Freemasonry secretly fosters ecumenism and quietly prepares its members to accept and be part of the coming new world order.
Freemasonry is the largest international secret society in the world, with more than 6 million members. It is an all-male organization whose principles are explained as "brotherly love, relief and truth." "What makes Masonry so influential is the fact that of its many millions of members so many occupy leadership positions around the world. In our own country there is nearly always a significant percentage of Masons on the White House staff and in the Cobinet, Senate, Congress, Supreme Court, and Pentagon, as well as in top business management."(Dave Hunt, Global Peace and the Rise of the Antichrist, pp. 158-59.)
Freemasonry promotes the idea that there are many ways to God in contrast to what Jesus said,
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.." (John 14:6).
In Carl Claudy's book, "Introduction to Freemasonry" (1931), he
writes, "In his private petitions 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 petition to the Great architect of
the Universes, finding his own deity under that name. A hundred paths may wind
upward around a mountain; at the top they meet." This tolerance of all
religions is further clarified, "Masonry does not specify any God of any creed;
she requires merely that you believe in some Deity, give him what name you will
... any god will do ..." Albert Pike, former Supreme Pontiff of Universal
Freemasonry, likewise exults: "Masonry [is that religion] around whose altars
the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moselm, the Brahman [Hindu], the followers of
Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer..."
(Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry (Charleston, SC, The Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree for the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United Stated, 1906), pg. 226.)
Consider
this quote from a more contemporary Masonic thinking, taken from the current
manual of instruction used by Masons in the state of Kentucky (Kentucky Monitor
by Henry Pirtle, pg. 95): "Masonry makes no profession of Christianity ... but
looks forward to the time when the labor of our ancient brethren shall be
symbolized by the erection of a spiritual temple ... in which there shall be
but one altar and one worship; one common altar of Masonry on which the Veda,
Shastras, Sade, Zend-Avesta, Koran, and Holy Bible shall lie untouched by
sacrilegious hands, and at whose shrine the Hindoo, the Persian, the Assyrian,
The Chaldean, The Egyptian, the Chinese, The Mohammedan, the Jew, and the
Christian may kneel and with one united voice celebrate the praises of the
Supreme Architech of the Universe."
Masonry clearly teaches salvation
through all religions, whereas the Bible teaches there is salvation in only one
name under Heaven - the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12). Masonry focuses on "The
Great Architect of the Universe" who can be defined any way the worshipper
wants to define him. (Dr. David R. Reagan, "Should A Christian Be A Mason?,"
Bible Prophecy Insights, No. 25, November 1992.)
Other Modern Ecumenical Movements
- (ECT) Evangelicals and Catholics
Together
- The New Age Movement
- Baha'i World Faith
- Pro-Life
Movement
- Promise Keepers
