The Characteristics of People Reincarnated From Devils

Last time, we mentioned that people are broadly divided into three categories. How are these three categories distinguished? They’re distinguished based on their origin. The first category is those who are reincarnated from animals, the second category is those who are reincarnated from devils, and the third category is those who are reincarnated from humans. We have finished discussing the characteristics of those who are reincarnated from animals, and now let’s talk about the characteristics of those who are reincarnated from devils. What main characteristics of people who are reincarnated from devils can you think of? (They are antagonistic to the truth and to God.) This is a rather general statement; you need to describe their essential manifestations, and you have to derive the characteristics of people of this type using their daily revelations and their specific manifestations in life. Do you know what a characteristic is? A characteristic is a manifestation that represents the essence of a certain type of person. If someone possesses the characteristics of a certain type of person, they have the essence of that type of person, and if someone is that type of person, they will naturally possess those characteristics—no one is an exception. That is what a characteristic is. Can you think of the characteristics of people who are reincarnated from devils? (They are particularly averse to and hate the truth. They react with rage and revulsion upon hearing the truth.) Reacting with rage and revulsion upon seeing the truth is a specific manifestation. What else can you think of? (They are wicked and insidious. I don’t know if that counts as a characteristic?) That’s somewhat relevant. (They are also ruthless and arrogant.) Ruthlessness is another specific manifestation. Arrogance is a common characteristic possessed by corrupt humans, and it’s not only possessed by those who are reincarnated from devils; those who are reincarnated from animals and those who are reincarnated from humans—these two types—possess it too. Besides those specific satanic corrupt dispositions, what specific characteristics are possessed by those who are reincarnated from devils in terms of their humanity? That is, what are the main characteristics of what they reveal, say, and do in their daily lives? (Viciousness.) This is one characteristic. What other characteristics are there? Those who are reincarnated from devils and those who are reincarnated from animals both possess some particular and essential characteristics, but the characteristics of these two types are completely different. The characteristics of those who are reincarnated from animals are distorted comprehension, numbness, muddleheadedness, and foolishness. Why these characteristics? These characteristics are sufficient to prove that, in terms of their essence, this type of person falls short of human characteristics, and falls short of the proper intelligence and manner of thinking that humans possess. Therefore, these very typical characteristics prove that people of this sort are reincarnated from animals. Those who are reincarnated from devils are different from those who are reincarnated from animals. What are their characteristics? Since they are reincarnated from devils, they are devils turned human. Their inner essence is that of a devil. Although they are not animals—they are not foolish, or numb, and they perhaps do not have distorted comprehension—they are also not human, and they do not have the normal thinking of humans. As they are reincarnated from devils, they are certainly completely consistent with and identical to devils in terms of essence and true form, without any differences. So, what are the characteristics of those who are reincarnated from devils? The first characteristic is that they lie inveterately. No matter how they lie, their faces don’t go red, their hearts don’t flutter, and they act extremely normal and natural, without slipping up or showing any cracks at all. No one can discern which of their words are true and which are false. The second characteristic is deviance. You mentioned the third characteristic just now, which is evil. People who are reincarnated from devils have three characteristics—although there’s one fewer characteristic than those who are reincarnated from animals, the destructive power and degree of grievous harm that they inflict on people are much greater than the hurt or damage caused by those who are reincarnated from animals, because they are devils. In terms of degree, devils’ means of grievously harming people are much more severe than those of animals hurting people. Entrapping, trampling on, numbing, misleading, and grievously harming people is innate to devils; it is their nature essence. As for animals, so long as they are not ferocious ones, they generally have no great destructive power toward humans; only certain animals somewhat grievously harm people, eating human flesh or hurting people out of instinct. Devils are different. It doesn’t matter if they are great or small devils—there’s no need to distinguish between different types of devils—all of them inflict the same hurt and grievous harm on people. Any so-called differences are merely manifested in means or methods, but in terms of the essence of devils, it is always to grievously harm people. Regardless of whether you have provoked them, their nature essence is always to hurt people. As long as you get close to them, as long as matters great or small in your life involve them, you are liable to be harmed by them. If you understand some truths, possess some truth realities, and have discernment regarding these devils, then the degree to which you’ll be harmed by them is relatively lessened or reduced. But if your stature is small, you don’t understand the truth, and you are someone without the truth and life, then the degree to which you’ll be harmed can easily be inferred—however they want to harm you, they will harm you in that way, and whatever extent they want to harm you to, you will be harmed to that extent. This is the harm caused to people by those who are reincarnated from devils. You see, when devils are in power, even if you support them, you will still be harmed by them, and if you don’t support them or you oppose them, you will still be harmed. As long as you are ruled by them, as long as you are under their power, as long as you follow God but haven’t gained the truth or been completely gained by God, then you are, out-and-out, the defeated opponent of the devils, their victim, and no one is an exception to this. This refers to great devils. As for those reincarnated from devils, they are real-life small devils, they are various kinds of devils. If you live together with them, one of the most common occurrences will be that they will lie inveterately. You will always be tricked by them and always be duped by them; you won’t know which of their words are true and which are false, and you will be disturbed to the point that you feel uneasy every day. “Is this thing they said true or false? Are they trying to trick me again? How can I discern whether what they say is right or wrong?” You see, if you live together with them, you will suffer deeply from their harm. Just this matter of their constant lying will disturb you to the point that you’re in complete disarray, and every day your heart will have no tranquility, peace, or joy.

