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Originally Posted by TLFisher
Who were types of the flying monkeys in the United States? I have my thoughts. What are yours?
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The all time "Bishop" of the USA based Flying Monkey Squadron for Witness Lee was no doubt the late Benson P.
Underneath Benson's seemingly fearless example of how to protect bruther Lee, there were quite a few names that could be listed. But I would like to nominate the
late Sherman Robertson as
Flying Monkey Squadron General under Benson because of his unabashed and inhumanly ruthless way of protecting WL.
Below are some letters that Sherman allegedly sent to Steve Isitt back in 2004. You can decide for yourself if SR was a
Flying Monkey Squadron General or not...
“In Brother Lee's book ‘the experience of life’ he talks about being right with God and with the body. The main factor is the matter of the proper dealing. THE SCOPE OF THE OFFENCE DETERMINES THE SCOPE OF THE DEALING. If one commits a sin only in the mind, it can be cleared up very easily. All the person has to do is confess to the Lord and claim the Lord's blood and he is forgiven. If one sins in speaking a word that he shouldn't have to a member of the body, then he has to not only confess to the Lord but also ask forgiveness from the person he spoke the word to. If one sins against the church, then he has to confess to the Lord and ask forgiveness publicly from the church. If one sins against the recovery, he has to confess to the Lord and also ask forgiveness from the entire recovery. You have most certainly sinned against the entire recovery. The website of your "book" and also the website of your "fellowship" with those such as Don Hardy and others is now a VERY BIG PROBLEM FOR YOU. Your thought about the recovery being wrong is your major problem. Brother Lee was never wrong about anything that happened regarding the rebellion with John I. in the late 1980's. Brother Lee is a different person than Philip Lee. Brother Lee would never do things that others would do."
"What I said in my previous letter is what has to be done. As long as you think that you are right about what you did but that the problem is that the brothers from the local churches are not open, this is a proof that you have no light on this matter. And until you get light, you have no way with the Lord. Without light, you will never be able to come back to the Lord's recovery. Because you just don't know how to handle this situation. You are completely in the dark. Repentance is a mercy that is granted to us only by the Lord. But repentance only comes when one realizes that he is altogether WRONG. If you really feel that there are so many things wrong in the Lord's recovery today, it doesn't make any sense that you would want to come back to a place that is so wrong. The God ordained way is most certainly the way the Lord's recovery is rooted and grounded in and will be taking until the Lord returns. In this matter, there is no turning back. Remember, the Lord's recovery is not going to change, NOT FOR YOU, NOT FOR ANYONE." - Sherman Robertson
A second email –
"After I asked you to leave the meeting last Lord’s day, it was brought to my attention by the brother doing the conference that you had put your “book” onto the internet and sent copies to a number of the coworkers. I was not aware of this. Maybe I should have been but I wasn’t. Other brothers in the church in Bellevue had read it online also and informed me more or less of its contents... The first step for you to be restored to the fellowship of the churches, if in fact this is what you really want, would have to be a complete and thorough point by point apology and retraction of every item mentioned there. This would have to be posted on the Internet for all to see and of course you would need to send it to each one that you sent the book to. However, if you feel that the things that are in the book are accurate, then you don’t belong in the Lord’s recovery."
Not everyone belongs in the Lord’s recovery. I know a number of brothers and sisters that just don’t belong in the Lord’s recovery. It takes a special calling from the Lord for a person to be willing to pay the price to be in the Lord’s recovery. Many have left us over the years for various reasons. The Lord’s recovery is here to carry out God’s economy by means of the God-ordained way, but many genuine brothers and sisters in the Lord are not interested in God’s economy. They have a lot of interests in a lot of things, good things, spiritual things, scriptural things, biblical things, but not in God’s economy as practiced in the bible by the manner we have come to know as the God-ordained way. The God-ordained way is simple and “what we believe” to be God’s way of carrying out the church life in the bible. Anyone who does not agree with our assessment of this has the right to have his or her own opinion. That is the blessing of being a free American. We all have the right to feel anyway we want to feel about any matter. But some Christians would like to see the Lord’s recovery conform to their own private thought and concept. However, in the 32 years that I have been in the Lord’s recovery, it has never changed a bit to suit anyone’s private thought and concept. All who make it in the Lord’s recovery do so because they agree in their thought and concept with what the Lord’s recovery stands for. And that is God’s economy carried out through and by the God-ordained way. It has never changed to cater to anyone’s private thought or concept and IT NEVER WILL."
"The good thing about being here in America is that if anyone doesn’t agree with a Christian group such as the Lord’s recovery, they can just meet with someone they feel is more to what they feel is God’s direction for them. And if they can’t find anyone that matches what they feel that God wants, they can start our own group. It is an impossible task to try and change an entire group to conform to what you feel. IT ISN’T GOING TO HAPPEN. I will not be having anything more to do with you unless and until I see a complete and thorough point-by-point apology and retraction of every item in your “book” that has been posted on the Internet. And I want to see it on the Internet. Otherwise, I will be closed off to any other matter regarding you. Your statements of just “wanting to enjoy the Lord and go on” mean nothing to me. That would have worked if you were just a brother who loves the Lord without any history of damage. YOU HAVE A HISTORY." - Sherman Robertson
"All who make it in the Lord’s recovery do so because they agree in their thought and concept with what the Lord’s recovery stands for."
Maybe Sherman was right about that one thing...
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