moses: The Seven Apostles of the Local Churches and Their Endings

The Seven Apostles of the Local Churches and Their Endings

——The Bad Fruits of Watchman Nee on Ecclesiology

Young people are more familiar with the Charismatics apostles and prophets walked about all over the world, but they have rarely heard of the seven apostles appointed by the Local Churches（聚會処、小群、地方教會）. The spirit that fulled Watchman Nee（倪柝聲） in Yantai in 1935 was an evil spirit of the Charismatics, so various strange appearances of the Charismatics are not uncommon in local Churches. The charismatic spirit is an evil spirit that pretends to be the Lord Jesus, and often sets itself up as God, trying to be equal to or surpass the authority of God the Father and Christ. The evil spirit inspired Watchman Nee to subtly use "the Triune God became flesh" and "Christ is that Spirit", making his believers think that “that Spirit” is God the Father and the incarnate Christ, and the Triune God is just the same Spirit Different manifestations in different times and occasions. Witness Lee（李常受） picked up Watchman Nee's mantle, and proclaimed that Spirit later became Lord-Witness Lee（常受主）, and developed the most evil four-in-one-god heresy（父-子-靈-常受主四位一體異端） among Chinese.

The spirits that water Watchman Nee and Witness Lee are all charismatic evil spirits, and the methods of the evil spirits in them are exactly the same as the charismatic tricks. Watchman Nee’s accusation of denominations for causing the church’s disunity has the same purpose as the charismatics’ evil spirits in advocating Ecumenical Movement. They are both condemning the holy church of the Lord Jesus Christ with unwarranted charges. The church has always been one, she was created by God Himself, the church is one in the truth and the Holy Spirit, and it has been a united body of Christ since the church came into being (John 17:21-23; 1 Corinthians 1: 10-13). "Christians" who don't realize the unity of the church must be fools, accusing the church of not being united must be a trick of Satan (just as charismatics accuse Christians of being controlled by the evil spirit of orphans and tempting them to admit thief as father. Every Christians with the care of the eternal Heavenly Father, the presence of the resurrected and living elder brother of Christ, the protection and leadership of the indwelling Holy Spirit mentor, and countless brothers and sisters who love each other, they will never be orphans. ) Watchman Nee believed that other denominations belonged to the devil and were evil organizations, and only he restored the church to what it should look like according to God’s will. The purpose of Watchman Nee’s anti-denominationalism is to establish a sect that is not restrained and exempt from inspection according to his own will, because all other sects’ criticisms of him have become the devil’s attack, a cross of glory given to him by God. This deceitful victory method of "the son beats the father" made it impossible for Watchman Nee to wake up and repent through the persuasion and criticism of others.

Watchman Nee and Witness Lee believed that himself was the ministry of the age, the apostle and prophet specially chosen by God in this age to reveal and restore the truth that had been misunderstood by the church and covered up for thousands of years. This is the same trick as the largest contemporary charismatic false prophet, Rick Joyner, who defined the revelations of the apostle Paul as obsolete and low-level, and defined the revelations he received from nightmares and ghosts as high-level revelations of the times. After they have obtained the authority of the apostles and prophets beyond the recorded Bible, they can interpret, add or delete the Bible at will without being tested. If there is a difference from traditional church interpretations of the Bible, it is that they minister in this way to restore the contribution of God's truth, so that they will always be truth.

Regarding the views of the church, Watchman Nee advocated returning to the church life in the apostolic period, following the example of the early church in the Bible, and putting forward the principle of the local church that only one church can exist in a place (Witness Lee’s Local Churches movement, Kou Shiyuan’s （寇世遠，基督之家）The Home of Christ Church’s The world is one family and the whole world is unified is the inheritance and application of the principles of Watchman Nee’s local church), and he also publicly condemned the sins of the sects, which naturally caused the resentment of various sects and groups, criticizing him as spiritual pride and retreat. In fact, this is another form of The great unity， which is to unify the whole world in religion, so the development of the Local Churches is mainly to steal sheep, split and occupy other churches.

