Jesus was the faithful witness, per Rev 1:5. Singular: "the" faithful witness; not "a" faithful witness. The rest of us are, to some degree, compromised (yet it's the faithfulness of Christ that gives us hope; not of ourselves). Witness Lee's signal failure wasn't his unfaithfulness but rather it was his elevated claims of ministry and position. There could only be one apostle per age. And golly gee it just happened to be the guy who discovered this crucial principle. Fancy that.
1. This resulted in the elevation of persons.
2. It distorted human relations, as the question became who lined up after whom. Who had lunch with God's oracle today?
3. It distracted us from the word of God: if WL said prophetic OT scripture was fallen and natural, so be it. Never-mind that this completely left the pattern of NT reception by Jesus and the apostles.
4. It led to gross heresy, as the gap from "apostle of the age" and "God's oracle" to "Lord Changshou" isn't as great as some may wish.
5. It damaged our conscience. Rightness was now optional, subject to transient ephemera like "the sense of life". So, "drunken Noah" evidently got a pass.
6. Related to (2) it cut us off from one another. Those who didn't get the vision were isolated and ignored. (and the vision wasn't of Jesus, but of the ground, the building, the body, the economy, the move etc). And this continued apace in the quarantines that followed the attempted succession plans. So the ministry didn't help build the assembly but rather dis-assembled it. The ministry arrived and the flock didn't gather but scattered.
I could go on but you get the point, hopefully. Jesus warned us against such presumptuous "shepherds", and warned us against becoming such, ourselves. How? Jesus repeatedly said that the safe position is to take the least position. Those who preemptively elevate themselves above their station get put down. So WL should probably get put with the Jim Bakkers and the "Bishop" Eddie Longs of the religious world. The list is a long one. Per Paul in Titus 1:6 WL wasn't even qualified to be elder in a congregation. So what made him apostle of the age? No, he was flatly disqualified, even if there is such a thing, which is obviously debatable, resting as it is on tenuous scriptural grounds.
So the "oracle" got a revelation, that he was God's oracle. And this revelation must be true, because, after all, he was God's oracle. So it must be real, right? Amazing how far you can run a scam like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Gantry