Should a
Christian be a Mason
Come now, and let us
reason together, saith the LORD Isa 1:18
Cult:
A
religious organization that meets regularly, has altars, prays to a deity,
points
to another person other than Jesus Christ and/or
points
to another book other than the Bible.
A first
Word: Many years ago, I produced a TV program where
a Mason spoke about his membership in the freemasons. During the telecast, we received a number of
phone calls threatening his life. He
informed us, he knew it was possible to lose his life before he made the
decision to speak. It was part of the
Masonic oath.
Error rarely appears for what
it really is.
It is mingled with or
attached to truth so that it gains acceptance.
Masonic Encyclopedia
“Look
at its ancient landmarks, its sublime ceremonies, its profound symbols and
allegories – all inculcating religious observance, and teaching religious
truth, and who can deny that it is eminently a religious institution; and on this ground mainly, it not
alone, should the religious Masons defend it.” Albert Mackey – Masonic
Encyclopedia
“Every
Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instructional in religion” Royal Arch
degree
“I
consider Freemasonry is a sufficiently organized school of mysticism to be entitled to be called a religion…. It
teaches that each man can, by himself, work out his own conception of
God, and thereby achieve salvation.” It holds that there be many paths that lead to the throne of the all-living Father which
all start from a common source…. That though these paths appear to branch off
in various directions, yet that all
reach the same ultimate goal, and that to some men, one path is better and
to others, another”. J.S.M. Ward – Freemasonry: Its Aims and
Ideals p185
- The Masons are a
religious institution that meets regularly, have an altar, and refer to
their lodge as a temple. Some Lodges
claim they are not religious, but the majority does.
Mason: History
“The history of Masonry is the
history of Philosophy.” Morals and Dogma pg. 540
“Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever
learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth” Morals & Dogma pg 691
·
The
Bible says they are forever learning, but never coming to the acknowledgement
of Christ.
2 Tim 3:6-7 – Christ is the truth
7 always learning but
never able to acknowledge the truth. NIV
8 See to it that no one
takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends
on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ
NIV
Rom 12:2 – Don’t let your mind conform to error
2 Do not conform
any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will
is-his good, pleasing and perfect will. NIV
“The
principles of Freemasonry preceded the advent of Christianity. Its symbols and its legends are derived from
the Solomonic Temple and from the people anterior to that. Its
religion comes from the ancient priesthood; its faith was that primitive
one of Noah and his immediate
descendents”. (Enc. of Freemasonry)
IT GETS DEEPER AND DARKER
“Such
are the Noachic traditions of
Masonry, which though if considered as materials of history, would be worth but
little, yet have furnished valuable sources of symbolism and in that way
are full of wise instruction” – “After the death of Noah, his sons removed from
the region of Mount Ararat, where, until then, they had resided and “traveling
from the East found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there”. Here they commenced the building of a lofty tower.” Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
Noachica – Legend of the Craft – Noah – “The father and founder of the
Masonic system of theology”. Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
- Noah is credited with
being the father and founder of the Freemasons.
- The immediate descendents
of Noah was Nimrod, who built
the
- Nimrod was worshiped
as a god. When God confused their
language and scattered them, Nimrod was still worshipped as a god, but
with different names as the different language permitted. All of the
world’s false and pagan religions have their roots in
- The linage of Shem
gave us Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus Christ.
Gen 10:1 – Descendents of Noah – Ham – Cush
10:1 This is the account
of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons
after the flood. NIV
Gen 10:6
6 The sons of Ham: Cush Canaan . NIV
Gen 10:8-9
8 Cush
Gen 10:9-10 – Nimrod
builds Babylon
9… Nimrod;, a
mighty hunter before the LORD.
10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar
Gen 11:4 – He builds the
Tower of Babel
4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city,
with a tower that reaches to the
heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over
the face of the whole earth." NIV
Gen 11:9 – God scatters
the Baal worshipers
9 That is why it was called Babel
Masons: The mysteries
”Egypt
“The
Sun was termed by the Greeks the Eye of Jupiter, and the Eye of the World;
and his is the All-Seeing Eye in our
Lodges”. Morals &
Dogma pg 476-477
“Everything good in Nature comes from Osiris”
(Sun god)
Morals & Dogma Pg 476-477
- Osiris the sun god
was worshiped in
- Look for the “G” – To
“Generate” in the Masonic symbols.
