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Originally Posted by tasinee
Can you please honestly answer this questions:
1. What is really this 'ground of unity'? Biblically? Is it physical position? How can I be sure that I am standing there?
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Watchman Nee and Witness Lee use the OT typology of the ground of the Temple. This is a very important type but they have completely misapplied it, so let's go back to the word.
The ground is the same ground where Abraham offered up Isaac as a burnt offering and where he received him again as a type of resurrection.
It is also the ground where David offered a peace offering to God by buying the threshing field for the ground of the temple.
David had sinned by not honoring God's command that when you number the people that you must offer up a ransom for each person to be used for the service in the sanctuary so that they don't have a plague among them.
This is the ground we stand on, we have been ransomed by Jesus sacrifice of His blood for us. We were not chosen because of our strength or power, it is not of us but all of Him. We stand here by faith, we believe in the promises of God, we believe in the resurrection from among the dead. Standing on this ground will keep us safe from the plague of pride.
Jesus is our burnt offering, Jesus is our sin offering, Jesus is our Peace offering. We stand on this ground by faith in Him.
However, WN and WL twist this ground to be equivalent to the boundary of a worldly city, a boundary decided not by Jesus sacrifice, but by town councils. These boundaries are ephemeral, changing frequently over time. There is no burnt offering, this doctrine is used to explain why all others are burned to ashes and only they do not get burned. There is no peace offering, rather this doctrine is used as a wedge to separate the believers from the rest of the Body of Christ. There is no sin offering, instead of recognizing that Jesus blood is our sin offering they create a new sin for the Body of Christ that is not covered in the Blood, but only forgiven if they bow to WN and WL's doctrines. As a result of this doctrine a plague of pride has run through the LC.