Re: Does 2 Peter 2's warning of false teachers describe Witness Lee?
2 Peter 2:12
"These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They scoff at things they do not understand, and like animals, they will be destroyed."
Witness Lee scoffed at a lot of biblical teaching found in "Christianity". There are too many to name here so I'll just point out one. He laughed at the conventionally accepted view of the trinity as three distinct persons who are not each other, but are God and therefore one. He insisted that his own preposterous view was the correct one-- in which Jesus became the Holy Spirit and the whole Triune God had to go through a process and become flesh.
13 "Their destruction is their reward for the harm they have done. They love to indulge in evil pleasures in broad daylight. They are a disgrace and a stain among you. They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals."
With little apology, in regards to the DayStar debacle, Witness Lee said "the saints lost their virginity" - e.g. he had raped them spiritually and financially and they should have expected it. Does this sound like words that would come from a man of God? or someone who is being influenced by evil spirits?
He shamelessly covered up his own son's sexual immorality and defended them even when he admitted what they were doing was wrong to John Ingalls and many others.
He did all this shamelessly while eating with the same people he was sinning against in LRC's love feasts.
14 "They commit adultery with their eyes, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lure unstable people into sin, and they are well trained in greed. They live under God's curse."
Many reported Witness Lee becoming altogether a different person when he would come and do his pitch for DayStar. It sounds like he was possessed by a spirit of greed who manifested himself whenever WLee obeyed this lust. Not only did he lead many otherwise honest saints into sin via depression and anger when the whole DayStar debacle blew up, but he also tempted everyone under him with sycophantic tendencies to sin by selling out the righteous co-workers such as John So, John Ingalls et al. in order to bring themselves up in the LSM hierarchy.
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