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Originally Posted by zeek
I submit that the entire Book of Revelation is an allegory. How are we to understand it if we do not allegorize?
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How about the possibility that we'll never understand the book of Revelation, with any degree of certainty. The Preterists may have it right, that it deals only with the apostolic age.
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If someone has a problem with a teaching of WL or LSM name what it is. Certainly there may be allegorical interpretations of the Bible that are unfounded, or don't make sense, or are silly or evil. But blanket rejection of the method results in the contradiction that we cannot employ a method that was used by the very writers that we are trying to understand when we read the Bible.
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And therein lies the problem. Of course if we want to allegorize the scripture for our own benefit, what matters what anyone thinks.
But when preachers see allegory in scripture some think, 'allegory is the way to best understand the scriptures,' and then begin to go hog-wild with it, and possibility subject their flock to wild imaginations of their own making, and non-scripture meanings, that are nothing but illusions.
And if it involves a preacher-man like Witness Lee, that requires we give our whole life to his ministry, then is reason for thoughtful caution, concerning
HIS allegories.