- If you want to see
what the “All seeing eye” looks like, look on a dollar bill. See the eye; see the sun.
- Mason’s say
everything good comes from the sun god Osiris.
James 1:17 – Everything good comes from God
17 Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of
lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. KJV
Myth: the
Masonic Lodge is a Christian Organization
Masons: Temple
“If
Masonry were simply a Christian institution, the Jew and Moslem, the Brahman
and the Buddhist, could not conscientiously partake of its illumination;
but its universality is its boast. In
its language, citizens of every nation may converse; at its altars men
of all religions may kneel; to its creed, disciples of every faith
may subscribe” (p.439)
“… An
atmosphere in which we will never try to convert each other… we shall believe
in God, avoid criticizing each other, consider all human beings our sisters and
brothers, and march forward in a new comradeship of ideas.”
“Masonry
propagates no creed except its own most simple and Sublime One; that universal
religion, taught by Nature
and by Reason. Its Lodges are neither Jewish, Moslem, nor
Christian Temples
- Syncretism – The adoption of
portions of many belief systems.
- The Masonic Lodge
teaches that universally all men of all religions may come together and
kneel and worship their god side by side.
- The Bible teaches
that all men will come together, not to worship their individual God, but
to worship the one true God, The Ancient of Days and His son Jesus Christ.
- What fellowship do we
have with unbelievers? They are
wells without water. We are not to be yoked with them.
- The Masons have a
form of godliness, but deny the power of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:17-19 – Masonry is a well without water
17 These men are springs
without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved
for them.
18 For they mouth empty,
boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human
nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in
error.
19 They promise them
freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity-for a man is a slave
to whatever has mastered him. NIV
2 Tim 3:4-5 They
have a form of godliness
5 having a form of godliness, but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them. NIV
2 Cor 6:14 – Do not be yoked
together with unbelievers..
14 Do not be yoked
together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in
common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? NIV
Phil 2:9-11 – Every knee shall bow before Jesus Christ
9 Therefore God exalted
him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of
Jesus EVERY KNEE should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. NIV
Dan 7:13 -14 – Every people shall
worshiped the son of God.
13 "In my vision at
night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming
with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into
his presence.
14 He was given
authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of
every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that
will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. NIV
1 John 2:2 – Christ atoned for the sins of all the
nations.
2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for
ours but also for the sins of the whole world. NIV
Masons: Prayer
is universal
“Masonry, around whose altars
the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahman,
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
its initiates to look for the foundation of his faith and hope to the written
scriptures of his own religion.”
- Baalim refers to a false
god or idol; this places Christianity in that same category.
- The Christian is in
the presence of gods they have never known.
- The brotherhood of
all men is sacred. Never mind that
you are bending your knee to a pagan God.
- Your justifications
for your actions are an abomination in the sight of God
Deut 29:26 – They worshiped gods they didn’t even know
26 For they went and
served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and
whom he had not given unto them: KJV
Luke 16:15 – Your justifications
are an abomination.
15 And he said unto them,
You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your
hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the
sight of God. KJV
James 2:19 – Devils believe in
one God too.
19 You believe that
there is one God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble. KJV
Rom 10:9 – Confess only Jesus is God in the flesh
9 That if thou shall confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. KJV
Masons: What
is Truth?
“Toleration, holding that every other man
has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and
liberality, holding as no human being can with certainty say… what is
truth, or that he is surely in possession of it…”
“No man can say that he hath as sure
possession of the truth… When men entertain opinions diametrically opposed to
each other, and each is honest, who shall decide which hast the Truth: and can
either say with certainty that he hath it.
We know not what is truth”
“The cherished dogmas of each of us are
not, as we fondly suppose, the pure truth of God… Perfect truth is not
attainable anywhere.”
- Masonry says, there
is no absolute truth. It is of
no matter what you believe, if you are honestly sincere; then you have
truth.
- With this statement,
the Christian is introduced to doubt in his faith. How can he be sure?
