Freemasonry and the Church:
A Christian Worker's Perspective
I have never been a Mason, although I grew up in a
Masonic family and was a member of its youth organization, the DeMolay. Every
male member of my family since 1805 has been active in the Masonic lodge. My
Dad was a Mason until he repented of it 2 years before he passed away in 1992.
My mother was an Eastern Star and my grandfather was a 33rd degree Mason. All
my uncles, aunts, and grandparents and the people on every side of my family
have been involved in Masonry, not only here in the United States but before we
came to the United States in Europe.
Those of you who know my background know that I spent
twenty years of my life in Mormonism. I became a Christian in 1975 and since
that time I have been ministering the gospel of grace to the Mormon people.
What does this all have to do with subject of the lodge and Freemasonry?
Prior to my time as a Mormon I was a member of the
Episcopal Church and almost everybody in our local parish were Masons. It was a
Masonic organization in a lot of ways. Although I didn't think much of it at
the time.
There came a point in my life when I felt the urge to go
out and seek some undefined "religious truth." It was unique that the
church I ran into immediately was the Mormon Church. I often wondered why that
was the case. Why didn't I run into a Baptist, or another Episcopalian who
wasn't bored to death in the high church, with all its rituals? Why did I
suddenly find the Mormons?
We are dealing in areas of spiritual power in some of
these things and I believe that the same spirit that was in that local
Episcopal church [because of the immense power that the Masons had in it] was
the same controlling spirit that is in Mormonism. I believe this is true
because Mormonism is permeated throughout with the Masonic doctrines.
Joseph Smith was a Mason. His brother Hiram was a Mason.
The first five presidents of the Mormon Church were Masons. The Mormon Masonic
Lodge in Nauvoo, Illinois, was one of the largest Masonic lodges in the United
States at the time. They had over fourteen hundred members in one lodge. So
much of what I did in Mormonism had very close ties into Masonry.
I remember being in a Baptist church a few years after I
became a Christian. I was sharing about some of the things I had done in
Mormonism. I talked about my participation in the Mormon temple ritual. I
shared some things about the temple like the oaths that we took, the symbolism,
some of the signs and tokens and the apron that Lucifer, who is the instructor
in part of the Mormon temple ritual, wore.
I told them that the apron he wore had Masonic symbols on
it and several of these same symbols were on the veil at the end of the Mormon
temple ritual. We Mormons reached our arms through these holes in the veil and
put your our around God or the man playing the part of God.
At the veil, we recited all these "special"
things that we learned in the temple. Those holes were really the Masonic
square, rule and compass slit in the veil. We also wore those same marks on our
sacred undergarments which we Mormons must wear as Temple Mormons.
It's interesting to note that since we began revealing
these secrets to the world, the LDS god has given new instructions or
revelation word to his prophets in Salt Lake City and many of these Masonic
blood oaths have been removed from the ritual.
At the end of that meeting in the Baptist church, I
walked to the back of the church to say good-bye to people. An elder, a member
of the board from that church, came up and led me off to a corner of the back
area of the church where, with great stress in his voice, said, "You
better stop doing this"
I
responded, " Stop doing what?"
He said,
" You better stop talking about those things."
"Talking about what things? "
"You
better stop talking about those rituals, because you are sharing secrets that
only Masons are suppose to know. "
I said,
"I beg your pardon, I don't know what you’re talking about."
"No,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. You stop it! When you're talking about
the Mormon temple ritual you're revealing the Masonic ritual secrets. You know
that the thumb to the throat oath and all the things that are done in the
Mormon temple are things that are Masonic secrets. Those hand shakes, the
signs, the tokens, the handclasps, the penalties and all these things are
Masonic and you're revealing the Masonic stuff."
"I'm not revealing Masonic stuff, I'm
revealing what I did, what I personally did in the Mormon temple," I
replied with some force.
"You
stop it or you're going to get hurt. You don't know what you are doing. You
don't know what troubles you're heading for if you don't stop this!"
I said,
"I'm not stopping it, I think its abominable and Luciferian, and I'm going
to talk about it because I think people need to know what is going on in the
Mormon temple."
Finally he
just said, "Well if you're saying that the Mormons do that and its
Satanic, what are you saying about Masonry?"
Not knowing much except what little I could get out of
the Bible, I just said,
"If
Masonry is involved with the same rituals and the same blood oaths its from the
same pit of Hell."
The elder turned away in anger and stomped off. I stood
there, watching after him and then I saw that the pastor had standing over to
the side and had watched the en tire exchange. He looked at me and slowly shook
his head. H e said,
"You're being a very foolish young man. You don't know what your
doing, you don't know what troubles you are headed for, if you don't stop
this."
He turned quickly and walked out of the church. I stood
there thinking, "Hey, I’m in a Christian church and the Christians are
getting mad at me and threatening me. What am I doing wrong? I'm talking about
evil that I participated in and suddenly I'm having problems. " I thought,
"This is it, I'm going to find out about Masonry. I have to know what's
going on here."
