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Originally Posted by cityonahill
Paul,
Have you even read the other posts???
If you had, you would know that Lee's economy has already been addressed.
Once again you have not addressed even one issue that I presented with Lee's economy...I already have addressed "God's economy" based on scripture. Your refusal to interact with other arguments presented by myself and others show me and everyone else that you are here to have a one-sided conversation...that's not something I'm willing to do.
Go read my previous post and bring up something relevant to this thread. You are proving my point when I said all the LC saints can do is repeat "economy rhetoric" when backed into a corner...
I have presented my argument for "koinonia"...based on biblical text. What are your thoughts...(not Lee's thoughts)
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I believe since Brother Witness Lee authored "The Economy of God" you have stripped yourself to appreciate the orthodoxy of "The Economy of God". We must all act as the true Bereans of the Bible.
Again, if you would not want to react on my earlier post, I will narrate with my own words the beauty of The Divine Economy which uplifts only the Lord Jesus Christ and His Body to gain His chosen people until at the consummation of the age in the New Jerusalem.
The Economy of God
In past eternity, God created the heavens and the earth and all things including man. Unfortunately, man fell by disobeying God by eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil making his body as flesh, his soul as self, and his spirit deadened. In totality, man was alienated from God. This part can be called as "The Old Creation".
Christ in the stage of His incarnation
For God to pursue His heart desire in dispensing Himself to man, God gave His Son Jesus through incarnation and tabernacled among man. In Jesus human living, He brought God to man. Because of man's fall, he was in bondage in sin and death; therefore, the Lord Jesus died on the cross to conquer sin and death and liberate man. While the Lord Jesus was in His tomb, after three days, He resurrected from the dead; and finally conquered sin (by His precious blood) and death (by His resurrection). This part and onward can be called as "The New Creation".
Christ in the stage of His inclusion
In His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit. He also became the Head and Lord overall. After His resurrection, He descended from heaven as the all-inclusive Spirit and able to breathe in His disciples the Holy Spirit. Now, these disciples (including all of us today who have believed in the Lord Jesus) partook life and divine nature from God; thereby making us children of God. The believers in Christ are no longer individuals but rather has now became a corporate body, a new man, the church, which is the Body of Christ. By this process, the Lord Jesus Christ brought God into man.
Christ in the stage of His intensification
The church is God's elect composed of all believers in Christ (past, present, and future) which is now the expression and representative of the Lord Jesus Christ here on earth. As the time goes by, the church was degraded due to apostasy and the Lord's recovery is much needed, especially the "present truth" or the "up-to-date truth" to address the recovery of the Church by the Lord Jesus Himself. The Lord's recovery is to bring back the pattern of the church according to God's will which is gaining His Body through building the Body of Christ.
In the last days, the church will experience deeper degradation; and therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ as the life-giving Spirit will be intensified sevenfold to deal with the church greater degradation. The Lord Jesus Christ is now identified as the "sevenfold intensified Spirit" in the book of Revelation to produce the "overcomers" for the Body of Christ. As soon as the the "overcomers" is produced, then Christ's return is imminent. Christ's return is determined once the church has produced the "overcomers". At the consummation of the age, the church will become the Bride and there will be a marriage betwen the Bride (church) and the Bridegroom (Christ). After the Millenium Kingdom, the New Jerusalem which is the ultimate consummation, will come out from the new heaven. The New Jerusalem is a mingling of the Triune God and all the believers in Christ (past, present, and future).
With the above explanation, "The Divine Economy" is actually a schematic diagram outlaying God's heart desire to gain His people to be His habitation and God as man's habitation. I believe you are not in agreement with "The Divine Economy" not because it is being taught in the Bible, but because it was authored and taught by Brother Witness Lee. This is so sad! You are compromising the truth because of your "dislikes". This is not the way how the members of the Body of Christ must conduct its business.