Thanks Ohio and STG for pointing out groups that contradict Lee’s version of church history.
I did some more “fact checking” on another statement Lee made in Chapter 7, Section 3 of Life Study of Revelation:
What is “The Testimony of Jesus”?
Witness Lee: “The churches, signified by the golden lamp stands are “the testimony of Jesus (1:2, 9) in the divine nature, shining in the dark night locally, yet collectively”
verses related to “the testimony of Jesus”
Rev 1:1-3 and 9
https://biblehub.com/blb/revelation/1.htm
Rev 6:9
https://biblehub.com/bsb/revelation/6.htm
Rev 12:11,17
https://biblehub.com/blb/revelation/12.htm
Rev 19:9-10
https://biblehub.com/blb/revelation/19.htm
Rev 20:4
https://biblehub.com/blb/revelation/20.htm
Rev 23:16
https://biblehub.com/blb/revelation/22.htm
Other references:
1 John 4:14
https://biblehub.com/1_john/4-14.htm (see cross references too)
https://biblehub.com/acts/4-33.htm
Based on these verses I would say John’s definition of the testimony of Jesus was:
the word of God that God had given Jesus to show him and his brothers concerning His son (Jesus, the resurrected one). They were to speak (and did) the word of God as His witnesses to men everywhere at whatever cost, even imprisonment and death.