About a month after that, our friend 's Dad passed away
and we were sitting in their church attending his funeral in a very nice
evangelical situation. The family was sitting there in the front row, with
friends gathered around them. We finally reached the end of the funeral, and as
the pastor was thanking us for attending, suddenly the hair stood up on the
back of my neck.
I turned and looked toward the back of the church and saw
this group of men marching down the isle in these black somber outfits and
carrying scrolls, and all kinds of things, wearing white gloves, boxer-type
hats, aprons with all kinds of stuff on them. They marched up to the front and
gathered around the coffin.
They began chanting and breaking leaves over the coffin
and so forth. I broke out into spiritual hysteria. I began praying quietly to
myself, I was almost on my knees and my wife is praying just as hard beside me.
We were trying to bind this evil that had just come into this place. We didn't
know what it was that was happening, we just knew it was bad. Of course, it was
a Masonic funeral ritual.
I talked to my Dad about it, since he was still a Mason
at the time. I said something about the Masonic funeral being horrible. He
said, "What do you mean horrible? I'm going to be buried in a Masonic
funeral, myself."
I said,
"Not if I have anything to say about it."
He said,
"I'm going to be cremated in my white apron, my lambskin apron and I want
the Masons to do it."
I said,
"I can't do that, Dad. It is dark, pagan thing and it is not the way a
Christian needs to leave this world."
Dad had his will rewritten and had papers drawn up so
that my non-Christian sister would be the executrix of his estate. He did that
so I could not get near his body after he died, so he could be cremated in his
lambskin apron.
Jumping ahead in my story a bit, I need to share with you
that Dad repented of Freemasonry two years before his homegoing. He had been a
Mason for over 60 years, but Jesus set him free. We had a believer’s Memorial
Service for my Dad, a time of joy and peaceful release. Isn't God faithful!
So I began an intense study. I'm extremely well versed in
it now. I have probably close to a thousand books on Masonry in my library.
Most of them are esoteric book, which are written by Masons. Some of them
actually say "esoteric book, do not let non-masons read."
I have been able, through the grace of God, to get into
some places that I don't belong. I have acquired all the ritual books for all
the rituals of Masonry in their associated groups from the Eastern Star to
Job's Daughters to Rainbow Girls to all the various groups. I have every ritual
of every step of Freemasonry in the York Rite and the Scottish Rite, Blue
Lodge, Shriner, and Red Man and Jesters and all the esoteric groups in Masonry.
I have just about every document that they ever dared to put
in writing plus I have the testimony of thousands of Masons who have been set
free from that darkness. So I can talk a little bit about Masonry.
Masonry is one of the most volatile subjects in the
Christian church today. Where did Masonry come from? The Mason will tell you
that it started back in Solomon's temple and that ritually, it carried on and
continued through the building of the great cathedrals of Europe, Their history
is the history of the Stone Masons. They were called the operative Masons
Because they didn't have plastic badges in those days;
they learned secret hand shakes and signs so that a Master Mason could go from
cathedral to cathedral, from country to country and go to the boss man there
and give him a secret hand shake or secret sign. By that sign, the Construction
boss would know that he was a Master Mason, or an apprentice Mason or
journeyman Mason. It was pretty simple, but it worked for them.
The special sign or handshake would identify the worker
in different levels of capability. Because of the importance of keeping the
craft free from impostors, there were some serious penalties for lying or using
a code you hadn't earned.
That's where Freemasonry really came from. In the late
seventeenth century or early eighteenth century they began to gather in the
towns and cities in fellowship off the jobs. They allowed non-craftsmen
friends, called non-operative Masons to join with them socially. That is when
Freemasonry as we see it today, or Speculative Masonry began.
Now that's their story. And for the most part, that's
pretty much what most of what I'll call "social Masonry" still is
today. However that's not what "Spiritual or mystical Masonry" is
really all about.
Spiritual/Mystical Masonry actually goes back, not to the
temple of Solomon but to the Crusades when Eastern Mysticism was brought into
the church through the Knights Templar. The crusaders brought back esoteric
ritual into Central Europe, France, Italy. They brought back the Kabalah and
eastern mysticism. They brought in the Egyptian and the Gnostic mysteries that
were present, even in the days of Christ.
They brought these up into the 16th and 17th century
terminology and wove them into the culture of Europe in those days. Even first
century Christianity had the Essenes; who brought a Gnostic superiority into
the fringe of the church. They claimed secret knowledge that only the adept
were allowed to receive. They were also known as the Apron wearers.
It's interesting that they wore aprons that were their
protection, their covering before God. The Essenes wore these same aprons that
the masons wear today. And if you go back to the Babylonian mysteries and the
deification of Nimrod, the priests of Nimrod also wore those same aprons in his
temple. And they too were known as the apron wearers. They also wore special
undergarments with special markings on the breasts, just like the Mormons do
today.