- The Initiate is told
that if he wants truth, he must seek it only from Masonic brethren,
further searing his conscious, making him unable to discern a truth from a
lie. ( A half of truth, told as a whole
truth, is a lie)
- The Christian is
deceived and is perishing because he refused to love the truth that he
already possessed.
- You can
be sure,
Jesus it way the truth and the life, and no one come to God except through
Him.
1 Cor 15:33 – Beware, evil consultations
corrupts
33 Be not deceived: evil
communications corrupt good morals. KJV
John 1:4 – We can be sure in Jesus
4 In him was life; and the
life was the light of men. KJV
John 14:6 – We can be sure of the way
6 Jesus saith unto him, I
am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me. KJV
John 17:3 – There is only one true God
3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know
you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. NIV
Acts 4:12 – Salvation is found
only in Jesus – for sure
12 Salvation is found
in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by
which we must be saved." NIV
2 Thess 2:10 -11 – They perish
because they refuse the truth
10 and in every sort of
evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused
to love the truth and so be saved. NIV
Mason: Sons of Light
“Freemasons
are emphatically called the “sons of light” because that are, or at
least are entitled to be, in possession of the true meaning of the symbol;
while the profane or uninitiated who have not received the knowledge are, by a
parity of expression, said to be in
darkness. (Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)
- This is saying that when
you embrace the Masonic order, you are acknowledging that you were walking
in darkness and Jesus is not the light.
- Many sayings in the
Lodge sound similar to the Bible, however this is deception - You are slowly
but surely rejecting the Christian faith.
- Even Satan can
transform himself into an angel of light. – When you are already walking
in light, you are not looking for darkness, even Pastors, deacons and elders get duped
John 8:12 – We are not in
darkness
12 When
Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of
life." NIV
1 John 1:5 –
He has no darkness
5 This is
the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there
is no darkness at all. NIV
John 12:36 – We are already sons
of light
36 Put your
trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of
light." NIV
Matt 5:16 – You have light
16 In the
same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good
deeds and praise your Father in heaven NIV
2 Cor
11:14-15 – Deception is a tool of Satan
14 And no
wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 It is not
surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their
end will be what their actions deserve. NIV
1 John 1:6-7
– We lie about Christ, walking in
darkness
6 If we say
that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not
the truth:
7 But, if we
walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. KJV
Gal 1:8 – This is hard to say, but the Mason is
condemned
8 But, even if
we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we
preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! NIV
Myth: They pray to the God
of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.
Masons: Who is God?
“God, Creator, Great Moral Governor, Grand
Warden of Heaven, Grand Architect, Great
Architect of the Universe, Supreme Architect, Supreme Being, Grand Warden of
Heaven, Legislator, Absolute Legislator”
- These are just some
of the generic and vague words that are allowed to be used to
address God so as not to breed division among the members.
- G.A.O.T.U.
– GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE – This is the God the Masons worship.
- The avoidance of
words found in Christianity reduces it to just another one of the world’s
religions.
- Spoken terms like; Jesus
Christ, Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the I am that I am,
are forbidden and the members, as they are Oath Bound, are urged to report such violations.
Matt 12:30 – If you are not for God, you are against God
30 "He who is not
with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters NIV
1 John 2:3-4 – If you don’t obey God, you have no truth.
3 We know that we have
come to know him if we obey his commands. 4 The man who says, "I know
him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in
him. NIV
Rom 1:21 -23 – Their hearts
become darkened
21 For although they knew
God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their
thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed
to be wise, they became fools NIV
Masons: Nature is God
“It
is true that in one sense, we can have no actual knowledge of the Absolute
Itself, the very Deity. Hence the name
of the Deity, taught the ancient Mason, and teaches us, that the true
knowledge of God, of His nature and
His attributes, is written by Him upon the leaves of the great Book of Universal Nature. This knowledge of God, so written there, and
of which Masonry has in all ages been the interpreter, is the Master Mason’s
Word.”
- God is
Nature–
That would be the earth, vegetation, sun,
moon, stars and the universe.
- This is the same as
the Mystery Religions of old.
- These gave birth the
to the Pro-creative or reproductive powers of nature, known as the “Generative Principal” or the
“Creative Principal” on in layman’s terms; SEX.
