"What Does the Bible Say About Freemasonry?"
9/19/99
WHAT IS FREEMASONRY?
FOR EXAMPLE: ENTERED APPRENTICE RITUAL [BL]
The candidate enters, blindfolded, with a 6’ rope ["cable tow"] around his neck. He stands before the "Worshipful Master" who has the point of a sword at his bare left breast. He comes as ". . . a poor blind candidate who desires to br brought from darkness to light, and receive a part of the rights and benefits of this right worshipful lodge . . ." He declares that he is traveling on a journey, and when the "Worshipful Master" asks him, "Why do you leave the west and travel toward the east?", he responds, "In search of Light".
JUST THINK OF IT — A MAN WHO HAS BEEN BORN AGAIN, WHO HAS BEEN BOUGHT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, HAS COME FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT — GIVES WITNESS TO A ROOM FULL OF MEN THAT HE IS EVEN NOW "IN DARKNESS AND IS SEARCHING FOR THE LIGHT" — AND THAT HE BELIEVES THAT HE WILL FIND IT IN FREEMASONRY? IT IS UNBELIEVABLE — AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS AT HIS VERY FIRST MEETING!!!
JESUS SAID "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." (John 8:12)
If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:6-7)
FMY INTERPRETATION:
"There he stands without our portals, on the threshold of his new Masonic life, in darkness, helplessness and ignorance. Having been wandering amid the errors and covered over with the pollution’s of the outer and profane world, he comes inquiringly to our door, seeking the new birth, and asking a withdrawal of the veil which conceals divine truth from his uninitiated sight." [Albert G. Mackey Masonic Ritualist, p. 22-23. Also found in Ahiman Rezon - Monitor of South Carolina, 1946 - p. 61]
You have entered a new world. Symbolically and spiritually you have been reborn. This started the moment you were prepared to become a Mason... The lodge becomes a symbol of the new world to which you have been reborn... [Allen E. Roberts, The Craft and Its Symbols, p. 3, 14]
MASTER MASON RITUAL [ALSO IN THE BLUE LODGE]
Masons have invented a story maintaining that a man named Hiram Abiff was the architect of Solomon’s Temple. He was supposedly murdered by three Fellowcrafters while attempting to force him divulge the secrets of the Master Mason. Hiram Abiff supposedly was in possession of the secret password, known as the "Grand Masonic word". Because of his death, the secret password was forever lost. Much of Masonic ritual revolves around the search for this "lost word" of FMY. The legend maintains that a substitute word was supposedly given by Solomon, which is "Mah-Hah-Bone". [FMY has many "secret" and "sacred" words, handshakes, signals, etc.] The legend uses some Bible names and verses, interwoven with myth to fit the ritual. [The initiate is not told that the Hiram Abiff story is a fabrication, and many biblically illiterate men accept the legend as fact.] Every Mason has personally portrayed Hiram Abiff during this ritual to become a Master Mason. In the role of Hiram Abiff, he is unjustly murdered and buried. He is then raised from the grave, by the "Worshipful Master" of the Lodge, who uses the "Lion’ Paw" [secret grip] who represents King Solomon, and passes on the secret "Grand Masonic" word to the resurrected candidate.
1. FREEMASONRY AND GOD.
Every Mason "must declare his faith in a Supreme Being before he may be initiated. But note that he is not required to say, then or ever, what God. He may name him as he will, think of him as he pleases; make him impersonal law or personal and anthropomorphic; Freemasonry cares not . . .God, Great Architect of the Universe, Grand Artificer, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge Above, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, Shiva, or Great Geometer."
"In his private devotions a man may petition God or Jehovah, Allah or Buddha, Mohammed or Jesus; he may call upon the God of Israel or the Great First Cause. In the Masonic Lodge he hears humble petition to the Great Architect of the Universe, finding his own deity under that name. A hundred paths may wind upward around a mountain; at the top they meet."