There's nothing new under the sun. And old Satan is still
whining the old same record over and over again with different names, the same
things you see today in the new age; it’s the same things the Essenes and the
early Masons embraced; higher knowledge, becoming one with universe, becoming
one with the essence of the Christ spirit. All these things tie into modern
Masonry.
The power base of early Masonry was tied to the
tremendous wealth and power of the Knights Templar, until the Roman catholic
church, attempting to break to power grip of the craft, outlawed them and began
to confiscate its land and treasure houses, killing its leaders when and where
they could. The Masons, particularly though a group called the Illuminati, had
great power on the political scene.
We see a Masonic hand in the French Revolution and the
American Revolution. There is a thread, a theme here that demonstrates the
Masons have surely had a conspiratorial part of modern, international history.
How could that happen on such a scale over so many years?
It could happen right here on a small scale. Suppose
everybody in this group swore solemn oaths to join together as a secret band.
Suppose we closed the door, we locked the room and we brought each of you up
and had you kneel down, kiss a Bible, and swear a blood oath to have your
throat slit from ear to ear if you broke your oath. And suppose you swore an
oath that you would do everything in your power for the rest of your life for
the people who are in this select group, right here in this room.
That’s no one else, but just those of us who are in this
select group. We would do beneficial things for each other. If someone had an
opening in their company and you needed a job that they would move you to that
job over someone else. Or that if there was a contract being led by my company
I would see that you got the contract. And we would begin to take advantage of
the political and the economic system to better each of us. We would have a
good thing going. Right? Almost like a secret fraternity.
That's what the Skull and Bones thing is that President
Bush belongs to out of Yale. That's exactly what they did. They swore these
blood oaths that they would help each other in the political and the economic
society, to lift each other up, to support them in everything that they did.
They swore blood oaths to do this. It has been pretty effective for most of
them. And if you look at the simple side of Masonry, basically that's what
began to take place.
In 1717, in England, the first Grand lodge met. So we
know that there were many lodges for a Grand lodge to meet and they organized
under the Grand lodge of England. In the United States, many of the people who
were involved in the implementation of the Revolutionary War and the first
Congress were Masons. The Declaration of Independence was written on a Masonic
white lambskin apron. If you go over to Washington D.C. today and go look at
this great document, it’s written on a lambskin apron.
That's interesting, because my Dad wanted to be buried in
it because it was his covering before God, until Jesus became his covering.
Only a pagan needs to find some cover before God.
If you are a pagan there is no problem being a Mason,
because it’s a pagan society. If you are a Christian, you have a problem. Let
me explain the problem. It's almost a simple matter of submission to the spirit
of darkness. When a man goes into the Masonic order, before he can even enter
he has to be voted on by the lodge. They use a secret voting system using white
balls and black balls and if any body puts just one black ball in the box
[that's where the expression being black balled comes from], you cannot ever be
a Mason. If any man decides he doesn't like the color of your hair, if you have
offended him in business, if there is some offense in your relationship he can
then just put a black ball in, no questions asked, and you are not a member of
the lodge.
When a man goes into the first or Entered Apprentice
level, he is given slippers, he takes most of his regular clothes off, he has
one pant leg off, he has his chest bare, his wedding ring removed, he has a
hood or blindfold put over him, he has had a rope tied around his neck (called
a cable-tow) and he's led around that way through most of the ritual. He is a
man in darkness seeking the light of the lodge.
I wonder how many of these men would do this if their
wives or children were watching. If there's anything that I do that I can't do
with my wife or I can't do with my son or my daughters, then I'm in trouble, I
don't care what it is. There's nothing in my life that I would do that I had to
hide from my wife. So if I'm going to go in and share a secret oath that I can
never reveal to my wife, I'm in deep trouble.
First off I couldn't do it because I would never do
something that I would have to hide from my own wife because she's one with me
in Christ. So right off I've got a problem. Secondly, as a Christian, I don't
need the light of the lodge, because I already have the light of Jesus Christ.
And so I'm not in darkness seeking the light of the lodge or the light of the
knowledge of man. They could put sixteen hoods over my head and I'm still in
light because I'm in Christ.
But if I allow myself to be submitted to that, and I
kneel down and swear a blood oath to keep the secrets that I'm learning and
that I will hide the sins of my fellow masons, murder and treason excepted, I
am no longer in fellowship with Christ. As a Christian I cannot swear that
oath. These are simple things here. Thirdly, is the Masonic relationship with
Jesus.
I was talking to Mason a while back. He is in The Blue
Lodge, which is the lower level, encompassing the first three levels of
Masonry, so he’s really in the lower level. He told me he was a Christian. I
said, "Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?"
He answered,
" Yes, of course I do. There is nothing in Masonry that would offend Jesus
Christ"
I said,
"Are you sure there is nothing that you do in Masonry that would be
offensive to Jesus?"
He said,
"Ed, nothing that I do in the Blue Lodge would ever offend the Lord Jesus
Christ."
"Do
you love the Lord, " I asked?
"Of
course I do!"
"Do
you believe the Word of God? "
"YES,
of course I do!"