- Notice the “G” in the Masonic Symbol. The
initiate is told that the “G”
is symbolic of “Geometry” and that of “God”. Its real meaning is; to “Generate” – to
reproduce. – to procreate.
Masons: Who
is Jesus?
“No one Mason has the right to measure for
another within the walls of a Masonic Temple
“Masonry reverences all the great
reformers. It sees Moses, the
Lawgiver of the Jews, in Confucius and Zoroaster, in Jesus of Nazareth
and in the Arabian iconoclast, Great Teachers of Morality, and Eminent
Reformers.” (Pg 525)
“None can deny that Christ taught a
lofty morality. If every man were a
perfect imitator of the Great, Wise, Good Teacher, Divine or human, inspired or
only a reforming Essene, it must be agreed that His teachings are far nobler…
than those of Socrates, Plato, Seneca, or Mohamet, or any other of the great
moralist and reformers of this world”
- The masons believe
that all the moralist were great.
You may believe in Jesus of Nazareth, Zoroaster or anyone else that
helps you along the way.
- Christ was no more
than just another reformer; a teacher of morality with noble teachings.
- No where in Masonry
is Jesus named as the son of God.
- The discussion of
Jesus Christ is forbidden within the Masonic temple. His person and work is thereby greatly
diminished. This is the spirit of
the antichrist.
- Derived from Hebrew,
the name Jesus is Jehoshua meaning
Jehovah is Salvation.
John 14:15 – Do you love me
15 "If you love
me, you will obey what I command. NIV
1 John 4:3 –The spirit of antichrist will not
acknowledge Jesus
3 but every spirit that
does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the
antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the
world. NIV
2 John 7 – They are deceivers.
7 Many deceivers, who
do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into
the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. NIV
1 John 2:23 – Deny the son, you deny
the father.
23 No one who denies the
Son has the Father; whoever
acknowledges the Son has
the Father also. NIV
Masons: Who is Hiram Abiff?
“The
murder of Hiram, his burial, and his being raised again by the Master,
are symbols, both of the death, burial, and resurrection of
the Redeemer, and of the death, and burial in sins of the natural man, and
his being raised again to a new life, or born again, by the direct
action of the redeemer. (Morals & Dogma pg 640)
“When a candidate has received the Third
Degree, he is said to have been “raised” to the sublime degree of a
Master Mason. The expression refers
materially, to a portion of the ceremony of initiation, but symbolically, to the resurrection, which it is the
object of the degree to exemplify.” Encyclopedia of Free
Masonry
- Hiram Abiff was the
master architect of King Salomon’s temple.
He was brought to
- The masons say Hiram
was murdered and raised from the dead while building the temple,
but the Bible says he finished his work.
The mason points to Hiram Abiff, the master builder instead of the master Jesus. ( Cult identifier)
1 Kings 7:13-14 – Hiram was a master craftsman
13 King Solomon sent to Tyre
14 whose mother was a widow from the tribe of
Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre
2 Chron 4:11 – He finished his work
11 So Huram finished the work he had
undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God NIV
Myth: They recognize
Jesus Christ as the Messiah
Masons: Who is The Messiah?
“It is not within the providence of
Masonry to determine how the ultimate triumph of Light and Truth and Good, over
Darkness and Error and Evil, is to be achieved; nor whether the Redeemer,
looked and longed for by all nations, hath appeared in Judea, or is yet to
come.”
“God is infinitely wise, just, and good…
at the appointed time, he will redeem and regenerate the world and the
Principle, the Power, and the existence of Evil will then cease; that this will
be brought about by such a means and instruments as He chooses to employ;
whether by the merits of a Redeemer that has already appeared, or a Messiah
that is yet awaited for, by an incarnation of Himself, or by an inspired
prophet, it does not belong to us as Masons to decide”
- The Masonic view is
open to all avenues of redemption.
The redeemer may have already come, and maybe he hasn’t. It’s not for the Masonic order to
decide.
- The Christian only
has one view of redemption, that of through the Son of God, Jesus
Christ. To be a Mason the Christian
must change his view.
