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Originally Posted by Ohio
Lucifer... was given great authority from God Himself to administer the universe. That authority was parlayed into the first coup d'etat in recorded history. One third of the angels "obeyed" their authority to their own peril.
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zeek's quote, Nee wrote that insubordination to authority was akin to rebellion. It seems as though Nee himself found a way around this dilemma, and was able to establish his own authority, via his "ground of the church" interpretation. Based on the exposited "ground of the church" he could form and lead a spin-off from a spin-off from a spin-off from a spin-off (Nee was ex-Brethren, itself broken from Protestantism, which had left Catholicism, which had split from the Orthodox) and there teach absolute obedience to (his own) authority within this new group.
It is little wonder that his spiritual heirs are bullies, sycophants, and merchandizers. Had Nee's "ground of the church" teaching and organization been true to the word coming from God's throne (i.e. obedient to God's disseminated authority), his new organization and its subsequent spin-off progeny would have been immune to usurpation by such rebellious forces. Instead, these groups had their doors wide open with positions ready for the new bosses. For a behind-the-scenes view of this process, see Paul's word on "...the kingdom of the air... the spirits now at work in those who are disobedient" in chapter 2 of his letter to the Ephesians. The repeated turmoils, rebellions, schisms, and quarantines have naturally followed suit behind such an organized, collective disobedience to the authority of God's holy word.