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As WE DEAL WITH FREEMASONRY and the Masonic Lodge, we know that this is a subject that comes close to home for many of you. Many of you have loved ones who are in the Masonic Lodge. A lot of men who get involved with Freemasonry do not fully understand what they are getting entangled with. The more we studied Masonry, the more we realized the depth of its satanic hold over those within its "strong Grip." Within the pages of the hundreds of Masonic books and secret ritual manuals we have gathered and read in our research is a tragic story of godly men who have succumbed to the snare of the enemy. They have brought the darkest side of Baal worship into their homes and congregations. Most Masons get involved with the Lodge out of peer pressure: Their friends are in it or their grandfather was in it. Some go into it for business reasons: They see it as a way to progress in their business and social lives. Others are attracted by the secret, mystic rituals and symbolism of Freemasonry. Others see people like the Shriners parading around in the red fezzes, riding their funny cars in parades when the Shrine circus comes to town. How About the Shriners? Yes, we are saying just that. This is clearly the case with the Shriners. Their public image is that of a fun-time group pouring out millions of dollars into charity, all the while dressed up in a party spirit, wearing their red fezzes with great aplomb. The fez itself is an example of the double meaning behind most of Freemasonry's facade. Worn by every Shriner and even carried to the grave with pompous dignity, the history of the fez is both barbaric and anti-Christian. In the early eighth century, Muslim hordes overran the Moroccan city of Fez, shouting, "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." There they butchered the Christian community. These men, women, and children were slain because of their faith in Christ, all in the name of Allah, the same demon god to whom every Shriner must bow in worship, with hands tied behind his back, proclaiming him the god of his fathers in the Shrine initiation, at the Altar of Obligation. In usual occult fashion, the initiate swears that he will be inseparably obligated to this "most powerful and binding oath" in advance, and that he may never retract it or depart from it. The Shriners' blood oath and confession of Allah as God is documented in the secret Lodge document The Mystic Shrine: An Illustrated Ritual of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Shrine, 1975 edition (pages 20-22). Remember that Allah is not just another name for God. Allah is the name of another god. During the butchering of the people of Fez, the streets literally ran red with the blood of the martyred Christians. The Muslim murderers dipped their caps in the blood of their victims as a testimony to Allah. These bloodstained caps eventually were called fezzes and became a badge of honor for those who killed a Christian. The Shriners wear that same red fez today, with the Islamic sword and crescent encrusted with jewels on the front. The greatest tragedy is that the fez is often worn by men who profess to be Christians themselves. It must cause God to weep that any Christian man would wear such a blasphemous thing, even in ignorance! We are going to discover that all those good works are simply an outer shell of an inner darkness. We are going to peel away all the outer wrapping. We will expose very clearly what Freemasonry is, and why no Christian has any business being a part of the Masonic Lodge. There are over six million Masons worldwide today. There are about 33,700 lodges, the meeting places for the Masons. In the United States we have approximately four million members and 15,300 lodges. Again, most Masons get into Freemasonry for business or social reasons, while others see it as a philanthropic organization of good works, or as a fraternal organization and a brotherhood. Many go into it out of pride, in the belief that through their good works they can save themselves. The Ritual Journey After going through the three degrees of The Blue Lodge, the Mason has the choice to stay in The Blue Lodge or to seek the advanced degrees through either the Scottish Rite or the York Rite. Many Masons will go through both. Within the Scottish Rite there are the fourth through the thirty- second degrees, plus the thirty-third honorary degree. The York Rite has thirteen degrees. Once the Mason has attained the thirty-second degree, through either higher arm of the craft, he has the option of petitioning to join the Shriners. Many people think that Masons and Shriners are one and the same, but actually the Shrine is a separate body of the craft. Shriners are Masons who have achieved the highest degrees of The Blue Lodge, and Scottish or York Rites Masonry, who enter into what is known as "The Ancient and Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine." Every step of Masonry has its ritual initiation, the mildest being at The Blue Lodge level. Even this is bizarre, to say the least. In order to join the Lodge, each Mason must first be initiated through an initiation ceremony which is similar throughout the world. The typical ceremony begins with the initiate being first divested of his jacket and his tie and any money or metal articles he has. His left trouser leg is then rolled up over the knee, his shirt is opened to expose his left breast, and his right shoe is removed and replaced by a slipper. Then the person who is to be initiated will have a blindfold put on him and a noose put around his neck. This is called a "Cable Tow." The blindfolded initiate (they call this being "hoodwinked") is brought, with the noose around his neck, to