Watchman Nee also advocated the restoration of the biblical concept of priesthood of all believers, condemned the pastor system, believed that paid pastors did not conform to the Bible, advocated all believers to serve as a whole, preached the gospel, prayed, valued the cultivation of believers, and advocated divisional by region family worship gatherings (that is the Local Churches system 聚會処、小群、地方教會、召會、聚會所).

In the summer vacation of 1922, 19-year-old Watchman Nee（Ni Tuosheng倪柝聲） and 24-year-old naval officer Wang Zai（王載） decided to follow the example of the early church recorded in the "Acts of the Apostles" and started their first Only three people attended the breaking of bread meeting: Wang Zai and his wife and Watchman Nee. By 1948, Watchman Nee replaced the previous "Antioch Church Model" with the "Jerusalem Church Model", and revised some of his important church concepts. Watchman Nee’s thoughts during this period are mainly found in works such as "Affairs of the Church", "Orthodoxy of the Church", "The Road to Work in the Future", "Authority and Obedience", "How to Be God's Representative Authority" and other works. With the emergence of this new model, the Local Churches have two types of churches based on their locations:

Ordinary Local Churches—this kind of church is basically the same as in the past, and the elders and deacons are in charge of the spiritual and general affairs of the church.

The Local Churches at the center of the work—in this kind of church there is an extra group of apostles (note: no matter whether it is Catholicism or Protestantism, few people admit that there are still apostles today, and the practice of the Local Churches is exactly the same as that of the charismatic church). Although the apostles could not manage the church, these apostles became the elders of the Local Churches in the capacity of brothers to manage the church. Furthermore, since this place was the center of the work, the provision of the pulpit had to be strengthened, and this responsibility naturally fell on the apostles. Because of this, the Local Churches in the work center will naturally be superior to the ordinary Local Churches, and eventually it will be just like a leading central church.

In line with the promotion of the Jerusalem model, Watchman Nee further clarified the importance of authority and obedience, thereby strengthening and strengthening the position of the apostles.

Watchman Nee pointed out that believers must submit to the representatives of authority appointed by God to demonstrate their submission to God. In a local church, the highest authority appointed by God is the elders, but the elders are appointed by the apostles. In other words, the authority of the elders comes from the apostles, and they cannot overthrow the authority of the apostles. In the same way, “The appointment of elders depends on the apostles; the authority to abolish elders also belongs to the apostles.” Elders should learn to obey the authority of the apostles, “because they exist，is the apostles appointed them.”

Watchman Nee's "Supplement to Abolishing the Elders" undoubtedly placed the elders under the apostles, and the power of the apostles in the church was concretely strengthened. In order to cope with the change in the nature of the work of the apostles and the increase in workload, Watchman Nee believed that it was necessary to train the apostles, so since May 1948, he established a training center (for training apostles) in Guling, Fuzhou. Churches from all over the world select potential apostles for systematic training to improve the quality of apostles. Watchman Nee began to train canonized apostles long before liberation. Peter Wegener, the contemporary global chief apostle and charismatic leader, did not start to establish the International Coalition of Apostles (ICAL) until 1999 to mass produce apostles and prophets. Watchman Nee was half a century earlier than him.

In addition, Watchman Nee also launched the "Hand Over" movement in line with the centralized power line in Jerusalem. "Handing over" means selling everything, giving everything up, and offering it to the Lord; "handing over" also includes offering out the believer personally, and "handing over" also includes the church itself, and the church must also hand over so that the apostles can take over the church . This move aroused the resentment of some local churches, and caused many regional churches to split.

In any case, with the shift of the current situation, Watchman Nee's view of the church after the Anti-Japanese War was indeed developing towards a centralized system and authoritarianism, which has aroused a lot of criticism. This actually provides a god-making mode. This kind of god-making effect, Watchman Nee’s nephew Pastor Chen Zhongdao（陳終道牧師） once described the relationship between Watchman Nee and the Local Churches in this way, which can be regarded as a model of “charismatic leader” in today’s terms: "When I came back to Foochow in 1948, what disappointed me the most was that I felt that some of them really worshiped God, but there were many who 'worshiped' their idols. We can often Hearing 'Brother Nee said' instead of God's word. It seems that 'Brother Nee said' is more authoritative than 'Bible said'. If I were to write all the 'mythologized' stories I've heard about Brother Nee, this book would instantly become a masterpiece, but thank God I forgot about those stories because it's 'nauseous'. ...It is easy to hear a lot of stories about my uncle who seems to be deified in the Local Churches. In fact, he was too admired in the past years. God had a good purpose in allowing him to fail like this. "

