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With each step that the Lord has taken in His recovery, the content of His recovery has become richer and richer. Today, it seems as if there is nothing more to be recovered. The recovery today has reached the stage of the Body. Perhaps this will be the last recovery. There may be other items of recovery, but as far as we know, when we reach the recovery of the coordination of the Body and the manifestation of authority, we have reached the final recovery.
(Messages Given During the Resumption of Watchman Nee's Ministry, Chapter 43)
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Recently an old LC friend called me, and asked if I would help him with some research on "the recovery" of the truths. He is caring for a new congregation of backwoods believers, and apparently wanted to validate the "new truths" he was passing on to them, by providing the history of each "recovery." Of course, it would start with the background of the dark ages, and then justification by faith "recovered" by Martin Luther would start the whole process.
I frankly couldn't do it. There was a time when I could do this almost from memory, but not any more. I just don't believe it any more. After all the historical misinformation and self-serving distortions I have received from Lee over the years, I have no heart to once again rehearse Lee's hagiography of the "recovery." I think I now prefer Andrew Murray's "
silver line of God's grace" thematic depiction of church history. Murray makes it clear that true believers, loving only the truths of His word,
always existed since Acts, even during the dark ages.