John 14:6-7 – Jesus is the Messiah
6 Jesus answered, "I
am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. NIV
Masons: Salvation Ladder
‘The
ladder is a symbol of progress…. Its three principal rounds representing Faith,
Hope, and Charity, present us with the means of advancing from earth to
heaven, from death to life – From mortal to immortality. Hence, its foot is placed on the ground floor
of the Lodge, which is typical of the world, and its top rest on the covering
of the Lodge, which is symbolic of heaven”
- Masonry places a
ladder before you that by your works you can climb up to the heavens to save yourself. (Holy scriptures say that Jesus Christ came down to us and is the only
way.)
- The ladder symbolism
comes from the dream of Jacob seeing angles on a ladder.
Gen 28:12 – No mention of climbing to receive salvation
12 And he dreamed, and
behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to
heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. KJV
John 10:9 – Jesus is the entrance to heaven
9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me
will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. NIV
1 John 5:12 – He is the ONLY way
12 He who has the Son has
life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. NIV
Eph 2:8-9 – Not by works
8 For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-
9 not by works, so
that no one can boast. NIV
Masons: Symbols
“The Blue Degrees are but the outer court
of portico of the Temple
- Here it is put
straight forward that the Initiate will be deceived by the symbols he
sees, they have double or secondary meanings. – The “G” symbol is the Generate principal; It is not God
or Geometry.
- The
Square, Compass & point within a circle: I know what the initiate is told
concerning the meanings of these symbols; but they are deceptions. The actual meanings would cause you to
blush, and I am embarrassed to pen the actual meaning. It is vulgar, reprehensible, and
pornographic.
- These
objects bring sickness into your home.
- Under secrecy, little
by little, under the sanctions of oaths the mysteries and secrets are
revealed.
Myth: The Bible is read from the altar.
Masons: The Bible
“The
Bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of the Christian
Lodge, only because it is the sacred book of the Christian religion. The Hebrew Pentateuch in a Hebrew
Lodge, and the Koran in a Mohammedan one, before on the Altar; and one
of these, and the Square and the Compass, properly understood, are the
Great Lights by which a Mason must walk and work. The obligation of the candidate is always
taken on the sacred book or books of his religion, that he may deem it more
solemn and binding.” (M&D pg11)
- The Bible, while on
the altar of a Christian Lodge, is never read from, and is only used to
make the oaths more binding on the initiate. So your faith determines which book you
place your hand on.
- Modified excerpts
from the Bible are utilized, but the name of Jesus Christ is omitted. These changes are addressed as -
“slight, but necessary modifications” - Most Christians do not even
notice.
- The Bible is only
present, not because of Truth, but that of symbolism.
Masons: The Kabalah
“Masonry
is a search after light; that search leads us directly back to the Kabalah”. –
“The Kabalistic doctrine…like Freemasonry…. Incessantly tends towards spiritual perfection” – “The source of
our knowledge of the Kabalistic
doctrine are the books of Jesirah
and Sohar.”
“All
truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the
religious dreams of all 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” (Morals
& Dogmas pg 744)
“The
teachers, even of Christianity, are in general the most ignorant of the true
meaning of which they teach. There is
no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is incomprehensible
as the Sohar.” Morals and
Dogma pg 105
- The masons believe that every letter
in the Kabalah contains mysteries that can only be solved by the initiated;
the mason. It unlocks and decodes
the symbols, formulas; secrete rites, magical words and mysteries of the
Christian Bible.
- This appeals to man. To have secrets, knowledge and powers that
others do not. Sounds demonic to me.
- The Christian is not on a path of a
mystical search of the laws of God.
Christ has already come and fulfilled the Law.
The mason points to another
book other than the Bible; the Kabalah. (Cult identifier)
Deut 18:10-11 – God says, Don’t do it.
10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices
his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets
omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist
or who consults the dead NIV
Matt 5:17 – Jesus fulfilled the law
17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish
the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. NIV
KABALAH
RABBIT TRAIL
More than you want to know
”…a
system by which Hebrew words converted into numbers and then into other words
or the same numbers – and the names of powers, the secret names of
angels and demons of each sphere which can be used in magical
conjuration. Names, like symbols,
are believed to possess magical properties.” Colin Wilson
-The Occult
“Thus
the words of several verses in the scripture which are regarded as containing
an occult sense, are placed over each other, and the letters are formed into
new words by reading them vertically; or the words of the text are arranged in
squares in such a manner as to be read vertically or otherwise”.