You shall have no other gods before me. (Exo 20:3)
You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god. (Psa 81:9)
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)
CONCLUSION #1. Freemasonry does not acknowledge the one true God.
2. FREEMASONRY AND THE WORD OF GOD.
"The Bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of a 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, belong on the Altar; and one of these, and the Square and Compass, properly understood, are the Great Lights by which a Mason must walk and work."
***USA Masons quick to point out they "display the sacred volume" at all meetings. But any lodge can use any "sacred volume" it chooses!
Masonic authorities feel the freedom to make "modifications" to the Bible. For example, the name of Jesus Christ is often omitted, as in 1Peter 2:5 — "You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." — explaining that, "The passages are taken, with slight but necessary modifications . . ."
NOTHING SLIGHT OR NECESSARY ABOUT CHANGING BIBLE!
Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it . . (Deu 4:2)
"no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." (2 Pet 1:20-21)
CONCLUSION #2. FMY does not accept the absolute authority of the Bible.
3. FREEMASONRY AND JESUS CHRIST.
"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."
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creationCol 1:15
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. (Col 2:9)
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life." (John 14:6)
***I have reviewed the index of Morals and Dogma, written by the pre-eminent authority on Masonic doctrine. You will find it interesting to note that he makes 65 references to the Kabala, and only 7 references to the Lord Jesus Christ! Does that sound like the proper focus of a "Christian organization" to you?
CONCLUSION #3. FMY does not acknowledge Jesus Christ as the unique Son of God.
4. FREEMASONRY AND SALVATION.
"In all ages the lamb has been deemed an emblem of innocence; he, therefore, who wears the Lambskin as a badge of Masonry, is continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is necessary to obtain admittance into the Celestial Lodge Above [heaven], where the Supreme Architect of the Universe [God] presides."
"Religion is espoused by the Masonic Ritual and required of the candidate" . . . "Freemasonry is undoubtedly a religion" . . . "Many Freemasons make this flight [to heaven] with no other guarantee of a safe landing than their belief in the religion of Freemasonry."
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast. (Eph 2:8-9)
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
CONCLUSION # 4. Freemasonry teaches salvation based on works.
5. FREEMASONRY’S "BROTHERHOOD OF MAN".
"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."
[Baalim = a false god or idol!]
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." (2 Cor 6:14-18)
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. (Eph 5:11)
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. (Eph 5:12)
CONCLUSION # 5. FMY unites Christian men in spiritual bondage with unbelievers.
6. FREEMASONRY DEMANDS SWEARING BLOODY OATHS.
" . . . 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." (Blue Lodge Entered Apprentice / 1st Degree)
" . . . under no less penalty than that of having my body severed in two, my bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the ashes scatter before the four winds of heaven . . . " (Blue Lodge Master Mason / 3rdDegree)
But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ’Yes’ be ’Yes,’ and your ’No,’ ’No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. (Mat 5:34-37)
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. (James 5:12)
CONCLUSION #6. FMY forces men to disobey the word of God.
7. FREEMASONRY CLOUDS ITSELF IN SECRECY.
Freemasonry performs secret rituals, teaches secret signs and handshakes, and uses secret words which often profane the name of God;
G.A.O.T.U. [Great Architect Of The Universe]
MAH-HAH-BONE [secret "sacred" password]
ABADDON ["sacred word" of 17th degree ritual]
They [the demons of Hell] had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon . . . (Rev 9:11)
JAHBULON [Secret name for God - the "lost word" of Freemasonry.]
JAH — an abbreviation of Yahweh, Jehovah.
BUL — a derivative form of Baal.
ON — the Babylonian goddess Osiris.
***"Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism, and Alchemy, conceals its 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 . . . God Himself . . . leads the masses away from the highest truth . . . So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters away." [Pike, Morals and Dogma, pp. 104-105]
READ FROM PIKE, pp. 104-105.