"Do
you live the Word of God? "
"YES,
well, at least I do my best!"
" Well
then, if you love the Lord Jesus Christ, then you'll do what he says and you
will not do what he says not to do. So how can you be a Mason?"
"What
are you talking about?"
I said,
"Well, Jesus himself says to swear no oath. Let your yes be yes and your
no, no. He said anything more come of evil."
He looked
at me for a long minute and finally responded, "Yeah, but that's, you
know, symbolic."
I said,
"I'm sorry, but it’s not symbolic. It’s the Word of God."
That's the simplest, most direct answer to the lodges. As
a Christians, we are not to swear any oath. So we don't swear oaths. We must
let our yes be yes and our no, no.
In the very beginning of their ritual journey, when the
Masons receive that white apron, which my Dad treasured so greatly, they are
told how wonderful it will be to see God and then the fruit of all men's lives
shall be made known. They are told in the "Apron lecture" that their
apron shall be their covering when they stand before the great white throne
judgment of God. And they go on just slide right through that ritual.
The great white throne judgment of God is the judgment of
the damned. In Revelations 20, it says that those are not in Christ will be
raised up to go to the great white judgment of God. It'd not the first time
that lie has been told. It goes all the way back to Genesis 3, when man first
tried to cover his sin with an apron f his own making. God ejected it then and
He still rejects it today, whether it's the Masons or the Mormons, God is not
pleased.
Lucifer, himself, tells the Mormons to wear the apron in
the Mormon temple ritual. He says, "look here comes Father, quick, cover
yourselves." And they cover themselves. In that ritual, Lucifer is
actually wearing an apron that resembles that of a Past Worshipful Master.
Sitting back behind all this, Satan has to laugh at our stupidity.
One of the men here was telling me that he was the Past
Worshipful Master of a lodge and he will recall with me that they perform a
ceremony in which the initiate goes through a mock death and resurrection. He
is raised up from death by the power of the Strong Grip, the Lion's Paw Grip,
by the power of the Master of the lodge who is supposed to have that position
of resurrection power to raise him from the dead.
He becomes born again, symbolically in Masonry, by the
power of the Strong Grip or the Lion's Paw grip, which is the secret or sacred
grip of the Master in the Blue Lodge. But, to the Christian, Jesus is the
resurrection of life and not the master of any lodge, not the power of the
strong grip and not the power of the Masonic order.
The Blue Lodge Masons, encompassing the first three
degrees of Masonry, are instructed that they are seeking the lost word, or the
lost name of God. The rituals are kind of built around this idea. They're
seeking greater knowledge. Yet, some of the leading masons and in some of the
rituals of the higher levels that they sort of smile at the Blue Lodge.
At the higher levels, they teach that the Blue Lodge is
just the outer court yard of true Masonry and that those who are involved in
the Blue Lodge are led to believe that they getting answers but they are being
misled, even when they think they are being led properly.
They are not allowed to know the truth, because the truth
is only for those who prove their worthiness. Sounds like Mormonism again. Only
at the higher levels can they get the real knowledge, but the Blue Lodge is
purposely misled with allegory and misleading symbolism so that they think they
know but these people are actually being fooled by the higher levels of Gnostic
Masons.
It isn't until they reach the level of Royal Arch Masonry
that they discover that the lost name of God wasn't lost after all. It's at
this level that they learn the sacred name of God.
They find that the sacred name of God is composed of
three names, representing the three identities of God. It is so sacred that it
takes three Royal Arch Masons to be able to speak it. One Mason cannot say the
full name of God, which is Jaobulon. The three Masons grip hands high and low
and chant, "Jao-bul -on, Jao-bul-on, Jao-bul-on, Je-hov-ah." The
Masonic material identifies the three as Jehovah, Ba'al and Osiris.
What these men are doing is worshipping a demon god so
far removed from the real God that this worship must surely defile the holiness
of God and guarantee those who pronounce that name in such a ceremony a swift
ride to Hell after they stand at that white throne judgment of the damned, in
their Masonic aprons. What foolish men.
Manly P Hall is one of the highest level Masonic teachers
and authors. He is also a Luciferian, as you will discover in some of the other
chapters. In his book, Dark Secrets of All Ages, he has a picture of the key
demon of Freemasonry, the Goat of Mendes or Baphomet. We published that picture
in the Huntington House, Salt Series book, The Question of Freemasonry.
I had a phone call one day from a lady back east. She
said she had become a born again Christian about 6 months earlier. She was the
head of all the Eastern Star for her state and she said that she started going
to a ladies Bible study group, called Women’s Aglow
She related that these women kept bothering her about
being involved in the Eastern Star. They kept telling her to get out of that.
She told them that she enjoyed the Eastern Star and they did a lot of good,
benevolent things and that she was the head of the State Eastern Star and just
couldn't drop out it that easy even if she wanted to.
She told me that something had been happening to her ever
since she became a Christian. The nights that she'll go out and officiate at
chapter ceremonies, installing the officers in the local areas, she'd go home
or to the hotel and this horrible demon would come in to her room at night and
physically and sexually attack her.