the outer door of the Lodge. The candidate thus attired is said to be in darkness, an allegory of Masonry that signifies that everyone outside of Masonry is in darkness and that only Masons have the true knowledge that will bring light to the world. The new Mason is brought to the outer door seeking the light of the Lodge, and there the Doorkeeper, or Tiler, will put a sword or a sharp point to his breast and lead him into the lodge room, where an altar sits in its center. The lodge members await the candidate in the darkness that surrounds the altar, which is lit from a single light above. Behind the altar stands a man called "The Worshipful Master." He is the master of the Lodge and presides over the initiation. When the initiate is brought before him, he bows before "The Worshipful Master" and says something like this: "I am lost in darkness, and I am seeking the light of Freemasonry." He is then told he is entering into a secret organization and that he must keep the secrets he is going to be taught. At this time he is required to take a blood initiation oath. Every Mason who joins the Lodge takes his thumb or his hand to his throat and repeats an oath that has been repeated by every Mason who has joined the Lodge. In the Entered Apprentice or first level of The Blue Lodge, this includes the following words: Binding myself under no less a penalty than having my Binding myself under no less a penalty than that of having Binding myself under no less a penalty than that of having The Message of the Bible The Bible brings us a very different message about light and darkness, one that brings with it the hope of joy: We write this to make our joy complete. This is the message How can a Christian Mason say he is lost in darkness and seek to join the Lodge because he needs the light of Freemasonry? The Bible says if you are a Christian and say you are in darkness, you are living a lie, and the truth is not in you. If Christ lives in your life, you have The Light. The second thing the Christian Mason must ask himself is this: "If I am going to join the Lodge, how can I come before a man called The Worshipful Master and bow before him in a religious ceremony and say I am lost in darkness?" Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24). Jesus said that we cannot serve two masters. We can't claim to be a follower of Christ and then bow before a man we accept as our Worshipful Master any more than we can bow before a Buddha. The money that Christ warned us about fits right into the Lodge. What is it if not the prestige, wealth, power, and position among men promised by Lodge membership? The third thing we must ask is how a Christian can take a pagan blood oath. How can a man who says he is a follower of Jesus Christ swear to have his throat cut from ear to ear and his bowels ripped open and given to the beasts in the field as a penalty for breaking such an ungodly oath? Most Masons respond by saying that these oaths are just some kind of spooky college-fraternity-type stuff that means little or nothing. But in the fifth chapter of the book of James we are warned: Above all. my brothers, do not swear—not by heaven or by God's Word says that the penalty for taking Masonic oaths is condemnation. God isn't amused by this. He absolutely forbids taking these pagan blood oaths of Masonry. But what is it that must be kept so secret? Why is it that Masons are required to take these pagan blood oaths of secrecy not to reveal the secrets of Masonry even before they are told what they are supposed to keep secret? Why must these men bow down while still in ignorance of the secrets to which they are being bound? Why would a man who would never buy a car or a home or enter into a business agreement without first studying all the terms kneel blindfolded in a Lodge room with a noose around his neck and swear obedience to things he has no understanding of? Roland Blackmore, a Masonic scholar, states. "It is a lamentable fact that the mass of our membership are ignorant of everything connected with Freemasonry." Steinmetz. another Masonic scholar writes: Most of the truly great Masonic writers have deplored the As Masons go through the steps of the Lodge, they experience a series of rituals with symbolism and allegories that represent a very specific religious worldview and philosophy Many Masons are ignorant of what this is. They become puzzled when asked to define the goal of Freemasonry. Most will say something about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, or about making good men better. The Builders Newton goes on to say: Why does Masonry seek to change the world? Because The goal of Masonry, according to its leading authorities, is to do away with religions and their creeds and doctrines, and to establish a one-world, universal religion free from the confining dogma of such narrow scope as is found in Christianity. We need to remember that Masonry only requires its members to have a belief in any god. The identity is not important. This is a key element in the puzzle of Freemasonry. The Mason will be zealous in seeking first the lost name of that god or deity and then in accepting the Masonic god as the one, true god over all. When we reveal his name, you will see why it is hidden from the initiates. Morals and Dogma Albert Pike was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Supreme Council, A.A.. Scottish Rite, for 32 years. He wrote Morals and Dogma as the supreme authority of Masonic doctrine. In fact, the current Sovereign Grand Commander, C. Fred Kleinknecht, says. "Pike's great book, Morals and Dogma, is the most complete exposition of Masonic philosophy there is." We will quote from some of Albert Pike's teachings in Morals and Dogma, to give