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Originally Posted by OBW
This is where conspiracy theories start. The insistence that something must mean something else that there is no actual evidence in support.
The problem is that with the information provided in Rev 2 and 3, if you want to make it fit a pattern, you can probably find something to make it seem so.
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Witness Lee definitely had this tendency. If he saw a pattern in the Bible then to him that meant it had meaning.
Ever looked at the clouds and seen patterns? You can see anything you want to. Witness Lee looked at the Bible like some people look at clouds. If he saw a pattern he wanted to see he was all over it.
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I therefore need more than the notions of a 19th or 20th century theologian to have dredged this out of a cauldron of ideas that does not have any more support than the claim that it is true.
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Especially when his notion is so self-serving. "Oh, look! The book of Revelation prophesies the movement I'm leading!"
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"Let's see. I'll make my church the good church, Philadelphia. These other churches I don't like, they will be the bad churches. Yeah, that's it."
When you were little did you ever play with a kid who always had to be the good guy? He would always have to be the cowboy and would make you be the Indian? That was Witness Lee.