THERE ARE DISCIPLES OF BAAL

IN AMERICA
by Sheldon Emry

There are disciples of Baal in America. So, whatever King Agrippa would have
There are actually people who are carry- become if he believed everything that
ing out, what is known in the Scriptures Paul was preaching, apparently, the name
as, Baal worship. Many of our people just "Christian" fit it. The term "Christian" is,
simply do not know what Baal worship is. also, found in 1 Peter:
They don't understand it or recognize it
when they see it. It can be likened to rec- “If ye be reproached for the name of
ognizing or understanding a disease. Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of
Everyone knows that there is a disease glory and of God resteth upon you: on
known as cancer. In fact, cancer manifests their part (on the part of unbelievers)
itself in a number of different ways. he is evil spoken of, but on your part
However, I would venture to guess that he is glorified.
there is no one in this church audience But let none of you suffer as a murder-
who could look at a person and say that er, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or
person has cancer. Not because they are as a busybody in other men's matters.
without intelligence, and not because can- Yet, if any man suffer as a Christian,
cer does not exist, but because the symp- let him not be ashamed; but let him
toms are so different and, generally- glorify God on this behalf.”
speaking, are unknown to the average lay 1 Peter 4:14-16
person.
This is a partial description of a
The same thing happens to be true of Christian; that the spirit and glory of God
Baal worship. Our people are so ignorant is on him; he is not a criminal, he is not a
of the historical books of the Bible that tell busybody, he is not a person who causes
us what Baal worship is, that Baal wor- trouble among other people and he glori-
ship actually exists right in our nation fies God.
and people don't know it is going on.
What may be the best simple clue as to
First, let me define what a Christian is what a Christian is can be found in the
and then it might be a little easier to rec- eleventh chapter of Acts:
ognize the disciples of Baal. The word
Christian is used only three times in our “....And the disciples were called
Bible. In the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts, Christians first in Antioch.”
Paul is preaching to King Agrippa. After Acts 11:26
he has preached for a while, King Agrippa
says: Whatever a Christian is, he first has to
be a disciple. According to this simple
“....Almost thou persuadest me to be a statement in Acts, it was the disciples who
Christian.” were called Christians first.
Acts 26:28

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 The dictionary meaning for the word names are Molech and Moloch, Malcham
Christian, actually, is not complete and Milcom. The reason those names are
enough because it says: "one who profess- used is they are Moabite or Ammonite
es to believe in Christ or the religion of names of Baal. They, actually, mean Baal
Christ." I believe you will see, as you con- but, they're put there in a transliteration
tinue this study, that there are many peo- of the Moabite or Ammonite name rather
ple who profess to believe in Christ, who than using Baal.
are not actually disciples of Christ. In
many cases they are actually disciples of The first time the word Baal is used in
Baal. So, instead, let's study the meaning the Bible is in the twentysecond chapter of
of discipleship; which will be an easier Numbers. I think you will agree with me
way for us to understand who the disci- that it is very, very significant as to what
ples of Baal are, and who are the disciples was going on, when that word was used
of Christ. the first time.

The dictionary meaning of disciple is This chapter is speaking of Balak. the

quite long, but I'll paraphrase it just king of the Moabites, who had hired
briefly this way: "one who believes in a Balaam (who was, apparently, a priest of
teacher of a doctrine and obeys his doc- Baal) to curse Israel.
trine and helps in the spreading of his
doctrine." “He sent messengers therefore unto
Balaam the son of Reor to Pethor,
There are, obviously, three parts to dis- which is by the river of the land of the
cipleship. It is not just a case of professing children of his people, to call him,
believership, but, also, actual obedience to saying, Behold, there is a people come
the doctrine of whatever teacher the disci- out from Egypt: behold, they cover the
ple follows. The disciple must also help face of the earth, and they abide over
spread the doctrine. against me:
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse
Some of you may be a little confused by me this people; for they are too mighty
watching professing Christians who say for me: peradventure I shall prevail,
they believe in the doctrines of Christ, but that we may smite them, and that I
they don't obey those doctrines, and they may drive them out of the land: for I
don't help spread them. The reason for wot that he whom thou blessest is
this may be because they are actually- blessed, and he whom thou cursest is
spreading some other doctrine of some cursed.”
other teacher or some other god. Numbers 22:5-6

Let's examine what Baal worship is, Balaam, apparently, had a reputation
according to the Bible. There are six of having some sort of power to curse peo-
names used in the Old Testament and the ple or to bless them. Balak, king of the
New Testament for Baal. Of course, one Moabites, called him and, apparently,
name is Baal; another is Baalim. offered him pay, in order to curse the chil-
Wherever Baalim is found in the Old dren of Israel.
Testament, it is translated from the same
Hebrew word. It could just as well have “And it came to pass on the morrow,
been translated Baal. The rest of the that Balak took Balaam, and brought

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him up into the high places of Baal, verified in Revelation 2:14, where Jesus
that thence he might see the utmost Christ is recorded as saying:
part of the people.”
Numbers 22:41 “But I have a few things against thee,
because thou hast there them that
Balak took Balaam up into the place hold the doctrine of Balaam, who
where Baal was worshipped, in order that taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock
he might see all the House of Israel. For before the children of Israel, to eat
what purpose? To do two things: to spy things sacrificed unto idols, and to
upon the entire nation of Israel, and to commit fornication.”
curse Israel. Revelation 2:14

So, the first time we find the word Baal Fornication, as described in chapter
used in the Bible is when someone was twenty-five of Numbers, is interracial
trying to destroy the children of Israel, marriage. So, the one thing that Balak
using the high places of Baal for that pur- and Balaam were successful in doing was
pose. in getting Israel to sacrifice unto idols and
to commit fornication.
The cursing that Balaam did seemed
to have no effect because everytime he The first two times that Baal worship-
opened his mouth to speak, God made him pers, or the disciples (followers) of Baal,
say things that were blessings to the chil- worked against the children of Israel, they
dren of Israel. However, continuing on in attempted three things. They caused
Numbers we read: Israel to commit interracial marriage,
they used Baal worship to spy on Israel,
“And Israel abode in Shittim, and the
and they attempted to curse Israel.
people began to commit whoredom
Whatever Baal worship is, it is used
with the daughters of Moab.
against the children of Israel the first
And they called the people unto the
time we read of it in the Bible. The first
sacrifices of their gods: and the people
manifestation of Baal worship in the Bible
did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
is as enemies of the children of Israel.
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-
peor: and the anger of the Lord was
The Book of Judges tells the story of
kindled against Israel.”
Israel turning away from God to Baal wor-
Numbers 25:1-3
ship and then being punished. Let us
This is the second time the word Baal examine the second chapter of Judges;
is used in the Bible. The first time the Israel is in Canaan land and Joshua has
enemies of Israel were attempting to died:
curse Israel from the high (or worship)
places of Baal. The next time the term “And the children of Israel did evil in
Baal is used, we find Israel has actually, the sight of the Lord, and served
began to intermarry with non-Israelites. Baalim:
followed-immediately by worshipping of And they forsook the Lord God of their
Baal. fathers, which brought them out of
the land of Egypt, and followed other
This sexual intercourse with non- gods, of the gods of the people that
Israelites is part of Baal worship. This is were round about them, and bowed

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themselves unto them, and provoked I want to quote what Halley's Bible
the Lord to anger. Handbook says, actually, went on and was
And they forsook the Lord, and served carried out by the disciples of Baal. This is
Baal and Ashtaroth.” a description of what Christian men have
Judges 2:11-13 found while excavating ruins in old
Canaanland. It is coupled with what the
Baalim is the same Hebrew word Bible says about Baal worship. I am sorry
translated Baal, so, it means Baal. You to have to quote some of these things, but
can see here that Baal worship is, also, a I believe that God's people in America are
multiplicity of gods, it is not just one god. going to have to recognize Baal worship.
Serving Baalim, also, meant serving Otherwise, they will be deceived into
Ashtaroth. thinking that many of these things are
trappings of our religion, when in fact
In Judges, chapter ten, is another they are not.
instance of Israel's turning against the
Lord. This occurred after they had been In Halley's Bible Handbook under
sent into captivity and then saved out of "Religion of the Canaanites," is found:
their captivity.
"Religion of the Canaanites: Baal was
“And the children of Israel did evil their principal god; Ashtoreth, Baal's wife,
again in the sight of the Lord, and their principal goddess. She was the per-
served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and sonification of the reproductive principle
the gods of Syria, and the gods of in nature. Ishtar was her Babylonian
Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the name; Astarte her Greek and Roman
gods of the children of Ammon, and name. Baalim, the plural of Baal, were
the gods of the Philistines, and for- images of Baal; Ashtaroth, the plural of
sook the Lord, and served not him. Ashtoreth. Ashera was a sacred pole, cone
And the anger of the Lord was hot of stone or a tree trunk. representing the
against Israel, and he sold them into goddess."
the hands of the Philistines, and into .
the hands of the children of Ammon.” Astarte is from where “Easter” comes.
Judges 10:6-7 What is this “sacred pole”? Well, the danc-
ing around the May Pole on May first is,
Notice, God's punishment was to actu- actually, one of the things the Baal wor-
ally sell the children of Israel into the shippers did over there. They had a pole
hands of the people who were the Baal and they danced around it in a circle. This
worshipers. You would is done all over the world by these ungod-
think God would try to get them away ly people; they dance around a May Pole.
from there. No — God's punishment was, Let's continue reading from Halley's:
actually, to give them into the hands of
those people who worshipped Baal and "Temples of Baal and Ashtoreth were
these other gods. usually together. Priestesses were temple
prostitutes. Sodomites were male temple
Our so-called religious festival of prostitutes. The worship of Baal,
Easter actually-comes from Ashtaroth. It Ashtoreth and other Canaanite gods con-
is the worship of the wife of the god of sisted in the most extravagant orgies;
Baal. That is who Ashtaroth was. their temples were centers of vice."

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 We are talking about religious exercis- lions, of babies every year. The religion of
es. Many people see these things happen- Baal included the murder of little chil-
ing in America and think that these peo- dren. It was not just something they did,
ple are just sinners. No, this was actually it was a religious exercise that was done
part of the religion of Canaan. They did in the name of the god Baal.
these things as a religious exercise.
Continuing in Halley's:
Quoting again from Halley's:
“Another horrible practice was what
"ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES: they called ‘foundation sacrifices.’ When a
Canaanite Religion. God's express com- house was to be built, a child would be
mand to Israel was to destroy or drive out sacrificed, and its body built into the wall,
the Canaanites, (Deut 7:2,3). And Joshua to bring good luck to the rest of the fami-
went at the task in dead earnest, God ly. Many of these were found in Gezer.
himself helping with mighty miracles. In They have been found, also, at Megiddo,
reality, GOD DID IT. Jericho and other places. . .

"In excavations at Gezer, Macalister, of Also, in this 'High Place, under the
the Palestine Exploration Fund, (1904- rubbish, Macalister found enormous
09), found, in the Canaanite stratum, quantities of images and plaques of
which had preceded Israelite occupation, Ashtoreth with rudely exaggerated sex
of about 1500 B.C.; the ruins of a 'High organs, designed to foster sensual feel-
Place,' which had been a temple in which ings.
they worshipped their god Baal and their
goddess Ashtoreth (Astarte). "So, Canaanites worshipped, by
immoral indulgence, as a religious rite, in
"It was an enclosure 150 by 120 feet, the presence of their gods; and then, by
surrounded by a wall, open to the sky, murdering their firstborn children, as a
where the inhabitants held their religious sacrifice to these same gods."
festivals. Within the walls were 10 rude
stone pillars, 5 to 11 feet high, before Do You Begin to See a Glimpse of
which the sacrifices were offered. Baal Worship in America?