I. The First Characteristic: Inveterate Lying

For the type of person who is reincarnated from a devil, they lie inveterately, and everything they do is very devious. Whatever they say secretly to others or whatever they do behind the scenes, they don’t tell the truth about it afterward; instead, they present a different story. They badmouth other people to you, and they badmouth you to other people. As a result, barriers arise between you and those other people, and you think ill of one another. In fact, you are not familiar with one another at all, and you don’t know much about one another. It is precisely because this devil made things up to sow discord between you that you have become enemies. You have been played by the devil yet still don’t know what’s going on, and think that what the devil said is true and that they are good to you. See, someone who is an inveterate liar can play people to this extent. They lie constantly; they often gossip, sow discord, and arbitrarily fabricate rumors by exaggerating and embellishing stories and making baseless claims when they are with you. This disturbs you to the point that you feel uneasy, and you constantly have to discern and be on guard: “What bad things did So-and-so say about me? How should I treat So-and-so?” They disturb you to the point that you’re in complete disarray, upsetting the rhythm of your life, your living patterns, and your current condition. When your stature is small and you don’t understand the truth, and when you haven’t yet gained the truth, you are often subject to their influence, and even misled, disturbed, constrained, and bound by some of their lies. For example, suppose you are elected as a church leader, and they say to you, “So-and-so said about you: ‘That guy thinks he can be a leader? He’s actually nothing, yet he still has the gall to fellowship the truth to people!’” In reality, that person didn’t say this at all; it’s what this devil wanted to say, and they are shifting the blame for it on someone else. Just this one comment from them makes you feel weak, and you come before God and pray, “Oh God, my stature truly is small and I cannot shoulder this work. I am indebted to You, I haven’t done my work well. I want to resign, but I’m afraid that would be disloyal. What should I do?” They have disturbed you to the point that you cannot continue your work; even if you do carry on, you do so with a kind of negative emotion, gradually losing your sense of burden for the church’s work, until finally, the work is brought to a standstill. You have been disturbed, haven’t you? (Yes.) It really is troublesome living, interacting, and working with this type of person. There is too much untruthfulness in their words, too much adulteration, too much of their own will, and too many of their own motives; everything they say is lies. You constantly have to discern: “Which of their words are true and which are false? What have they actually done behind the scenes and what haven’t they done? Are they a true believer in God? They say that they will definitely do their duty well in the future and that they will definitely live up to this promotion that God’s house has given to them—are these words truly heartfelt? Will they act according to the oath they’ve sworn and the resolve they’ve expressed?” When you see their behavior, your mind is flooded with a series of questions. You often feel they are frightening, but their words sound quite credible and reasonable. Yet, at night in your dreams, you see that their face has turned into the face of a devil, that they are baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, and you wonder, “Are they actually human? Which of their words are true and which are false? How come I can’t see through them? This type of person is too frightening!” You feel they are frightening and untrustworthy, but when you check their work, it’s basically passable, and when you listen to them speak, you don’t notice any slip-ups. However, you are simply unable to see through them—you have