After Watchman Nee came back to serve for the third time in 1948, one of the most emphasized messages was "submit to authority", which was to make the congregation unreservedly believe in the leader, and even "submit to authority" was more important than the truth; he believed that submitting to God's authority To be a representative is to submit to God, and to resist an authoritative representative is to resist God. Although the church advocates the elders to govern the church, he has the status of an apostle to override the elders. This kind of leader's praise is intensifying. "A certain clergy class was established among their high ranks, and the ranks of their front and back were indicated by the number of seats in a row of chairs, and the first seat that had no objection was reserved for him (Watchman Nee). This point, On the one hand, it can be seen that it may be their attitude of trust in him, but in fact the slogan of 'submitting to authority' has become a great problem for many people in their future work." (Li Maozheng: "Typical in the Past", (Taipei: Zhonghua Evangelical Theological Seminary Press), 1989, p. 174.)

History has proved that Watchman Nee's view of the church provided a practical and efficient development model for heresies and cults. Later, heresies and cults with serious harm in China, such as the Shouters, Eastern Lightning (Almighty God, Practical God, Power Lord) were established as kings, the Lord God, and the Three Redemptions Churches (Disciple Church, Head Covering Church, Wilderness Church, Two Liang Liang, Three Redeemed Christs), Mainland China Administrative Deacon Station, Load-Changshou Sect, etc. (呼喊派、東方閃電（全能神、實際神、能力主）被立王、主神教、三贖教【又名門徒會、蒙頭教，曠野教、二兩糧、三贖基督】、中華大陸行政執事站、常受主派等等异端邪教), whether it is doctrine or organizational model, they all follow or imitate Watchman Nee's church model.

The "seven great apostles" appointed at the Local Churches are: 1. Watchman Nee 倪柝聲; 2. Wang Peizhen 汪佩真; 3. Zuo Furu 左弗如; 4. Huang Jinqing 黃錦清; 5. Yu Chenghua 俞成華; 6. Zhang Zijie 張子潔; 7. Witness Lee 李常受.

After Watchman Nee（倪柝聲） sold the church to the Three-Self Church with deceitfully, he died in prison. Never seen his testimony of repentance for the sin of betraying the church to the Golden Calf（三自会）, but it is often heard that he sent a letter from prison to confess that he never gave up his faith and even left his last words "I (because of) believe in Christ and die". (At that time, many saints sent messages saying that they did not fall because they wanted to strengthen the brothers and sisters outside. Mr. Nee’s meaning plead arguments for himself.) Although the National Congress of Gentiles commended Watchman Nee as a Chinese martyr, his various performances still revealed The nature of false apostles. Watchman Nee’s moral failures (such as deceit on the signature issue in the 1950s) and religious compromises (such as joining the Three-Self Church in the 1950s) have proved that Watchman Nee’s teachings did not make him a spiritual person. "The Spiritual Man" is to fool others, but he himself does not follow suit. This is also a warning for us Christian today. Watchman Nee was imprisoned due to Wu Yaozong's （吳耀宗）accusation. The accusations include: extremely reactionary in politics, tax evasion in economy, private possession of pornographic videos and books in life, and having an affair with two virgin co-workers. (It is said that after investigation it was Wu Yaozong's frame-up). During the Cultural Revolution, Nee’s wife, Zhang Pinhui（張品蕙）, was severely persecuted because she refused to divorce her husband. She was whipped many times and suffered multiple injuries all over her body. In 1969, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, the Law and the Military Management Committee gave her the label of a counter-revolutionary and "handed over to the masses for supervision and reform." In November 1971, Zhang Pinhui suffered a broken bone at his home at No. 88, Lane 200, Yueyang Road. After being sent to the hospital, no one treated him. On November 7, he died of illness in the corridor of Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital. Watchman Nee and his wife had no children.