“Words
are joined together and re-divided, and the initial and final letters of
certain words are formed into separate words.
Again every letter of the word is reduced to its numerical value, and
the word is explained by another of the same quantity”.
“These
permutations and combinations are much older than the Kabala, and obtained
amongst Jewish occultist from time immemorial” - Excerpt
from Lewis Spencer, An Encyclopedia of Occultism
Masons: Oath
“The
first duty of every Mason is to obey the mandate of the master (of the Lodge), The Masonic rule of obedience is like the
nautical imperative; “Obey orders, even if you break owners”.
- The owner of the
believer is Jesus. The Masons
imperative is a higher call than that of Jesus. - Jesus did nothing in secret.
Matt 5:34 -37 – Do not take an
oath it is from Satan
34 But I
tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne;
35 or by the
earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem
36 And do
not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.
37 Simply
let your `Yes' be `Yes,' and your `No,' `No'; anything beyond this comes
from the evil one. NIV
John 18:20 – I have said nothing
in secret.
20 "I
have spoken openly to the world," Jesus replied. "I always taught
in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said
nothing in secret. NIV
Mason: Apprentice
Degree
“I promise and swear that I will not write,
print, stamp, stain, hew, cut, carve, indent, paint, or engrave it on any
thing movable or immovable, under the whole canopy of heaven, whereby or
whereon the least letter, figure, character, mark, stain, shadow, or
resemblance of the same may become legible or intelligible of my self or
any other persons in the known world, whereby the secrets of masonry may
be unlawfully obtained through my unworthiness.”…”binding myself…. to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the
sea at low water-mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four
house, so help me God….”
Mason: Second Degree
“… Binding myself under no less penalty
that to have my breast torn open and
my heart and vitals taken from
thence and thrown over my left shoulder and carried into the valley of
Jehosaphat, there to become a prey to the wild beast of the field, and vulture
of the air, if ever I should prove willfully guilty of violating any part of
this solemn oath….”
Mason: Master Mason
Degree
“… Binding myself under no less penalty
than to have my body severed in two
in the midst, and divided to the north and south, my bowels burnt to ashes in the center, and the ashes scattered before
the four winds of heaven…”
“Upon entering the Order, the initiate
binds to himself every Mason in the world.”
(M & D pg 726)
- Well let’s see now. –
Throat cut, tongue torn out, breast
torn open, heart and vitals taken out, body sawed in half, buried in the
rough sands…. - Anybody up for that?
- If your son is a
Mason and tells its secrets, you are oath bound to kill him. Your oath has bound you to every Mason
in the world and their God. Good Grief
- Bet they don’t tell
you that at the first meeting with cookies and punch.
- You are swearing by
God’s name in vain, and God will hold you responsible for your vow.
James 5:12 – Do not swear
12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear-not by heaven or by
earth or by anything else. Let your "Yes" be yes, and your
"No," no, or you will be condemned. NIV
Ex 20:7 – Don’t use
God’s name in vain
7 You shall not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain KJV
Masons: God’s lost name
- The “Royal Arch”
degree lists the lost name of god as JAH-BUL-ON and the Mason must never reveal this name. J.B.O.
- J – Jehovah
Hebrew; B – Baal Babylonian,
O –Osiris Egyptian
- This statement places
Jehovah on the same level as Baal, Osiris and all other pagan gods. It implies that all worship the same god
with just different names. This is
cross pollination of the religions.
- Jehovah
is -
The I AM THAT I AM.
Ex 3:14 – God’s name is I AM
that IAM
14 And God said unto Moses,
I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel
Ex 6:3 – Jehovah – The God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob
3 And I appeared unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my
name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. KJV
Ps 83:18 – Jehovah – the most high
18 That men may know that
thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. KJV
Mason: Eastern Star
- A sort of adoptive
masonry for Women who are relatives of Masons..
