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Old 09-10-2016, 05:25 AM   #136
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Default Re: Witness Lee and AW Tozer

One of the LCM's early WOW! moments was the a conference in the 60s or 70s where Lee began the teach on Revelation 1:4, where it mentions "the seven Spirits." Lee began to talk about the "sevenfold intensified Spirit for the completions of the age." He sold this as one of his most unique revelations, and evidence of his special ministry.

Then one day I was looking at the Amplified Bible, and right there in Revelation 1:4 was the following:

John to the seven assemblies (churches) that are in Asia: May grace (God's unmerited favor) be granted to you and spiritual peace (the peace of Christ's kingdom) from Him Who is and Who was and Who is to come, and from the seven Spirits [the sevenfold Holy Spirit] before His throne,
So Lee probably pulled "the sevenfold Spirit" right out of the Amplified Version. A footnote in the AV attributed the idea to a "Richard of St. Victor," who lived in the 12th century.

So the Amplified Bible knew about the sevenfold Spirit long before Lee did. But we believed this was an on-the-spot direct revelation of God in that conference. Lee never gave credit to either the AV nor Richard of St. Victor.
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