"Under the debris, in this 'High Place,' Our people don't recognize this. People
Macalister found great numbers of jars say: “Oh, this is terrible, this is some-
containing the remains of children who thing, and you shouldn't do this, and this
had been sacrificed to Baal. The whole is murder,” They protest to some extent on
area proved to be a cemetery for newborn the basis of what they know is right and
babes." wrong, but they do not have the knowl-
edge necessary to recognize that we have
Most of us have been absolutely a nation full of the disciples of Baal. These
amazed to find how easily this nation had disciples are practicing their religion in
been converted from a nation that this nation.
believed in the sanctity of life, and espe-
cially loved to have many children, to a Once again quoting Halley's:
nation that is now killing hundreds of
thousands, now reaching into the mil- "It seems that, in large measure, the

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land of Canaan had become a sort of the doctors, who then kill the unborn chil-
Sodom and Gomorrah on a national dren.
scale."
Why did God send Israel into the
Over on page 198 of Halley's, under Assyrian captivity? The reasons are found
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTE: Baal in II Kings, chapter seventeen:
Worship:
“In the ninth year of Hoshea, (King of
"The Oriental Institute, excavating at Judah, the southern kingdom) the
Megiddo, which is near Samaria, found, in king of Assyria took Samaria, and
the stratum of Ahab's time, (after Israel carried Israel
was in the land) the ruins of a temple of away into Assyria, and placed them in
Ashtoreth, goddess wife of Baal. Just a Halah and in Habor by the river of
few steps from this temple was a ceme- Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
tery, where many jars were found, con- For so it was, that the children of
taining remains of infants who had been Israel had sinned against the Lord
sacrificed in this temple. Prophets of Baal their God, which had brought them
and Ashtoreth were official murderers of up out of the land of Egypt, from
little children." under the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and had feared other gods,
The enemies of the children of Israel And walked in the statutes of the hea-
would like to reduce the numbers of the then, (they did the things that the
children of Israel. They do this through heathen believed in) whom the Lord
their teaching and preaching of abortion. cast out from before the children of
Abortion has now become a tremendous Israel, and of the kings of Israel,
thing in our land, hundreds of thousands which they had made.
of young babies are killed. At the same And the children of Israel did secretly
time these enemies of Israel promote illic- those things that were not right
it and premarital sex. That, of course, against the Lord their God. . . “
does what? It brings about pregnancies in 2 Kings 17:6-9
women who then have an abortion and
what is that? It is the murder of newborn Do you live in a nation where people
children, which is a doctrine of Baal wor- are doing things that are not right against
ship. It is not just something that some- the Lord? Multiplied hundreds of thou-
one is doing. If these people just wanted to sands, perhaps millions of people in this
reduce the number of our race, they would nation are actually doing these same
try to get these young girls not to have things that we read of in 2 Kings. I am not
premarital sexual relations. Instead, talking about just the people of the other
these young girls are urged, by the educa- races. I am talking about our Israel peo-
tional system and the movie and enter- ple, the Anglo-Saxon and kindred people.
tainment industry, to have premarital
relations. Our educational system and God told the Israelites they were driv-
Hollywood are just full of these manifesta- en into captivity because:
tions and trappings of Baal, which lead
millions of young girls to pregnancy. After “....they rejected his statutes, and his
they become pregnant they receive "coun- covenant that he made with their
selling," which attempts to lead them to fathers, and his testimonies which he

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testified against them; and they fol- They are:
lowed vanity, (he old English word
"vanity" means lies, false teachings or 1. Spying on and working against the
false doctrines) and became vain, and children of Israel.
went after (intermarried with) the
heathen that were round about them, 2. Interracial fornication.
conceming whom the Lord had
charged them, that they should not do 3. Forsaking God.
like them.
And they left all the commandments 4. Serving Ashtaroth.
of the Lord their God, and made them
molten images, even two calves, and 5. Prostitution or illicit sex.
made a grove, and worshipped all the
host of heaven, (they began to wor- 6. Homosexual practices.
ship the stars, sun and moon, trying
to read their future) and served Baal. 7. The killing of babies, preferably the
And they caused their sons and their first-born.
daughters to pass through the fire,
and used divination and enchant- 8. Sexual images and pictures.
ments, and sold themselves to do evil
in the sight of the Lord, to provoke 9. Doing things the way the heathen
him to anger.” would.
2 Kings 17:15-17
10.Disobeying the commandments of God.
These are all of the things that Israel
did in the old land. These things all fall 11.Worshipping the host of heaven.
under the collective title of "serving Baal."
We read in Numbers that serving Baal 12.Causing their sons and daughters to
was not just worshiping Baal, it was wor- pass through the fire.
shipping Baal and all of the gods of the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Philistines 13.Using divination and enchantments.
and so on.
Our people are turning away from God
“Therefore the Lord was very angry to learn all the things of the heathen.
with Israel, and removed them out of They are worshipping the host of heaven,
his sight: there was none left but the and doing all of these things which are
tribe of Judah only.” listed here as a part of Baal worship.
2 Kings 17:18
By the time I go back down through
this list again, I think that you will see
Later on the tribe of Judah was taken
that America has literally become a
into the Babylonian captivity for the same
nation of Baal worshippers. Those thir-
reason, because they had turned away
teen things do not constitute all of Baal
from the Lord and served Baal.
worship but they are a part of Baal wor-
ship.
There Are Thirteen Things Which
Constitute Baal Worship. The first item on the list is: spying on
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Israel. Almost the entire Communist Number Three: Forsaking God. I hard-
apparatus could be considered that much ly need to comment on that. We have
of Baal worship because they intend to taken God, and the Bible, out of pradical-
destroy our nation and our people. Many, ly everything that has to do with our peo-
in fact, most of the upper echelon of our ple. With our educational system, its
so-called political apparatus is doing reaching the point now where it may not
everything they can to hurt the United be too long before they start putting peo-
States of America. Are they doing it just ple in jail, if they so much as try to preach
because they hate us, or are they actually or teach anything out of the Bible in a
worshipers of this religion? The first time public institution.
we find the Baal religion mentioned in the
Bible, it was used for the purpose of spy- Number Four: Serving Ashtaroth. I
ing on and injuring the children of Israel. could preach a whole sermon on that! The
entire Easter festival, which we have, has
Many, many churches in America, by all of the trappings of the old festivals
their doctrines, are destroying the Israel held in Babylon, Egypt, Rome and ancient
people. Almost every church in America Greece, when they had a spring festivaI
tells us we are not the Israel people. I for Ashtaroth.
don't know of any doctrine that can
destroy our people faster, and more surely Number Five: Prostitution or illicit
than by telling them that they are not sex. I understand that the Congress of the
Israel. If we are not Israel then it is much United States will soon legalize prostitu-
easier to convince our people to do things tion in Washington, D. C. That is on the
as the heathen would. books for being passed sometime in
January or February. From there it will,
Number Two: Interracial fornication. of course, spread across this land.
The movies, television, even the total gov-
ernment operation (especially in the edu- Number Six: Homosexual practices.
cational system) is being used to force our Some of the churches are already-ordain-
people to mix with the heathen. Church ing homosexuals as preachers; they are
publications are promoting the bringing of marrying homosexuals, and we will soon
Asiatic children to America for adoption have legislation which will make it a fed-
into American families. This is another eral offense to refuse to hire a person
way of intermixing our people with the because he is or is not a homosexual.
heathen.
Number Seven: Killing of babies, prefer-
I read in the paper, just the other day, ably the first-born. This is something that
a commendation for the Phoenix City gov- is coming upon our people in a way that is
ernment because they have done an almost impossible to conceive. California
exceptionally fine job of hiring minorities. alone, within a year from now, will proba-
You know what that means: non-Israel bly reach a half-million children killed in
people are moving into all sorts of jobs. one year, in one state.
They have preference in all welfare, and,
now, all jobs in America. What is that We printed an article from our local
doing? It is hurting our people and is forc- newspaper on Planned Parenthood here
ing the mixing of our people with the hea- in Phoenix (they have offices all over the
then. nation). The newspapers are urging preg-

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nant teenagers to go down to Planned cial murderers of little children. This was
Parenthood for counselling. What part of the religious ritual they went
Planned Parenthood does is refer these through in order to worship Baal. If some-
teenagers to an abortionist. The abortion- one had told me, twenty-five years ago,
ist then pays Planned Parenthood a fee for that this could have happened here in the
every girl they send over to them. One United States of America, I simply would
man in the article says: "a closer scrutiny not have believed it. In fact, it is almost
of the Reverend's motives, might involve impossible to believe, even now, until you
more than altruism. Twelve thousand realize that we are going back and doing
patients a year, at $25 a throw amounts to the same thing our fathers did. We are
$300,000 annually for Planned worshipping Baal in the land. A tremen-
Parenthood clergy counseling." This min- dous number of so-called Christian
ister, who is counseling young girls, has in churches in America today are not church-
this last year, sent 12,000 of them over to es of Christ, they are not disciples of
California for abortions and he has gotten Christ, they are disciples of Baal.
$25 for every one of those babies that they
killed in California. These are ministers, Someone was telling me about one of
operating out of churches, sending the their neighbors just recently, and I imag-
girls to California. ine this may be true all over the country.
They apparently had listened to me over
I have a long article from a Los the radio talking about the eating of pork.
Angeles newspaper, part of which says: The eating of pork is a violation of God's
"the cost of the abortion through the serv- Law; but it is, not the great thing you
ice is $350.00, exclusive of the air fare. might think it is as compared with some
The doctor receives $75, the hospital other violations. The conversation lead to
$250, and Planned Parenthood $25. the story that this man had gone to his
minister to try to convince him that we
A meeting, in New York, of some doc- shouldn't eat pork because it is a violation
tors who met for a study on abortion, is of God's Law. The minister got highly-
described in a book entitled, "The Death upset and the conversation reached the
Peddlers." The author says: "Listen to Dr. point where the minister admitted to this
Irwin H. Kaiser, a pioneer in his field," man that he was in favor of abortion. The
(here is a quote from this Doctor, standing man never knew that his minister was in
up before this large group of doctors): "at favor of abortion until he got into a rather
$160 per patient, this is a substantial heated conversation about pork. What
money maker for the hospital; and obvi- was that minister? That minister was a
ously if we were prepared to step into the secret disciple of Baal, standing in the
competitive New York market, where Christian pulpit deceiving people. He
abortions go as high as $1,500 we proba- wasn't promoting abortion from the pul-
bly would make a substantial killing, if I pit, but he was promoting disobedience to
may use that expression." At this point, the commandments of God.
the editor of the book reported, there was
general laughter throughout the audience How many of you know of any church
of doctors. (other than this one), within about twenty
or thirty miles of here, that preaches that
Remember what I read about Baal we should obey the commandments of
worship: the high priests of Baal were offi- God? Well, one of the parts of Baal wor-

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ship was to disobey the commandments of Number Twelve: Causing their sons
God, to cast Him aside and to put the com- and daughters to pass through the fire. An
mandments away. article from the young people's Saturday
edition of the Phoenix Gazette, devoted
Number Eight: Pornography. Halley's half a page to a picture and an article
Bible Handbook said they unearthed about a local teenage girl. The headlines
pornographic drawings in the temple of says: "Student Says She is a Child of
Baal. Our nation is literally-flooded with Satan." The article is quite long and it
pornography. What are the churches says about her, "Sherry, a student at
doing about it?--Practically nothing. In Cortez High, is also a professed witch and
the movies, television, and magazines, it Satanist. . .God didn't fulfill me, said the
is reaching the point where, if I under- coed, who tried Christianity and atheism
stood Baal worship, I could walk into the before turning to devil worship two and a
drug store or theatre and say: "There are half years ago. Christianity preaches hap-
disciples of Baal in here." However, we piness after death but Satan tells us we
don't recognize that until we get into the can have happiness in this life, as well as,
Bible. after death." She says a little further on,
"I don't fear death because I know that
Number Nine: To do things as the hea- when I die I wilI have Satan's protection
then. I have a book I just recently pur- as one of the rulers of Hell." The article
chased, entitled: “The Dispossessed ends up by saying, ". . .though Sherry con-
Majority.” The author has written approx- verted to Satanism, her parents are still
imately 500 pages showing that every- devout Christians and strongly disap-
thing in America from the government, to prove of her religion. 'They still beg me to
the educational system, to the churches, go to church on Sunday, she said, but they
to economics is all being used for the ben- can't make me think the way they want
efit of the Blacks and for the destruction me to. I go to keep peace in the family.'
of the White race. What is that? That is Marriage is perfectly-legal in the Satanic
the first thing we read here of Baal wor- church and Sherry plans to marry a war-
ship, spying on and working against the lock" she says they'll bring up the children
children of Israel, the household of God. in Satanism."

Number Ten: Do not obey the com- Now, before you condemn this young
mandments of God. Almost all State and girl, I would like to ask you: where did she
Federal government laws in this nation learn that there were people living forever
that have enforced God's Laws are now and ever under the control of Satan in
being put away, right down to the last one: hell? She learned it in this same Christian
the putting of murderers to death. The church that her parents still attend.
churches, of course, have joined in and Where did she learn the doctrines of
taught our people, almost en masse, that Satanism? She learned them back in that
God’s Laws have been put away. Christian church that her parents made
her attend.
Number Eleven: Worshipping the host You think she was converted to Satan
of heaven. I have already mentioned that ism outside the church? Nonsense — she
astrology and all of these things are was converted to be a witch and a
blooming in this land almost beyond Satanist inside what is called a Christian
belief. church by the preachings of hell.

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 I have a pamphlet entitled Hell, What Let me quote John R. Rice again:
the Bible Says About It. The author is
John R. Rice, who is the most prolific "Can you see why sinners who reject
author, I believe, the Baptists have ever Christ, deliberately-choose evil instead of
produced. He has written hundreds and good, and then when they go to Hell con-
hundreds of books. His books are distrib- tinue in sin; can you see why they should
uted by the millions. He is a Baptist, and continue to be punished? Sinners in Hell
every Baptist Church in America distrib- make their own Hell. People go to Hell
utes these pamphlets. I assume the because they deserve it. They stay there
Baptists approve his story about what's in for the same reason. Punishment contin-
hell. Remember what that girl said: "she's ues. because sin continues in Hell."
not afraid of death because she is going to
be a ruler in hell." Are You a Disciple of Christ or Baal?