a nameless suspicion in your spirit, and you always feel in your heart that they can cause trouble, always feel that their words are insincere and not entirely truthful. Perhaps one day their lying nature is exposed, and your feeling about them is confirmed: You discover that your suspicion and feeling about them back then were correct, and that although the words they spoke sounded very nice and credible, they were all false and deceptive; behind the scenes, they simply did no real work at all. So, can this type of person still be trusted? (No.) Although in your heart you feel they can no longer be trusted, when you meet them again and hear them speak, their comprehension seems quite pure, what they say sounds nice, and you can’t find any problems with their words, and outwardly they can also endure hardship and pay a price. You ponder, “What’s going on here? Maybe I misjudged them, maybe I was being mean-spirited. Let me trust them one more time. Anyway, right now I can’t find a suitable person to replace them in this work, so I’ll use them one more time.” You then continue to use them, and the final result is still the same: You discover that you’ve been deceived by them again. They speak nicely, but actually, behind the scenes, they just carry out their own enterprise and don’t do anything real. If they gain ten people in a month of preaching the gospel, they insist on saying it was fifty. They just won’t tell the truth. They are an inveterate liar, an expert at lying. You trust them and use them time and again, and as a result, you are fooled time and again. And who is it that suffers a loss in the end? Of course, through experiencing these things, people develop discernment regarding others, their insight grows, their experience increases, and they become better at judging people, but what truly suffers a loss? It is the church’s work. So tell Me, does just this one nature essence of people who are reincarnated from devils—that of being an inveterate liar—cause great harm to others or not? (It does.) How great is this harm? Can they mislead you? (Yes, we can be misled and exploited.) You can be misled, exploited, and disturbed—can it reach the point of you being manipulated? (Yes.) If you are young and lack experience, and you don’t understand the truth and cannot see through matters, you can be manipulated by them. What does it mean to be manipulated by them? It means you are helpless against them, you are controlled by them, your hands and feet are bound by them, your way of thinking about things and your thoughts and views are influenced and swayed by them, what you do next proceeds entirely according to their plan, and you fall completely into the trap they have designed for you—this is what it means to be manipulated. They plan it all out in advance behind the scenes, using all sorts of tactics to plot against you. They see right through to you—to what you understand and what you can’t see through, what matters you have discernment on and what you don’t, what your boundaries are, how you can be exploited, and what words can mislead you. In the end, they exploit your defects and various weak points to fabricate lies and fool you. In your heart, you clearly know that what they did was wrong, or that there’s a problem with what they said and they were lying, but you don’t have the wisdom to deal with it; you feel distressed but are helpless against them, and you can only be led by the nose by them. Isn’t this being manipulated by them? (Yes.) Ultimately, the direction the situation develops in, right down to the final result, proceeds according to their plan—this means you have been manipulated by them. That is, you completely lose the ability to control the direction of the situation’s development, and are totally led by the nose by them. They ultimately get their way in terms of whatever goal they want to achieve, whatever they want to accomplish, whoever they want to exploit, and however they want to do things. Tell Me, isn’t this being manipulated by them? (It is.)

