[OBW]

I'm sorry to say that I do not buy "then inexplicably" as a rational response after all we have learned about Lee.

I would accept that he really wanted to serve God. I would accept that he even believed the things he taught. And much of it was very good and even sound.

But after reading through the scripture and the various things that underpin the "unveiling of Christ and the church," I do not find that anything like what Lee taught on the subject was really "in the scripture."

I also believe that Lee spent hours praying, even as mentioned here. The problem is that he was never a cleansed vessel in the way that Don Hardy once believed. I'm not denying his salvation. I am denying some special cleansing. I would rather characterize his condition as "needing more cleansing." Since we have some record now of his returning to Taiwan to regain control over those churches (in the midst of this "cleansed" period), what was happening in the US can only be characterized as window dressing.

Again, I do not refute that he actually prayed. Or was even sincere. But there was a demon inside that should have already disqualified him from ministry. The US may not have seen that demon yet. But it was just off stage, waiting to make its grand entrance.

And Daystar was not the beginning. It was just the pinnacle of worldly businesses. I know that there was heath foods (protein powder and other similar things). It didn't make it. It seems that Lee was always trying to make money by selling something to the membership. (A little like the guy who moves from church to church to go through the membership list selling insurance.)

Then he found the right business. Conferences, trainings, and a system of pre-ordered books and pamphlets. The LSM was the ultimate money maker. And the bulk of its labor was volunteer.

I find these kinds of statements like "charged and burdened by the Lord for the release of the Spirit and the unveiling of Christ and the church in the Scriptures," "Witness Lee was a cleansed vessel," and "His ministry was not common, but was proceeding out from the throne of God" to be extremely naive given all that we now know.