- They submit
themselves to the God of the Masonic Order
- Their symbol is the
inverted five pointed star, the same one used in Satanism known as
Baphomet, a goat headed god, a demonic deity. – The satanic goat of Mendez
is the “God of Lust”.
- Job’s
Daughters
– Rainbow Girls – Daughters of the Nile – For the
daughters of masons
Mason: De Molay
·
A
Masonic order for boys 14 to 21 years of age prior to becoming a Mason.
·
Interestingly
– Knights Templar, Sir Knight Jock Du
Molay was burned at the stake for heresy. 3/14/1314
Mason: Good Works
“There
is perennial nobleness and even sacredness
in work. Be he never so benighted
and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man who actually
and earnestly works: In idleness alone
is there perpetual despair.” Man perfects himself by working.” Morals & Dogma pg 341
“This
Mason was true to all our teachings, and the apron he now wears in the casket
represents that purity of life and conduct by which he will now gain admission into the Celestial Lodge above.” (Masonic funeral quote)
·
The
Masons do good works everywhere, hospitals and clinics, and the best known is
the Shriner’s Hospital for children.
·
Works
do not save you - you do good works because you are saved.
·
God
will say, get away from me you evil person, I don’t even know you.
Titus 3:4-5
– We are not saved by works
5 he saved us, not because of righteous
things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the
washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, NIV
Matt 7:21-23
– Jesus will say – I never knew you.
21 "Not
everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 Many will
say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in
your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
23 Then I
will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
NIV
Eph 2:8-10 –
We are created to do good works.
8 For it is
by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God-
9 not by
works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we
are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
God prepared in advance for us to do. NIV
SHRINERS
A.A.O.N.M.S. Ancient
Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Probably the thing most people think of when thinking of
a Shriner is his peculiar red hat, the
fez. It is always red. In Turkey Morocco, Egypt
The explanation for the red color appears to have its origins
in blood... literally in blood. The
tradition is that when the Christian
city of Fez Morocco
As many as 50,000 Christians, men, women, and
children, were put to the sword that dark day in history and blood literally
fan in the streets. The Moslem conquerors, celebrating the
slaughter, dipped their woolen caps in the blood, turning them red, and wore
them as a symbol of their victory.
This apparently, is the origin of both the name “fez” and the color “red” of the cap. If this is so (and apparently is), every
Shriner who puts on his red fez and
wears it is commemorating (although he probably doesn’t know it) the slaughter
of tens of thousands of Christians when the Christian city of Fez
In case you don’t know it, the Shrine is the Islamic
expression of the Masonic system. Every
Shriner takes his oath or obligation (a bloody, terrible death oath) kneeling
before an Islamic altar on which is the Koran (not the Bible). He seals his oath by calling upon “Allah, the
God of the Arab, God of Mohammed and the God of my fathers”, and confesses in
the ritual that “he who follows Islam follows truth” Excerpt from The Masonic
Christian Conflict by Keith Harris
Jude 4 – Ungodly men crept in from old – denying God
4 For there
are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God
into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
Christ. NIV
2 Peter 2:2
– Secret destructive heresies – Shameful
ways
2:1 But
there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false
teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies,
even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them-bringing swift destruction
on themselves.
2 Many will
follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into
disrepute. NIV
Matt 7:15 -20 – Watch out for
evil in sheep’s clothes.
15 "Watch
out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their
fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs
from thistles?
17 Likewise
every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good
tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 Every
tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Thus, by
their fruit you will recognize them. NIV
Mason: George Washington
- George Washington
evidently was a Mason at one time, but the last 30 years of his life he
was a non-affiliated Mason.
- The Masons say he presided
over the English Lodges. George
Washington sent a letter correcting this error. It said, “The fact is, I preside over
none. Nor have I been in one more
than once or twice within the last thirty years.”
Masonry is the only cult
that has infiltrated the Church.
SUMMARY
- Freemasonry has all
the ear marks of the NEW AGE
MOVEMENT.
- History of Masonry is
that of Philosophy, it is derived from the mystery religions of old.
- Masonry is the
ancient worship of Baal, with just modern new titles.
- They have spin off
organizations like the Eastern Star for women and the Demolay for teenage
boys.
