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Again I have to ask : Is The Recovery a real divinely orchestrated phenomenon or not?
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It's an important question for understanding what the "Recovery" might be. At the very least, the Recovery was a theoretical reading of history by Watchman Nee in which he was front and center in what God was doing in the world. As he said in
Messages Given During the Resumption of Watchman Nee's Ministry (2 volume set):
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Today, the responsibility of the recovery is on our shoulders. All the questions related to the recovery have to do with us.
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How did Lee know Nee was chosen?
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According to
Watchman Nee—A Seer of the Divine Revelation in the Present Age it was a gradual realization. Although Lee claims that God Himself called him into the ministry when he was saved, he didn't jump right into the ministry. Neither was he persuaded when he became aware of Nee's ministry. Instead he chose to teach college for eight years.
On a number of occasions when Lee had personal problems, he went to Watchman Nee for help. In one story Nee and Lee both blame themselves because Lee's wife thought she was going to die following an operation for which she was hospitalized. The moment Lee repented for his "inadequate consecration and in my love for the world", the enemy left his wife, and "the Lord gave her peace. " It's an odd story especially if one steps back from Lee's supernaturalist assumptions. Apparently, Lee's wife was delusional and was not actually going to die. Nee and Lee both thinking that they have sinned and caused the delusion. In the parlance of our time it was "all about them." In a more mundane reading of the facts, one might suppose that there was some kind of marital problem between Mr. and Mrs. Lee. Perhaps when he expressed his contrite feelings, she felt better. Of course, that would relegate the story to a domestic problem between to ordinary people in China. However, as we learn from Witness Lee, it was far more momentous than that. It was an episode that had cosmic historical consequences in the eternal purpose of the God in the universe.