Read what John R. Rice says about Well, praise the Lord, there is coming
helI (which apparently is official Baptist an end to this. I have a question for you:
teaching): Are you .a disciple of Christ or are you fol-
lowing Baal?
"Is God fair to keep a man forever in
Hell for the sins of his life? That is an “Look to yourselves, that we lose not
intelligent question, and there is an intel- those things which we have wrought,
ligent answer. The reason sinners must but that we receive a full reward.
stay in Hell is because they are sinners Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth
still. Hell is not only a place of punish- not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not
ment for sin; it is a place where sin contin- God. He that abideth in the doctrine
ues. of Christ, he hath both the Father and
In fact, there is every reason to believe the Son.
that in Hell there will be an abandonment If there come any unto you, and bring
to wickedness such as is not possible on not this doctrine, receive him not into
this earth." your house, neither bid him God
speed: For he that biddeth him God
Where did that girl get the idea that speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
she could live in hell and commit sexual 2 John 8-11
fornications while she was there? She got
These verses are a rather plain warn-
it from the Baptist Church. What is the
ing to those who do not preach the doc-
Baptist Church? I'll tell you what it is, it's
trine of Christ. Let us not separate this
a church of Baal worship. No wonder the
into two gods and say some can believe in
next generation is turning to Baal. They
Christ and there are others that just
are taught the doctrines of Baal in the
haven't recognized the Messiah but they
church their parents require them to go.
believe in Jehovah of the Old Testament.
These parents think they are going there
That’s nonsense. If ministers do not teach
to learn about Christ. Do we have disci-
the truth of the Scriptures, then they are
ples of Baal in America? Brother, Sister,
not Christians, no matter what name they
this nation is full of them, just as Christ
put onto their churches.
warned us. Jesus said that they would
come in the name of Christ and deceive I quoted an article earlier about a
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little more. Tragically enough, I believe In further study of the doctrines of
we in America are going to see, at least to Baal, I became convinced that the one doc-
some extent, what was very prominent trine taught in the Christian churches
during the so-called Dark Ages in Europe: that leads people to Baal worship is the
the outright, visible worship of Satan. In doctrine that you don't really die, but
the future there may be churches organ- instead, you go on living either in heaven
ized and people might be dedicating their or in hell. Practically every so-called
children to Satan. church in America that goes by the name
of Christian teaches that people live on
About a year and a half ago, a man I after death.
know was telling of someone moving into
his neighborhood. After they had been Earlier, I quoted a few things from
there a few days, these new neighbors Hell, What the Bible Says About It by
invited all the neighbors to come to a Evangelist John R. Rice. This is an
house warming party. After serving drinks approved Baptist pamphlet. On the front
they passed around a mimeographed cover, Rice gives the reason for "soul win-
sheet of paper on which was drawn a ning" as: "Keeping people out of hell, the
horned goat head inside a big circle with soul-winning motive." I have heard this
the words "Viva Satana" (long live Satan) same doctrine from other sources.
written across the top of the page. They
then began their ceremony of dedicating The Bible tells us we are to preach The
their house to Satan. This man I know Word so people will serve Christ. We don't
brought this sheet of paper to me and said preach The Word to keep people out of
he left the house at that moment. He just hell. However, the Baptists imply that the
had not believed that there were people in whole reason for soul-winning is to keep
America who really did that. Yet, he saw, sinners out of this burning hell they
right in front of his eyes, people going preach about. Rice stated among other
through the religious ceremony of dedicat- things in this hell, “Even the Holy Spirit
ing this new home of theirs to Satan. of God, it appears, will call no longer at
the heart door of the men and women in
Going back to the article about the girl Hell. The most terrible thing about Hell is
who says that she is a child of Satan, and that it is a place of sinning, as well as sin-
says that she is not afraid to die, because ners. Sinners themselves continue to
"when I die I will have Satan's protection make hell what it is.
as one of the rulers of hell" — I believe she "Thousands upon thousands of virtuous
is not alone. There must be many, many women, chaste wives and mothers may be,
thousands of people who believe the same will be in Hell. Human virtues are not
false doctrines. enough to save the soul. . . we may well
believe that virtuous women will not
I am afraid a great host of Christian remain virtuous and chaste in hell."
people simply do not understand that the
source of the doctrines of Satan come from In several long paragraphs the author
Christian churches. By that I don't mean tells his readers that sinners will go on
Christian Churches per se, I mean living in hell, doing those things that they
churches that CALL themselves did upon the earth. He, also, says: ". . . the
Christian. reason sinners are left in Hell is that they
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ness, the same unbelief that they had here future hell, a separation from God toward
on earth; intensified by the environment which all are going who have refused,
of Hell, unrestrained by a single godly rejected, or neglected to receive His Son
influence." Then comes the paragraph Jesus Christ. Cyrus The Great is reported
asking this question: "Can you see why to have declared “I cannot imagine that
sinners who reject Christ deliberately the soul lives only while it remains in this
choose evil instead of good, and then when mortal body.”
they go to Hell they continue in sin? Can
you see why they should continue to be Notice Graham quoted a heathen for
punished?" Then he continues a little fur- that authority at the end of his article.
ther on, "Punishment continues because
sin continues in Hell." You prove what a person is by his doc-
trine. I believe that we are entering a time
This girl who stated that she has when you and I are going to have to make
become a Satan worshipper, states that: decisions on who is a Christian minister
"she will be able to continue doing the and who is a Christian person; not by
things on earth and in hell that she what they say about Christ, but by what
desires to do." The newspaper says of her: their doctrine is. If a person talks about
"Sherry, a black witch, says white witches, Christ, the atonement and the blood and
who only cast good spells, have very little appears to be a Christian, you can still be
power because they are afraid of God and deceived-unless you find out just what he
what will happen to them when they die. believes and teaches.
1 don't fear death because 1 know when 1
die 1 will have Satan's protection as one of According to Websters' Original 1828
the rulers of hell." . Dictionary, the definition of doctrine is as
follows:
So that you see that I am not picking
on the Baptists alone, I want to quote "Doctrine: from the Latin doceo, to
Billy Graham's Question and Answer col- teach. In a general sense, whatever is
umn from the daily paper. The headline taught. Hence, a principle or position in
says: "When the Body Dies the Soul Lives any science; whatever is laid down as true
On." Here's the question: "I don't under- by an instructor or master. The doctrines
stand what immortality means. Will you of the gospel are the principles or truths
please explain it to me?" Billy Graham taught by Christ and his apostles. The
(the most listened to Christian preacher, doctrines of Plato are the principles which
and evangelist in all the world today) he taught. Hence a doctrine may be true
gives this answer: "God made man differ- or false; it may be a mere tenet or opin-
ent from other creatures. He made him in ion."
His own image, a living soul. When this
body dies, and our earthly existence is ter- Regardless of whether it is true or
minated, the soul lives on forever. One false a doctrine is what is taught or
thousand years from this day, you would believed. That is where we are going to
be more alive than you are at this have to make our decisions.
moment. The Bible teaches that life does
not end at the cemetery. There is a future Let us find out what Christ's doctrine
life with God for those who put their trust is. We are told not to have anything to do
in His Son, Jesus Christ. There is, also, a with people unless they have the doctrine

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of Christ. First of all, the doctrine of In John eighteen, when Jesus was
Christ is the doctrine of God or the doc- brought before Pilate, we read:
trine of the Bible. Let us be sure we do not
divide the Bible into two parts. “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art
thou a king then? Jesus answered,
“And the Jews marvelled, saying, How Thou sayest that I am. a king. To this
knoweth this man letters, having end was I born, and for this cause
never learned? came I into the world, that I should
Jesus answered them, and said, My bear witness unto the truth. Every one
doctrine is not mine, but his that sent that is of the truth heareth my voice.”
me.” John 18:37
John 7:15-16
I quoted those verses to show you that
Jesus was teaching and they mar- Jesus preaches the doctrines of God,
velled at his teaching. Jesus told them His which He called The Truth. The disciples
doctrine is the doctrine of God. believed it and so, when John says you
have to have the doctrines of Christ, that
Prior to His arrest and crucifixion means the doctrines of the Word of God.
Jesus prayed for the disciples:
Let us find out what the Word of God
“These words spake Jesus, and lifted says happens to you when you die. This is
up his eyes to heaven, and said, one of the most crucial doctrines in all
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Christendom.
Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee: In the third chapter of Job, godly Job
Now they have known that all things was in trouble and was actually-wishing
whatsoever thou hast given me are of he had died:
thee.
“Why died I not from the womb? why
For I have given unto them the words
did I not give up the ghost when I
which thou gavest me;”
came out of the belly?
John 17:1,7-8
Why did the knees prevent me? or why
“I have given them thy word;....” the breasts that I should suck?
John 17:14 For now should I have lain still and
been quiet, I should have slept: then
“Sanctify them through thy truth; thy had I been at rest,
word is truth.” With kings and counsellors of the
John 17:17 earth, which built desolate places for
themselves;
This doctrine, that Jesus taught, is the Or with princes that had gold, who
doctrine of god, the word of God. It is filled their houses with silver:
truth. Unlike Plato, whose words are not Or as an hidden untimely birth I had
true, this doctrine is true. not been; as infants which never saw
light.”
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
Job 3:11-16
that they also might be sanctified
through the truth.” Job says that if he had died he would
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be with all these other people. Then fol- THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANY
lows a description of what goes on in THING! This is Solomon writing.
death:
This Baptist evangelist, I quoted earli-
“There the wicked cease from trou- er, says, that these people, in their lust
bling; and there the weary be at rest. and their desire to sin, will go right on sin-
There the prisoners rest together; they ning and their sins will be intensified as
hear not the voice of the oppressor.” they spend this eternity in hell. Solomon
Job 3:17-18 says this is not true:

Just imagine what the Baptists would “. . .their love, and their hatred, and
think of this description of the place their envy, is now perished; neither
where people go after they die! have they any more a portion for ever
in any thing that is done under the
Solomon, who was one of the wisest sun.”
men of the Bible and whose wisdom came Ecclesiastes 9:6
from God, wrote these words:
Forever means "age long." It doesn't
“All things come alike to all: there is necessarily-mean eternity but, at least as
one event to the righteous, and to the long as they are dead, they have nothing
wicked; to the good and to the clean, to do with anything under the sun.
and to the unclean; to him that sacri-
ficeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
as is the good, so is the sinner; and he do it with thy might; for there is no
that sweareth, as he that feareth an work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
oath. wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
This is an evil among all things that goest.”
are done under the sun, that there is Ecclesiastes 9:10
one event unto all: yea, also the heart
of the sons of men is full of evil, and Just imagine what might have hap-
madness is in their heart while they pened to this young girl who has adopted
live, and after that they go to the Satanism, because she wants to worship
dead.” the devil in hell and be one of his rulers. If
Ecclesiastes 9:23 she had been taught as a young child that
life ended at death, and there are no living
All people die, sinners and the saints beings in this hades or hell that she
alike, good and bad. He continues: thinks she is going to, she might not have
become a Satanist. However, she was
“For to him that is joined to all the taught that there was a place like that
living there is hope: for a living dog is and that there were people there. and that
better than a dead lion. the devil ruled over them so, she wanted
For the living know that they shall to go there to be a ruler. Where did she get
die: but the dead know not any thing, that information? Obviously she could
neither have they any more a reward; have gotten it from almost any church in
for the memory of them is forgotten.” America. She did not get it from the Bible,
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 I have another pamphlet entitled: The Conscious will stab and nag and accuse
Tragedy of Hell and How to Escape It — A forever. Perhaps the doomed sinner will
Christian Guidance Book. I want to quote recall the day he rejected the call of the
a few statements by this author, as to Spirit for the last time."
what goes on in hell:
We read in Psalms six:
"In hell there will be destruction, how-
ever, this will not be cessation of exis- “Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh
tence. Rather, it will be the devastation save me for thy mercies' sake.
that is to be found in judgment. The spir- For in death there is no remembrance
it never loses it consciousness, nor does it of thee: in the grave who shall give
ever experience nonexistence. But the thee thanks?”
destruction of all that is worthwhile Psalm 6:4-5
results from this judgment.
"The purpose of fire and hades and hell is The author of The Tragedy of Hell...
torment. God does not plan that sinners says that after death, sinners will be
be annihilated. This would defeat his pur- remembering all the times they were
pose. invited to come to the alter by Christian
It may be reasonable to assume that the ministers, and all the times they walked
fire of hades and hell is not the literal fire by a church and didn't go in. The Bible
of earth. It must be a special fire that will says that in death there is no remem-
fulfill the will and purpose of God. The brance of God. Job says in death there is
bodies of those sentenced to hell are mere- silence. This man goes on in his book and
ly human bodies. They are human bodies says:
raised and changed and conformed to
everlasting suffering." "What more can the Scriptures tell of
the terrors of this place? The sinner's body
Now, don't ask me how the author rec- will be alive with gnawing, piercing flesh-
onciles his statement that it is a spirit devouring worms. They will thrive on liv-
body that goes to hell, and then later talks ing tissue, yet never be satisfied and
about it as a body that is raised and put never die. Intense, devastating, leaping
there. These people never try to reconcile flames will sear the organs and stifle
their falsehoods, what they do is frighten breathing. The sinner will scream for
people by this nonsense description of a unconsciousness, annihilation, nothing-
non-existent place. On the next page of ness, any relief. But the only answer will
this pamphlet we read: be the echo of his screams."

