What's Wrong With The Masonic Lodge?

[rwbovee]

A lot of modern ministers think there's nothing wrong with the Masonic Lodge. Billy Graham repeatedly had divorced and remarried lodge member Johnny Cash perform at his crusades, for example. But Masons are modern day Baal worshippers. When wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel ran Israel they turned the country over to the Baal worshippers. But righteous Elijah took on the prophets of Baal. Elijah said "Let the God who answers by fire be God." Baal couldn't burn up the offering made by his followers, but Elijah first poured water all over his sacrifice and then God still burned it up with fire. I think this is for us today. The real Christians need to pray for the Holy Spirit, because both water and fire are types of the Holy Spirit. The rains had stopped in Israel for three and a half years, but Elijah prayed fervently for the rains to fall again, another type of the Holy Spirit, and the rains fell. That's what we need to do. Rains bring growth and fruit to the farmer. We need to pray for the rains to fall and the harvest to be made ready so Jesus can come back again. See http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5022/5022_01.asp

 

[Rick W]

I used to be a mason but drifted away from it. I didn't pay my dues in '86.
I wasn't a Christian then so the rituals I went through were something I viewed as only something to be done to get or stay in.
The first one though was weird. I was blindfolded and led around the floor a time or two then stopped. Someone said something about Hiram getting hit in the head with a hammer killing him. Another fellow put something sharp against my arm asking what it was "liken unto". I was prompted to say, "A prick". Anyway, while I'm standing there listening to all this someone squatted down on all fours behind me. Then the fellow speaking put something against my head and pushed. Needless to say I fell backwards but was aided by two fellows, one on each side, into laying down. I was covered with a sheet, someone said some more things, took the sheet away and I was "resurrected".

All I knew for the next few years was that those who belonged helped other "brothers". Some of those other brothers had businesses so ... And of course there were other things they did to "help each other".
That's about all I got out of it. The religious stuff just went in one ear and out the other since I could care less about religion back then.

 

[JudaicChristian]

I would say that most Christians are not aware that many congregations are under the control of the Masons. And then there is the Catholic Church and its secret societies.

 

[prough91]

I don't understand the reference to Billy Graham. Please explain.

 

[Geo]

There are several books that are recommended reading, one of them is:

"Billy Graham and His Friends: A Hidden Agenda?"

by Dr. Cathy Burns, an expert on Freemasonry and other branches of occult secret societies.
published by Christian Media

there are also christian discernment ministries that have websites that can help to research the connection. It's about the deception in the church, and when you understand the work of Billy Graham you will understand already a lot about that subject.

 

[veteran]

What this is really, really about, is the "crept in unawares" among God's people.

Jude 1:4
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.
(KJV)

Of course I'm not talking about all peoples that join one of the mystical fraternities. The "crept in unawares" idea is about a group of people on this earth that were 'ordained' to serve the devil and be against Christ. The start up of such societies is what points back to the "crept in unawares", the "tares" in the parable of wheat and tares of the field our Lord Jesus gave in Matthew 13.

Per that parable, the tares represent false wheat, as there actually is a weed (tare) that grows within real wheat that cannot be discerned until it is fully grown. When fully grown it exhibits a dark bud that shows it's a tare, so it can be separated. In that parable we are shown not to go tare hunting, because we might make a mistake and go after the good wheat instead. When Christ comes, His angels will do the separating. The 'tares' purpose is to work the negative side of God's Plan for this present world. They exist as a trap for those who fall away from Christ and are rebellious against Him.

This battle has been going on since Cain murdered his brother Abel. It's about the emnity of Gen.3:15 between Satan's servants and the Seed of the woman (God's people). When God told Israel to literally destroy certain nations in the land of Canaan, it was because of their doing gross abominations in following the servants of the devil, and because of the Rephaim (giants). Israel failed in that commanded duty to destroy them all. So God said He would leave those remnants of the Canaanites to dwell among Israel, to test His people to see if they would follow Him or not (Judges 2 & 3).

In Joshua's day, (Joshua 9), a group of Canaanites hid themselves as foreigners coming from a far away land, for fear of Israel destroying the nations of Canaan. They made a pact with Joshua, and then one of Joshua's fellows discovered they were actually Canaanites. So Joshua made them cutters of wood and drawers of water, bondservants to Israel.

In 1 Kings 9 around verse 20, those Canaanites are mentioned again as bondservants. These evidently became servants in the temple (Nethinims- given to service). And eventually they worked their way up as priests and scribes (see Books of Ezra and Nehemiah about the priests and Nethinims; the Kenite scribes of Hemath per 1 Chronicles 2:55).


Hiram was king of Tyre and a worshipper of Baal. He sents cedar, carpenters, and MASONS to build David's house...

