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INTRODUCTION
The question of the Christian stand regarding Freemasonry seems
to confront many believers lately. The fact is that the esoteric doctrines of
Freemasonry separate it from the Christian theology just as unequivocally
as do those of Mormonism.
This holds true for every branch of Masonry, from the Shriners to
the Blue Lodge, the Eastern Star, the Demolay, Job's Daughters and the
Rainbow Girls. It holds true
for the Scottish rite or York rite.
I know that this will cause
offense to Masons, and for that I am truly sorry. But I would rather that
the Mason be offended at me and be restored to true fellowship with Jesus
Christ than to remain silent on this matter.
This word of warning is not
to the Masonic fraternity at large, but to those Masons who claim to be
both Masons and Christians.
A recent newspaper insert
called "FREEMASONRY - A WAY OF LIFE" appeared in many
metropolitan areas. It pictured Freemasonry as a family-centered,
fraternal, benevolent organization, "as American as apple pie."
Not only does the article
demonstrate the strength of Freemasonry among our political leaders, but
makes much of its use of the Bible and its foundational belief in
God. Indeed, Masonry has a
very strong representation in the Christian denominations throughout the
world. In many churches
Masons are involved as deacons, elders, board members and even pastors.
Their claim and the claim
of every Mason to the outside world is that Masonry and Christianity are
totally compatible. They say that religion is the experience of relating
to God, and Masonry the experience of relating to mankind. While
separate, they can and do naturally coexist.
The article mentioned above
explains its religious position this way:
"Masonry
is NOT a religion in any sense of the word, yet it is religious. Church
membership is not a requirement, yet membership in ANY church is no bar
to admission. There is nothing in the requirements of Masonry to prevent
a Catholic, a Mohammedan, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Protestant, a Mormon, or
any member of any religion from becoming a member."
On the surface, this might
seem quite reasonable. Certainly, there is no offense in being involved
in social, civic and benevolent activities with people of other religious
backgrounds. In fact, it's really an integral part of the excitement of
life. But, when it comes to worshipping God and His revelation of His
Word, there are some very clear guidelines.
If Freemasonry is truly
what it professes publicly, then "Bravo!" -- it is a welcome
fellowship. If it is being deceptive, then it should be exposed.
Let's see what Masonry
truly teaches within its closed doors, and through its own published
documents. No anti-Masonic publications will be cited in explaining their
true theological positions.
Consider the following to
be MASONRY: IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
The key document from which
I quote is the most readily available and universally approved doctrinal
book of Freemasonry, "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry," by Albert Pike, Grand Commander,
1859-1891. Its title page states that it was prepared for the
"Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree and Published by its
Authority." Originally published in 1871, I have used the 1966
Edition. Except where other sources are noted, I cite page numbers only
when using this work.
CUSTODIAN OF TRUTH
(Masonry)..."The
custodian and depository [since Enoch] of the great philosophical and
religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age
to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems
and allegories." (Page 210)
A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
"Masonry
is, in every sense of the word, except one, and that its least
philosophical, an eminently religious institution - that it is indebted
solely to the religious element which it contains for its origin and for
its continued existence and that without this religious element it would
scarcely be worthy of cultivation by the wise and
good."..."Freemasonry is not Christianity, not a substitute for
it"..."But the religion of Masonry is not sectarian. It admits men of every creed
within its hospitable bosom, rejecting institutions; and on this ground
mainly, if not alone, should the religious Mason defend it." (Encyclopedia
of Freemasonry, Albert G. Mackey, Revised Edition, 1921, pages 618-619)
THE FOUNDATION OF RELIGION
"It
[Masonry] is the universal, eternal, immutable religion, such as God planted
it in the heart of universal humanity. No creed has ever been long-lived
that was not built on this foundation. It is the base and they are the
superstructure." (Page 219)
TEMPLE OF RELIGION
"Every
Masonic Temple is a Temple of Religion, and its teachings are
instructions in religion." (Page 213)
BUDDHA: THE FIRST LEGISLATOR
"The
first Masonic legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history was
Buddha, who, about a thousand years before the Christian era, reformed
the religion of Manous." (Page 277)
REVERENCES ALL REFORMERS
"It
[Masonry] reverences all the great reformers. It sees in Moses, the
lawgiver to the Jews, in Confucius and Zoroaster, in Jesus of Nazareth,
and in the Arabain Iconoclast, great teachers of morality, and eminent
reformers, if no more; and allows every brother of the order to assign to
each such higher and even divine characteristics as his creed and truth
require." (Page 525)
NOT CREED-BOUND
"The
true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine illumination
of his lodge that as a Mason his religion must be universal: Christ,
Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only the
light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before every
altar, whether in temple, mosque or cathedral, realizing with his truer
understanding the oneness of all spiritual truth." (The Lost Keys of
Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, 33rd, page 65, Macoy Publishing and Masonic
Supply Co. Richmond, Va., 1976.)