"Hell will be terror, without one miti- That is the churches story of what hap-
gating feature. Pain, without the slightest pens after billions of people die. In con-
chance of alleviation, will be unbearable. trast to this horror story, here is what the
The flaming torment will be so severe that Bible has to say:
one will beg piteously for a drop of water
to cool his tongue. Suffering of the body “The dead praise not the Lord, neither
will be so terrible that the sinner will any that go down into silence.”
grind his teeth in agony. Coupled with this Psalm 115:17
will be the anguish of spirit in the realiza-
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This man says that the dead are scream- I hear on the radio quite often, that has
ing for mercy. Do you see the difference words to that effect. Well, if Christ did
between what this man says and the Word that, then he must have forgotten David.
of God? This is not the doctrine of Christ, David was a man after God's own heart,
yet it is distributed by thousands and according to the scripture, itself. Acts,
thousands of churches. It is a false doc- chapter two, contains the favorite passage
trine, not of Christ. Who could it be from? of the Pentecostal people. However, it goes
It is the work of the devil, it is the teach- on to explain where David was after the
ings and the doctrines of Baal. death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Peter says:
The pamphlet The Tragedy of Hell. . .
concludes that: “Men and brethren, let me freely
speak unto you of the patriarch
"For the sinner in hell, it will be impos- David, that he is both dead and
sible to end his consciousness. God has buried, and his sepulchre is with us
determined that punishment in hell shall unto this day.
be eternal, everlasting, forever." For David is not ascended into the
heavens. . . “
Quoting again from Psalms: Acts 2:29 & 34

“Put not your trust In princes, nor in This occurred after the death and res-
the son of man, in whom there is no urrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter
help. made it plain that David is not in heaven.
His breath goeth forth, he retumeth to Yet, these fools go on preaching these false
his earth: In that very day his doctrines. I don't know that I should call
thoughts perish.” the ministers who preach these false doc-
Psalm 146:3-4 trines, fools. I am more inclined to call the
millions of people who attend their
The Bible says the dead are silent in churches, fools. They are foolish people.
the grave after death. Their thoughts per- We have millions of copies of the Bible in
ish, they have no memory of anything. It our homes, we have them in churches. We
is a place of silence. It is a place where have read the Bible, in this continent, for
kings and rulers, and babes, fools and sin- almost 300 years, and we still cannot see
ners and believers are. Yet, these people the plain simple teaching of the Scripture,
have built up false doctrines that have no that the dead know not any thing.
foundation, whatsoever, in the Word of
God and they pass as Christians while In Acts, chapter two, David is men-
doing it. tioned as not having ascended into the
heaven, he is both dead and buried. In
Some will, and do, say that it is true fact, there are several places in the Bible
that under the Old Testament Law, people where people are talked of as being asleep
died and went to the grave, or to purgato- after they die. They are: 2Kings 21:17 -
ry, or hades, or some place that they were 18, John 11:11-14; 1Thessalonians 4:13
kept. Then, they say, when Christ came -17; 2Peter 3:4; and 1Corinthians
and died, He went to hell and opened up 15:18. Let us examine part of these verses
the gates and took the Old Testament starting in verse thirteen of 1 Corinthians
believers to heaven. In fact, there is a song fifteen:

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“But if there be no resurrection of the second witness to this fact is found in the
dead, then is Christ not risen: fifth chapter of John, where Christ is
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching:
preaching vain, and your faith is also
vain. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The
Yea, and we are found false witnesses hour is coming, and now is, when the
of God; because we have testified of dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God that he raised up Christ: whom God: and they that hear shall live.”
he raised not up. if so be that the dead John 5:25
rise not.
For if the dead rise not, then is not Where are these dead who will hear
Christ raised: the voice of Christ?
And if Christ be not raised. your faith
is vain; ye are yet in your sins. “Marvel not at this: for the hour is
Then they also which are fallen asleep coming in the which all that are in
in Christ are perished.” the graves shall hear his voice,”
1 Corinthians 15:13-18 John 5:28

These verses are preaching the resur- Where Are the Dead?
rection. If Christ be not raised from the
dead, out faith is wrong and those who are In the grave, in silence, asleep. So
dead are perished. Was he preaching that many people, in America, around the
they were up in heaven? No, he was world, and especially in Christendom, are
preaching that they were going to be res- trying all sorts of things in an effort to
urrected. contact dead spirits. Who in the world told
them that there were spirits of the dead
“For since by man came death, by man some place where they might be contact-
came also the resurrection of the ed? It was none other than these
dead.” Christian preachers who tell them that
1 Corinthians 15:21 the spirit doesn't die but just goes on liv-
ing. No wonder Bishop Pike tried to con-
This is the doctrine of the Lord Jesus tact his dead son. No wonder there are
Christ. Resurrection from the dead. Not such things as seances. No wonder, when
life unending, after you die. Not a spirit you watch television, people talk about
resurrection, as your body dies. No, contacting their father, mother, brother, or
instead a resurrection from the dead. sister to find out how things are or what’s
going to happen to them. Where is the
“For as in Adam all die, even so in foundation for all this? The foundation for
Christ shall all be made alive. it is taught across pulpits in tens of thou-
But every man in his own order: sands of Christian churches. We sit back
Christ the firstfruits; afterward they and wonder, and say: “Oh, isn't it terrible,
that are Christ's at his coming.” these young children are going into Satan
1 Corinthians 15:21 worship, and the worship of spirits? Young
people are looking for their future in the
When is the resurrection? It does not stars, reading ouija boards, and so on.”
occur when people die, but when Christ Well, where did they get this idea that
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things? They are being taught the doc- god of hell and purgatory. In the writings
trines of Baal. of Virgil, the Roman poet, one finds a
description of how the dead sinners are
Earlier, when I quoted from Webster's purged in the fires. The ancient
1828 Dictionary, Webster compared the Scandinavians and the Japanese, also,
teachings or doctrines of Christ as truth to held to similar beliefs.
Plato's doctrines. He used this comparison
to show that doctrines could be true or The Encyclopedia Americana says:
false. "While there are many and significant
variations of details, the main features of
Here is just a thumbnail sketch of the hell as conceived by the Hindu, Persian,
religions going way back to Plato and Egyptian, Grecian, Hebrew and Christian
beyond. This sketch is from a little tract theologians, are essentially the same." In
that someone else wrote: "Centuries other words, as far as the Encyclopedia
before Christianity was ever preached on Americana is concerned, Christianity
earth, the Buddah's priests in remote preaches the same as these ancient pagan
India were teaching hell fire and eternal religions. Christianity will continue
torture. " preaching the same thing until Christians
study the Bible and find out that the Bible
In the "Harvard Classics," Volume forty-
teaches no such thing.
five, you will find an English translation
of the sacred writings of Buddah, which I have in my possession a tract entitled
give a vivid description of this fiery place “You Preparing for Hell?” Notice that the
of torture, complete with all the trim- question is not “Are you preparing to
mings. "The ancient Hindus and the early serve God?” The woman author states, in
Chaldeans, also, believed the hell-fire doc- one or two sentences, the gist of what we
trine." (The Chaldeans were the people "call Christian preaching today: "There
who had Baal worship; they were are only two future destinations, heaven
Babylon.) "Egyptian priests of the first or hell. Every individual who has lived
world power taught the torment-after- upon the face of this earth will spend an
death theory, sixteen centuries before the eternity in one place or the other." In one
birth of Jesus. According to their papyrus fellswoop, with her doctrine, she destroys
scrolls, now deposited in the British the teachings of the resurrection of the
Museum, daily spell-binding prayers were dead, and the Kingdom of God upon the
said for the dead, to protect them from the earth.
underworld devils."
In contrast, my article entitled "Where
One finds similar torture doctrines, Is Your Soul After Death?" states:
also, taught by the ancient Babylonians,
Persians, and Phoenicians. The chief "Turn to Genesis 3 and read the story
Greek philosophers, Socrates and Plato, of the serpent's deception of Eve, and then
who lived in the fifth century before of Adam. God had told them NOT to eat of
Christ, fixed up a sizzling purgatory theo- a certain tree 'lest ye die.' But the serpent
ry along the lines of earlier pagan said to Eve, 'Ye shall NOT surely die....but
mythologies. your eyes shall be opened, and YE SHALL
BE AS GODS.....' God's Word tells us
Also, among the Greek and Roman today that all shall die and wages of sin is
gods was Pluto, who was considered the death, i.e., if you disobey, you shall die!

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 "But the FALSE MINISTERS TODAY God upon the earth. The ministers are
TELL US THAT ONLY THE BODY DIES, deceiving the people and leading them
AND THAT THE REAL US WILL JUST into Satan’s camp; by telling them that
'GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND BE WITH they do not die, when they die.
THE LORD.'" What are they saying?
THEY ARE SAYING THAT "YE SHALL I am going to quote three men. You
NOT SURELY DIE. . .BUT YOUR EYES think about the meaning of these very
SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL simple statements, made by these good,
BE AS GODS (live in heaven)!" Godly men so many centuries ago:

The ministers are teaching the same William Tyndale said this to a Roman
identical thing with which Satan deceived priest: "Ye, in putting departed souls in
Eve and Adam. If there is any teaching of heaven, hell and purgatory, destroy the
the Catholic and Protestant churches that arguments wherewith Christ and Paul
creates an "I couldn't care less" attitude prove the resurrection."
about the condition of God's earth and its
people, it is this false doctrine, which is Tyndale recognized that the teachings
but the slightly-altered original deception of the Catholic church destroyed the doc-
of our race. trines of Christ concerning the resurrec-
tion of the dead.
The gospel of the kingdom, which is
the true gospel of the Bible, teaches that John Wesley, founder of the Methodist
men are to be resurrected on the earth Churches, said: "It is indeed generally
and to "reign on the earth" with Jesus. supposed that souls of good men as soon
The proof is found in the Bible: as dislodged from the body go directly to
heaven, but this opinion has not the least
“And hast made us unto our God
foundation in the Oracles of God."
kings and priests: and we shall reign
on the earth.”
Today, as far as I know (someone can
Revelation 5:10
correct me if I am wrong), every Methodist
“The heaven, even the heavens, are the Church in the world teaches that when
Lord's: but the earth hath he given to believers die that they go immediately to
the children of men.” heaven. John Wesley taught no such
Psalm 115:16 thing.

This gospel, that we are all going to Justin Martyr wrote in A. D. 150, and
heaven as soon as we die, is the very oppo- you think about this, this may be a hard
site of Bible truth. By deceiving men sentence to take, but we are going to have
about the true nature of man and death, to accept this somewhere along the line;
the ministers keep men's eyes on a heav- "If you meet some that are called
en they will never receive and help Satan Christians, who say when they die their
and his minions take control over the souls are received up into heaven, take
earth. Brother, Sister, that is getting more care that you do not look on these as
true every day. Christians."

Where is the battle and for what is the Justin Martyr said that anyone who
battle? The battle is for the Kingdom of taught or believed that souls went to