you some insight on what is really lurking behind those Lodge doors. Page numbers will be from that book unless otherwise noted. The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part 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 that he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry... It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees (page 819). The problem is that Masonry fits every category of what a religion is, according to every definition of religion. In fact, Albert Pike says, "Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion, and its teachings are instruction in religion" (page 213). Masonry is the legitimate successor from the earliest times Pike says that Masonry is: the universal, eternal, immutable religion, such as God Masonry is a natural religion without the need of revelation; everything in nature is part of God and part of the infinite thought of God. Creation becomes God itself. It is very interesting to note what Paul said about this in the book of Romans: Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as Albert Pike did not say things he didn't mean. His writings are corpulent with evidences of the true nature of Freemasonry. We belong to no one creed or school. In all religions, there The first Masonic teacher was Buddha (page 277). Masonry claims to be the center of the one universal religion. As Newton says in his book The Builders, Masons are seeking to promote a universal religion in which all creeds and doctrines would be done away with, where individual faith will cease and people will join together in a universal religion of an ubiquitous brotherhood of good works. Masons say that religion is the experience of relating to God, and that Masonry is the experience of relating to mankind. While separate, they can and do naturally coexist. Now let us look at a few of the Lodge's basic principles in the light of biblical truth. No Other Gods This is the first and primary commandment. All the other commandments find their reason in it. God put it at the top of the list for a reason: If you have a faulty view of God, your whole spiritualperspective is skewed by that error. Listen to God: This is what the LORD says—Israel's King and Redeemer, If your view of God is anything but that which God Himself has declared above, your view is not Christian orthodoxy. If your view of Christ is not that which is biblically based, your view of Christ is filled with danger. Let us see what the Masonic fraternity has to say about the nature of God. Bowing at Every Altar The Bible Says Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other That is pretty straightforward. The question that has to be asked of the Mason here is simply, "Are you a Christian who confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord?" Is your answer, like that of many Masons, "Yes"? Then our response to the Christian Mason is simply, "Why won't you do what Jesus clearly told you to do?" The Bible Says Note that Jesus clearly describes the Masonic oaths and clearly states that these come from the evil one—not from fun, not from some kind of macho male bonding, not from some fraternity-type of initiation, but from the devil. Jesus Himself said the previous quote to those who believed on Him. Surely it would be a foolish man who would defy the Lord in such a serious matter! Bound by Blood Oaths
The Bible Says There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or Trusting the Bible
The Judgment of the Damned Each candidate, upon completion of the initiation, is given a white lambskin apron who’s pure and spotless surface, he is told, would be— an ever-present reminder of purity of life and rectitude of While the words sound noble, it is actually to the pit of hell that the candidate has been assigned in the subtle words of the message. The promise is that the apron represents the works of the flesh when the Mason stands before God at the Great White Throne judgment. But there is only one Great White Throne judgment in the Bible, and it is found in Revelation 20:11-15. It is the judgment of the lost, who will be judged not by the gift of God through Christ but by their own works, with an end in the lake of fire. What a tragedy! The King of the Pit of Hell they [the demons and workers from hell] had as king over Again we must ask, "How could any true Christian dare to take upon himself that evil name as a sacred word?" The Word Is Out It is here that the secret name of the deity of Masonry is revealed. That name is "Jahbulon." "Jah" is the short form of the Hebrew name of God, "Yah-weh" or "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: We three do meet and agree—in peace, love and unity— No Royal Arch Mason can pronounce the sacred name by himself. What is represented as the god of Masonry is a three-headed monster so remote from the Christian Trinity and so blasphemous as to damn the soul of anyone who would dare to pronounce its name in a ritual of worship.
Come Out from Among Them One or the Other To the Mason reading this chapter, dare you risk laying your Masonic works before the Lord on that last day, covered by an apron of your own works, only to be told, "I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!" (Matthew 7:23)? We pray that you will choose Jesus and be set free from this wicked power unto whom you have submitted your own soul as well as the spiritual headship of your home (and church, if you are a leader in the congregation). Remember this promise: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive If you are a Mason and are ready to get your life on track with Father in heaven, in the name of the Lord Jesus I confess In His Loving Name, Ben
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