[UntoHim]

From: http://www.twoturmoils.com/TheAccoun...dReceiving.pdf

Former leading ones, John Ingalls, Bill Mallon, Bill Freeman, and many more have testified of the immense help they received under Lee’s ministry. A familiar word from those closest to him in Anaheim was that they could not believe the same person who imparted to them such a heavenly vision in his ministry could be the same one manifesting some defect of character with such devastating results as they bore witness to. They turned away from following him due to the discrepancy and division.

Throughout the history of man-made religion, people have testified of the immense help they have received from all sorts of so-called ministers, teachers and self-made apostles. The problem is that these are usually the very same people who were decidedly blinded to the bad fruit and damage caused by the teachings and practices from the very beginning. We now know for a fact that John Ingalls, Bill Mallon, Bill Freeman and many other of the earlier followers of Witness Lee failed to do their due diligence, or maybe even worse, they knew about the bad fruit and seemingly endless damage caused to the saints in the Far East, but chose to turn a blind eye. In fact, they promoted Witness Lee as the one minister with the one ministry for the age from the very beginning here in America.

To say that all the false teachings, divisive practices and abusive treatment of God's people is merely the result of "some defect of character" is a direct slap in the face of God, and a great insult to those of us who were deceived by this man and the religious system/movement he invented. Witness Lee's "heavenly vision" was not based in the Word of God, else it would not have produced the bad fruit and division that it cause from the very beginning. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for us), thanks to the Internet and venues like this one, we have seen "the man behind the curtain", but unlike the well-meaning but bumbling false wizard, we were deceived by somebody who claimed to be speaking for God. To make matters worse, Lee's earliest followers blindly promoted him and his "heavenly vision", and thus thousands of new believers and young people were carried away, many of them still shipwrecked in their faith to this very day. May God have mercy.