Tell Me, just in terms of people reincarnated from devils’ nature of being inveterate liars, is the damage they do to God’s chosen people, and especially to the church’s work, great or not? (It is great.) The damage is immense! So besides affecting the everyday lives of some individuals, what other great harm do they cause to people? (The disturbance caused by the actions of people who are reincarnated from devils to those around them is very severe. I previously encountered a person like that; wherever he was, that place would be full of intrigue and vying for power and status, barriers would arise between people, and the brothers and sisters would also feel darkness in their hearts.) This created chaos, right? (Yes.) Causing people to be suspicious of and fight one another, and to enter a state of chaos—this harm is immense! So afterward, did everyone gain discernment of this devil? (Yes.) Was he cleansed away? (He was cleansed away.) After he was cleansed away, did everyone sum things up? The main specific manifestations of his lying, the lies he told, the things he lied for the sake of, the methods and tone of voice he used when he lied, the purpose that he wanted to achieve—did you all sum up these specific methods and manifestations? (We did. For example, he is an inveterate liar; his words have a nature of confounding right and wrong and calling black white to them, making positive figures out to be negative and negative figures out to be positive. He would pin baseless charges on whomever he envied or hated, and also incite the brothers and sisters to oppose them, creating chaos. He also suppressed some good people or those who got results in their duties, while promoting those who he viewed favorably and who curried favor with him.) This is an antichrist, right? (Yes.) What are the main methods of lying used by this type of person? Fabricating things out of thin air, embellishing and exaggerating stories, shifting blame onto others, telling tales to create conflict, and sowing discord—what else? (Fanning the flames.) Fanning the flames and intensifying conflicts. For example, two people are getting along quite well, not wanting to argue about anything or make enemies with anyone, but this type of person fans the flames between them to make them start fighting. If they see those two people fight, then they feel happy, and their plot has succeeded. There are some people of this sort in every group. Everyone has corrupt dispositions, but would people who are reincarnated from humans do these things? (No.) Why not? What is the difference between them and people who are reincarnated from devils? (Normal people have the minimum standard of conscience.) That’s right. They have the minimum standard of conscience; in their self-conduct, they are restrained by conscience. They won’t do these morally corrupt things, these things that mean losing integrity and dignity, or these things that harm others and benefit themselves. Having a conscience means they have a minimum standard, and their actions are thus restrained. So, do these people who are reincarnated from devils have consciences? (No.) Then what kind of hearts do they have? (Malicious hearts.) They have malicious and wicked hearts, and so they can lie inveterately, and no matter how they lie, they don’t feel uncomfortable inside. Why don’t they feel uncomfortable? Because they are devils and have no conscience, and so when they lie and do evil, they don’t feel uncomfortable, nor do they feel reproached. Conversely, if they don’t lie, and if—where they are—they don’t do some evil or cause some commotion and chaos, and everyone lives peacefully and joyfully, and everyone lives before God, they feel upset and uncomfortable inside. Why do they feel uncomfortable? It’s because everyone comes before God, ponders His words, acts according to His words and the truth principles, lives within normal humanity, and doesn’t worship them; they don’t stand out among people or feel important, so they think, “Living like this is so boring, it’s no fun!” In order to have fun, make life interesting, live respectably and with a feeling of importance, they have to stir up some trouble and cause some problems, make some waves and cause some unrest and chaos among people. What’s that saying? Whipping up a storm. This type of person likes to whip up a storm wherever they are; they don’t like to keep to their proper place. Normal people want to keep to their proper place—to live stable lives, and to do what they ought to do in a routine manner—they don’t like to whip up storms. But people who are reincarnated from devils do not keep to their proper place. Why do they not keep to their proper place? Because a devil lives inside this type of person, and devils like to cause problems in any group they are in. Even if you haven’t provoked or annoyed them, they just start trouble on their own—this is whipping up a storm. No matter what group this type of person is in, whether you look at it from afar or inquire about the circumstances of its members, you always feel that there is a demonic atmosphere there. From time to time, you hear that person A has a conflict with person B, that person C isn’t getting along with person D and they’re ignoring each other, that person E has disputes with person F in their work, that person G is always vying for status, and their work always needs to be redone. If you see any church where there is always a chaotic and turbid atmosphere, where there is no peace, where people are always unable to get along or cooperate harmoniously, there is one or even multiple devils causing disturbances inside it. No matter how many devils are causing disturbances in a church, those other people who have some minimum standard of conscience and want to act according to the truth principles are all deeply harmed by them. Once all types of devils have been cleansed away, when everyone lives church life and does their duties together again, the atmosphere is different. Although you can’t say that everyone is burning with passion, at least everyone feels that the people there have human warmth and don’t stir up trouble; the atmosphere there isn’t demonic, it’s a human atmosphere. In places where the atmosphere is demonic, when people talk together, there’s something amiss with the looks in their eyes, as well as with their tone of voice and the atmosphere when they speak. They don’t make eye contact when they talk; furthermore, what they say is very simple, none of them is willing to speak from the heart, and there’s no verbal communication. It’s like there’s a wall between them. There’s no communication between them; they harbor hatred in their hearts. It is possible that these people are the victims. Regardless of whether these people are victims or victimizers, in short, there are devils mixed in and causing disturbances within this group, disturbing people’s hearts to the point that they are in a mess and cannot find any peace. When the people in this group live together, they always feel things are unsatisfactory and not going smoothly, they cannot reside together harmoniously, and of course, harmonious cooperation is even more out of the question. When speaking, acting, and doing their duties in this group, people always feel displeased inside, and there are also barriers between them. This is because there are devils causing disturbances in this group, and so everyone is constrained and feels unhappy.

