Eastern Lightning | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/06/2019

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00:01:23 1 History
00:01:32 1.1 1989 revival and the Shouters
00:02:56 1.2 Zhao Weishan
00:04:17 1.3 Expansion and repression
00:06:12 2 Beliefs
00:06:21 2.1 Three Ages
00:07:47 2.2 Holy Scriptures
00:08:37 2.3 Millennialism
00:09:58 2.4 Great Red Dragon
00:10:43 2.5 Absences of sacraments; worship
00:11:47 3 Controversies
00:14:10 3.1 Zhaoyuan McDonald's cult murder
00:16:35 3.2 Case of Guo Xiaobin
00:17:46 3.3 Accusations of kidnapping Christian leaders
00:18:50 3.4 2012 doomsday predictions
00:20:46 3.5 2019 Israeli election
00:21:08 4 Refugee issues
00:21:54 5 Fake news claims
00:23:03 6 See also



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Eastern Lightning (simplified Chinese: 东方闪电; traditional Chinese: 東方閃電; pinyin: Dōngfāng Shǎndiàn), which prefers to use the name The Church of Almighty God, is a new religious movement established in China in 1991, to which Chinese governmental sources attribute from three to four million members, although scholars regard these figures as somewhat inflated. The name "Eastern Lightning" is drawn from the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew 24:27: "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Its core teaching is that Jesus Christ returned to earth in their days as the incarnate Almighty God (全能神), this time not as a man but as a Chinese woman. The movement is regarded by the Chinese authorities, as a xie jiao (邪教; a term often translated as “evil cult” but in fact used since the Ming dynasty to indicate “heterodox teachings”)  and accused of various crimes, including the infamous Zhaoyuan McDonald's Cult Murder. Christian opponents and international media have in turn described it as a cult and even as a "terrorist organization." The Church denies all accusations, and there are scholars who have concluded that some accusations they have investigated so far are indeed false or exaggerated.