Major Errors of Witness Lee’s Teaching

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Yes, I understand your math and it is fatally flawed. What is this 58% of the OT that is in the NT? Is it the genealogy of Jesus showing us that Jesus is the Messiah, the one we should listen to, the one that the OT was pointing to? That doesn't weight the Bible towards the OT, it tilts it toward the NT.

Or is it all the verses where the Pharisees quoted OT laws about stoning sinners only to be rebuffed by Jesus. Once again, this does not tilt the NT towards an OT understanding, rather it tilts the Bible to seeing the OT through the eyes of Jesus.

Or is it the reference to Jesus as the lamb of God. All of the verses that demonstrate that Jesus is the fulfillment of the OT promises. Once again, this doesn't tilt the Bible towards Israelogy, rather it shows the NT was a type and shadow of the coming Jesus and the Church.

Your % of verses may be correct, but your interpretation of this tilting the understanding of the Bible to Israelogy and the OT is fatally flawed.

Answer:


If you do a little research (homework), you will see:


For example: IF, Mt has 1400 verses in the whole book. And IF, there are 500 verses in Mt that are quotations from the Old Testament; for Mt would be: 36 % of the OT. Then, if you do the same thing for every book of the New Testament, you will find out that 58 % of the OT is in the NT. But again, I say to you what I said to Drake: I can see that you are not understanding about Israelology. The exercise of showing the 83% is a very, very small part of the subject. That is only showing you how much (83%) of the “Biblical text” talks about Israel. Please understand that Israelology is not a “percentage”. Moving forward to the “real” subject. If you remember the “title” of my post is: “MAJOR” Errors of W. Lee’s Teaching. That means that Israelology is a “major” topic that W. Lee did not consider in his Life Studies. He spoke about Israel, but he applied to the church what is for Israel with the wrong interpretation. Pick up any Life Study of the Old Testament and you will see that he ends up sharing from the New Testament bringing the “church in”.
For you to have some idea of what Israelology is, I can show you what the experts have to say. Israelology is a huge topic in the Bible. Please read this little portion and then you can do your homework on your own and come to your own conclusions. You don’t have to believe anything I say, that is what Acts 17:11 is telling you.
ISRAELOLOGY
Part 1 of 6
by
Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum
INTRODUCTION
The issue of Israel is one of the major points of division in evangelical
theology today. This is true both among Arminians and

Calvinists. An evangelical theologian's view of Israel will determine
whether he is a Covenant Theologian or a Dispensationalist. It will also
determine what kind of Covenant Theologian he is: postmillennial,
amillennial, or premillennial.
The question of Israel is central for a proper Systematic Theology.
Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, which contains the first
Systematic Theology in Church history, expounds on Israel in the center
of his epistle devoting three full chapters (9-11) out of sixteen to
this topic. Yet, while there are many Systematic Theologies today that
have systematized all areas of biblical truth, none thus far has developed
an Israelology as part of their system. These articles will survey
what the concerns of an Israelology would be.1
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Important terms are used throughout this study that should be defined
as part of the introduction.
Systematic Theology
A science which follows a humanly devised scheme or order of
doctrinal development and which purports to incorporate into its system
all the truth about God and His universe from any and every
source.
Systematic Theology may be defined as the collecting,
scientifically arranging, comparing, exhibiting, and de-
1 For a detailed systematized Israelology, see this author's work, Israelology:
The Missing Link in Systematic Theology (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries Press,

fending of all facts from any and every source concerning God and His works.2.

Israelology
This term refers to a subdivision of Systematic Theology incorporating
all theological doctrines concerning the people of Israel.
Israel
As used in this study, the term Israel is viewed theologically as
referring to all descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, also known
as the Jews, the Jewish people, Israelites, Hebrews, etc.3 The term is
not limited to the present political and national state in the Middle East,
which is merely a part of the whole; nor is it limited to those who adhere
to the religion of Judaism only.
THE PLACE OF ISRAELOLOGY
IN SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
In every work of Systematic Theology, Israelology is found
missing as a major division. In all Systematic Theologies, what exists
of Israelology will only be partially developed. In Covenant Theology,
the development will be minimal. In Dispensationalism, Israelology is
only fully developed in its future aspect, not in its past and present aspects.
Logically, Israelology must come just before Ecclesiology [the
study the Church] and follow the same development. Both are a people
of God but, historically, Israel precedes the Church. As Ecclesiology
has been developed in its past, present, and future aspects, so must Israelology
be. Only then will Systematic Theology be truly complete.