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Originally Posted by A little brother
Neither will an LC brother join with a Baptist church next door to it. And you say it is locaility. What is the actual difference?
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It's a denomination. We are just Christians. And before you say they are "just Christians too". Then I ask you, why do they call themselves Baptists or Baptist Christians.
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Originally Posted by A little brother
Oh sorry, you were talking about history? Jerusalem did not exist at all when the Israelites left Egypt.
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I would not say "at all". Jerusalem was a Canaanite city, inhabited by Jebusites, a Canaanite tribe, though it was called by a different name. So it definitely existed.
Jerusalem is mentioned in the Old Testament as far back as Malchizedek the king of Shalem (pre-Jerusalem), who met Abraham. Abraham renamed Shalem to Yireh, which became known as Yirehshalem (in Hebrew), or Jerusalem. But you'd have to know something about Jewish history and word origins to know this. What's it mean ? I forget, great city, or great city of peace.
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I suggest you brush up (or better not) on Lee's teachings. According to him, Egypt is the world and Babylon is religion. There is a difference between coming out of the world and religion.
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Umm, not quite "world versus religion". Lee portrays them both as examples of the world. Both are examples of the world. Lee says Egypt signified the world of enjoyment. Babylon the world of rebellion and idol worship.
The church in Pergamos was the worldly church, the church in Egypt. ~ Life-study of Revelation, message 16.
Lee writes "in God's view, the world is first Egyptian and then Babylonian."
Life-study of Jeremiah - message 38.
They are both examples of God's people coming out of the world. They are both places where God's people were enslaved. The religious world is afflicted by both worldly enjoyments and rebellion and idol worship. So a bit of both Egypt and Babylon I would say.
Moses and the Israelites came out of Egypt into the land of Canaan where the city of Jerusalem was (though called by a different name at the time).
Jerusalem was once a pagan city, before it became "Israelite" or "Jewish".
Since we are discussing this, should I mention Assyria as well?
Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, symbolize three things God's people had to come out of.
God's people were carried away into captivity into those three. Those three symbolize different types of churches/denominations - ones with worldly enjoyment, ones with idol worship. All three had to return, or be "recovered" back to Jerusalem.
Anyway, I appreciate some discussion about Lee's teachings. But you're only covering one aspect of Lee's teaching. I know that the message to "come out" applies equally to Egypt as it does to Babylon. When you've been through as many life studies as I have, you tend to pick up on things others may not have.