Some people experienced severe disturbance by devils and were basically manipulated by them. When I saw them after a month or two, their faces looked off somehow, as if they had been made fools of. Could it be that they lacked the work of the Holy Spirit and the presence of God? How come they looked so awkward? Later, through careful inquiry, I found out that something had indeed happened: Two devils had controlled all these people. To what extent did the devils control them? The devils did whatever they wanted; the work arrangements issued by the Above and the principles fellowshipped by the Above could not be implemented—they all existed there in name only. With these two devils blocking the way, no one dared to voice an opinion or report problems. Afterward, some people got so angry when these two devils were mentioned that they burst into tears. Why didn’t you expose them back then? Even with so many people there, no one dared to stand up and expose the devils—how much power must those devils have had? Outwardly they look human, but their essence is actually that of a devil. This type of person is feared by other people wherever they go. People only have to come into contact with them to feel afraid, to feel creeped out. If a child meets this kind of person, they will be scared to tears. To what extent do guileless people feel afraid when they meet this type of person? When they are in front of them, they don’t dare to breathe heavily or speak loudly, and even quickly try to avoid them by going around them. Someone saw that these devils weren’t implementing work according to the work arrangements and said, “Doing it like this isn’t right; this isn’t consistent with the principles fellowshipped by the Above.” One of those devils retorted, “I call the shots here. If you step out of line, believe it or not, I can expel you right now!” This scared the person so much that their face drained of color, and they did not dare to voice an opinion again, saying tearfully, “I was wrong. Just pretend like I didn’t say anything. Please, please don’t expel me!” The others saw this and said, “He’s too formidable, his power is too great! He will expel anyone who doesn’t obey him! Our opportunity to do our duties in God’s house was hard to come by. If he expels us, where could we plead our case? Wouldn’t we be finished? Wouldn’t our hope of salvation be gone? We really mustn’t voice our opinions; we mustn’t get expelled because of a moment of carelessness.” Look, they were afraid to this extent. Finally, when the devils were being exposed, some people exposed how the devils sowed discord and formed factions, while others exposed the fallacies the devils spread to mislead people. In fact, these people had seen clearly the evil done by the devils at the time; it was just that no one had dared to say a word or resist. Some even cried while speaking, looking quite pitiful. But why hadn’t they resisted when the devils were manipulating and controlling them? Why had they been devoid of strength then? Now that the Above was going to handle the devils, they found their strength. Tell Me, if God hadn’t watched over and protected these people who were small in stature and didn’t understand the truth, and if they hadn’t had God’s safeguarding, wouldn’t they have been grievously harmed by the devils to the point that they were finished? Isn’t that so? (Yes.) You see, people aren’t that afraid of God, but when devils and Satans torment people, they get so scared they tremble all over and can’t even cry coherently—how severely scared they are! When the Above exposed and handled these two devils, those people heard the news and felt finally liberated. For those few months, they had been controlled by devils and lived under Satan’s power, they had fallen into darkness, with no light at the end of the tunnel, and they were crying out into the void. Their lives were so pitiful! Finally, these two devils were cleared out, and everyone was liberated and happy. I wondered, “The Above has cleared out these two devils this time, so if these people encounter devils doing evil and controlling people again, will they be able to discern them? Will they be able to remove the devils from their posts without the Above needing to come forward and resolve the matter? Will they all be able to collectively expose the devils, summing up all their evil deeds and then removing them from their posts, and not listen to them, not be constrained by them in doing their duties, and kick them out of the church?” But judging by their stature, I’m afraid they can’t achieve that. Although these people believe in God sincerely, have the resolve to suffer, are willing to do their duty devotedly, and are willing to pursue the truth, they are just too cowardly. When just one small devil came out to cause disturbances, no matter how old they were, these people shrank back and were afraid, they could all be controlled by them and dare not resist. Upon seeing this, it struck Me how pitiful these people were. If God didn’t protect, have concern for, and watch over people, this human race would have no way to survive. Look at these things that happen in real life: The behavior of various devils, their aims, and their methods and tactics for doing things are basically consistent and easy to discern, and yet when various devils