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Originally Posted by awareness
Didn't he call Luther the minister of his age, and others after him, up to Watchman Nee?
In reading a little about the history of Christianity in China, seems the Chinese have a real weakness for prophesies concerning the end times, and have been swept up in Christian movements time and again that traffic in them. (Why?)
Well Nee and Lee must have taken notice. All Lee's MOTA's were to do with the Lord's Recovery: the final stage of the end times.
And we had a weakness for it too. Ha!
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I don't find an explicit statement that Martin Luther was a MOTA from Witness Lee. One might infer that since Lee does recognize him as an instrument of the Lord's Recovery in his day. Coincidentally, Lee cites a Taoist proverb when speaking of Martin Luther :
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The Chinese have a famous proverb that says, “As soon as a thing reaches its extremity, it reverses its course.” In other words, when the darkest hour comes, daybreak is at hand. The corrupted, dark situation stirred up a number of people who had a pure heart for the Lord. For example, Martin Luther was provoked by the Roman Catholic Church before he began to seek the truth. Martin Luther was a central figure in the Reformation... [Three Aspects of the Church: Book 2, The Course of the Church]
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Lee's acknowledgment that the Taoist "principle of return" is true contradicts his statements elsewhere that Taoism is nonsense.