She knew it was demonic and she was fighting and she
couldn't battle this thing. She had talked to her husband about it, but nobody
else knew about this horrible thing she was going through. She was trying to
pray her way through this. She said that one day she was coming home from a
short trip as I just described and saw a Christian bookstore.
She said to herself, "I'm going to pull in there and
I'm going to find out if they have any material on the Masonic lodge and
Eastern Star. I'm going to get a book and I'm going to get some answers before
anybody talks to me again, before I get harassed one more time by the ladies at
Women's Aglow or anyone else. I'm going to get some answers."
She said that she went in and asked them if they had any
material on Masonry at all and they said, "No, we don't; but we just had a
book come in the mail and its called The Question of Freemasonry.
She picked up the book and opened it up and there was Manly
P. Hall's picture of the power of Masonry, the strong man, and the demon god,
Baphomet. That was the demon that had been coming into her bedroom. She fled
out of the bookstore, picked up her husband at his office and sped home.
She was calling me from her house a few hours later. She
and her husband had written letters of demit both resigning from every Masonic
organization. As she finished her story she said, "Mr. Decker, we haven't
even read the rest of the book." The one page, with its picture was enough
to convince them that Masonry was darkness out of the pit!
That ties in to another mystery of Freemasonry. Each step
of Masonry has its own set of secret signs, penalties, sacred names and so on.
In the 17th level of the Scottish Rite, the Knights of the East and The West,
the sacred word the Masons learn is Abbadon.
The scriptures tell us in Revelations 9:11 that the
demons of the pit of hell have a king over them and his name in the Hebrew is
Abbadon. Somebody better wake up! The information is there for a Christian who
has ever read a Bible. Any Christina who sits through that initiation and does
not flee from the ritual room is submitting himself [and therefore his wife and
children] to the headship of Abbadon, the king of the pit of hell.
It's interesting that the Eastern Star emblem is the
inverted five-pointed star, which is the Pentagram, often called the Goat of
Mendes which is the geometric example of Baphomet. Written into the star are
the mystical ritual initials, F.A.T.A.L. The ladies in the Eastern Star think
it stands for "Fair Among Thousands, Altogether Lovely." It really
stands for the fatal attraction of Eastern Star and the fatal bondage that
comes with it.
I was over in the Philippines and while there, I visited
the American cemetery in Manila. It is a somber walk as you stand among the
thousands of graves where so many Americans were buried. I was going through
all the names of the American service men who died on the walls of this huge
monument and I noticed that everybody who had won a Congressional Medal of
Honor had an inverted five-pointed star next to his name.
And there were three little dots at the end of each star
point, which are Masonic dots; you'll see them in all the Masonic material. I
wondered why it was on there, so I did a little research and discovered that it
actually is the design of the United States Congressional Medal of Honor. It's
a Pentagram, a literal Pentagram.
The inverted five-pointed star in a circle, is one of the
most powerful Satanic emblems in the universe as far as Satanists are
concerned.
That's the Congressional Medal of Honor! As I researched
that, I discovered that it was designed by Masons. I also discovered that the
Statue of Liberty was a gift of the Masonic brethren in France to the American
Masons and it, too, is filled with Masonic, occult symbols all over it.
I discovered in Washington D.C. that the streets around
the White House were laid out by a Masonic architect and they are laid out in
the form of the Goat of Mendes and the Square and Compass of Freemasonry. The
Capitol Building and its streets actually form the Goat of Mendes and the
square and the compass of Freemasonry intersect the Washington Monument, right
in dead line with it. The left leg of the Masonic compass sits on top of the
White House and the right leg sits on the Jefferson Memorial. Jefferson was a
deist and a Mason, and an Illuminati member. So was Benjamin Franklin.
These great men who are highly esteemed for their great
work in establishing our country were also busy laying in the root of occult
power, a conspiracy designed to mystically effect our nation's Capitol.
Designed in the streets themselves and with its southern
point sitting in the center of the White House is an inverted five-pointed
star, which again is the geometric face of the Goat of Mendes. And you wonder
why we have stargazers in the White House.
The other thing that bothered me while I was researching
this in Washington D.C. was the fact that every Federal building that exists
has been prayed for and set apart by the Masons in their ritual. They have the
cornerstones filled with their own paraphernalia, their own prayers to
Jaobulon. It's only because God still has prayer power Christians in this
nation that we haven't succumbed to these things.
But these are the things of darkness that must we fight
against today. We have a door opened to Satan's kingdom sitting right in our
National capitol. There is a dark spiritual power that sits over our country
today because of this. I believe that we need to stand up against it,
spiritually.
In ritual of the Blue Lodge, Masons are sworn to keep the
secrets of their brethren, murder and treason excepted. In the Royal Arch
degree, the one where they learn the name of their god, they swear that same
oath, murder and treason included.
What chance does a non - Mason have going into a court of
law against Masons when there is a Masonic judge and Masonic attorneys. All a
Mason has to do is let a Masonic Judge, or even a Masonic Juror know that he is
a Masonic brother and that is that.
