Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
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changedagain
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Date: August 23, 2015 12:18PM
Apostle Dog Wrote:
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> I was reading Reflections from the Wall, it said
> JRS said that he had recorded one of his
> visitations with the Lord, only he never showed
> anybody the tape. Sounds sort of like Marilyn
> learned straight from the top how to promise proof
> tapes and never deliver.
An excerpt from Reflections from the Wall...demonstrating that history does indeed tend to repeat itself:
In the Fall of 1979, on the threshold of his climatic trip into the future, Stevens and the Apostolic Company went on a "Big Trip" all over North America, visiting most of the churches affiliated with the Walk. It began in Washington, D.C., went up to Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), then down to Seattle, ending in the Bay Area. While the talk of the vision of '72 was deliberately downplayed in the last two years, it was still on most people's minds: "Will it happen like the Apostle said?" However, the whole time during the "Big Trip," Stevens was sizing up his empire, realizing that if he didn't stay on top of things, it would fall apart, most of the areas being run by men just as powerful as he. If he didn't enter into the Kingdom as announced, the main glue that held the empire together would lose its bonding power. Therefore Stevens decided to restructure the Walk, putting men that were totally loyal to him in trouble spots, removing the leaders he didn't trust, putting them in places where his bases were covered. He announced this restructuring on the day he was supposed to have been in the Kingdom, hoping that something on this scale would distract the people enough not to notice that nothing had essentially changed.