- They state they are a
universal religious organization that is open to all beliefs
- Christianity is
reduced to just one of the many accepted religions
- What ever you
honestly believe – Is truth.
- They have secret
oaths and secret rites. – (The
ministry of Christ was public and open.)
- The Masons point to a
different person other than Jesus (Hiram Abiff) and point to
books other than the Bible (The Kabalah). - By definition;
the Masons are a cult.
- Their symbols, by
their own admission are presented to mislead the initiate.
- Nature
is God
- They pray to G.A.O.T.U. Great
Architect of the Universe who is the highest God. (Higher than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
- The God of the
Christian is reduced to just another of the false gods.
- The Bible may be
placed on the altar in a “Christian” Lodge, but can not be read from –
ever
- Modified passages are
used in ceremonies with the name of Jesus Christ stricken out.
- Prayer is encouraged,
but the name of Jesus Christ can not be uttered
- Jesus Christ was a
noble reformer and no more.
- The Messiah may or
may not have already come – It’s not for the Mason to decide.
- Climbing the Masonic Ladder
of “good works” gains you salvation
Should you be a Mason – What did God say?
“Surely if Masons really understood what
Masonry is, as it is delineated in these books, no Christian Mason would think
himself at liberty to remain another day a member of the fraternity. It is as plain as possible that a man knowing
what it is, and embracing it in his heart, cannot be a Christian man. To say he can is to belie the very nature of
Christianity.” Charles Finney 1830’s Evangelist, renounced Mason – freemasonry p 115
“I do not see how any Christian, most of
all a Christian minister, can go into these secret lodges with
unbelievers. They say they can have more
influences for good; but I say they can have more influence for good by staying
out of them, and then reproving their evil deeds.
“Abraham had more influence for good in Sodom Lot had. If twenty five Christians go into a secret
lodge with fifty who are not Christians, the fifty can vote anything they
please, and the twenty-five will be partakers of their sins. They are unequally yoked together with
unbelievers”. - Dwight L. Moody – Moody Church Chicago
Accept
all or none
The Book – The Holy
Bible
The Man – Jesus the Christ
The Plan – Gift of Salvation
2 Cor 6:17 -18 – Come out, be separate
17 "Therefore come
out from them and be separate, says the Lord. … and I will receive
you."
18 "I will be a
Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord
Almighty." NIV
Matt 12:37 – You condemn yourself by your own words.
37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by
your words you will be condemned." NIV
John 4:23 – A time is coming
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for
they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. NIV
Matt 18:16-17 - Bible, Jesus, - Two witnesses
16 But if he will not
listen, take one or two others along, so that `every matter may be established
by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' NIV
2 Cor 13:1 – Old and New Testament – Two witnesses
13:1 …In the mouth of two
or three witnesses shall every word be established KJV
In the multitude of counselors,
there is wisdom.
Prov 11:14
I am grateful for those
that went before me providing
concepts, ideas,
historical information and scripture verses.
A commentary; Jamieson, Fausset, Brown – Eerdmans
Baker Commentary on the Bible – Zondervan
Bible Almanac, The – Packer Tenny White.
Curse of Baphomet; The – Jack T. Chick- www.chick.com *
Dake’s annotated Reference Bible – Dake
Dictionary of Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements – S.
Burgess
Encyclopedia of Free Masonry- Albert G. Mackey *
Expositor’s Bible Commentary – Frank E. Gaebelein
Freemasonry: Morals and Dogma – Albert Pike *
Freemasonry: The Invisible cult – Jack Harris *
Great Doctrines of the Bible – W.A. Criswell
Illustrated Bible Dictionary – Nelsons
Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale
International Dictionary of the Bible; The – Tenney
King James Version Bible
Masonic Christian Conflict explained – Keith Harris *
Matthew Henry’s Commentary – Zondervan
Nave’s Topical Bible - Nave
New International Version Bible
Should a Christian be a Mason – E. M. Storms *
Theomatics – Jerry
Lucas
Today’s Dictionary of the Bible – Guideposts
Victor Journey through the Bible, The – V. Gilbert Beers
Vincent’s Word Studies – Mac Donald
Wycliff Bible Commentary; The – Moody Press
Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia; The - Zondervan
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