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Originally Posted by aron
My second point is that I've had people reply to me, BP-like, "We don't care for that", to my raising the vision of the seven spirits, or the angels of the seven churches in Asia. Because, they assert, their eyes are fixed resolutely on the New Jerusalem. They are here for the consummation, not some way-station. They point out that in the New Jerusalem there is no more temple, because it isn't necessary. The old things are gone, and all is made new. So why fixate on something temporary?
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It's been a long time ... prolly since the late 70's ... that the Local Churches even focused their eyes on "
the Local Churches." Witness Lee and the Blendeds-to-Be realized long ago that the very existence of "
local" churches and "
local" elders created far too many obstructions for a global leadership hell-bent on the domination of God's people.
Like others before them in church history, it became all too convenient to pay lip-service to all the restrictive notions of locality, and move on to "high peak visions," which of course no one else could "see" in the scripture except for those true "Seers" in Anaheim. Hence we had Lee shift focus from local churches to the "one body." It also helped to have regular rebellions among its adherents to expedite this process.
It becomes incredibly self-serving for any pseudo-Christian organization to shift focus from the basics of the scripture, like loving and serving the ones next to you, to idealized goals like the "one body" and the "New Jerusalem." To love and serve the ones around me, I need a daily communication with my Lord, and a daily supply of his Spirit. To follow Anaheim with their future visions of grandeur requires constant attendance in their trainings.