[IDon'tKnow]

I think something to consider when considering early Lee and later Lee is the matter of the minister of the age. More specifically Witness Lee believed he was the Minister of the Age and that this was his position within the Body. An interesting thing to note is that when we are functioning in the Body in the measure that we are supposed to our yoke should be easy and our burden should be light. This should be because when we are our correct position we are yoked to the Lord, He is also yoked to us thus we find that we do not need to work by our flesh to function. If we attempt to assume a position within the Body which is not our own then it is reasonable to assume that we will find ourselves with heavy burdens. We are not properly yoked and we will inevitably find that if we want to maintain our position we will inevitably have to exercise self effort.

What I'm saying is that when we are accepting our proper God appointed position we can comfortably live by faith knowing that the Lord will take care of everything. When we seek to go above our position we can no longer have faith that Lord will take care of everything (Actually I think we can have faith in this so long as we accept that his taking care of things means returning ourselves to our rightful position), we have to work to maintain our position. Ergo when we are in our rightful position in the Body when something like Daystar goes belly up we can repent of wrong doing and trust that however it turns out (whether we are able to gather the money to rectify things or not) it will be according to His plan and we need not be anxious over it, If we are not in our proper position we must deal with the problem any way we can whether or not that involves performing more shady actions. When we are in our proper place we know that when others speak evilly of us we are blessed, When we are not we must sue them to shut their mouth. When we are in our place we can trust that when we minister whether or not what we minister will be received either wholly or in part is in the Lord's hands, When we are not we must force the brother's to take our ministry in spite of any leading from the Lord.

I believe that this would be the major reason for most of the problems. I also believe that this trait became more manifest as time went on because at the end I believe he saw that in many respects his ministry had failed. He supposedly was releasing the high peak of the divine revelation but the recovery itself was having little increase and was stagnating. At this point he needed to work hard to prove that He truly had been the minister of the age.