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heaven was not to be looked upon as “If any man teach otherwise, and con-
Christian. These are things that I have sent not to wholesome words, even the
proven to you are taught and believed by words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to
most churches in America today. Justin the doctrine which is according to
Martyr says: “Don't even look on them godliness;
even as Christians.” He is proud, knowing nothing, but
doting about questions and strifes of
Just think: Billy Graham, who teaches words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
that when people die they either go to railings, evil surmisings,
heaven or to hell, is on nation-wide televi- Perverse disputings of men of corrupt
sion. I had his list, at one time, of 250 or minds, and destitute of the truth, sup-
350 television stations, about a dozen posing that gain is godliness: from
nights a year on which he was on prime- such withdraw thyself.”
time television. Every time he preaches, 1 Timothy 6:3-5
he tells people the reason they should
come to Christ is so they can go to heaven You notice that Paul tells Timothy, this
when they die. The Bible teaches no such future preacher, that those who will not
thing. preach according to the doctrine of God
are proud (the margin says "a fool") and
Do you believe there are disciples of they have corrupt minds. They "dote" or,
Baal in America? Our churches are full of as the margin says, they are "fond of ques-
them! The entire entity that is called tions". The end result is all of these evil
Christianity, in America today, is actually things.
false doctrine. It is not the doctrine of
Christ. A young man came over here the other
day to fix our postage meter, and in the
I didn't know too much about what the process of the conversation I discovered
Mormon Church teaches on these things that he didn't go to church for two rea-
until we went through Salt Lake City and sons: he couldn't believe in a God who
stopped at the Mormon Tabernacle and would torture billions of people for ever
saw their films. Their films teach, very and ever, and when he did go to church all
specifically, that when you die you go to he found in the church were hypocrites
heaven and you are reunited with your who were crooks and criminals in their
loved ones there. business during the week. I hear this
same thing from many people.
Most people, or most ministers, when
you try to reach them with some sort of Paul says that if you don't preach
truth of the Bible, will refuse to discuss according to the doctrine of Christ, you
other doctrines because they will say, bring on all these other evil things.
their job is to save souls from hell, or to
save souls so that they can go to heaven. “I charge thee therefore before God,
Those two things give them the excuse for and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall-
never getting into the Bible and preaching judge the quick and the dead at his
on other subjects. In other words, finding appearing and his kingdom;
out what the truth of the Bible is. Preach the word; be instant in season,
out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort
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For the time will come when they will This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke
not endure sound doctrine; but after them [meaning the bishops and
their own lusts shall they heap unto preachers] sharply, that they may be
themselves teachers, having itching sound in the faith:
ears; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and
And they shall turn away their ears commandments of men, that turn
from the truth, and shall be turned from the truth.”
unto fables.” Titus 1:12-14
2 Timothy 4:1-4
Our people are being turned from the
Christ will judge when? At His appear- truth by the preaching of lies, and Paul
ing! Meanwhile, we are to preach the says of these people:
Word and when the people won't hear the
truth, they will get lies. It is very simple. “They profess that they know God; but
in works they deny him, being abom-
In Titus, Paul in speaking of bishops inable, and disobedient, and unto
and preachers, exhorts them; every good work reprobate.”
Titus 1:16
“Holding fast the faithful word as he
hath been taught, that he may be able Paul is not talking about professing
by sound doctrine both to exhort and atheists. He is talking about people who
to convince the gainsayers. profess to believe God, but who teach false
For there are many unruly and vain doctrine. From that false doctrine comes
talkers and deceivers, specially they every evil thing.
of the circumcision:
Whose mouths must be stopped, who Perhaps you can understand why the
subvert whole houses, teaching things United States of America, which has more
which they ought not, for filthy lucre's Christian churches, more Bibles and more
sake.” preachers per capita than any other coun-
Titus 1:9-11 try on the globe, is turning to witchcraft,
Satanism, sexual perversions, criminality
I see, by some newspaper articles I and every other evil thing. Where is it
have on the so-called Jesus people (and I coming from? The Bible says it comes
know from personal experience about from the preaching of false doctrines. God
them), that all they teach is heaven and help us. One of these days our people are
hell. These so-called Jesus freaks are going to go back to the traditions of our
being enticed into giving all their worldly colonial forefathers, and we are going to
goods to their leaders. Then they go out on start listening to preachers preaching the
the streets and beg for the food they need truth of the Bible three and four hours at
to eat. What's happening to the people a time, if their voice holds out.
leading them? They are getting rich by
teaching false doctrine. This is what Paul I believe that I have shown you that
was telling Titus. there obviously must be quite a number of
people in America who are secretly, and
“One of themselves, even a prophet of now more openly, showing that they actu-
their own, said, The Cretians are ally worship another god. Not the God of
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god often so disguised that many of us for GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
years thought that some of these people AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
were actually-worshipping the God of the EARTH,
Bible. They, apparently, are so deceptive And I saw the woman drunken with
that they are able to take this Bible, hold the blood of the saints, and with the
it in their hand, actually read things from blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and
it (as Satan is known to do at times), and when I saw her, I wondered with great
preach a doctrine that actually-glorifies admiration.”
Baal, and does not glorify the God of Revelation 17:5-6
Israel.
We know that the saints of God are the
Jesus Christ has sealed to us the children of Israel. The Israel people are
promises in the Old Testament that God called "the saints" several times in the Old
would give His children a Kingdom upon Testament. We, also, saw, in the list I gave
the earth. These devilish people, these earlier, that the first time the worship of
worshipers of Baal, have converted this Baal is mentioned, it was mentioned in
teaching into something entirely differ- conjunction with a priest who attempted
ent. They glorify the power of the devil, to curse the children of Israel. So, we
instead of God. know that one of the manifestations of
Baal worship is enmity and desire for
The Religion of Babylon was destruction of the children of Israel.
Baal Worship
In Revelation we see that this old
I am going to quote just a few verses mother Babylon, apparently, has succeed-
from Revelation about the destruction of ed in causing the deaths of multiplied mil-
prophetic Babylon. I won't take the time lions of the saints of God.
to go into the Scriptures to show you that
the religion of Babylon was Baal worship. If you would like to read further, I
Most Bible students know that. My radio would suggest if you have a copy of
sermons on Christmas will show you, that Halley's Bible Handbook, look near the
in Babylon, they actually worshipped a back of the book and read "Halley's
god called Baal, who was the god of Church History." I cannot give you the
Babylon. exact pages, because with every new edi-
tion they change a few things. Halley has
“And the woman was arrayed in pur-
about seven or eight pages showing the
ple and scarlet colour, and decked
millions upon millions of "the saints of
with gold and precious stones and
God" who were martyred between 500 A.
pearls, having a golden cup in her
D. and about 1700 A. D. For over 1,200
hand full of abominations and filthi-
years, a tremendous persecution of the
ness of her fornication:”
believers took place upon the continent of
Revelation 17:4
Europe. This information, coupled with
You have seen, in reading this study, chapter seventeen of Revelation, tells us
that Baal worship is actually-full of abom- that Mystery Babylon is, also, a religious
inations and filthiness. system. Chapter eighteen of Revelation
shows you that it is also, of course, eco-
“And upon her forehead was a name nomic.
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 In Chapter eighteen, as Babylon's the House of Israel, when they were sent
destruction is complete, we read: into Canaanland (where Baal was wor-
.. shipped), that they should preach to them,
“Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye God told them to burn their idols, tear
holy apostles and prophets; for God down their temples and lay everything
hath avenged you on her. even with the ground.
And a mighty angel took up a stone
like a great millstone, and cast it into The eighteenth chapter of Leviticus
the sea, saying, Thus with violence lists seven specific sins of the Canaanites.
shall that great city Babylon be God says before He lists these sins:
thrown down, and shall be found no
more at all.” “And the Lord spake unto Moses, say-
Revelation 18:20-21 ing,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and
It is obvious, from the Scripture, that say unto them, I am the Lord your
Babylon and her religious system is going God.
to be destroyed by violence, not simply by After the doings of the land of Egypt,
the preaching of the Word. You are not wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and
going to convert the Baal worshippers to after the doings of the land of
Christianity. The Scriptures simply do not Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye
prophesy that; instead, they prophesy not do: neither shall ye walk in their
destruction. ordinances.”
Leviticus 18:1-3
Chapter seven of Deuteronomy gives a
little history and, also, gives God's God Commands the Death Penalty
instructions about how to get rid of Baal For Disciples of Baal
worship and the worship of false gods. We
have already seen that the Canaanites God's instruction to Israel is that they
worshipped Baal and that Israel was com- are not to do the things that the
ing into the land. Here are God's instruc- Egyptians and the Canaanites do in their
tions to Israel: false worship. Then He lists seven sins
which are as follows:
“And when the Lord thy God shall
Number one is nudity; number two is
deliver them before thee; thou shalt
incest; the third sin is adultery; the fourth
smite them, and utterly destroy them;
is given in Leviticus 18:21: "And thou
thou shalt make no covenant with
shalt not let any of thy seed pass through
them, nor shew mercy unto them;
the fire to Molech,. . ." Molech is the
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye
Moabite or Ammonite name for Baal. We
shall destroy their altars, and break
have shown you that most of the preach-
down their images, and cut down
ing today is of Baal worship. The fifth sin
their groves, and burn their graven
is also in verse 21: “.....neither shalt thou
images with fire.”
profane the name of thy God: I am the
Deuteronomy 7:2 & 5
Lord." The sixth sin is homosexuality. The
seventh sin is lying with beasts.
God did not give Israel instructions to
go into Canaanland and preach The Word The punishment for those sins is not
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“For whosoever shall commit any of done that way any more. However, in the
these abominations, even the souls nineteenth chapter of Revelation, after
that commit them shall be cut off from the prophecy of the destruction of Babylon
among their people.” (which was an institution of Baal wor-
Leviticus 18:29 ship), we find these words:

There is no provision in God's Word for “And I saw heaven opened, and
ministers to preach to these people who behold a white horse; and he that sat
are committing these things and to con- upon him was called Faithful and
vert and save them. The whole instruction True (Christoe) and in righteousness
to the House of Israel was that these peo- he doth judge and make war.”
ple, who are committing these seven sins, Revelation 19:11
were to be put to death. God lists the spe-
cific sins that carry the death penalty. Would to God our Christian people
would get this through their head: there is
Chapter twenty of Leviticus lists all of a war coming. A war in which God is the
these things again in reverse order. After major participant.
each sin is listed, God again says to put
those people to death. Some ministers' goals are to evangelize
the world in the next twenty years. They
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he are going to preach to the world in the
lieth with a woman, both of them have next twenty years. Here we have the
committed an abomination: they shall prophecy of the destruction of this organ-
surely be put to death; their blood ized Baal worship called Babylon. Christ
shall be upon them.” is going to come "to judge and to make
Leviticus 20:13 war." Christ is again identified in verse
sixteen:
In verse twenty-seven we read:
“And he hath on his vesture and on
“A man also or woman that hath a his thigh a name written, KINO OF
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
shall surely be put to death: they shall And I saw an angel standing in the
stone them with stones: their blood sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
shall be upon them.” saying to all the fowls that fly in the
Leviticus 20:27 midst of heaven, Come and gather
yourselves together unto the supper of
This is God's way of destroying Baal the great God; That ye may eat the
worship. Let's examine what the New flesh of kings, and the flesh of cap-
Testament has to say about the sentence tains, and the flesh of mighty men,
of death for these sins. So many and the flesh of horses, and of them
Christians today say the death penalty that sit on them, and the flesh of all
was in the Old Testament alone. They say men, both free and bond, both small
that these people were put to death under and great.”
the old laws, but we are under Christ now, Revelation 19:16-18
we are under the blood, we are under
grace, we are not under The Law. They This great war that is to come, which is
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going to result in the deaths of a tremen- they want to do without punishment.
dous number of people. Christ is not com- That is the absolute and total opposite of
ing to convert them, but to destroy them. the preaching and teaching of God's Word,
and yet, these people are, supposedly,
The Lutheran Church primarily-says Lutheran or Christian ministers.
that what we have to do is preach. I am
going to quote from the "Michigan Synod On another page is another minister
News" to show you just what they are who has a unique ministry. Here is his
preaching. The first article on the front ministry: "He has a staff composed of
page, by Dr. Marshall, is entitled: 'The eight parents from the Atwood neighbor-
Church is for the People." The article is to hood, eight from the west side, whose chil-
explain the following situation: some peo- dren are bussed daily to the southside
ple apparently-wanted him to remove a school. As a minister committed to the
pastor who had admitted marrying a concept of integration. . ."
racially-mixed couple. This man who is in
charge of the Synod said, no, he couldn't What did I tell you about Baal wor-
do that. Marshall said that he was power- ship? Baal worship has, as one of its
less to go against the New Testament. tenets, the mixing of the Israelites with
the other races. Here is a minister whose
This man uses the Word of God to say ministry is "devoted to the concept of inte-
he can't stop preachers from marrying gration."
Negroes and Whites, because he would be
going against the New Testament. Lutherans represent a tremendous
body of so-called Christians. What is their
On another page is the official editori- preaching? Their preaching is that you
al of the Michigan Synod. The headline cannot punish anyone; there should be no
reads: "Yes to Abortion Reform." "In the criminal penalties for anything they do,
November elections you will be asked to and abortion, like religion, should be up to
vote on the question of abortion in the individual. What are those people?
Michigan. How should you vote? Since the Are they preaching from the Word of God
question has deep moral and theological and can they be converted? Could Pastor
dimensions. . ." He asks whether the Emry or Pastor Stadsklev go preach to
Church has any authority to preach or to those ministers and convert them back to
say anything about it. He ends by saying: the truth? I don't believe so, but I do
"The point that we are making here is believe that God has an answer for them,
that the Lutheran Church in America has and that answer is death — cessation of
given its counsel, after a lengthy study by life. Perhaps some people will disagree
theologians, and concluded that a person that we are going to end Baal worship in
is morally-permitted, in certain circum- America, and in the world, by putting peo-
stances, to have an abortion. The law ple to death. Maybe they think that all we
should permit us to exercise our beliefs have to do is get more radio stations for
without criminal penalties. Abortion, like the Identity Ministers. No, I am sorry;
religion, is a decision state laws should there are people in this world who will
leave to individuals." refuse to believe the Word of God, regard-
less of how many years or centuries it is
What is he saying? He is saying that preached to them. These men are perfect
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 I just quoted a minister who says that Jesus Commanded His Disciples to
the church people should go out and vote Have a Sword
for abortion, which you know is murder,
and that there should be no criminal Jesus, talking to the disciples in Luke
penalties for it. These ministers say that twenty-two, is telling them that He is
they are teaching the New Testament, but leaving. They didn't quite understand
in the nineteenth chapter of Luke, Jesus that He was going to His death, resurrec-
Christ has these prophetic words: tion and ascension. He asks them a ques-
tion in verse thirty-five:
“But those mine enemies, which would
not that I should reign over them, “And be said unto tbem. When I sent
bring hither, and slay them before you without purse, and scrip. and
me.” shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they
Luke 19:27 said. Nothing.
Then said be unto them. But now, he
He didn't say to preach to His enemies, that hath a purse. let him take it, and
did He? He said "slay them before me. " I likewise his scrip: and he that hath no
don't know where we get the idea that we, sword, let him sell his garment. and
as preachers or evangelists, can convert buy one.”
those who will not be converted. Jesus Luke 22:35-36
Christ, Himself, says that there are going
to be people who will not have Him reign Did Jesus intend His disciples and fol-
over them. His answer is that they will be lowers to be helpless, unarmed people,
brought before Him to be slain. I believe who could not do anything to even defend
that this was a prophecy of the future at their own lives? No, He told His disciples;
the time that He said it. I am leaving you now, if you don't have a
sword go buy one.
Is this the God that is preached in our
churches today? No, it is not. They preach
“For I say unto you. that this that is
the god of love and forgiveness. You can do
written must yet be accomplished in
anything you want, as long as you do it in
me. And he was reckoned among tbe
the name of love. You can even kill little
transgressors: for the things concern-
unborn babies, as long as you do it in the
ing me have an end.
name of love. That's the god they preach.
And they said. Lord. behold. here are
That god happens to be Baal, in spite of
two swords. And be said unto tbem. It
their statement that they are preaching
is enough.”
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 22:37-38
I know that I have startled people a
number of times by reading these verses Jesus Christ, the God of Abraham,
of Scripture, because we are supposed to Isaac, and Jacob, made sure, personally,
be helpless and we are never to be on the that His disciples had weapons of person-
offensive. In fact, we are told, we are not al defense before He left them. Now, I
even supposed to be on the defensive. know, those are strange verses of scrip-
ture to the so-called modernists and the
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 The apostle Paul understood the prin- major purpose of government under God
ciple that Christianity was to be armed. In is to execute wrath upon those who refuse
Romans, chapter thirteen, we read: to have the Lord Jesus Christ reign over
them. That is what Christ said: 'Those
“For rulers are not a terror to good that would not that I should reign over
works, but to tbe evil. Wilt thou then them bring them before me." Where would
not be afraid of the power? do that you bring them before Christ? You would
which is good, and thou shalt have bring them before Christ unto the God-
praise of tbe same: ordained government in the House of
For he (the government) is the minis- Israel and slay them. That is New
ter of God to thee for good. But if thou Testament theology. Is that preached in
do that which is evil, be afraid; for he America today? No, it is not preached any-
beareth not the sword in vain: for he where in the Christian churches. They are
is the minister of God, a revenger to mostly-preaching what these Lutherans
execute wrath upon him that doeth preach — that we are without the Law
evil.” and, therefore, you can't punish anyone
Romans 13:3-4 for anything.

