![]() Revealing the true nature of the sun, moon, and other celestial bodies ( Genesis 1:16) – ![]() (The Recovery Version: Footnotes of Genesis) The water here ( Genesis 1:2) signifies death as a result of God's judgment on the pre-Adamic universe. In the Bible, water symbolizes either life or death. Thus, Christ’s tomb was an all-inclusive tomb. In fact, all of creation was buried there. Then we were buried with Him in the tomb. Furthermore, when He went to the cross and was crucified, we were crucified with Him. As Christ passed through human living, we passed through it with Him. ![]() Hence, even before we were born, Christ put us on Himself. This humanity included us and all of creation as well. When Christ was incarnated and born in the manger in Bethlehem, He put humanity on Himself. Here's a nugget of wisdom from his "Life Study" of the Book of Colossians – (The Recovery Version: Footnotes of Matthew) Loaves are of the vegetable life, signifying the generating aspect of Christ's life, whereas fish are of the animal life, signifying the redeeming aspect of Christ's life. Thus, the barley loaves signify Christ in resurrection as food to us. Barley is a type of the resurrected Christ ( Leviticus 23:10). A small sampling of Witness Lee's insanity Īnyone familiar with biblical criticism (or science, logic, reason, etc.) will be able to spot the absurdities in the following examples:Įxcerpt from Lee's mystical commentary on the story of Jesus feeding the crowd of 5,000 with the fish and 5 loaves ( Matthew 14:14-21) – In reality, Lee was an obscure charlatan who subscribed to things like the gap theory, millennialism, dispensationalism, modalism, and "mingling" the idea that Christians will become infused with God and transform into "god-men" hybrids like Jesus. They’ve even gone so far as to declare him the "minister of the age", right up there with the likes of Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. Instead of using sound historical-critical methodologies for biblical interpretation, Lee mainly applied dubious allegorical, typological, and numerological methods in order to mine the Bible for alleged deep/hidden anings that most likely would have been foreign to the original biblical authors.Īmusingly, his naïve proselytes have mistaken his religious psychobabble expositions for something that’s profoundly deep and spiritual, and claim that it all came directly from God. Most of these publications were simply the polished transcriptions of his spoken messages given at conferences.Ĭonsult any of his works, and you’ll find a peculiar mix of allegorical sophistry and rigid biblical literalism, interspersed with a bizarre mishmash of ill-defined terms, question-begging statements, cherry-picked/ quote-mined Bible verses, unsubstantiated assertions, and huge jumps in logic. Despite his lack of training, Lee was a prolific writer and produced over 400 books and commentaries about the Bible and the Christian faith. Lee never attended a seminary or university he taught himself Greek, knew next-to nothing about Hebrew, and was willfully ignorant of 20 th century discoveries by biblical scholars. 2 A small sampling of Witness Lee's insanityīackground, interpretive methods, and beliefs.1 Background, interpretive methods, and beliefs.He gradually concocted his own peculiar theology and foisted it on credulous true believers in Taiwan and in the United States. Pember (1837-1910) ) and aided by outdated word-studies, Influenced by fringe 19 th/20 th century Restorationists (such as Watchman Nee (1903-1972), John Darby (1800-1882), and G.H. the One True Church™ ( does this sound familiar?). Purportedly directed by God, he co-founded and led the Local Church movement from 1949 until his death in 1997, with the expressed purpose of establishing it as the "recovered church", i.e. Witness Lee, born Li Changshou, (1905–1997) was a delusional fraud Christian evangelist from Shandong Province, China, who claimed to have revealed all of Christianity's hidden/forgotten "high peak truths". This.is being fulfilled through the Lord's recovery, in which the building of the genuine church is being accomplished.Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, as well as Judaism, all become an organization of Satan. “ ”The Lord is not building His church in Christendom, which is composed of the apostate Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant denominations.
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