Sometimes you look the way a case, is going and it just
doesn't make sense. We had one in Seattle not too long ago, in fact the Union
my sister worked for was involved in it and nothing went right, even simple
points that were obvious to everyone but the Judge. They couldn't figure out
what was wrong and I asked her, "Are the defendants and the judge
Masons?" She checked it out and found out that they were. I said,
"You
don't have a chance. There is no way you can win because, they passed the word
to the judge in the lodge or they gave that Judge a signal, they gave him the
sign of the square, or the sign of distress, gave him one of a dozen different
signs they could give him and that judge was bound by his Masonic code to find
for his brother. He is going to do that for the Mason whether he's right or
wrong."
In another case a few years ago, a wealthy businessman
was accused of molesting his granddaughter. I knew that he was a Mason held in
high esteem in the city. I was surprised to see that the Judge in his case was
a well-known Shriner and wondered how the judge was going to act for the state,
in the matter and also uphold his Masonic oaths.
A week into the highly publicized case, the Judge came in
one morning and announced that he had made a grave error in allowing certain
testimony. He said the error was quite grave, since it meant that he had to
dismiss the charges. He said his error would not allow the man to get a fair
trial, ever and therefore, he could not be recharged. The Judge took an
official reprimand and yet sits in the bench today, a Mason of high honor. What
Christian, living as a disciple of Christ could sit by and see that take place,
yet remain in the lodge?
Masons can't even talk about Jesus, as Lord and Savior in
the Masonic Lodge, because Jesus is recognized as a great teacher only and not
the Word which became Flesh. He is merely one of the great teachers, the same
as Buddha, the first legislator in Masonry. And Jesus, Moses, Zoroaster and
Socrates are all parts or pieces of one great truth. The Masons say that they
do not look at the individual, they look at the truth that they bring.
The only requirement is to believe in a supreme being and
therefore people who are in Islam can be involved in it. They worship a stone
idol sitting in the Kaaba and believe that is really God. They can actually be
a Mason because they believe in their own deity. And so Jesus isn't being
represented there in a form that should be acceptable to any Christian.
In the Masonic lodge, the Holy scriptures take the same
devaluation even though they have a Bible there. Yet, when they quote the
scripture in the ritual, if it were compared word for word to the Bible you
would find that the name of Jesus has been taken out. It sure sounds good. But
Jesus is washed away.
In the 30th level of the Scottish Rite, the Masons take
the communion of the dead. As they take their communion, they drink the wine
out of the top of a human skull and are told that they have taken in the blood
of those great teachers. At that same, they eat the bread they are told they
have eaten the bodies of those great bearers of light. It is partaking in the
literal blood and flesh of Christ, which in itself is a non Biblical rite.
When the Masons make it to the thirty-second degree, they
can decide to go into the Shrine and this is where a whole new set of problems
come into sight. I have often had a Shriner say, "There is nothing that I
do in the Shrine that I wouldn't be pleased to be involved in with my family."
But, when I mention a few things in the ritual and
initiation, they change the subject very quickly because some of it is obscene.
I know that I would never want my wife to see me doing some of those things.
But, that's the superficial problem.
The really obscene thing is that at the end of that
demeaning initiation, they kneel down at an altar and they pray and swear a
blood oath that is four and a half pages long, including penalties that say if
you reveal the secrets, you'll have your eyeballs pierced with a three-edged
blade and other fun stuff. At the end of this oath, which, in advance, they
agree is non-revocable, they say this,
"....
and may Allah, the god of Arab, Moslem and Mohammedan, the God of our fathers,
support me to the entire fulfillment of the same, Amen, Amen, Amen." (The
ancient arabic order, nobles of the mystic shrine, pp. 35-39, Allen Publishing
Co., NY, NY.)
What a pitfall for the Shriner who claims to be a
Christian! Allah is not another name for God. Allah is a tribal deity, a stone
or wooden idol carved by the hand of man and it sits entombed in the sacred
black building, the Kaaba, in Mecca, where all of Islam bows down to it. Allah
is a demon god who has destroyed nation after nation of followers. And the
Shriners who submit themselves to the godship of Allah have submitted
themselves to demonic headship.
It bothers me every time I see the Shriners marching in a
parade. They are usually busy with their little cars or motorcycles, zipping
around with their red fezzes. I did a little study on the red fez.
The fez comes from the name of the city of Fez, a city in
Morocco, in North West Africa. In the early eighth century, the city was
overrun by Islamic hordes. They came into the Christian city of Fez and
demanded that they convert to Islam or be slaughtered. They refused. The
Muslims took every man, woman, and child, brought them into the square and
butchered them and cut their bodies apart.
These were true Christian martyrs who died for Christ; 45
thousand men, women, and children. The Muslim butchers took their white hats
and dipped them in the blood of the dying Christian children and women and wore
it as a symbol of their honor.
