Exposing Eastern Lightning: Hank Hanegraaff’s Urgent Fiscal Year-End Message

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Make sure to listen to this special message as Hank Hanegraaff reflects on the fiscal year’s end, he underscores Christian unity and global missions while warning of The Church of Almighty God (Eastern Lightning), which claims a Chinese woman is the reincarnated Christ and fulfillment of Jesus’s Olivet Discourse. Doctrinally deviant and sociologically subversive, this group masquerades as a persecuted Christian movement to advance dangerous dogmas. In CRI’s special issue of the Christian Research Journal, believers are equipped to recognize and confront such cults. Hank shows how your prayers, partnership, and generosity make an eternal difference in fulfilling the Great Commission. Donate Now to Receive this Special Issue of the Christian Research Journal! Click here.
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0:00.0	Well, hello, this is Hank Hanegraff, president of the Christian Research Institute
0:27.6	and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, as well as the Hank Unplugged Podcast.
0:36.6	I mentioned that at the outset of what I want to talk to you
0:40.2	about because both those outreaches continue to have a very significant impact around the
0:49.4	world. Of course, if you go to equip, EQUIP.org, you can see a plethora of resources so that you will be built up in the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
1:03.6	But that's not what I want to primarily talk to you about today.
1:07.6	I want to talk about the end of another fiscal year. We have a calendar year,
1:13.1	but we also have a fiscal year. Our fiscal year ends June 30. And I am reminded every single year at this
1:22.8	time of how transcendently critical your support is in the task of global missions.
1:33.4	And I'm also reminded that I ought to be deeply grateful for people like you
1:43.0	that make an eternal difference through your support.
1:48.6	You are touching the lives of people that you will likely never see
1:55.4	until you commune with them for all eternity in the presence of God.
2:05.5	You know, it's been well said that there's a direct connection between the oneness of Christians
2:11.9	in the image of the Holy Trinity and the missionary mandate of the church.
2:18.8	The church, after all, is a mystery of mutual trinitarian love.
2:25.8	And the church is true to itself only when that circle of love is continually expanded.
2:37.0	Only... that circle of love is continually expanded. Only when you and I are dedicated to the Great Commission given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ
2:48.4	just prior to ascending to His Father in heaven.
2:55.4	Now, it's obvious that not all of us can go to mission fields around the world,
3:03.8	but all can facilitate the commission that Christ gave us
3:10.8	and do so through their support and through their prayers.
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