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Why did Witness Lee get to be the final apostle? Why not someone else? Where did the idea of the "final apostle" come from? Is it based on Asian culture, filtered through religious sentiment and practice?

Lee said that China was "virgin soil" for the church. Why wasn't North America, circa 1635, the virgin soil? Why was China different than previous "soil"? I suspect that China was in fact corrupted, Satanic soil, just as Europe and North America also had been. Watchman Nee was trying to extricate himself and the flock from Western corruption, but they instead transposed Eastern corruption, or leaven, into the pure flour.

Why did Lee get God's final revelation, the revelation of the age? Why not someone else? Why can't Freedom get the revelation of the age? Or someone else? Why does God's revelation have to stop with one brother? Why can't it reach me, and go on?

Why could the Blendeds stand up on the podium and single out brothers and sisters in the audience and talk about their personal lives, but the rank-and-file couldn't do the same to the Blendeds? Is that how the church is supposed to be organized? Or is this Eastern culture superimposed upon the church organization model, with a hierarchy of "serving ones, responsible ones, and co-workers" leading up to the Maximum Brother, untouchable by all? Is this according to God, or according to "man's fallen concepts", as Lee put it?

On that note, why is it called "man's fallen concepts" if the OT writer pledges fealty to God, with Lee saying that no man could please God and meet His demands; but then in the HWFMR Lee says that "we must do this" and "we need to do that"? Isn't that also fallen, vain striving? Or, if it is rather the Spirit of life which now operates in us, then why wasn't the OT writer being a prefigure, shadow or type of the coming NT reality in the Holy Spirit of Christ? Why is Scripture called vain, while Lee's words are called the ministry of the Spirit? It seems that Lee judged Scripture on a different standard than his own words.

I guess that's because Lee was Acting God, and could essentially tell us which words were soulish and which were spiritual. He was the Seer of the Divine Revelation, after all. So we ended up with the strange world where Lee's words were received as the "lively oracles" of God, while Scripture itself was by-passed as vain and irrelevant, and void of revelation. Lee had the de facto revelation; the Bible was supplementary material, used to show that Lee was the Oracle, with the vision of the age.