THE BAALIM
"Masonry,
around whose altars the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin,
the followers of Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and
unite in prayer to the one God who is above ALL the Baalim, must needs
leave it to each of its initiates to look for the foundation of his faith
and hope to the written scriptures of his own religion." (Page 226)
The word Baalim is simply
defined as "false god or idol." The Masonic author has included
the God of the Bible in that category.
THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD
"Everything
good in nature comes from Osiris - order, harmony, and the favorable
temperature of the seasons and celestial periods." (Page 476)
Osiris was the ancient
Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the
self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature. "The All Seeing
Eye" is a Masonic representation of Osiris.
MASONRY CONCEALS ITS TRUTHS
"Masonry
conceals it secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect,
and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead
those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls
Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those
who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it."
(Pages 104-105)
THE BLUE LODGE TO BE
DECEIVED
"The
Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Parts of
the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally
misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall
understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands
them." (Page 819)
WORSHIPFUL MASTER THE
SOURCE OF LIGHT
"Worshipful
Master: The Head and Chief of the Lodge, the Source of Light, of
Knowledge and instruction in Masonry. He personifies the Sublime Art of
Masonry and is the Spokesman thereof." (Arthur Waite, A New
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1970, page xxiv)
OBEDIENCE THE FIRST RULE
"The
first duty of every Mason is to obey the Mandate of the Master...The
order must at once be obeyed; its character and its consequences may be
matters of subsequent inquiry. The Masonic rule of obedience is like the
nautical, imperative: 'Obey orders, even if you break owners'."
(Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey, page 525)
THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE BIBLE
"The
teachers, even of Christianity, are in general the most ignorant of the
true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so
little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as
incomprehensible as the Sohar." (Page 105)
THE INCOMPLETE BIBLE
"All
truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it.
Everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of the
Illuminati, Jacob Boehme, Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, is
borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their
secrets and their symbols.
"The
Kabalah alone consecrates the Alliance of the Universal Reason and the
Divine Word...
"The
Bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses in an incomplete
and veiled manner only the religious science of the Hebrews. The doctrine of Moses and the
Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also
had its outward meaning and its veils.
"The
Hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and
they were written in symbols unintelligible to the profane...thus was a
second Bible born, unknown to, or rather uncomprehended by, the
Christians; a collection, they say, of monstrous absurdities.
"One
is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the
Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple and at the same time
so absolute." (Pages 744-745)
The "Kabalah" is
a book of ancient Jewish mysticism and magic.
DEITIES OF MASONRY
THE ENERGIES OF LUCIFER
"When
the Mason learns that the Key to the warrior on the block is the proper
application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the Mystery of
his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before
he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly
apply [this] energy." (Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, page
48)
LUCIFER IS GOD
"That
which we must say to the crowd is - We worship a God, but it is the God
that one adores without superstition.
"To
you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat
it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic
Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees,
maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine.
"If
Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (The God of the Christians) whose
deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and
repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?
"Yes,
Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law
is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no
white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods:
darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal
is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.
"Thus,
the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical
religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God
of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the
God of Darkness and Evil." (Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils
of the World, Albert Pike, Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of
Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889. Recorded by A.C. De La Rive, La
Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, page 588)
The Word of God, the Bible,
clearly puts Lucifer in his proper place, and gives God's reasons.
