The Business of Killing the Trinity

Witness Lee says and I quote him, "after the fellowship in this chapter, I hope that none of us are so clear that the three of the Godhead are distinct, separate, and clear-cut persons. Even when we touch the economical Trinity in the book of Revelation none of us can be so clear that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three distinct, separate, and clear-cut persons.

This is a businesss, being a killer of the Trinity (Triune God), and he sure likes to use the word economical lots, treating the killing of the Trinity like a business of great found knowledge. I don't see the word "Economical Trinity" in the Bible, so I am not into that. The LSM corporation can fester in that brainwashed Leeist business nomenclature, but I will not.

Another quote from Witness Lee, "Although He is one God, yet there is the matter of three-foldness, that is, the threefold Person — the Father, the Son, and Spirit".

We should take exception to this, since God is 3 Persons, not a threefold Person. God is not a Person. God is 3 Persons. Oneness Pentecostals is so wrong directly tell us that God is a Person. In killing the Trinity, they also are into modalism.

Witness Lee has made Jesus all-inclusive: "....all the items of what Christ is. As God, He is the Father, the Son, the Spirit, the Lord, the Christ, and other items".

As abiding Christians, sensing His life in our spirit, we know that Jesus is not the Father. Jesus is the Son.

An example of processing God (modalism) is found here in Witness Lee's words: "God passed through different stages....Jesus became, is the Spirit of God in another stage".

Obviously this is wrong for God is not passing through stages. God is stageless. 1 Cor. 2.13 says NOW (the Lord) Jesus is the Spirit, referring to the fact that Jesus is resurrected. And we too may have resurrected life receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit. The point being, that in receiving eternal life, we receive His same life, but in all of this God never passes through stages, nor do we become God ever. We have His Spirit (His life), but that does not make us Him. When God breathed His Spirit into man's body, He created a soul life and a spirit life, not thought with the indwelling Spirit unless the first Adam ate of the tree of life. Now, God brings His Spirit into man again but not to give man a spirit (since man already has a spirit), but instead to give man a quickened spirit that has the life of Christ indwelling. The point being, in all of this, is that even with the indwelling Holy Spirit we still are not God, and God is still not passing through stages.

Witness Lee states, "Now we believe that the Son is the Father".

This is not true. The Son is not the Father. The Son is the second Person of the Triune God, and the Father is the 1st Person of the Triune God. Intuitively God's children know this in the conscience of their spirit.

The end game of all this is to confuse the purpose of God's Trinity, and franky, it seems, to create a business out of it.

In Rev. 22.1 we see that God and the Lamb are on one throne and 22.4 we see see one face of God at the center of the new city. But today, in the church age, age of mystery, God is Triune before the foundation of the world. This is another example of those in the Lee-vitical system going where they do not belong since Rev. 22.1 has not occurred yet at the center of the new city in the new earth. I find it helpful and quite beneficial to quote the clarity of this explanation by Watchman Nee:

The Way of the Lord (Watchman Nee pp.45,46 Spiritual Authority, Christian Fellowship Publishers)

“As regards to the Godhead, the Son and the Father are co-equal; but His being the Lord is rewarded Him by God. The Lord Jesus Christ was made Lord only after He emptied Himself. His deity derives from who He is, for His being God is His inherent nature. His being Lord, though, issues out of what He has done. He was exalted and rewarded by God to be the Lord only after He forsook His glory and maintained the perfect role of obedience. As regards Himself, He is God; as regards reward, He is Lord. His Lordship did not exist originally in the Godhead.

The passage in Philippians 2 is most difficult to explain, for it is most controversial besides being most holy. Let remove our shoes and stand on holy ground as we review the Scripture. It seems as though at the beginning a council was held within the Godhead. God conceived a plan to create the universe. In that plan the Godhead agreed to have authority represented by the Father. But authority cannot exist alone. God must therefore find obedience in the universe. Two living beings were to be created: angels (spirits) and men (living souls). According to His foreknowledge God foresaw the rebellion of the angels and the fall of men; hence He was unable to establish His authority in angels or in the Adamic race. Consequently, within the Godhead perfect accord was reached that authority would be reached by the obedience of the Son. From this come the distinctive operations of God the Father and God the Son. One day God the Son emptied himself, and being born in the likeness of men He became the symbol of obedience. Inasmuch as rebellion came from the created beings, so obedience must now be established in the created being. Man sinned and rebelled; therefore the authority of God must be erected on man’s obedience. This explains why the Lord came to the world and was made as one of the created men”.

When I read this most incredibly powerful statement, some things come to mind. One, you can see Watchman Nee preserves the Godhead (very respectful and humbled, not splicing and dicing the Trinity) in eternity past when he said "Godhead agreed to". Second, in creation, Nee acknowledges the Father as authority when he said "represented by the Father" though no such authority is needed in eternity past. What occurs to me is that if you go around saying as Witness Lee does today through his conduits, that Jesus is the Father, the Father is the Spirit and the Spirit is Jesus, you confuse the authority of the Father, and the submission of  Christ in creation, and the obedience therein.

Therefore, in Leeism there is a ripping apart of authority and submission representative of God's Trinity, and the same rebellion occurs seen ripping apart in their version of creation. And this outward form is seen in suing Christians to defend their faith, shouting and screaming violently in their meetings, actual possession. And generally, a spirit of dissension and confusing central-hub filthy lucre locality with Biblical locality for the sake of upper room pride. There is many other things, like going around calling yourself God and believing you were pre-selected and pre-made for salvation.

Obviously, there is no humility in this behavior that come from the core false teachings of Leeism found in Lee's writings which are required to be rationalized into acceptance and defended ferociously. It's a free country, but to me this can not nor ever could be salvation. It is a perfect example of unsalvation. I am thankful to my Lord Jesus Christ that I do not have to spend eternity future with these. How loving God is. This will always be a problem when associating yourself to a one-man cult shop, LSM-LC and the unspiritual. You do or die by that system, just like corporations take on today a life of their own having limited liability. Instead of Witness Lee just being one sinful man basking in his errors, many have taken Lee's sins upon themselves and made it a cult.

Witness Lee was in the catbird seat because he was learning from the best, the most spiritual of Christians with his association to Watchman Nee decades ago. But that just goes to show you, that we each have a free-will made in the image of God, and if God can't save Witness Lee, how could Watchman Nee? My personal belief, if God asked me, "do you think Witness Lee was saved?" I would have to sincerely say, "no". I do not want to spend the eternity of future in the new city with Witness Lee. Witness Lee was not a humble man. This is one thing he will never be known for. I will no doubt be accused at least a thousand more times for this statement, but I must be true to my conscience which God fills with His Holy Spirit. May those who hear this have an ear to hear.

Troy Brooks