the pruning is, they will feel that they have been wrongly accused, that they are being wronged, that they shouldn’t be treated that way after suffering so much and paying so many prices, and they shouldn’t be pounced on like that for one little mistake. They believe they shouldn’t have to accept that kind of pruning. If a regular brother or sister prunes them, then they will immediately fight back and resist it, throwing a tantrum and showing their hotheadedness, or possibly even daring to raise a hand against them. If it’s the Above who prunes them, they’ll begrudgingly keep quiet, but inside they feel incredibly wronged. They are displeased and unwilling, and will often spout skewed arguments, saying, “I guess it’s just my luck that you found out about this. Actually, many of the leaders at all ranks and brothers and sisters did such terrible things that you don’t know about, and I’m the one who was caught. That’s how bad my luck is!” No matter how the Above or the brothers and sisters prune them, they cannot just accept it as is, they cannot acknowledge the truth of the matter and take on responsibility. It’s as if admitting responsibility and what really happened would kill them. They will never acknowledge that they have committed a wrong, that they are responsible for the matter, much less that it caused a great loss to God’s house. Is this not the disposition of an antichrist? (It is.) This is the disposition of an antichrist.

After an antichrist is pruned for doing something wrong, they do not accept it and submit from deep in their heart, nor do they understand the truth and the truth principles that they should adhere to from it, nor do they admit that they are also capable of doing something wrong. Their primary characteristic is not being convinced, not accepting, and not acknowledging. Antichrists behave in these ways mainly because they believe that they are perfect people, that they are incapable of doing something wrong. To them, whoever accuses them of making a mistake is the one in the wrong—it’s that person who has the wrong viewpoint, who harbors a different perspective and stance on the matter. Antichrists think that anyone who prunes them does so because they have yet to see their strengths, that they are making things difficult for them, finding fault in them, and intentionally targeting them. Isn’t this the kind of disposition that an antichrist has? (Yes.) An antichrist won’t accept being pruned for this, nor will they have any repentance, mainly because they have never seen themselves as someone who can make mistakes—they believe that they are perfect, and that they alone are incapable of making mistakes. This implies that they definitely believe that they are righteous, that they are a saint. If they were to really acknowledge that they are a corrupt person, then they should acknowledge that they possess corruption, that they are capable of doing things wrong, and that as they are human, they are bound to make mistakes. Some people appear to be quite guileless, but there is something within their humanity that people hold in their notions to be a strength, which is competitiveness and an extreme eagerness to outdo others. These people have excellent self-control, and very high demands for themselves. They are very strict with themselves; in everything they do, they demand perfection and the very best, without permitting the slightest flaw or oversight. At the same time, they subconsciously believe that they can do no wrong, because they are incredibly careful in everything they do, they are great at thinking over things, and do so extremely thoroughly; they do everything without any flaws, while considering every matter thoroughly and perfectly. Consequently, they believe they will never err. When they are pruned, what is most difficult for them to accept is the fact that they are capable of making a mistake. This is why such people don’t know how to reflect on themselves, nor will they ever do so. They view the competitiveness and eagerness to outdo others in their humanity as positive things, and abide by them as if they were truth principles; they think that if they do things and perform their duty based on these principles, they will never slip up, and even if errors do occur, they see it as a matter of perspective, as people having different views, and think that this certainly doesn’t mean that what they did was wrong. Therefore, it doesn’t matter who prunes them, whether the pruning or what is exposed accords with the facts—they will not accept it. If they find out that they truly have done something wrong, will they acknowledge it? (They won’t.) They won’t acknowledge it, they will immediately go silent, and they will be the last one to ever mention it. They will never, ever bring it up. If an antichrist encounters somebody who exposes some errors or flaws in their work, and sees that they can’t hide from this, they will pretend to keep digging into who made the error, and unexpectedly after searching and searching it is discovered that they were the one responsible. If someone says, “You were the one who did it, not someone else; you just forgot about it,” how would an antichrist respond to this? What should a normal person do in these circumstances? A normal person with shame should go red in the face, feel embarrassed and awkward, and immediately admit it, saying, “I forgot about that. I did it, it was my mistake. Let’s quickly figure out how to make up for this and set things right, so that the error doesn’t continue.” Someone with shame, a conscience, and reason would immediately acknowledge their mistake, then resolve it and fix it. An antichrist, on the other hand, is shameless; the moment someone discovers that they were the one who committed the error, the moment they are exposed by someone and someone finds out about it, they will immediately change their tune, and think of various ways to avoid admitting their mistake, to avoid accepting that they were the one who made that mistake—they will tell bald-faced lies and argue their own case. Everyone around them will find this embarrassing and awkward, but the antichrist will feel nothing at all. They will make major problems seem like small ones, and small problems seem unproblematic, then never bring the matter up again. In this matter, their stupidity has been revealed, so they will openly deny their mistake and lie in front of so many people, trying to shirk responsibility, without their face growing red with shame, and without their heart skipping a beat. Do antichrists have any shame? (No.)