When a man says that he is a Christian and comes into a
Christian church after having just left a lodge or parade where he wore that
red fez, God must cry out in agony over that wickedness. It’s an abomination to
God. When a man wears a hat on his head that symbolizes by its color, by its
very name the butchering of Christian martyrs and call himself a Christian. I
wouldn't want to be within seventeen light-years of him when he sees the Lord
Jesus Christ when He comes. Because I can tell you what's going to happen to
him. He will exert the penalty to the deaths of every one of those martyrs and
all the children's burn hospitals of the world will not make up for it.
Several years ago, a daily newspaper in, Florida, the
Orlando Sentinel published a report on the Shrine hospital program. 98% of the
money the Shriners raise in these circuses wasn't going to the hospitals. It
went to the Shriners for their parties. Ninety-eight percent of the money they
raise at these hospital gatherings went toward the parties they are so well
known for. Ninety-eight percent went to their little cars and their little
boats and their temples, their little hats and stuff. Two percent went to the
hospitals.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if these men rejected that and
put it aside and said, "I'm going to follow Christ! Christ is my Lord,
Christ is my Savior and I'm going to follow Him, and I'm going to put this
stuff aside, even if there is a shred of a doubt."
But let me tell you where the real sin is. If you think
this is bad, I got news for you. I'll tell you where it’s really bad. After
years of intense study, after having lived in this thing my entire life with my
Dad, my family, and my grandfather; after generation after generation in my
family and seeing it in my church; and seeing throughout churches in the United
States and all over the world, I have found the deepest sin in Freemasonry.
I've been all over the world with this message. I've been run out of a few
towns with it too. I've also been poisoned for it, and I'm alive today and
still talking!
The deepest sin of the lodge is if a Mason, as a father,
as a husband, sets himself to the spiritual whoredoms I have exposed; He will
reap the harvest. The terrible truth is that and it isn't going to be in him
that it will be reaped, but in his wife and his children's lives and his
children's children to the third and fourth generations.
He has walked away from Christ, placing Him in with
Buddha and Zoroaster and has surrendered himself to the law of the Old
Testament by getting involved with these Baal worshipers. He has removed
himself from Godly headship and he has opened the door to every Satanic attack
in the entire world to his wife and his kids whom he says he loves.
If you have rebellion in your home; if you have whoredoms
in you family and fornications, homosexuality, alcoholism, infidelity and these
kinds of problems. If there is sickness and no joy and no victory in your
Christian walk, its because the door to your home has been open to Baal. The demons
of hell can walk right through your front door and why?
Because sitting in that lower left-hand corner of that
lower drawer of your dresser is the white-lambskin apron of the fraternity and
all the other paraphernalia that is associated with it. You are worshipping at
a false altar and you have submitted your family to that false altar.
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we have to stand up
against this. We have to stand up against it in our family. If I were a Mason,
reading this today I would go home and I would burn that stuff. I would get on
my knees before God, I would go to my church and ask my pastor to let me go up
before the congregation, confess my sin and repent publicly because I have
brought whoredoms into the congregation.
This is the kind of sin that this is. The Mason has
brought whoredom into the congregation. When I speak about this in churches, I
say,
"Hey,
you know how we do it, everybody bow their heads, everybody's eyes closed,
stick up your hand and we'll pray for you. Well, not this time! No. You've
brought whoredom into the congregation; you have defiled the congregation of
the Holy.
"I want every eye up, I want every eye
looking, and I want you stand up and repent publicly in front of the whole
congregation. Because it is that kind of sin."
I've seen forty men in a single church stand up and
repent. And I've also seen some sit there. I was down in First Christian Church
in Port Charlotte, Florida and at the end of the meeting, I spoke and I asked
the men to stand up and repent. We had a lot of men and women repent. They
stood and we prayed for them.
There was a Worshipful Master present at that meeting. He
was brought there by one of the deacons of the church who was a Mason and the
deacon sat there with a grimace on his face the whole time we were praying for
those who stood. Then I did what I normally do, and I said,
"Those of you who have family who are involved in
it, let's put a hedge about you, a spiritual hedge. Let's break the power of
Masonry over your family. Let's put an end to this. We can come together in
agreement, to break the power over this church, to break the power over your
family. For those of you who want to pray to break the power over your families
I want you to stand"
At that moment, this man's whole family, his wife and his
kids stood up right next to him, and they prayed along with all the rest. I
smiled and thought, "brother, you are in deep trouble at home."
I wouldn't want to be in his shoes for anything because
his wife and his kids had made a spiritual commitment to the Lord to put an end
to Masonry’s control of their family. God heard their cries!
At the end of that church service, the pastor stood up in
his church and he said,
"Right
now, I'm telling every Mason in this church, you have a week to either repent
or get out. That's as simple as I can make it. And if you think you have enough
power in this church to vote me out in a meeting, then vote me out because I
will not be a pastor of a church that has Masons in control."
