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Originally Posted by awareness
That's why it's become called "The Hidden History of the Local Church." They cover their past like a cat covers their ........ well that ... it ... without sh.
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Speaking of "covering", remember how WL was supposedly a "covering" for us? I used to hear that from his cheerleaders. Like somehow he was standing in the breach for us, and connecting us to the Head of the Body who was in heaven. When he died I remember several people saying that "we lost our covering".
But it was also a covering in another dimension, spiritually. It was a veil between us and Christ. We had filters in between us and the words in print before us. The words were "interpreted" by the Exclusive Bretheren, filtered through a 20th century Chinese merchant. It is not coincidental that WL marketed tennis rackets, men's suits, and stackable chairs. It is not coincidental that WL got run out of Taiwan for money issues. It is not coincidental that when someone got an inheritance that WL suddenly got the idea for a motor home business, run by his family members. It is not coincidental that WL used the pulpit to dress down his franchises, the local churches, for investments in his scheme, and when it collapsed he shrugged. He'd underwritten one of his sons for a couple of years - good enough.
Now we all filter the word. We all have bias. But WL told us that WN stood on the shoulders of all, and could see the truth, and he and WL were so transformed that the word that came to us was straight from the top - i.e. God's present burden for planet Earth today. WL told us that he'd searched high and low, and for 40 years he couldn't find anyone who could teach him anything.
And we bought it. We willingly put this veil over us. Instead of seeing the ignorance and arrogance of such "nobody can teach me anything" statements, we all congratulated ourselves on making it to the New Testament equivalent of the Good Land.
And when the problems came, we just "covered" them. We relabeled them as "Storms" and "turmoils" and "rebellions", instead of that unrighteousness was among us. So yes, we were covered. Our history was covered. The truth was covered. God's revelation was covered.