"How Art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the
north. I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet
thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
(Isaiah 14:12-15)
THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE
UNIVERSE
Masonic
ritual is concerned with the recovery of the "Lost Word,"
presumed to be the name of God - lost through the murder of the
architect, Hiram Abiff, during the building of Solomon's Temple. This
quest is attained during the ritual of the Royal Arch Degree. It is here
that the secret name of the deity of Masonry is revealed. That name is
JAOBULON. "JAO" is the Greek word for Jehovah. "BUL"
is a rendering of the name, Baal. "ON" is the term used in the
Babylonian mysteries to call upon the deity "Osiris” The secret
ritual book of the Craft prints the letters J.B.O. It states that: "We three do
meet and agree - in peace, love and unity - the Sacred Word to keep - and
never to divulge the same - until we three, or three such as we - do meet
and agree." Thus, no Royal Arch Mason can pronounce the whole sacred
name by himself.
What you see represented,
then, as the god of Freemasonry, is a three-headed monster so remote from
the Christian trinity and so blasphemous as to damn the eternal soul of
anyone who would dare to pronounce its name in a ritual of worship.
THE GOD OF THE MYSTIC
SHRINE
The
candidates for this ritual kneel at the Altar of Obligation with arms
bound, leaning upon the top, heads bowed. There they are required to "assume a most
powerful and binding oath, inseparably uniting yourself with us, and once
taken, it can never be retracted or departed from."
The oath
itself is four pages in length. Its penalty includes "having my
eyeballs pierced to the center with a three-edged blade."
The
revelation of truth is in the candidates' sealing of the oath, revealing
the true nature of the Masonic god of the "Mystic Shrine”: ...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, pages
35-39, Allen Publishing Co. NY, NY.)
I AM THAT I AM
During the
ceremonies of the ritual for the Royal Arch degree, the candidate is
asked, "Brother Inspector, what are you?" and he replies,
"I am that I am." Can you imagine that? When Moses asked God to
name Himself, God said, "I AM THAT I AM" and He said,
"Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me
unto you." (Exodus 3:14)
Tell me how a Christian can
take to himself the Biblical name of the God of Israel? The God of the
Christian faith said, "Ye are even my witnesses! Is there a God
besides me? Yea, I know not any! They that make a graven image are all of
them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are
their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
ashamed." (Isaiah 44:8, 9)
THE MASTER MASON - A GOD IN
THE MAKING
"Man
is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of Egypt, on the
potter's wheel he is being molded. When his light shines out to lift and
preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood and joins
that throng of Master Masons who, in their robes of Blue and Gold, are
seeking to dispel the darkness of night with the triple light of the
Masonic Lodge."
"The
glorious privileges of a Master Mason are in keeping with his greater
knowledge and wisdom...For him the Heavens have opened and the Great
Light has bathed him in its radiance. The Prodigal son, so long a
wanderer in the regions of darkness, has returned to his Father's house.
The voice speaks from the Heavens, its power thrilling the Master until
his own being seems filled with its divinity, saying, 'This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.'
He [the Master Mason], in truth has become the spokesman of the
Most High. He stands between
the glowing fire light and the world. Through him passes Hydra, the great
snake, and from its mouth there pours to man the light of God." (The
Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, pages 92, 54-55, Macoy
Publishing and Supply Co., Richmond, Va, 1976)
There is only One for whom
the Father uttered those words and it wasn't a Master Mason...nor will it
ever be so. Jesus Christ is
God's only mediator for you and me. Do not let any man ever tell you that
he is, or you may become, the spokesman of the Most High. Further, if you think that God
speaks through Hydra, the great snake, your god comes right out of the
pit.
OTHER TEACHINGS AND
PRACTICES USURPING THE PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS
In the
19th level of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the Initiate receives the degree
of Grand Pontiff. It is during this ritual that the candidate swears an
oath of secrecy and an oath of total obedience "to any Chapter of
this degree to which I may belong; and the edicts, laws and mandates of
the Grand Consistory of Sublime Princes and Commanders of the Royal
Secret, as well as those of the Supreme council of the 33rd
degree..."
It is then
that the "Thrice Puissant" anoints him with oil on the crown of
his head and says "Be Thou a Priest Forever, after the order of
Melchizedek."
After receiving
the password (Emanuel) and the sacred word (Alleluia), he is dressed in a
robe of white linen and given a cordon (a ribbon or sash of honor worn
across the breast) of crimson color, with 12 starts representing
"the 12 gates of the "new city, " and the twelve signs of
the Zodiac, the twelve fruits of the tree of life, the twelve tribes of
Israel and the twelve Apostles." (Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated,
The Complete Ritual, Vol. 2, pages 26-27, E. Cook Publications, 1974)
It must be pointed out that
what has taken place here, is the Masonic priesthood taking upon itself
the Holy Priesthood of Jesus Christ. That is a Priesthood that can be
held by only one person and that one person is clearly defined in
scripture as Jesus Christ.
