Hiding religion in the church

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Originally Posted by aron

Wink said that these "forces" were actually quite clever, and would take charge without anyone realizing they were doing so. He said that the churches were often unwittingly duped into setting up systems of command and control with mirrored the fallen systems of the world.

The genius of these dark forces is that their prime movers actually think they are continually serving God.

And the insidious poison of the tree of Knowledge is that we can see this blindness in others but be ignorant of its effects within us. Somehow WL convinced the faithful that by his incessant, scathing critiques of "religion", he was somehow rendering his own potions immune. "Inoculating", he called it. Then all the LC "storms", "rebellions", "betrayals" and so forth are always from "them" and not "us". But as you say, nothing could be further than the truth.

Great insight here.

It was actually Ingalls' STTIL that awakened me to Lee's hypocrisy and unrighteousness at work in Anaheim during all those purported "storms.". Wink takes it one step further by identifying the dark forces at work and unseen. It's no wonder that history repeats itself; behind the scenes it is the same spiritual forces at work.

I have to believe there was a certain delusion at work for us all to think that we were uniquely God's testimony. Lee aroused our pride within to believe that we were more special than all of God's other children. Of course, all of Christianity was blind to their condition, and even we would have to admit ours, but never did we dare to think that our "Seer" was in any way blind. God would never allow that to occur!

So as long as Witness Lee kept informing us that all of Christianity was hopelessly divided and off the mark of God's economy, we felt good about ourselves. God was with us, and probably not with them.