Wang Peizhen（汪佩真）, who ranked second among the apostles, was as famous as Li Yuanru（李淵如）. Li Yuanru was originally the editor of the Nanjing "Lingguang Newspaper" sponsored by Jia Yuming（賈玉銘）, but was poached by Watchman Nee. The prototype of Miss Bu, the supervisor of Jinling Girls' School in Chapter 9 of "Queen of the Dark Chamber" which witnessed by Christiana Tsai（蔡蘇娟） is Li Yuanru. Wang Peizhen's parents are non-Christians. She was five years younger than Li Yuanru and four years older than Watchman Nee. Wang Peizhen was recommended by Mrs. Sweet（甘惠泉師母） of the American Baptist Missionary Society. When she was studying in Hongdao Girls’ High School, a church school in Hangzhou, she believed in Jesus because of the preaching of Dr. Shi Meiyu（石美玉醫師）, a female evangelist. In 1918, he was inspired by the revival meeting led by Dora Yu（余慈度）, determined to dedicate himself to celibacy and preach the gospel, and changed his name to Peizhen. Regardless of her parents' opposition, she insisted on break off an engagement and ran away from home to Nanjing to study at Bible Teachers' Training School for Women.

Wang Peizhen met Li Yuanru（李淵如） and Wang Zai （王載）during his stay in Nanjing. After graduating from Bible Teachers' Training School for Women in 1921, she began to preach in various provinces of China. Her preaching was powerful and popular, and she was called the Spurgeon of China. In 1925, she went to Yantai to preach the gospel, and Witness Lee（李常受） was inspired to dedicate herself to preaching.

On January 29, 1956, during the Sufan Movement (肅反運動), she was arrested in Shanghai together with Li Yuanru, Zhang Yuzhi（張愚之）, Lan Zhiyi（藍志一）, and others, and was labeled as the "Watchman Nee Counter-Revolutionary Group"（倪柝聲反革命集團）. He was imprisoned in Tilanqiao Prison and died in Qingpu Labor Camp during the Cultural Revolution.

In the appendix of Wang Chunyi's （汪純懿）"How Wonderful"（《何等奇妙》）, there are witnesses of the last scenes of Wang Peizhen and Li Yuanru's lives. Li Yuanru declared that he did not believe in Christ in Shanghai Prison in 1962, and advised Wang Peizhen not to believe it either.

In 1965, Li Yuanru broadcast her reasons for not believing in Christianity to the whole prison in the auditorium, and later she told the inmates in the women's prison once again. Wang Peizhen seldom spoke, but he repeatedly said openly: "God does not answer prayers, there is no God." An overall criticism of the Local Churches was summed up by Wang Peizhen herself in prison: "They criticize the denominations and call believers to leave the denominations, but they gradually form a denomination that is more serious than other denominations". although she Because no longer believe in the Lord, the expression is inaccurate, but the general meaning has reached the point. In 1965, Li Yuanru thought that she would be released early, so she tried her best to get released through meritorious service, but in fact she never release until died.

After serving her sentence, Wang Peizhen was sent to Qingpu Farm in Shanghai, where she suffered from an incurable disease and died of it.

Wang Peizhen was one of the seven great apostles appointed by the Local Churches, and ranked second, second only to Watchman Nee.

Wang Peizhen(汪佩真) once declared: "I want to be a person well-known before Satan, just like Paul (see Acts 19:15). I want Satan to know that I, Wang Pei, really only want the Lord! For the Lord, On the path of service, I won’t be afraid even if the sky falls.” This is exactly the same as the declaration of charismatic believers, they all want to gain their name before Satan, and in essence such declarations are manifestations of not believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, They want to use Satan's promotion of them to threaten God to give them the reward and glory they deserve.

The fruit of faith of Wang Peizhen and Li Yuanru(汪佩真、李淵如) two women is a living testimony of “"Hebrews" 6:4-6: 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 【kjv】”. These two women later never believed in Christ until their death, and their previous spiritual performance was nothing but false faith. Because they pretended to be real, they were not easy to see through, so that they were honored as the female Spurgeon in China, so God had to use the iron fist of the Atheist Party machine to test out their falsehood. Facts have proved that Wang Peizhen is nothing but a false apostle.

