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Originally Posted by aron
The unrelieved turmoil in the local church system and both WL's and the BB's continued attempts to identify the source of the trouble (i.e. too much stress on "life" at the expense of "truth", or "someone had ambition") reminds me of this.
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If we examine the history of Witness Lee's system, we find that he regularly employed scapegoats to maintain his own pristine image inside the Recovery. The scapegoat of Israel (Lev. 16.8) was a goat selected by lot and sent outside the camp into the wilderness to Azazel never to be seen again. That scapegoat carried away the sins of the people, thus purifying the congregation.
Following every chaotic "storm" in the Recovery, also known as "rebellions," Witness Lee would immediately select the best "goat," though obviously it was not randomly chosen. All the sins of Lee and LSM, along with the supposed failures of the saints, were transferred to this selected scapegoat, who was once for all banished from the Recovery via an orchestrated "dog and pony show" called a quarantine.
During the interim between storms, Lee and LSM would rehearse in their trainings how all the blame was the scapegoat's, and that now the Recovery was purified from such awful sins as ambition and opinion. Thus we would all proclaim how living and timely each training was, certain that every failure of old was now replicated and exposed among us, proving how much we
alone were on the Lord's heart.