I have in my possession a pamphlet by

Paul is talking about God-ordained a Richard DeHaan. You may know of him.
government and he says that this God- He is on the radio on several score, possi-
ordained government has a sword. What bly hundreds of stations. I don't know. The
did we read, in Leviticus eighteen, that title of this tract is "It Is Finished." What
the House of Israel was to do as a people? did Christ mean when He said on the
They were to put to death a people who cross, "It is finished"? DeHaan lists four
committed all these sins of Canaan and of things that are finished: 1. The conquest
Baal worship. Paul tells us, long after the of sin; 2. The fulfillment of prophecy; 3.
death and resurrection of Christ, that gov- The end of the law; and 4. The defeat of
ernment in the House of Israel is to bear a death.
sword to revenge and execute wrath upon
him that doeth evil. Let me read you what DeHaan says
about the end of the Law. It is quite long,
These foolish or false ministers tell us but part of it says of the people at that
that people should be allowed to do any- time: "Therefore they didn't know that
thing that they want to do with no crimi- Jesus Christ had just paid the penalty for
nal penalties. That is not what the New sin on the cross, had fulfilled the prophet-
Testament teaches, nor is it what the Old ic scripture about a suffering and dying
Testament teaches at all. redeemer and had ended the Mosaic Law,
that system of religious ritual to which
“For for this cause pay ye tribute also: their lives had been dedicated."
for they are God's ministers, attend-
ing continually upon this very thing.” Is God's Law a religious ritual? No,
Romans 13:6 God's Law is a political, economic and
social way of life. This man passes it all off
Attending-continually upon what? as if Moses' Law is nothing more than a
Executing wrath upon him that doeth religious ritual, which has been put away.
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am speaking had been given through If that is believed by Richard DeHaan
Moses by God some 1,500 years before and his followers, and if it is true, then
Christ. A study of the Old Testament these Lutherans are, also, right in saying
scripture shows that the Israelites had that a person should be allowed to do any-
presented sacrifices and offerings, had thing he wishes with no criminal penal-
observed religious festivals and Holy ties. If the Law of Moses, and, therefore,
Days, and had obeyed regulations regard- the penalties for crime, are done away
ing special food and cleansing rituals for with, then no one on this earth has the
centuries prior to the coming of Christ. authority to punish anybody for anything.
This was in response to the demands of Do you follow that? Your neighbor could
the Law, but when Jesus died, the Law, walk right up to you and shoot your wife
and all its observances, came to an end. It and, according to their teaching, you have
had been fulfilled by Christ, for He had no recourse in law. Not even God's Law
perfectly-met its lofty, ethical and spiritu- because it has been put away. You know
al demands during His lifetime and, on what that would result in? Anarchy and
the cross, paid the penalty for the broken the total elimination of Christianity in all
law for sinners. Even though the Bible the world — if God let them have their
emphasizes that we do not live under the way. Yet, these men preach as if they were
Law of Moses today, many people continue ministers of Christ.
to think of themselves as somehow under
a measure of obligation to it." Then he I am going to quote a few verses of
lists a number of Scriptures, which he scripture that are in the actual covenant
does not quote, and then, a little later, he of the Law.
says of these people: "They insist that
Paul is referring to the Civil and “He that smiteth a man, so that he die,
Ceremonial Law of the Old Testament, shall be surely put to death.”
but not to the Ten Commandments. They Exodus 21:12
agree, (he is speaking of the people who
say the Mosaic Law is still in effect) that DeHaan says that it was just an old
the Civil and Ceremonial regulations religious ritual, which was put away. To
under which the Israelites lived were, as these people, capital punishment for
the Apostles say, done away and abol- death is a religious ritual of which they
ished, but they maintain this is not true want no part. Do you know why? Because
when it comes to the Ten Commandments. it is God's Law. That is why he even calls
According to them, the decalogue is still in it a religious ritual. Of course, it is the rit-
effect, but they have no basis in Scripture ual of this Bible, this Word of God, that
for this view point." murderers are to be put to death, and the
disciples of Baal want no part of it.
Richard DeHaan teaches that the Ten
Commandments are, also, put away. What
The punishment for theft is found in
is this? This is the doctrine of Baal. It is
chapter twenty-two of Exodus:
the denial of everything that is taught in
the Word of God. He sums it up under a
“If the theft be certainly found in his
little section entitled: "Ten
hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or
Commandments Not For Us." The last
sheep; he shall restore double.”
sentence reads: "The entire legal system
Exodus 22:4
of Moses, including the Ten
Commandments, was abrogated."
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 That's a law of restitution, if a man to let them kill babies, because that is
steals $10.00 he has to pay back $20.00. part of their religion. God gives no such
That would stop theft in a hurry, wouldn't nonsense. He says "you utterly overthrow
it? Yet, we are told that law is all done them, and break down their images. " We
away with, it does not exist any more. also read that they are to be put to death.
In I Kings 16, we learn a little bit from
“If a man shall cause a field or vine- Israel history:
yard to be eaten, and shall put in his
beast, and shall feed in another man's “And in the thirty and eighth year of
field; of the best of his own field, and Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son
the best of his own vineyard, shall he of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab
make restitution.” tbe son of Omri reigned over Israel in
Exodus 22:5 Samaria twenty and two years.
And Ahab tbe son of Omri did evil in
In other words, if a farmer takes his the sight of the Lord above all that
cows and puts them into the neighbor's were before him.
alfalfa field, then he must make restitu- And it came to pass, as if it had been
tion to his neighbor for the alfalfa that his a light thing for him to walk in the
cows ate. Richard DeHaan says, no, there sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
are no laws like that any more. If that tbat be took to wife Jezebel tbe daug-
were the case, then you could turn your bter of Ethbaal king of tbe Zidonians,
cattle into your neighbor's clover field and and went and served Baal, and wor-
let them eat the whole thing, because shipped him. And he reared up "an
there is no law. altar for Baal in the house of Baal,
which he had built in Samaria.”
Speaking of the gods of the Canaanites 1 Kings 16:29-32
in chapter twenty-three of Exodus, we Here we have the whole kingdom,
read: including the king, worshipping Baal.
This occurred when there was a prophet
“Thou shalt not bow down to their by the name of Elijah there. You and I
gods, nor serve them, nor do after hear a lot of sermons on Elijah, about the
their works: but thou shalt utterly miracles that he did, such as the miracle
overthrow them, and quite break of praying for no rain (it didn't rain for
down their images.” three and a half years), the miracle of the
Exodus 23:24 barrel of meal and the miracle of raising
the woman's son from the dead. Everyone
Why Won't Christians Protect their preaches about the miracles that he did,
Own Religion? even including the one where he called
down fire from heaven. I am not going to
Do you know why the Christian people quote the story, but you know that Elijah
do not protect their own Christian reli- told Ahab to bring the priests of Baal and
gion? It is because they have been con- have them set up an offering and then
vinced of this idea of tolerance, of religious pray to Baal. Of course, they prayed all
freedom. Everybody should be able to wor- day and they cut themselves and the
ship the way he pleases. Do you know that jumped up and down on top of the pile of
abortion is part of Baal religion? If you are things, and so on, and nothing ever hap-
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 After the priests of Baal failed, Elijah ally-sent down miraculous fire from heav-
began praying to the God of Israel and en and burned up all this wood that was
this is what happened: absolutely-soaked with pails and pails of
water. What was the end of this wonder-
“And it came to pass at the time of the working of God? The death of the priests
offering of the evening sacrifice, that of Baal.
Elijah the propbet came near, and
said, Lord God of Abrabam, Isaac, Because Ahab had repented, God
and of Israel, let it be known this day promised that He would delay the punish-
that thou art God in Israel, and that I ment of the House of Israel until the time
am thy servant, and that I have done of Ahab's children. In chapter ten of 2
all these things at thy word. Kings, Jehu slays all of Ahab's sons and
Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this later on in the chapter, we read:
people may know that thou art the
Lord God, and that thou hast turned “And Jehu gathered all the people
their heart back again. together, and said unto them, Ahab
Then the fire of the Lord fell, and con- served Baal a little; but Jehu shall
sumed the burnt sacrifice, and the serve him much.
wood, and the stones, and the dust, Now therefore call unto me all the
and licked up the water that was in prophets of Baal, all his servants, and
the trench. all his priests; let none be wanting: for
And when all tbe people saw it, they I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal;
fell on their faces: and they said, The whosoever shall be wanting, he shall
Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to
God.” the intent that he might destroy the
1 Kings 18:36-39 worshippers of Baal.”
2 Kings 10:18-19

How has Baal Worship been Jehu had taken over rulership of the
Destroyed in the Past? kingdom. Did he organize the priesthood
and get them to take the Word of God and
Most ministers that I have heard the Law of Moses and go out and preach to
preach on these verses will go that far, the false believers and Baal worshippers?
and then they will stop. They will go right No. He said, all you Baal worshippers
on through the miracles, even the calling come in here. We are going to have a big
down of the fire from heaven, but the next bible conference (out of their bible, of
verse they usually skip: course). We are going to serve Baal more
than anyone else. He did this for the pur-
“And Elijah said unto them, Take the pose of gathering the Baal worshippers
prophets of Baal; let not one of them into one place in the land. After they are
escape. And they took them: and gathered together, we read:
Elijah brought them down to the
brook. Kishon, and slew them there.” “And he said unto him that was over
1 Kings 18:40 the vestry, Bring forth vestments for
all the worshippers of Baal. And he
God brought about the work necessary brought them forth vestments.
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son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, What did Jehu do? He killed all the
and said unto the worshippers of worshippers of Baal. Don't you think that
Baal, brought revival into the kingdom! But he
Search, and look that there be here had to go through this methodology, this
with you none of the servants of the act because there was a way in which the
Lord, but the worshippers of Baal Baal worshippers could tell the ones that
only.” were the true worshippers of the true
2 Kings 10:22-23 Lord. Today, I am afraid, we are not quite
at that point because, sometimes, it is
Notice how this was done. I can see rather hard to tell the true worshippers of
this happening in America. Jehu did not the Lord Jesus Christ from the worship-
go to the believers in the true God and tell pers of Baal. Using this as an example, I
them to get out from among the Baal wor- don't think the destruction of Baal, or the
shippers. Instead, he went to the Baal killing of Baal priests, is going to come
worshippers and told them to check until they can tell the difference between
around and be sure there were no wor- the false worshippers of Christ and the
shippers of Jehovah in their midst. He true ones, because this is what was done
told them to kick out the servants of the here.
Lord. Take them off the church rolls. Be
sure they are outside the building. I think “And they brought forth the images
I see this happening in America. I keep out of the house of Baal. and burned
preaching and telling people to get out of them.
these false churches. Quite a few refuse to And they brake down the image of
leave, and every once in a while I hear Baal, and brake down the house of
about someone being kicked out. Jehu Baal, and made it a draught house
sent in a message to the anti-Christ ene- unto this day. Thus Jehu destroyed
mies of God, the Baal worshippers, and he Baal out of Israel.”
said, you be sure you kick every body out 2 Kings 10:26-28
of your place that worships the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Baal worship was eliminated not by
preaching, not at all. It was by destruc-
“And when they went in to offer sacri- tion, by the same principle that we read in
fices and burnt offerings. Jehu the New Testament.
appointed fourscore men without, and
said, If any of I am going to quote from a book, put
the men whom I have brought into out by National Geographic, so that you
your hands escape, he that letteth him see that this happened not, just in the
go, his life shall be for the life of him. Bible, but in more modern times, also.
And it came to pass. as soon as he had This book is entitled The Vikings.
made an end of offering the burnt Scandinavians might be interested in the
offering. that Jehu said to the guard author's telling of how Christianity came
and to the captains. Go in. and slay to these Vikings in Finland, Norway, and
them; let none come forth. And they Sweden. There apparently-were a lot of
smote them with the edge of the sword; people on the north coast of Europe who
and the guard and the captains cast were converted to Christianity; but, the
them out, and went to the city of the Vikings worshipped Thor and many other
house of Baal.” pagan gods, up into the ninth and tenth
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 "Even in introducing the gentle doc- Olaf of Norway do, when they wouldn't lis-
trines of Christianity to the Kiev Rus (this ten to the Word of God? He put them to
is over and beyond Finland in Russia), death.
Vladimir — called the Holy — demon-
strated a certain Viking strength of pur- Quoting again from The Vikings:
pose. According to one report, he drove the
entire population into the Dnieper for "Whatever the methods, they worked.
mass baptism, after a guard of his soldiers When Harald BIuetooth's son, Svein
had dragged down and clubbed the idol Forkbeard, became King of Denmark
Perun, or Thor, and thrown it into the about 985, he was a Christian monarch,
river." ruling a largely Christian land. And when
Svein's son, Knut, forged England and
How did he convert them to most of Scandinavia into a North Sea
Christianity? He tore down their heathen Empire, Christians constituted the major-
idols and forced them to be baptized in the ity of his subjects.
name of the Lord Jesus Christ. "Thus, the dawn of the 11th century
saw the cross of Christ supplanting the
The book included a drawing, at this hammer of Thor throughout the develop-
point, showing an artist's conception of ing kingdoms of the North. Only in remote
the king and his soldiers throwing the Sweden, the ultimate bastion of European
idols into the water and driving people paganism, did Odin and his pantheon
into the river. (that means many gods) survive for yet a
few more generations.
There is another picture of King Olaf "Christianity spelled the end of the
Tryggvason of Norway. He converted the way of life that had sired the Viking Age.
people of Norway. The picture shows him Now eternal damnation, rather than
tearing and knocking apart the image of Valhalla, (of course, this writer puts in
the god, Thor. modern teachings) awaited warriors slain,
while ravaging and murdering. Charity
"In 1016, Olaf ascended the throne of replaced ruthlessness in the catalogue of
Norway and, for the brief two years of his virtues, as mercy replaced rapine. Trading
reign, evangelized his countrymen with in slaves — now largely the delivering of
unflagging zeal. Above all, reports Adam co-religionists into infidel hands — grew
of Bremen, Olaf 'routed out the magicians ever more repugnant to the new
from the land. Although all barbarism Christians."
overflows with their number, the
Norwegian land in particular was full of How were new Christians converted?
these monsters.' By the King destroying the false gods in
"Ardent for converts, Olaf burned down the worship places and putting to death
the farms of all who resisted the divine those who refused to turn to the new reli-
word; nor did he shrink from blinding and gion. It didn't just happen in old Israel, it
maiming those of his subjects hardened in happened in more modern times, also.
error."
How is Baal Worship Going
What did God say was to be done to the to be Destroyed in the Future?
Israelites who could not be converted?
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“And I saw an angel standing in the and upon the many people that are
sun; and he cried with a loud voice, with him, an overflowing rain, and
saying to all the fowls that fly in the great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.”
midst of heaven, Come and gather Ezekiel 38:21-22
yourselves together unto the supper of
the great God; It doesn't say He will plead with them,
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and using the Word of God does it? God will
the flesh of captains, and the flesh of call for a sword against Gog and Magog,
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, the rulers of this world anti-Christ sys-
and of them that sit on them, and the tem. He is going to see they are physical-
flesh of all men, both free and bond, ly-destroyed from off the earth. That this
both small and great.” is the end of the wicked is evident in the
Revelation 19:17-18 next chapter of Ezekiel:

God called all the fowls of the air and “And I will set my glory among the
told them to do what? Eat the flesh of heathen, and all the heathen shall see
kings and princes and all of these things. my judgment that I have executed,
and my band that I have laid upon
“And the beast was taken, and with them.
him the false prophet that wrought So (or in that manner) the house of
miracles before him, with which he Israel shall know that I am the Lord
deceived them that had r:eceived the their God from that day and for-
mark of the beast, and them that wor- ward.”
shipped his image. These both were Ezekiel 39:21-22
cast alive into a lake of fire burning
with brimstone. And the remnant God is saying that, by destroying the
were slain with the sword of him that anti-christ disciples of Baal, Israel will
sat upon the horse, which sword pro- know that He is the Lord their God.
ceeded out of his mouth: and all the
fowls were filled with their flesh.” “Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
Revelation 19:20-21 Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the
heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
What is this describing? This is the The Lord hath taken away thy judg-
destruction of all false religions upon the ments, he hath cast out thine enemy:
earth. It is often referred to as "the supper the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in
of the great God" and also "the last bat- the midst of thee: thou shalt not see
tle." I believe that is the same battle evil any more.”
described in Ezekiel thirty-eight and thir- Zephaniah 3:14-15
ty-nine:
The good news is that Baal worship is
“And I will call for a sword against going to end. Zephaniah devotes his entire
him, throughout all my mountains, three chapters to a prophecy of just what
saith the Lord God: evety man's sword we have been talking about: the destruc-
shall be against his brother. tion of Baal, the destruction of all heathen
And I will plead against him with religions upon the earth and the bringing
pestilence and with blood; and I will in of the kingdom.
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 We are going to examine the book of dom of God upon the earth. This day of the
Zephaniah to show you the culmination of Lord will end with the kingdom of God
the ages, as seen by a prophet, who proph- upon the earth.
esied over 600 years before the birth of the
Lord Jesus Christ. This is not someone Let us start reading in the first chap-
writing about present day America and ter of Zephaniah. This man was actually-
the world from today's headlines. This given by God to write this down over 600
prophecy was given over 2,500 years ago. years before the birth of the Lord Jesus
However, as we read, you will see that it Christ.
must be of God because it describes mod-
ern-day America and the rest of the world “The word of the Lord which came
almost to a tee. unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the
son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah,
Let us read a few miscellaneous verses the son of Hizkiah, in the days of
before we start to show you what this is Josiah the son of Amon, king of
about. In verse fourteen of the first chap- Judah.
ter we read: I will utterly consume all things from
off the land, saith the Lord.
“The great day of the Lord is near, it I will consume man and beast; I will
is near, and hasteth greatly, even the consume the fowls of the heaven, and
voice of the day of the Lord: the the fishes of the sea, and the stum-
mighty man shall cry there bitterly.” bling-blocks (idols) with the wicked;
Zephaniah 1:14 and I will cut off man from off the
land, saith the Lord.”
I believe it is called "the day of the Zephaniah 1:1-3
Lord" about five or six times in the entire
prophecy. Remember, when you read the word
"all" in prophecies, or even in the histories
“. . .it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Bible, it doesn't necessarily mean
of the Lord's anger.” "every thing". It means all of whatever is
Zephaniah 2:3 being talked about. As we continue read-
ing Zephaniah, you will see that what he
Here it is called "the day of the Lord's is talking about is the wicked or the ene-
anger". This day or this time will result in mies. So, when God says He is going to cut
what we read earlier: off ALL things, He doesn't mean every
thing, He means all things which are out
“Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
of line with the Word of God. That will
Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the
become more clear as we go on.
heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
The Lord hath taken away thy judg- “I will also stretch out mine hand
ments, he hath cast out thine enemy: upon Judah, and upon all the inhabi-
the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in tants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off
the midst of thee: thou shalt not see the remnant of Baal from this place,. .
evil any more.” .“
Zephaniah 3:14-15 Zephaniah 1 :4
So, whatever these events will be, they That is what I have been talking about
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ern Jerusalem, there are disciples of Baal. What is Christ's answer?
Now is coming the time when God is going
to cut them all off. “And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye
“. . .and the name of the Chemarims that work iniquity.”
[Baal worshippers] with the priests; Matthew 7:23
And them that worship the host of
heaven upon the housetops; and them Christ was saying that there are those
that worship and that swear by the who preach Baal doctrines even though
Lord, and that swear by Malcham;” they call upon the name of the Lord. All
Zephaniah 1:4-5 throughout the New Testament, we are
warned about people who would preach
Malcham was the Ammonite name for Jesus Christ and would deceive many.
Baal. When you read this term "Malcham" Well, back here in Zephaniah, there is a
in the scripture, you are also reading prophecy that God was going to cut off
about Baal. ".....them that swear by the those people who preach both the Lord
Lord, and that swear by Malcham." Now and Baal.
that sounds rather strange, doesn't it? It
does until you realize God is talking about “And them that are turned back from
people who swear by both God Almighty tbe Lord; and those that have not
and the god Baal. There is a great host of sougbt the Lord, nor enquired for
ministers in America today who preach him.”
both the doctrines of Christ and the doc- Zephaniah 1:6
trines of Baal. This is a strange thing. It
is almost unbelieveable that people could Them that are turned back from the
swear by the Lord and swear by other Lord" means those who apparently-had a
gods at the same time. God says He is knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. They
going to cut off them that worship and knew He was the Savior, knew His blood
swear by the Lord and that swear by had redeemed Israel, and then turned
Malcham. around and went back into some other
thing, and denied that faith. It, also,
In Matthew, chapter seven, we find refers to those who have not sought the
that Jesus Christ apparently-knew that Lord nor inquired for Him.
there were people who were going to be
like that in the end of the age. That would bring about a pretty com-
plete destruction, wouldn't you think?
“Not every one that saith unto me, Stop and think for a moment of all of these
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- things. The Baal worshippers will be cut
dom of heaven; but he that doeth the off, as will the double-minded ones: those
will of my Father which is in heaven. who serve Christ and Baal, those who are
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, turned back from Christ and those who
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy have never desired to learn a thing about
name? and in thy name have cast out the great God Almighty.
devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works?” The Bible says that the stars declare
Matthew 7:21-22 the handiwork of God; yet, there are still
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that God's Word had gone into all the the first thing they think of is hippies or
world and yet, there are people who will other people who dress so strangely. No,
have never made any attempt to find God. this is not what Christ was talking about.
Zephaniah is prophesying about the day Jesus Christ knew of that day and actual-
when all these people will be destroyed. ly gave us a parable concerning it, in the
twenty-second chapter of Matthew — the
“Hold thy peace at the presence of the parable of the wedding feast and the wed-
Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at ding guests.
hand: for tbe Lord hath prepared a
sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. “And when the king came in to see the
And it shall come to pass in the day of guests, he saw there a man which had
the Lord's sacrifice,. . “ not on a wedding garment:
Zephaniah 1:7-8 And he saith unto him, Friend, how
camest thou in hither not having a
Let us read from Ezekiel thirty-nine, wedding garment? And he was
before we go on. In this prophecy of this speechless.
great battle, when the forces of God and Then said the king to the servants,
Magog would come against the mountains Bind him hand and foot, and take
of Israel, we read: him away, and cast him into outer
darkness; there shall be weeping and
“And, thou son of man, thus saith the gnashing of teeth.”
Lord God; Speak unto every feathered Matthew 22:11-13
fowl, and to every beast of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gath- Isn't that wonderful that Zephaniah,
er yourselves on every side to my sacri- 700 years before Christ, talked of a com-
fice that I do sacrifice for you; even a ing day of the Lord's sacrifice, when God
great sacrifice upon the mountains of would punish those who had strange
Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and apparel? Christ told us at the time of the
drink blood.” wedding supper there would be those who
Ezekiel 39:17 would not have on a wedding garment and
they would be cast out into outer dark-
In verse nineteen, He calls it again: ". . ness. I believe this is talking about those
. my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for who do not believe in the Lord Jesus
you." I believe the battle described in Christ. This parable has not come to pass
Ezekiel thirty-eight and thirty-nine is "the in all of history. It must, therefore, be an
battle of the day of sacrifice " of which end-time prophecy. Christ is going to pun-
Zephaniah is prophesying. ish the leaders and rulers in Israel and all
who do not believe in Him.
“And it shall come to pass in the day
of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will pun- “In the same day also will I punish all
ish the princes, and the king's chil- those that leap on the threshold,
dren, and all such as are clothed with which fill their master's houses with
strange apparel.” violence and deceit.
Zephaniah 1:8 And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord, that there shall be the
This is a very significant statement. I noise of a cry from the fish gate, and
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great crashing from the hills. Howl, ye isn't doing anything now. We are told God
inhabitants of Maktesh, (the mer- isn't doing anything, He is not doing good
chant street in old Jerusalem) for all or evil, we are just going along on our way.
the merchant people are cut down; all In fact, some believe He is doing so little
they that bear silver are cut off.” that they presume He is dead. Some min-
Zephaniah 1:9-11 isters and some modernists are actually-
preaching that God is dead or else He is
This, again, fits the prophecy of the off away somewhere, or He is finished
destruction of Babylon, which we read of with us. Some of our great anti-commu-
in Revelation eighteen. nist leaders tell us that God just set the
worlds in motion and that is all He did.
“. . .Alas, alas that great city Babylon, What are they saying? They are saying
that mighty city! for in one hour is thy that God will not do evil and He'll not do
judgment come. good. God says those people are going to
And the merchants of the earth shall be punished in that day, also.
weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more: Zephaniah 1:12 should be read in con-
The merchandise of gold, and silver, junction with chapters eight and nine of
and precious stones, and of pearls, Ezekiel because those two chapters are a
and fine linen, and purple, and silk, description of the punishment of the pro-
and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and fessing church in the end of the age. God
all manner vessels of ivory, and all took Ezekiel (in a vision) through the
manner vessels of most precious wood, church and showed him all the abomina-
and of brass, and iron, and marble, tions inside of the church. As He finished
And cinnamon, and odours, and oint- we read:
ments, and frankincense, and wine,
and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, “Then said he unto me, The iniquity of
and beasts, and sheep, and horses, the bouse of Israel and Judah is
and chariots, and slaves, and souls of exceeding great, and the land is full
men.” of blood, and the city full of perverse-
Revelation 18:10-13 ness: for they say, The Lord hath for-
saken the earth, and the Lord seeth
This is telling of a day of destruction of
not.”
this economic, world empire called
Ezekiel 9:9
Mystery Babylon, right along with the
destruction of all of these other ungodly
Why is our land full of blood? Why do
people.
we have murderers who go unpunished
“And it shall come to pass at that and continue to murder? Why is there so
time, that I will search Jerusalem much criminality? The governmental sys-
with candles, and punish the men tem has almost become a system of crimi-
that are settled on their lees: that say nals, robbers and plunderers of the peo-
in their heart, The Lord will not do ple. This is the reason for all of this: "for
good, neither will he do evil.” they say, The Lord hath forsaken the
Zephaniah 1:12 earth, and the Lord seeth not." The
churches have taught for so long that God
If there is anyone thing that our people is not doing anything on the earth. They
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to you when you die. It is because of this And I will bring distress upon men,
false teaching that men do not obey God that they shall walk like blind men,
on the earth. Consequently, the whole because they have sinned against the
earth is filled with blood and perverse- Lord: and their blood shall be poured
ness. Here, in Zephaniah, God said that out as dust, and their flesh as the
He was going to punish those people who dung.”
say that the Lord doesn't do good or do Zephaniah 1:16-17
evil.
Yes, there will be a great battle. A
“Therefore their goods shall become a great sacrifice, if you please.
booty, and their houses a desolation:
they shall also build houses, but not “Neither their silver nor their gold
inhabit them; and they shall plant shall be able to deliver them in the
vineyards, but not drink the wine day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole
thereof.” land shall be devoured by the fire of
Zephaniah 1:13 his jealousy: for he shall make even a
speedy riddance of all them that dwell
That means that all of the ill-gotten in the land.”
wealth that has been stolen and plun- Zephaniah 1:18
dered from the people will be returned to
the people. The Bible calls it "the year of The second chapter of Isaiah tells us that:
Jubilee, which must come."
“. . .in that day a man shall cast his
“The great day of the Lord is near, it idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
is near, and hasteth greatly, even the which they made each one for himself
voice of the day of the Lord: the to worship, to the moles and to the
mighty man shall cry there bitterly. bats:”
That day is a day of wrath, a day of Isaiah 2:20
trouble and distress, a day of waste-
ness and desolation, a day of dark- Notice, in Zephaniah, there is no indi-
ness and gloominess, a day of clouds cation of punishment or judgment upon
and thick darkness.” the meek of the earth. The believers in
Zephaniah 1:14-15 Christ are not listed in this destruction of
all. Only those who fit the description in
Notice the difference between these the above verses, from actual Baal wor-
verses and what is commonly taught shippers to those who have never, never,
today. The ministers of today try to tell never sought the Lord God Almighty, are
the Christians that this is describing the to be destroyed. God is a God of justice.
day when Christ comes secretly and takes Let us not begin to question this. We
you all off from the earth, and turns the should not say: Lord, I wouldn't do it that
earth over to the anti-Christ. Not so; way, what I would do is raise up a bunch
Christ says the day of the Lord is a day of evangelists and go out and convert
terrible destruction. them all. God said: these centuries have
rolled on, I have winked at these things in
“A day of the trumpet and alarm times past, but not now, the day of judg-
against the fenced cities, and against ment is upon the earth.
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 Let us examine closely this term, "by God doesn't tell you that you are going to
the fire of his jealousy." be saved, if you are the most saintly per-
son who ever walked upon the earth. He
“And it shall come to pass at the same lays down only one condition: "seek ye the
time when Gog shall come against the Lord, it may well be that ye will be hid in
land of Israel, saith the Lord God, the day of the Lord's anger."
that my fury shall come up in my face.
For in my jealousy and in the fire of Following this is a description of destruc-
my wrath have I spoken, Surely in tion which is very intriguing:
that day there shall be a great shak-
ing in the land of Israel;” “For Gaza shall be forsaken, and
Ezekiel 38:18-19 Ashkelon a desolation: they shall
drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and
The term “Jealousy” is used by God Ekron shall be rooted up.
and both Ezekiel and Zephaniah, deliber- Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea
ately. In these verses the great God coast, the nation of the Cherethites!
Almighty is jealous over His bride, Israel. the word of the Lord is against you; O
A husband has a right to be jealous over Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I
his bride, correct? God is going to move to will even destroy thee, that there shall
bring that shaking in the earth "by the be no inhabitant.”
fire of his jealousy. " It is for the bringing Zephaniah 2:4-5
back, the redemption, the cleansing of the
virgin bride of Israel to Himself. These verses do not fit the fundamen-
talist prophecy of the Jews going back to
In chapter two of Zephaniah, the old Canaan land, do they? It almost
prophet Zephaniah speaks not to the sounds as if there is going to be a deliber-
wicked, but to the righteous: ate destruction by God of the land of
Canaan, the land of the Philistines. He
“Gather yourselves together, yea, says:
gather together, O nation not desired;
Before the decree bring forth, before “And the sea coast shall be dwellings
the day pass as the chaff, before the and cottages for shepherds, and folds
fierce anger of the Lord come upon for flocks.
you, before the day of the Lord's anger And the coast shall be for the remnant
come upon you. of the house of Judah; they shall feed
Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon
earth, which have wrought his judg- shall they lie down in the evening: for
ment; seek righteousness, seek meek- the Lord their God shall visit them
ness: it may be ye shall be hid in the and turn away their captivity.”
day of the Lord's anger.” Zephaniah 2:6-7
Zephaniah 2:1-3
Some people believe that there may be
Who Will Survive the Day of the a remnant of Judah in what is called mod-
Lord's Anger? ern Jewry. If there are a few descendants
of the tribe of Judah in modern Jewry,
Here is the promise from God they would be saved in old Canaanland
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wouldn't take very many people, would it, going to destroy these Ammonites and
to use that small part of the country? Moabites because they were against the
However, the rest of Canaanland, the land children of Israel. There is a great host of
of the Philistines, just very well may come people who come under that destruction,
under total destruction according to not only because they are anti-God, but
Zephaniah. because they are against the true children
of Israel.
“I have heard the reproach of Moab,
and the revilings of the children of “The Lord will be terrible unto them:
Ammon, whereby they have for he will famish all the gods of the
reproached my people, and magnified earth; and men shall worship him,
themselves against their border. every one from his place, even all the
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of isles of the heathen.”
hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab Zephaniah 2:11
shall be as Sodom, and the children of
Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breed- This must be an end-time prophecy. It
ing of nettles, and saltpits, and a per- cannot be a prophecy about old Palestine
petual desolation: the residue of my at the time that Zephaniah lived.
people shall spoil them, and the rem- Zephaniah preached in Old Israel
nant of my people shall possess them.” between the Syrian captivity and the cap-
Zephaniah 2:8-10 tivity in Babylon. In these verses, he is
speaking of a time when all the gods of the
If you want to read more on that you earth will be destroyed; therefore, it can
will find that Jeremiah fortyeight is a only be an end-time prophecy.
complete prophecy of the destruction of
the Moabites, and Jeremiah forty- nine is What's going to be the result of all this
a prophecy of the destruction of the destruction? Just stop and think for a
Ammonites. Then follows Jeremiah fifty moment. If you destroyed all of those who
and fifty-one, of course, which is the worshipped Baal, all of those who worship
prophecy of the destruction of the future the stars and heavens, all the astrologers,
prophetic Babylon. The above verses don't all of the people who were opposed to
sound like just a removal of the wicked, do Israel, and all of the people who have
they? It sounds like there will be complete never sought the Lord, what would you
and total destruction. have left? You would have left the true fol-
lowers of the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of
“This shall they have for their pride; Israel. That is the purpose for which all of
because they have reproached and the events of this age are moving.
magnified themselves against the peo-
ple of the Lord of hosts.” “Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain
Zephaniah 2:10 by my sword.
And he will stretch out his hand
The principle that God would bless against the north, and destroy
those who bless Him and curse those that Assyria; and will make Nineveh a des-
curse Him goes all the way back to olation, and dry like a wilderness.
Genesis, to God's covenant with Abraham. And flocks shall lie down in the midst
That blessing pertains to all of Abraham's of her, all the beasts of the nations:
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shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; One of the great tragedies of this
their voice shall sing in the windows; United States of America and our
desolation shall be in the thresholds: brethren in western Europe, is the corrup-
for he shall uncover the cedar work. tion of the so-called criminal and court
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt system. It is almost-impossible to receive
carelessly, that said in her heart, I justice in American courts anymore. The
am, and there is none beside me: how criminals are released and sent on their
is she become a desolation, a place for way. Almost every time you read about a
beasts to lie down in! every one that murderer, he serves from one to six years
passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his and then he is back out committing the
hand.” same crime again. Why? Because the
Zephaniah 2:12-15 court system simply does not bring God's
justice on the land or upon the people. God
These verses tell of the destruction of says: "her judges are evening wolves;"
the Ethiopians, which, I believe, are what
we call the modern Negroes. Ethiopia was “Her prophets are light and treacher-
the ancient name for Africa and, also, ous persons: her priests have polluted
Assyria, which is another name for the sanctuary, they have done vio-
Mystery Babylon. Remember that Baal lence to the law.”
was the king of both Assyria and Babylon Zephaniah 3:4
and, therefore, they were centers of Baal
worship. Earlier I quoted from an article by
Richard DeHaan. He is one of the best
“Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, known preachers in the nation. He used to
to the oppressing city! She obeyed not preach that God's Law was done away,
the voice; she received not correction; now he has added the Ten
she trusted not in the Lord; she drew Commandments to his list of abolished
not near to her God.” Laws. What has he (and others like him)
Zephaniah 3:1-2 done? He, and they, have done violence to
God's Law. Who are they? The prophets
In spite of the preaching of thousands and the preachers — the men who stand
and tens of thousands of preachers and up in the name of Christ. What is
missionaries who have traveled the world Zephaniah describing? Is he describing
over; the world, the heathen, the Baal old Israel? No, he is describing the United
worshippers, the anti-Christs, the people States of America and our brethren in
who hate God's Israel people, simply have western Europe. He is describing the area
not drawn near to the Lord. There are a where the Bible is, where Christ is
people who, no matter what kind of preached. Even though we have the Bible,
preaching they hear and how much, will and Christ is preached in this land, we
never answer the call of the preacher. still have all of this corruption, this turn-
ing away from God and defying Him and
“Her princes within her are roaring His Law.
lions; her judges are evening wolves;
they gnaw not the bones till the mor-
row.” “The just Lord is in the midst thereof;
Zephaniah 3:3 he will not do iniquity: every morning
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he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth the earth, and I would have to accept His
no shame.” hand and the power in it.. Perhaps, this is
Zephaniah 3:5 just an example of what can happen in a
matter of a few seconds, by the natural
I do not believe this age will end unless powers of the earth being used by God
it is possible for every man, woman and Almighty. The entire central part of one
child in Christendom to hear the truth of city was almost leveled. In the last fifty
the Word of the Lord. Some people write years, literally hundreds of cities have
me letters, or talk to me personally, and been destroyed in war.
they ask; Pastor Emry, how do you stay on
radio with some of the things that you “I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou
say? I believe it is the Lord's purpose that wilt receive instruction; so their
His people will hear His truth, period. I do dwelling should not be cut off, howso-
not believe that God will do iniquity. What ever I punished them: but they rose
I mean by iniquity is: that I do not believe early, and corrupted all their doings.”
God will destroy those who have never Zephaniah 3:7
had an opportunity to hear the Word of
the Lord, in the house of Israel. God will You see, no matter how much desola-
see that His people will all have the oppor- tion God brings upon individual nations
tunity. He will do this by using the radio, and cities and peoples, they will not turn
the printing press, the pulpit and word of to the Lord until they are destroyed from
mouth; with you people as witnesses. I off the earth. I know that is a terrible
believe that in a matter of just a few thing for human beings to think about and
years, maybe only a few months, we will to say; yet, God gave His word. He pun-
see that this gospel of the kingdom, the ished them, He even destroyed cities.
national identity of the house of Israel, What did they do? They went right on
will have been preached in every town, their own way and corrupted all their
hamlet city and state on this North doings. God gave us the hundreds of years
American continent. I sincerely-believe it to study His word. He gave us several
is coming. thousand years of ministers preaching.
We have evidence of God's power and His
“I have cut off the nations: their tow- word and still there are those who will not
ers are desolate; I made their streets have it.
waste, that none passeth by: their
cities are destroyed, so that there is no “Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the
man, that there is none in, habitant.” Lord, until the day that I rise up to the
Zephaniah 3:6 prey: for my determination is to gath-
er the nations, that I may assemble
As I read this last night I was unaware the kingdoms, to pour upon them
of an earthquake that was listed in this mine indignation, even all my fierce
morning's paper. Isn’t that rather star- anger: for all the earth shall be
tling? According to the newspaper, the devoured with the fire of my
entire central part of a large city of Jealousy.”
100,000 or so, down in South America, is Zephaniah 3:8
now nothing but rubble and ruin. I don't
know whether that was actually the hand Remember, back in chapter one of
of the Lord, but the Lord is the ruler over Zephaniah, God said all the land, all the