When some antichrists have just been dismissed, they are filled with grievances; they feel a sense of loss, that they no longer have status, that no one esteems or waits on them anymore, and that they can no longer enjoy the benefits of status. They feel that all of the prices they paid and all of their past suffering has not been worth it, and their hearts are filled with a sense of injustice. However, they don’t experience a shred of guilt for the manifestations they displayed when they were pruned or for whatever they did wrong. They feel it’s unfair, their hearts are full of grievances and complaints, as well as misunderstandings toward God. They not only refuse to acknowledge their mistake and have no plans to make up for their fault, or to accept being pruned, to accept this dismissal, on the contrary, they think: “God is not righteous. No matter how much someone has suffered or how great injustice they have been subjected to, they have no place to recount this. This is so painful! Even god cannot be relied on, I have no one to lean on. Even if I continue doing a duty in god’s house in the future, I will have to proceed with extreme caution, and no one can be trusted.” They are full of defensiveness and misunderstandings toward God. What kind of disposition is this? No matter how many things they did wrong, how great losses they incurred to the work of the church, or how much they endangered the work of the church, they think that these things can simply be ignored, and they will not take any responsibility or acknowledge any error on their part. Instead, they’ll take any shred of a grievance they have, whatever paltry, worthless price they paid, and blow it way out of proportion, believing it was the house of God that has let them down, and that God has wrongly accused them. The loss that their mistake caused to God’s house is completely inconsequential in their minds. They think, “There’s no need to calculate that, or bother about it. Who would call that a loss? What leader doesn’t squander some of the offerings, anyway? How am I the only one? What leader doesn’t ever cause any losses to god’s house? What are god’s offerings? That money belongs to everyone, so if other people are allowed to spend it, why aren’t I? Other people are allowed to squander it, but I’m not? If we talk about losses caused to god’s house, other people cause much more than I do. Why am I the only one being severely pruned and dismissed? As for not acting in accordance with the principles but recklessly committing misdeeds, some people are much worse in that regard than I am, so why aren’t they dismissed when they’re pruned? As for paying a price, I’ve paid a greater one than most people. In terms of sincerity, whose can compare with mine? How about sermons? I’ve given more of those than any of the others. And as for understanding the truth, who understands as much of it as me? When it comes to accepting being pruned by the above, who accepts it more than me? In terms of forsaking, who has forsaken more than I have? As for helping brothers and sisters and resolving their problems, who does more of that than me? When it comes to running around and working in the church, nobody can match me. When it comes to who the brothers and sisters cast votes for, support, and endorse, who gets more votes than me?” You see, these are the comparisons antichrists make. When they are just faced with pruning, antichrists only speak about the matters involved. If an antichrist acknowledged all the mistakes they made and all the truth principles they violated, if they could accept and submit to pruning, if they acted based on the principles from then on, and did their utmost to make up for the losses they caused to the church’s work, would God’s house keep looking into their issues? Would it condemn them? Would it cast them into hell? Is there any need for them to put forth so much effort in explaining themselves and making excuses? Is there any need for them to keep complaining about their grievances in this roundabout manner? Could it really be that they don’t have a corrupt disposition and are incapable of making mistakes? After hearing so many sermons, do they still have no idea what kind of thing they really are? After being pruned a little, they feel wronged—if they didn’t do any evil, who would be willing to or want to prune them? Besides, if they weren’t a leader, bearing responsibility, who would be willing to prune them? God grants people the right to choose freely, allowing them to live the church life, and as for what path people take and what they pursue, that is their own business. No one will interfere in this. But right now as a leader in the house of God, a supervisor, if they make a mistake, the losses this causes to the house of God will not be a small issue, and if they say something wrong, the impact that has on God’s chosen people will not be a small issue either, because the responsibility they bear is different from that of a regular person. That’s why it’s perfectly normal for the Above to prune them. Would the Above do that if they didn’t have this status or didn’t take on this responsibility? How many regular believers has the Above pruned? Because they bear a great responsibility, and the scope of their work is also very large, whenever they make a mistake, the impact is very large, and so they are certain to be pruned. This is very normal. If they can’t accept even being pruned, then are they qualified to be a leader? They are unqualified for that, they’re not qualified to be elected by the brothers and sisters—they’re unworthy of it! When they make a mistake, they don’t even have the courage to take responsibility for it, to acknowledge it. They don’t even have such reason, so how can they be a leader? They are unqualified and unworthy!