CONCEAL THE TRUTH?!? JESUS SAID I AM THE TRUTH! GOD DRAWS PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE TRUTH?!? JESUS SAID, But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself. (John 12:32) IF FREEMASONRY IS SO GREAT, WHY KEEP IT SECRET? IF WHAT YOU DO IN THERE IS SO GRAND, SHARE IT WITH THE REST OF US!
Another Masonic authority says this - "Our traditions . . . are too sacred and too valuable to become the topic of every vain babbler, and have been preserved as relic of the past . . . and handed down . . . ‘to the worthy and the worthy alone’". [W.J. Morris, Pocket Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 53]
FRIEND, IF ANY GROUP CLAIMS ON THE ONE HAND TO BE CHRISTIAN, YET ON THE OTHER HAND INTENTIONALLY HIDES ITSELF IN SECRECY, YOU RIGHTFULLY OUGHT TO BE SUSPICIOUS.
***FMY EVEN INTENTIONALLY CONCEALS THE REAL TRUTH FROM IT’S OWN MEMBERS!!
"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 that he shall imagine that he understands them." [Pike, Morals and Dogma, pp. 818-819]
Mr. MASON, YOU HAVE BEEN "HOODWINKED" MORE THAN YOU KNOW!!
You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. (Exo 20:7)
Jesus replied, "I have spoken openly to the world . . . I said nothing in secret." (John 18:20)
CONC #7. Freemasonry forces men to take the name of the Lord in vain.
8. FREEMASONRY’S BLASPHEMOUS RITUALS.
REMEMBER, CANDIDATES IN THE BLUE LODGE HAVE UNKNOWINGLY BEEN INTENTIONALLY MISLED BY THEIR LEADERS AS TO THE ACTUAL MEANING OF THE SYMBOLS AND RITUALS. IN FACT MANY OF THE SEEMINGLY INNOCENT MASONIC RITUALS BLASPHEME THE NAME AND DIGNITY OF GOD, AND USURP THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST!
In many of the Masonic rituals, candidates must physically kneel, with head bowed, and swear oaths to the "Worshipful Master" of the Masonic Lodge.
Jesus said — No one can serve two masters. (Mat 6:24)
Master Mason Degree.
The legend of Hiram Abiff mocks the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ!
Knights of the East and West (17th degree).
The presiding "All Puissant" ritually opens the Seven Seals of Revelation ". . . which the All Puissant alone has the right to open."
*Jesus Christ alone has the authority to open the seven seals of Revelation!
Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." (Rev 5:5)
Knights Templar Degree
The candidate kneels before the altar and drinks wine from the upper part of a real human skull. He then makes the following oath: "This pure wine I now take in testimony of my belief in the mortality of the body and the immortality of the soul and, may this libation appear as a witness against me both here and hereafter, and as the sins of the world were laid upon the head of the Savior, so may all the sins committed by the person whose skull this was, be heaped upon my head in addition to my own, should I ever knowingly or willingly violate or transgress any obligation that I have heretofore taken, taken at this time, or shall at any future period take, in relation to any degree of Masonry or Order of Knighthood. So help me God."
. . . he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." (Luke 22:20)
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. (1 Cor 10:21)
Mystic Shrine Degree.
Candidates kneel at the Altar of Obligation, with arms bound and head bowed. 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." Upon penalty of ". . . having my eyeballs pierced to the center with a three-edged blade . . ." the candidate seals his oath to the Masonic god of the Mystic Shrine with the following prayer: "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."
***BELOVED, YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT EVERY SHRINER IN EVERY FOURTH OF JULY PARADE ACROSS THESE UNITED STATES HAS LITERALLY GOTTEN DOWN ON HIS KNEES AND SWORN A SOLEMN OATH TO ALLAH!!
*Only the true and living God is worthy of all worship, honor and praise!
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me . . . You shall not bow down to them or worship them . . . You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. (Exodus 20:1-7)
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name . . . (Psa 29:2)
CONCLUSION #8. FMY’s rituals make a mockery of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I COULD GO ON - BUT TIME WILL NOT PERMIT.
BUT I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER THESE THINGS.