2 Sam 5:11
11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
(KJV)

Hiram sent servants from Tyre to Solomon to build the first temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 5 forward). So begins the legends of Masonry's origins with Solomon's temple. The Masons continued with legends of the brotherhood originally beginning as a type of guild, a society of builders that worked in building structures like cathedrals in old Europe. At some time later, Masonry became 'speculative' with a mystical element from occultists creeping in (this info per British Mason John Robison in his work Proofs Of A Conspiracy written in 1798).

What does all this point to? It points to a group of people put on this earth to serve in the devil's attempt to build his 'own' copy of God's Kingdom. This is why the connection with Canaanites that arose to positions as priests in the temple, and pagan workers of Tyre that helped build Solomon's temple, and also Canaanites later assuming scribe duties as copyists, editors, and interpreters of God's Word that would cause a set of traditions and sage philosophy which came out of Judah's Babylon captivity.

Matt 23:1-2
1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to His disciples,
2 Saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:"
(KJV)

In the future time of the Milennium temple, our LORD said this...

Zech 14:20-21
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.(KJV)

The idea is, there will be no more pagan "crept in unawares" within God's House in that time. It's not about someone of the nations that converts to Christ truly in their heart. It's about those who were ordained to be against Christ per Jude 1. Those are different, for those will claim anything in order to creep in for their real purpose to destroy God's people, 'spots in your feasts of charity'. When Adam Weishaupt bragged in his letter that his Illuminati degree on Christianity had duped a certain Christian divine, that's the kind of working it means for today's working of higher members in control of a mystical fraternity that does works in secrecy.

Of course, you probably won't find this idea from God's Word taught in many Churches today. It might upset some of the members. But for one who keeps to God's Word as written, all the way from Genesis through Revelation, it will be harder to miss. It's very important to understand that working in today's time, because God's Word warns about MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT in Revelation, which is about a time of the greatest event of false idol worship ever to appear on earth when the false messiah comes in our near future. That's what the purpose of their setting up a "one world government" over all nations is about. And we won't know exactly who all they are that work that plan in secret, i.e., the 'tares', not until Christ returns and His angels do the separating between them and His sheep.

 

[francisdesales]

I would say that most Christians are not aware that many congregations are under the control of the Masons. And then there is the Catholic Church and its secret societies.

Watching too much sensationalist TV, I see...

 

[francisdesales]

A lot of modern ministers think there's nothing wrong with the Masonic Lodge. Billy Graham repeatedly had divorced and remarried lodge member Johnny Cash perform at his crusades, for example. But Masons are modern day Baal worshippers. When wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel ran Israel they turned the country over to the Baal worshippers. But righteous Elijah took on the prophets of Baal. Elijah said "Let the God who answers by fire be God." Baal couldn't burn up the offering made by his followers, but Elijah first poured water all over his sacrifice and then God still burned it up with fire. I think this is for us today. The real Christians need to pray for the Holy Spirit, because both water and fire are types of the Holy Spirit. The rains had stopped in Israel for three and a half years, but Elijah prayed fervently for the rains to fall again, another type of the Holy Spirit, and the rains fell. That's what we need to do. Rains bring growth and fruit to the farmer. We need to pray for the rains to fall and the harvest to be made ready so Jesus can come back again. See http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5022/5022_01.asp

One of the biggest problems with belonging to a Masonic Lodge and any form of Christianity as that the two contradict. The Masons teach religious indifference - that any religion is as good as another. In other words, the idea that Jesus died for the sins of mankind and rose from the dead, the uniqueness of Christianity, has little meaning. While preaching tolerance, they actually practice a modernistic relativism, that any religion is as good as another, including their own particular "worship at the altar" that occurs in the Masonic Lodges.

Regards

 

[prough91]

I have read, I think, every biography on Graham and almost all his books. This smacks of sensationalism to me.

 

[handy]

One of the biggest problems with belonging to a Masonic Lodge and any form of Christianity as that the two contradict. The Masons teach religious indifference - that any religion is as good as another. In other words, the idea that Jesus died for the sins of mankind and rose from the dead, the uniqueness of Christianity, has little meaning. While preaching tolerance, they actually practice a modernistic relativism, that any religion is as good as another, including their own particular "worship at the altar" that occurs in the Masonic Lodges.

Regards

Exactly my issue with the Masons. My grandfather was a Mason and would have liked his son, son-in-law and grandsons to follow in his footsteps. My uncle and cousins were indifferent. My dad, brother and brothers-in-law couldn't reconcile the religious indifference with Christ's very clear statement that He and He alone is the way, the truth and the life.

 

[francisdesales]

Exactly my issue with the Masons. My grandfather was a Mason and would have liked his son, son-in-law and grandsons to follow in his footsteps. My uncle and cousins were indifferent. My dad, brother and brothers-in-law couldn't reconcile the religious indifference with Christ's very clear statement that He and He alone is the way, the truth and the life.

Good to see some of your relatives escaped the false teachings of Masons...

One cannot be a Christian and a Mason at the same time.

Regards