come out to cause disruptions and disturbances, and constrain, control, bind, and grievously harm God’s chosen people, few people dare to stand up and resist, no one takes the initiative to expose these devils, remove them from their posts, and cleanses them away from the church; they just allow the devils to control God’s chosen people and disturb and sabotage the church’s work. These pitiful people just endure it all; they feel upset in their hearts, and they cry bitter tears while praying to God, but they have no solutions; they have no wise methods, and they do not use the truth as a powerful weapon to resist and battle the devils, and to deal with them. No one does this, nor dares to do it; they don’t even have the courage to battle the devils. In any church, if evil people or devils emerge to control people and disrupt and disturb the church’s work, most people just endure it. In the end, it is God’s house that steps forward to deal with these various kinds of devils, ending their fate, enabling the brothers and sisters to be protected, to live church life normally, to eat and drink God’s words normally, and to do their duties normally, and enabling the various items of the church’s work to proceed in an orderly manner. It is entirely through God dispatching people, and God’s house personally arranging and guiding the performance of this specific work, that these immature, ignorant, and weak people are protected from being misled and grievously harmed by evil people and antichrists. How pitiful these foolish and ignorant people who don’t understand the truth are! In the broader environment, the entire human race has been corrupted by Satan; in specific living environments, people are disturbed, controlled, and grievously harmed by various devils. Some people are small in stature and have a shallow foundation, so when they encounter the disturbances of evil people, they cannot see through these things. They always think that evil people shouldn’t exist in the church, and think that there is no love or human warmth between people. Some don’t even want to do their duties anymore, saying, “It would be better to believe in God at home. Why are such people allowed to exist in the church?” People who don’t understand the truth cannot see through these things. They aren’t able to learn lessons from these matters; they don’t know that God’s good intentions are behind them encountering such things; they don’t know whose side they should stand on or to approach these matters using the truth principles; they aren’t able to unite with the true brothers and sisters to oppose and battle the devils. Isn’t this being small in stature? Isn’t it pitiful? (It is.)

The first characteristic of the type of person who is reincarnated from a devil that is revealed in their daily life is inveterate lying. Regardless of age, gender, or background, regardless of how many years they have believed in God, as long as someone’s speech always contains lies, as long as they are full of lies and lie inveterately, then they are reincarnated from a devil; they are not human. Humans also lie, because they have corrupt dispositions; the deceitfulness and wickedness within corrupt dispositions can cause humans to lie. But the degree of human lying is different from that of people reincarnated from devils. If someone lies inveterately, this fact alone is enough to prove that, in their essence, they are not human, but are a devil. Because of the effect of conscience, it is absolutely impossible for humans to reach the point of lying inveterately. Although there are also times when humans lie and engage in deceit, their lying is only a normal revelation of corrupt disposition; it involves occasional lies regarding certain matters. Although humans lying and devils lying may look the same outwardly, in essence, there is a distinction. When devils lie, they never feel self-reproach or regret. Moreover, they feel pleased with themselves, satisfied, and have a sense of accomplishment regarding the lies they tell and the acts of deception they commit. If a lie is unsuccessful, they will step up their efforts in telling more lies and using more advanced deceptive tactics to deceive more people. But after normal humans with corrupt dispositions lie, they have an uneasy conscience and feel reproached, and they feel too disgraced to live. If they have deceived someone, they feel somewhat embarrassed when meeting them again. If they are asked to publicly admit they lied and promise to never lie again but only tell the truth, their current stature is not yet up to that. However, they have an inner awareness; they feel shame, guilt, and unease for the lies they told; they feel accused within. But this type of person reincarnated from a devil lies inveterately. After they lie, they feel no inner accusation and no sense of guilt. Why don’t they feel guilty? Because they are a devil. Feeling guilty toward people or God, feeling accused in one’s heart—that is the normal awareness of a human being. Since they are a devil, they are devoid of such awareness. Therefore, they can continue to lie, and even step up their efforts; they will keep lying and never change. Ultimately, when does their lying stop? Only after the last breath of their physical life, when they can no longer speak, does their lying cease. But the