The Recovery of The Local Churches in Vietnam

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DO NOT SET UP FOR THEE ANY IMAGE:

Deuteronomy 16:22 (Jubilee Bible) “Neither shalt thou set THEE up any image, which the LORD thy God hates”.
It is disastrous that several English versions lack the word "for thee" in this verse.

--1 Samuel 15:12, “it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set himself up a monument”.
--2 Samuel 18:18, “Now Absalom, while he was alive, had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s valley; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. And he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place. {Heb. hand}”

--- Billy Graham, a famous evangelist, when he was alive, agreed to have his statue erected and his son to attend a inauguration of that statue.
--- After his martyrdom, Paul only saved his memories of the 14 epistles in the New Testament Bible. This is not a venerable pillar.
--- Lee Kuan Yew was a Singapore prime minister, he had ordered in advance that his body is burned and not built into a shrine.
--- But a man, dubbed a MOTA, certainly ordered people to build his mausoleum (royal tomb) in a way that would cost much God -money.

In 1999, for the first time, LSM chose two people being called VietNamese restoration community leaders to visit the LSM facility in the United States. When they returned to Vietnam, these two protested LSM hung two portraits frames of W.N and W.L. in a room that was probably a museum room, and they condemned it to idolatry.

But in 2006, after LSM formed a executive committee of Vietnam, and gradually they gave this committee a lot of money, so since then WL's name has been venerable and revered in the meetings, and in all Viet Nam's recovery communities that began in 1980. Tragically, 2006 can be considered an “Ichabod day” of all recovered saints in Vietnam -"The glory has departed from..” the so-called congregations in Viet Nam (1 Samuel 4:21 22). Since then Witness Lee robbed the Lord’s glory among the restored people of Vietnam.

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