He took that stand and it broke the power of Masonry over
that church. I talked to that pastor of that church several months later and he
said there was revival is in the church. Friends, it was because they got rid
of Baal worship in the congregation. How can the Holy spirit of God operate in
a church where the leaders, the board and even the pastor is involved in this
kind of spiritual harlotry? Our God will not share His glory with an idol!
What about the York Rite? So many contact me who say
that, while the many other branches of Freemasonry are certainly pagan, the
York Rite is a Christian Rite from start to finish. Would that it were true.
First, the deep roots of Freemasonry are entwined within
every branch of the craft and go through every level of paganism, cultic and
occult practices, right into the depths of Luciferic rituals. No part of the
system is exempt. The York Rite is no different and those men within it who
claim it is free from any non-Christian influence are either blind fools or
lying through their teeth!
Let's look at the "Knights Templar" Degree. It
is reported to have originally been established to preserve and protect the
craft. The special garb worn in the degree consists an Apron, sash and cordon.
The center of the Apron displays a hand holding a severed
head, dripping blood. On the flap is a hand holding a knife. Drops of red blood
cover the white background.
The Sash is white with a yellow fringe. It is filled with
gory, severed heads, arms and legs, mixed in with knives, crosses and crowns.
The cordon, which goes around the neck, is dark satin with severed heads down
the side and a small ceremonial sword as the breast ornament. Along with these
grotesque items is a human skull cut and pinned so that the top of the skull
can be detached to use a drinking vessel. And they call this the Christian
Rite?
The paraphernalia of this ritual should be evidence
enough that the York Rite is every bit as pagan as the Scottish Rite, but let
me finish this up with a few excerpts from the rite, itself.
The obligation in this degree, called the Master's Nine
Of Elect, is now given to the candidate in the usual form. While the candidate
is kneeling at the altar, the companions all stand over him with raised
poniards, as if about to stab him. Meanwhile a horrible, bloody head sits on
the altar, facing him.
He swears this blood oath: "I do solemnly swear, in
the presence of Almighty God, that I will revenge the assassination of our
worthy Master, Hiram Abiff, not only on the murderers, but also on all who may
betray the secrets of this degree; and furthermore, that I will keep and
protect this Order with all my might, and the brethren, in general, with all my
power, and furthermore, that I will obey the decrees of the Grand Council of
Princes of Jerusalem; and, if I violate my obligation, I consent to be struck
with the dreadful poniard of vengeance, now presented to me, and to have my
head cut off, and stuck on the highest pole, or pinnacle, in the eastern part
of the world, as a monument of my villainy! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen!"
The vows here are sealed with the Fifth Libation or The
Sealed Obligation. The candidate is given the human skull filled with wine,
which he drinks after swearing that "the sins of the person whose skull
this once was, be heaped upon my head, in addition to my own; and may appear in
judgement against me, both here and hereafter, should I violate or transgress
any obligation in Masonry, or the Orders of [this] knighthood..."
I am sorry, but any man who has sworn such oaths has so
violated his Christian faith that I suspect he and all those over whom he has
headship have been removed from that umbrella of Christ's protection.
If your church is dying, if evangelism is a foreign word
in your congregation, if there is discord within its ranks, if some small
clique of people control the board and the decisions, check it out. The Ba'al
worshippers may be in control and the Holy Spirit of God may be going to church
down the street.
Well I've covered a lot of things that are important and
I think that we have to take a strong, Godly stand on Freemasonry. If you
wonder why you don't have victory in your family, now you may understand. I
believe that Masonry is multi-generational curse. I saw in my own family until
my Dad was set free.
My Dad had to be led through the sinners prayer about
every six months, he kept losing the witness of his salvation, he lost his joy.
My Dad used to up and run out of communion services. He feared communion in the
church. He took the communion of the lodge but he wouldn't take communion in
the church. But he had no joy, he had anger and hostility and bitterness.
Dad went into the hospital in early February of 1990 for
emergency surgery. He had 6 bypasses for a critical heart failure. It was so
bad; they did it late at night on a weekend because they didn't think he would
last until the morning. Dad was certain that because he was 80 years old and in
poor health, he wasn't going to survive such an operation.
He called me to his side and told me that he loved me and
I was right about Masonry. Dad repented that night and prayed with me as he set
things right with the Lord. Dad told my mother not to let the Masons near his
body. He didn't want the apron. He wasn't going to the great white throne
judgment. He was going to the banqueting table!
Well, God gave Dad a special grace. Not only did Dad pull
through like a trooper, but also he felt no pain, even though he had stitches
running from his neck to his toes. The morning after the operation, we had gone
home for a little while and a Lutheran Minister came into the room and asked my
Dad if there was anything he could do for him.
Dad said, "Yes, please, can you give me
communion?" My Dad was set free in Christ. My Dad's days of running away
from God were over. The joy and the peace and the firm security of his
salvation was there until the day he did go home to be with Jesus a little over
two years later, with his family at his side, singing the hymns he loved and
praising God for a father, a husband and grandfather who had made his peace
with God.
The above article may be found HERE.
The above article may be found HERE.
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