1. IF YOU ARE NOT A MASON - DON’T EVER BECOME ONE!
2. IF YOU ARE A MASON, YOU MAY BE THINKING . . .
PASTOR, YOU’RE WRONG - YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.
I invite you to the same study I have done, from FMY’s own sources.
BUT I DIDN’T KNOW ALL THESE THINGS! [I believe most Christian men who have been duped into the Lodge are in this category.] Assumed like Rotary/Kiwanis/Lions Club; business contacts, etc.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31-32)
I’M ONLY IN THE BLUE LODGE . . .Or, I’M INACTIVE NOW
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? . . . Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord." (2 Cor 6:14-18)
THOSE OATHS WERE JUST SYMBOLIC, NOBODY REALLY MEANS THOSE THINGS LITERALLY! Let me ask you —
1. SYMBOLIC OF WHAT? MASONIC SYMBOLS AND RITUALS ARE ROOTED PAGAN WORSHIP AND THE OCCULT.
2. IF IT’S ALL JUST SYMBOLIC, WHY DO IT AT ALL?
JESUS SAID "Do not swear at all . . .Simply let your ’Yes’ be ’Yes,’ and your ’No,’ ’No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. (Mat 5:34-37)
I DON’T CARE WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS —
I’LL LEAVE MY CHURCH BEFORE I LEAVE MY LODGE!
1. FRIEND, IF THERE IS A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT FMY TEACHES AND WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES, WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? OR, BETWEEN YOU "W.M." AND YOUR GOD-CALLED PASTOR? "He who is not with me is against me . . ." (Mat 12:30)
2. IF YOU’D LEAVE YOUR CHURCH RATHER THAN LEAVE YOUR LODGE, DOESN’T THAT SHOW WHERE YOUR HEART REALLY IS?
3. IF YOU CAN HEAR ALL THAT HAS BEEN SAID HERE, AND NOT HAVE ANY QUESTION RAISED IN YOUR HEART AND MIND . . .
***FRIEND WE HAVE JUST SEEN 8 WAYS IN WHICH THE TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF FMY ARE IN DIRECT AND BLATANT CONFLICT WITH THE WORD OF GOD!
INVITATION
FMY claims to be a search for the light . . .
Let me tell you, the search is over! Are you looking for the light? I’ll tell you where to find it — IT IS JESUS, ONLY JESUS!
Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." (John 9:5)
MY DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST, I AM NOT AGAINST ANY MAN WHO IS A MASON, BUT I AM AGAINST MASONRY! I AM SPEAKING TO YOU AS YOUR PASTOR WHO LOVES YOU AND LOVES THE CHURCH!
YOU HAVE GOT TO GET OUT! [I can even give you a sample "letter of demit", which takes a staunch stand for Jesus Christ, and makes a wonderful testimony to your Masonic Lodge.]
MR MASON, LET ME ASK YOU 3 QUESTIONS — NOT RHETORICAL, BUT LITERAL:
1. You proudly wear your Masonic lapel pin to church — do you wear your "Jesus" pin to the Lodge?
2. You have brought men with you to the Lodge — have you brought as many men to faith in Christ?
3. Have you spent more time on your knees in the Lodge than you have in church?
WON’T YOU SAY TODAY,
"I’LL NEVER BEND THE KNEE TO ANYONE BUT THE LORD JESUS!"
"THERE IS ONLY ONE WHO DESERVES THE TITLE "WORSHIPFUL MASTER!"
AND WHAT A VICTORY IT WOULD BE IF YOU WOULD MAKE A PUBLIC RENUNCIATION, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW . . .
DO YOU WANT LIGHT, AND TRUTH AND ETERNAL LIFE?
It is not through Hiram Abiff, but through our High Priest!
It is not with burgundy wine from a human skull . . .
but by the crimson blood of Jesus!
It is not through a sacrilegious lambskin,
but through the sacrificial Lamb!
It is not through the Kabala, but through the cross!
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