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In reference to the title of the thread, I note that for the most part, the biblical record is of God leading people to follow him. The exception is the use of the Babylonians to punish them for their idolatry. Outside of this there is little, if any, reference to God as leading the people into problems then leading them out. While He did lead the original clan to Egypt, it was not to be slaves, but to be preserved during a famine. The reason they stayed a few hundred years is not given. Just stated as being so. Then he led them elsewhere.

I say this because my problem has always been with the idea that we were definitely led into the LRC. If I could have known what was hidden behind the curtains, I would never have gone. The fact that Lee's nonsense was hidden behind a curtain was his own doing to keep from scaring away his targets. I am not under the belief that being part of an aberrant sect/cult is somehow part of God's sovereign will. I do not read God's sovereignty in that way. What I do read is that He uses whatever we give him for our benefit. So I learned something from my 14+ years there. But I do not think that God led me in. Just used it and led me out.