What Christians should pursue is to be remembered by the Lord Jesus and God the Father, to be praised and rewarded by God, and there is nothing wrong with Satan. The pursuit of Watchman Nee and Wang Peizhen to be famous, promoted by Satan, and praised by Satan is to worship Satan the devil, to seduce people to worship Satan and the devil, and to prove that they are under the dominion of Satan. Nothing to do with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Zuo Furu(左弗如) is the founder of Guilin Local Church. When she was young, the Lord led her to follow with signs and wonders. After receiving grace, she loved the Lord very much, and since she was young, she decided to remain a virgin and serve the Lord wholeheartedly. From 1948 to the early 1950s, Zuo Furu was the person in charge of the "Deacon's House" in Guling, Fuzhou. During the land reform movement, she was persecuted because of the signature issue.

In 1956, due to the influence of Watchman Nee's "How I Turned Around", Zuo Furu announced that he stood on the "people's standpoint" and was in charge of the reorganized Shanghai local church together with Tang Shoulin(唐守臨) and Ren Zhongxiang(任鐘祥). In May 1956, at the Second Shanghai Christian Representative Conference, he was elected vice-chairman of the Shanghai Three-Self (Luo Guanzong(羅冠宗) was elected chairman), and was re-elected at the Third Shanghai Christian Representative Conference in April 1961. Zuo Furu told the brothers and sisters about the process of her thought transformation, and later this article was published in the first issue (1956) of the "Newsletter" of the "Believers Study Committee", entitled "God Shows His Power in Our Weaknesses". For Zuo Furu's positive performance after joining the Three-Self, you can refer to "The Memoirs of Zhang Xikang—Review of the Local Church in Shanghai in the Past Sixty Years——Chapter 19: The Situation of the Shanghai Christian Meeting House After the Anti-revolutionary Movement."(《張錫康回憶錄—上海地方教會六十年來的回顧----第十九章上海基督徒聚會處經過肅反運動的情形》)

Zuo Furu died of cancer in 1979. When he was dying, she said a word: "I regret it. I have led my brothers and sisters on the wrong path." Judas, who betrayed Jesus, regretted seeing that Jesus had been condemned.

Huang Jinqing（黃錦清） used to be one of the persons in charge of the Guling Apostle Training Center, but he disappeared afterwards.

Yu Chenghua(俞成華) was an elder of the Shanghai Local Church from 1936 to 1956 and one of Watchman Nee's important co-workers. He was martyred for his faith in the political turmoil of the 1950s. Yu Chenghua was born in a Christian family in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province on January 5, 1901 (November 15th in the lunar calendar in the 26th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty). His father, Yu Fengquan (俞封泉also known as 又名俞和全), was a local blacksmith. He is a Christian with a firm faith and has withstood the test of the Boxer Incident in 1900. In 1927, Yu Chenghua graduated from Shanghai St. John's University School of Medicine, which is known for its high level of English. After graduation, Yu Chenghua worked as an ophthalmologist and served on the side. In 1933, Yu Chenghua went to Changsha, Hunan, where he worked as the director of ophthalmology at Xiangya Hospital. In 1936, at the request of Watchman Nee, Yu Chenghua gave up his high-paying position in Xiangya Hospital (a monthly salary of 175 yuan) and returned to Shanghai to lead the church. During his stay in Shanghai, Yu Chenghua successively translated "Simple Prayer Method" and "Scented Myrrh" (a biography of Mrs. Guyon 蓋恩夫人傳記, introducing this idol of idol worship to Local Churches and even Chinese churches.）and "With God" (Lawrence 勞倫斯) and other foreign spiritual masterpieces belong to the school of inner life or mysticism, published by Shanghai Gospel Book Room. Rise up in the church to seek the air of inner life. In 1946, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he and Wang Peizhen resumed church gatherings in Shanghai.