Chapters 7 and 8 of the
Book of Hebrews clearly explain that it was another priest to be raised
up, not a group of priests!
This Priest would be our High Priest and would be able to save
from the Uttermost. He would
have "endless life".
The holder of this Priesthood would be "holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens."
(7:26) This is Jesus, our Holy Lord and God!
This ritual takes Christ's
Holy Priesthood from Him, and the Grand Pontiff boldly puts it upon his
own breast. Even the use of
Biblical words fails to cover up the adding in of the "signs of the
Zodiac", a direct alliance with the powers of darkness and a
demonstration of disobedience to God's Word. In Deuteronomy 18:10-12, it says that he who
"useth divination" (consulting the signs of the Zodiac to tell
the future), "or is and observer of times" (which is an ancient
description for Augury or Astrology - again dealing with the Zodiac)
"is an abomination unto the Lord".
Again, we see a mirror
image of Biblical truth. The Priesthood power of Jesus is given to the
deceiver, Lucifer, the true god of Masonry, who hides behind its mystery,
ritual and allegory to snare his prey.
WASHED IN THEIR OWN BLOOD
In the
seventeenth degree, or Knights of the East and West, after the candidates
have completed the initiation and after revealing the password (Jubulum)
and the Sacred Word (Abaddon), "the Senior Warden conducts the
Candidate to the elevated vacant canopy at the right of the All
Puissant."
"This
is supposed to represent the end of the world when all good masons
receive their reward by being conducted to a throne at the right hand of
the All Puissant, having been purified by washing their robes in their
own blood."
In the
lecture which follows between the All Puissant and the Senior Warden, the
Book with Seven Seals - which none but one can open (Rev. 5:5) - is
twisted to represent "A Lodge or Council of Masons which the All
Puissant alone has the right to convene and open."
The Fourth
Seal is represented by a skull or "Death's Head" and Masons are
told it "is the image of a brother who is excluded from a Lodge or
Council." The Fifth Seal is represented by a "Cloth Stained
with Blood." The All Puissant identifies this as a symbol "that
we should not hesitate to spill ours for the good of masonry."
(Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated, The Complete Ritual, Vol. 1, Pages
453, 457, E. Cook Publishing, 1974)
What a gross
misrepresentation of God's Holy Word! First and foremost, it is Christ
and He alone who "hath prevailed to open the book and loose the
seven seals thereof." To presume that honor and power is to deny
Christ, or yet in deeper perversity, to replace his power and authority
with that of the All Puissant, even in the representation of the power to
save and to enthrone. This is the very spirit of the Antichrist.
Again, another clue to the
true identity of the Masonic deity is revealed in the "Sacred
Word" of this ritual,
"Abaddon." In
Revelation 9:11, we learn that "they [the demons and workers from
hell] had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit,
whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon".
BLOOD OATHS NOT OF CHRIST!
Throughout
the initiation rituals of the "BLUE LODGES" and through all 33
degrees of Freemasonry, the candidates are sworn to secrecy by bloody
oaths. Such as is the oath swore by the Entered Apprentice of first
degree, "...binding myself under no less penalty than that of having
my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and my body buried
in the rough sands of the sea, at low-water mark." The Master Mason
swears, "...under no less penalty than that of having my body
severed in two, my bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the
ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven..." (Duncan's Ritual
of Freemasonry by Malcolm Duncan, Third Edition, pages 36, 39, D. McKay
Publishing Co., N.Y., N.Y.)
RAISING THE DEAD
It is in
this final "Blue Lodge" degree that that candidate is laid out
"in death" and is raised from the dead by the "Worshipful
Master" of the Lodge (representing King Solomon), using the
"strong grip" (or "Lion's Paw") of the Master Mason.
Let no Mason deceive you!
We again face this replacement of our Savior by the power and authority
of Lucifer. Paul said that if anyone should preach any other gospel
"than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed." (Gal. 1:8, 9)
The simplicity of the
Gospel is this, "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye
stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I have
preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our
sins according to the scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He
rose again the third day according to the scriptures." (1 Cor.
