Re: Local Church Speak - Merged with The Lexicon
Another one is "the mantle". A reference to Elijah/Elisha... somehow Nee had "the mantle" and passed it on to Lee. That was the unofficial term. The term used in publications was "God's oracle". Same thing. In every age, one person has the sight. The rest can only see as much as they get in line with the Seer of the Divine Revelation.
The one in LC Land with the Sight has the Power. So it seems, anyway. But they're very good at not saying anything directly, so as not to be held to their un-Christian principles, or they find the few even tangentially-related, like in the OT w Elijah/Elisha, and wave them. But did Paul ever claim, or even infer, that he'd taken "the mantle" from Peter? Yet that's what we were led to believe.
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