spirit of the lying devil inside them reincarnates into another person, and that person will then continue to lie. Therefore, the lying nature of devils never changes. This is inveterate lying. People reincarnated from devils deceive anyone and can tell any lie. They can lie in any situation and about any matter, and their lying tactics are particularly sophisticated; no one can see that they are lying. You see, when people who often lie tell a lie, it’s like a normal person telling the truth—it seems very natural, without any discernible flaws. You might think they are telling the truth. If you take their lies as the truth, they will laugh at you in their hearts, thinking, “Fool, I was just messing around and you took it to be the truth? You really are utterly foolish!” The next time they see you, they will still lie and toy with you, just to see what your reaction is after hearing the lie. If you again take it as the truth, they will become even happier, gain a greater sense of accomplishment, and feel even more that they are successful in how they conduct themselves. Tell Me, are they human? Do they have human awareness? Do they have a human sense of conscience? Obviously not. The more effective their lies, the more pleased and happy they are inwardly, the greater their sense of accomplishment, and the more capable they feel. If a day goes by when they haven’t lied to deceive or toyed with someone, they feel the day was uncomfortable and not worthwhile, and they have to find an opportunity to deceive people. For example, if a devil sees two people have a good relationship and cooperate harmoniously in their duties, they feel uncomfortable inside and ponder, “Let me sow some discord and start some rumors to make you two turn against each other, and you won’t be able to get back on good terms even if you want to.” With just a few words, this devil ensnares those two people in a web of confusion, and they then have disagreements and disputes and are no longer as harmonious as before, which makes this devil feel delighted, exceptionally happy. The devils hidden in the church are always doing these kinds of things. Devils of the nonbelieving world cruelly arrest brothers and sisters. As long as you say you no longer believe in or follow God, or if you complain about God or betray God, they are happy. You can do anything—you can eat, drink, whore, and gamble; you can commit arson, murder, and looting; you can commit any crime—as long as you don’t believe in God, they are happy. Is there a connection between the things devils do among humans and the things Satan does in the spiritual realm? Are there any similarities? These devils especially hate whoever believes in God and walks the right path. Whoever pursues the truth, or always insists on acting according to principles, or often bears witness to God, or does their duty devotedly—when they see such people, they get angry and regard them as enemies. It’s not jealousy; it’s hatred. To achieve the purpose of demolition, one of the methods they adopt is deception through lying to disturb you, mislead you, and drag you down. Doing this may bring them no benefit, but once they have dragged you down so that you lose faith in God, become negative and weak and unwilling to do your duty, or can no longer cooperate harmoniously with others, they have achieved their purpose, and they are happy, and their worries disappear. Is this not what devils do? (Yes.) The fact that devils are inveterate liars is certain beyond all doubt. Take any person—regardless of their race, their appearance, whether they are tall or short, fat or thin, ugly or handsome, regardless of their education level or personality, regardless of whether their gifts are great or small, whether they have strengths, what their interests and hobbies are—they only need to have one characteristic, that they can lie inveterately and never change. This is not occasional lying, nor having no other choice, nor needing to use wisdom in a certain matter, but rather, regardless of necessity, regardless of the situation or background, regardless of the matter, they insist on lying, fabricating, playing tricks, and engaging in petty maneuvers. If they have this characteristic, then this sort is an out-and-out devil. Absolutely do not believe they can become a good person, and absolutely do not believe the nice-sounding words that come from their mouth. Even if they express resolve or make terrible oaths, do not believe them, because they are a devil and not human. Even if devils make terrible oaths, it is just to temporarily deal with the situation; it’s all deception. They are fundamentally unable to act according to the oaths they swear. If you believe them, then you are foolish; you cannot see through to the essence of devils. They can lie about anything, so the terrible oaths they make are also lies. Because they never believe that God scrutinizes everything, and don’t believe that God will give retribution according to each person’s actions—they don’t believe that God can act in this way, they therefore just follow their own will in their actions, lying and deceiving as they please; they are capable of doing anything in order to achieve their aims. This is a characteristic of devils, and it is also their nature essence. You see this matter clearly now, right? (Yes.)