In the early 1950s, Yu Chenghua succeeded Ni Tuosheng in Fuzhou and was in charge of the later work of the Guling training. During the land reform movement in March 1951, he was detained due to the signature issue. On January 29, 1956, more than a dozen leaders of the Shanghai Church, including Yu Chenghua, were detained in the Nanyang Road Local Church for isolation and examination, and were asked to explain the problem of Watchman Nee. He always refused to accuse anyone, for the sake of peace of mind. After 20 days, he was sent to Tilanqiao Prison for detention and review. Due to being interrogated day and night and lack of sleep, Yu Chenghua's physical condition deteriorated rapidly and he fell into a coma three times. He was released on medical parole on April 12 and died in Shanghai Hongren Hospital on April 13. (Yu Chenghua witnessed "Life in the Holy of Holies - Anecdotes of Yu Chenghua" 俞成華見證《至聖所內生活――俞成華軼事》）

Yu Chongen(俞崇恩), the son of Yu Chenghua, made a deep reflection on the spiritual pride of the Local Churches during his experience of the fiery trial movement of church in China: "I admit that the church in our background was very proud in the past, and I am afraid that it is within the scope of all churches in China. , can be said to be the most proud. The main reason is that there is a co-worker who guides us, (Referring to Watchman Nee ), he is really a brother who is extremely smart, has a good memory, is well-versed in spiritual classics, and has perfect eloquence and knowledge....So when After many years of reformation, after I came out of the farm, I no longer dare to classify (see 1 Corinthians 3:1; Titus 3:10) and look at people differently. We are all children of God, and we all come to serve the Lord with one heart .”

Zhang Zijie(張子潔), an elder of the Local Church in Qingdao. In January 1935, Zhang Zijie was sent by Watchman Nee to Qingdao, establish a Local Church in Qingdao.

In 1948, Zhang Zijie participated in the co-worker elder training organized by Watchman Nee in Guling, Fujian. After returning to Qingdao, starting from the Spring Festival in 1949, Zhang Zijie led the whole church in Qingdao to preach the gospel, and the number of believers quickly increased from more than 300 to 4,000. In addition to the hall at No. 4 Longshan Road, there were also 20 home meetings. In 1950, the Qingdao church became the central church in Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Xinjiang work areas, and Zhang Zijie visited various places as an apostle.

In March 1951, Zhang Zijie invited Gu Renen, a free evangelist from Shanghai, to Qingdao to preach at the meeting place at No. 4 Longshan Road. Gu Renen was arrested for "spreading reactionary speeches" and "expelling diseases and exorcising ghosts". In the same year, during the land reform movement, more than 1,500 believers from the Qingdao church signed a letter to Chairman Mao Zedong and the Fujian Provincial People's Government, requesting to retain the land of the "Deacon's House" in Guling, Fuzhou. In June, the Qingdao Church participated in the preparatory committee for the Qingdao Christian "Three-Self" Movement. At the end of the year, Zhang Zijie and Zhang Shiping were arrested for "counter-revolutionary crimes". The number of congregations in the Qingdao church dropped sharply. Zhang Tianren continued to be in charge of the Qingdao church. After withdrawing from the "Three-Self" twice, he finally publicly admitted his mistakes because of "the help of patriotic believers" and "the inspiration of the government", and joined the organization for the third time. In the autumn of 1956, Elder Zhang Tianren(張天人) of the Qingdao Church was elected as the deputy director of the Qingdao Christian "Three-Self" Patriotic Movement Committee at the Second Qingdao Christian Representative Conference.

In 1958, Qingdao Christianity implemented joint worship, and Longshan Road Meeting House became one of the 10 Christian joint meeting places in the city, and other meeting places of Qingdao Church were withdrawn and merged. In 1965, the meetings at the meeting hall on Longshan Road ceased, and the building was used by the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao Medical College. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, on March 19, 1981, the third representative conference of Christianity in Shandong Province was held, and Zhang Tianren was elected as the vice-chairman of the first committee of the Shandong Provincial Christian Association. On May 26 of the same year, Qingdao Christianity held the fourth representative meeting, and Zhang Tianren was elected as the deputy director of the Qingdao Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and the president of the newly established Qingdao Christian Association. In 1984, the Qingdao Local Church resumed its activities.