It is precisely because they possess the essence of antichrists that antichrists cannot acknowledge that they have committed an error, and so when they are pruned, they are unwilling to take responsibility or seek the truth principles. Given that they are unwilling to do these things, and they refuse to acknowledge their wrongdoing, are they able to put the truth into practice? Are they able to carry out the work arrangements of God’s house? Absolutely not. Therefore, when an antichrist is a leader, aside from running their own enterprise, they cannot possibly do anything that would benefit the work of God’s house, and they will never do things according to the truth principles, nor will they ever carry out work in accordance with the work arrangements of God’s house. Whether an antichrist is pruned for a small mistake, or for a major blunder that causes great losses to the church work, they are incapable of acknowledging their error, and they cannot acknowledge that they committed a transgression and owe God in this matter. On the contrary, no matter when, they would rather die than admit that they had anything to do with the losses caused by this, and they will not acknowledge that they hold primary responsibility, that their actions were wrong, that they chose the wrong path, or admit their mistake of deliberately committing evil despite being well aware of the truth, much less will they admit that they have unshirkable responsibility in this matter. They will not admit that they had incorrect intentions when they acted, that they couldn’t cooperate with anybody, that they acted arbitrarily and willfully, that they reveled in the benefits of status, were negligent in their duty and caused losses to the work of God’s house. Instead, after they’ve made an error, at every turn they will explain how much they’ve suffered, that they went to prison but never became a Judas, how much of a price they’ve paid and what great contributions they’ve made to the work of God’s house. They’ll spread and proclaim these things everywhere. Aside from publicizing their contributions and the price they’ve paid, they’ll also spread that God’s house was wrong and unfair in its pruning of them, and in the way it treated them. On top of lacking an attitude of repentance, they will pass judgment on God and on how God’s house dealt with them all over the place. If more people believe what they’re saying, if more people try to defend them, acknowledge and accept the price they have paid for God’s house, and believe that God’s house was unfair and wronged the antichrist in its treatment of them, then the antichrist will have achieved their goal. They will never waver in doing these things, much less restrain themselves. They do not have a heart that’s afraid of God, much less any intention to repent. After they do something wrong, not only do they refuse to acknowledge it, on the contrary, they try to shirk responsibility, and at the same time, they are more concerned about their future destination. When an antichrist sees that their destination is under threat, or hears that the house of God will no longer cultivate people like them, they will feel even more hatred in the depths of their heart toward the people who pruned and exposed them, and the people who caused them to lose face. Throughout the entire process of them being pruned, an antichrist will not repent at all. If they really do find out that their status and destination won’t be secure, that their desires and ambitions will never be accomplished, then the gloves will come off, and they will start secretly spreading their notions and negativity. They will pass judgment on the brothers and sisters or the upper-level leaders who pruned them, and they will also pass judgment on and attack the man used by the Holy Spirit, saying that he had no reason to prune them, that he did not allow them to save face at all. They are simply unreasonable. This kind of person cannot understand the truth, or have the slightest bit of a God-fearing heart, no matter how many sermons they hear; they cannot possess even the conscience or reason they ought to, no matter how many years they believe in God for. They are really pathetic and loathsome! From the moment that an antichrist is severely pruned for recklessly committing misdeeds, they never admit that they did anything wrong, and they are also filled with a sense of injustice while they complain and pass judgment on God’s house for being unfair toward them, and finally they begin openly spreading their notions, taking the gloves off and clamoring against the house of God, and in the end they get expelled. Is there the slightest bit of normal humanity within the antichrist’s behavior in any of these stages? How about conscience and reason? Are there any manifestations at all of loving the truth and positive things? Is there the slightest bit of a God-fearing heart? No, none of these things are present. An antichrist is loathsome to the extreme, devoid of shame, and utterly unreasonable! When they can no longer enjoy the benefits of status, they write themselves off as hopeless and begin to act recklessly. No matter how incompetent they are in their work and how lacking they are in work ability, they still want to enjoy the benefits of status and the esteem of others. They see status and reputation as more important than their life, and, no matter how great an error they make, they don’t feel any guilt at all. Are they even human? They are a wolf in sheep’s clothing. On the outside, they wear the skin of a human and look like a person, but inside they aren’t human. They are truly detestable—they are nauseating and loathsome!