15:1-5)
The infinite power of Jesus
was confirmed by Him when He said, "All power is given unto Me in
heaven and in earth." (Matt. 28:18) This power is His alone. "For if by one man's offense
death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus
Christ" (Romans 5:17)
Jesus was the One who rose
from the dead. Jesus is the only One with the power to rise from the
dead. Jesus is the only One who frees us from the sting of death.
How can a Mason who calls
himself Christian allow himself to partake of a ritual resurrection by
the power of Lucifer? This is Satanic because he stands, having been born
again and raised from the dead as a Master Mason, through the power of
the Masonic god, whom the God of Israel cast into the pit.
MASONIC OATHS ABOVE THE LAW
One the
"five points of fellowship," he and his "savior" pass
the sacred word, Mah-Hah-Bone.
Also,
while in this position, the new Master Mason solemnly vows "3d,
Breast to Breast: that you will ever keep in your breast a brother's
secrets, when communicated to you and received as such, murder and
treason excepted." (Duncan's Rituals, Revised and Complete, pages
35, 96, 120, 121, E. Cook Publications, 1974)
It should further be noted
that in the Royal Arch Degree, the candidate swears to protect the
"brethren, " "Murder and treason not excepted!" This
places the Masonic oath above that of our courts and our country. What
hope would you have against a Mason in a criminal or civil court with a
Judge who is a 32nd or 33rd degree Mason? None, by the nature of their
oaths.
PAGAN COMMUNION - EATING
THE DEAD
"QUESTION:
What is to us the chief symbol of man's ultimate redemption and
regeneration?
"ANSWER:
The fraternal supper, of bread which nourishes, and of wine which
refreshes and exhilarates, symbolically of the time which is to come,
when all mankind shall be one great harmonious brotherhood; and teaching
us these great lessons: that as matter changes ever, but no single atom
is annihilated, it is not rational to suppose that the far nobler soul
does not continue to exist beyond the grave: that many thousands who have
died might claim to be joint owners with ourselves of the particles that
compose our physical bodies; for matter ever forms new combinations; and
the bodes of the ancient dead, the patriarchs before and since the flood,
the kings and the common people of all ages, resolved into their
constituent elements, are carried upon the wind over all continents, and
continually enter into and form part of the habitations of new souls,
creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives
and all his race. And thus, in the bread we eat, and in the wind we drink
tonight may enter into and form of us part of us the identical particles
of matter that once formed parts of the material bodies called Moses,
Confucius, Plato, Socrates, or Jesus of Nazareth. In the truest sense, we
eat and drink the bodies of the dead; and cannot say that there is a
single atom of our blood or body, the ownership of which some other soul
might not dispute with us." (Page 539)
COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM
I exhort you who claim to
be a Mason and a Christian, "Come out from among them and be ye
separate, saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you." (2 Cor. 6:17)
"This is the stone
which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the
corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other
name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts
4:11-12)
"For there is One God
and One Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." (1 Tim.
2:5)
"According to the
grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have
laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take
heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay that
that is laid, with is Jesus Christ." (1 Cor. 3:10-11)
"Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name:
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
(Phil. 2:9-11)
"Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness
with
unrighteousness? and what
communion hat light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?" (2
Cor.6: 14, 15)
ONE OR THE OTHER
Even as Elijah called out
"Ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and thou has followed
Baal!" I cry out "How long halt you between two opinions? If
the Lord be God, follow Him. But if Baal, then follow him!" (1 Kings
18:18, 21)
I am sorry, but there is
not other choice. If you are a Mason who professes to be a Christian,
either renounce your Christian faith or renounce Masonry. One is from on
high and the other is from the pit! You cannot cling to both!
Dare you risk laying your
good works before the Lord on that last day only to be told, "I
never knew you, depart from me!" (Matt. 7:21-23)
Every Blue Lodge member who
happens to read this can no longer maintain his defense of ignorance.
Today, it stands revealed.
Today, you must make your choice. Every Mason, through the highest degree, has had the
mask of secrecy ripped away. You are without defense. Choose Jesus or
choose Lucifer. Renounce Jesus if you must, but do not stand in the
assembly of His saints and mock Him. Your unrepentant presence in the
congregation of a Christian body is a grieving of the Holy Spirit.
I pray that you will repent, and be set free from this
wicked power unto which you have submitted your very soul! If this is
your desire, remember that we have this promise, "If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)
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