When Witness Lee(李常受) was nineteen years old in April 1925, Witness Li accepted the gospel and devoted his life，because listening to Wang Peizhen's(汪佩真) preaching of "Exodus" to break away from Pharaoh's rule. Witness Lee was baptized with some water in the Chinese Independence Church(中華自立會), but left soon after. About 1927, Witness Lee began to attend the meetings of the Brethren Association. For the next 7 years, Witness Lee met in the local Open Brethren Association (Newtonian 牛頓派 ), learning to use allegorical methods to study prophecies and He read the Bible diligently, and at the same time subscribed to The Christian Newspaper published by Watchman Nee, a young Christian in Fujian. He began to accept Watchman Nee’s views, and in 1930 he was baptized in the sea by the Brethren missionary Bernard(布納德). Later, he received the attention of Watchman Nee and inherited Watchman Nees mantle.

In 1931 Witness Lee was filled with evil spirits who received shouting evil. Witness Lee was a submissive person with few opinions. Working with Brother Nee in Shanghai, he was often asked by Brother Nee: Witness, what is your opinion? Witness Lee said, "I have no opinion. I will go wherever you tell me to go!" Witness Lee never expresses an opinion, but he does what he should do. Under Watchman Nee, the manifestation of this shouting evil spirit was not obvious. In the 1960s, when Witness Lee was preaching "The Lord's Restoration" and "Calling on the Name of the Lord" in the United States, this evil spirit broke out, showing obvious characteristics of the Shouters, and spread to China, becoming a cult and heresy with great harm incubator. Witness Li also naturally became the fourth person of the Four One God（四位一體）, the "Chang Shou Lord"(常受主), and the Shouters who shouted the name of the Lord also became "Calling the Chang Shou Lord".

On February 20, 1994, at the Chinese New Year Conference, the 89-year-old Witness Lee once again saw the "peak of divine revelation" in the Bible: "God became man in order to make man God in life and nature.（Not in the Godhead） ” Exposing his heresy thinking to the naked eye: Satan’s ultimate goal is to sit on the throne of God and call himself God. The weird heresies spread by Witness Lee include: Christ was created, and the flesh of Christ has the nature of Satan; Christ is the Father also is the Spirit; Christ will not come again, only Witness Lee is the"Chang Shou Lord"(常受主) who saves the world, we must worship and praise the "Chang Shou Lord"(常受主); "The age of Word has passed", Now is "the age of the Spirit"; there is no heavenly family, the heavenly family is the church; the Bible is obsolete; 'the Lord is the Spirit', 'you shout, and the Spirit comes'. etc. At present, all factions basically recognize Witness Lee as a heretic, and anyone who does not think Witness Lee is a heretic must be a heretic himself.

【Editor’s Note: The calling, calling on the name of the Lord, and calling on the name of CHANGSHOUZHU the Lord(常受主), which are unique to the Witness Lee's Shouters sect, are the same hypnotism(催眠術) as the most important feature of the sect—Pray-Reading the Word（禱讀）. it's for the familiar spirit(交鬼).

The purpose of shouting is to give up the ability of reason and will to distinguish, to make people tired and confused, to achieve a hypnotic effect, and to facilitate consulter with familiar spirits（交鬼通靈）.

"Shout on the name of Lord", "Call on the name of Lord CHANGSHOUZHU(常受主)", in addition to intentionally violating the third commandment, treating the names of the only true God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the truth Holy Spirit, which names of glory, honor, holiness, majesty, richness, mystery, as ordinary names that are empty, ordinary, and meaningless tease and shouting casually; it is also a kind of hypnosis, which is similar to the charismatics or New Era heresy and evil spirits, speaking in tongues cannot stop or screaming, crying aloud, raved, laughing foolishly and laughing until they die, so as to obtain the anointing ability of releasing and different "spirits" It's the same ghost trick. They all want people to quickly suffer from brain hypoxia, fatigue and drowsiness, to achieve the effect of sanity decline, blank consciousness, and loss of ability to distinguish and resist, so as to achieve the purpose of evil spirits and demon possession.

“Pray-Reading the Word is hypnotism”

《禱讀就是催眠術》

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The seven great apostles appointed by the Local Churches at are all false teachers, which proves that this church system is also heresy, not an ordinary Christian church, but one that worships, believes and spreads false gods and evil spirits.

Please refer Chinese Version請參考中文版：

《聚會處七大使徒及其結局》

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《倪柝聲偷樑換柱的基督論》

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《倪柝聲為中國教會貢獻了什麼》

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