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country, all of Israel would be devoured the English language has become the offi-
with the fire of His jealousy? This is not cial language all over the world. All
going to be some local revival. Zephaniah treaties are written in the language of the
is talking about a time when God will participants and another copy is made in
move upon all of the nations and the peo- English. All trade agreements are done
ple of the entire earth. This man saw this the same way. Every embassy in the world
2,500 years ago. Today, we see that there keeps someone there who can talk to any-
has been placed in man's hands the abili- one in English, no matter what the native
ty to destroy cities and literally nations. language is. It is interesting that the anti-
Christ people who are putting out new
Someone gave to me some information translations of the Bible, including the
about a medical situation, recently. I Living Bible, have changed the above
imagine we will be hearing more about verse to read: "At that time I will change
this if the media decides to allow us to the speech of my returning people to pure
hear it. Some doctors are recognizing that Hebrew." (TLB paraphrase of Zephaniah
Sickle Cell Anemia, which affects the 3:9)
Negro race, could develop into a situation
where hundreds of thousands, even mil- In other words, to fit their Jewish
lions, of Negroes would die in a matter of Israel theory, they insert the word
a few years from that one disease. The Hebrew, which is not in the text at all. All
Jews happen to have another disease God said was that He would give every-
called Tay Sachs, which effects body the same language. By the way, the
Ashkenazim Jews. The Ashkenazim con- Jews have set up universities, in Israel, to
stitute ninety percent of all the Jews of try to teach Hebrew and they are having
the world. They are the only people in the no success. The Jews speak Yiddish,
world who have that disease. Tay Sachs which is not Hebrew, in spite of most peo-
disease could lead to their destruction as a ple thinking that it is. Yiddish is a cor-
people. Do you think that God doesn't rupted German. No one today is learning
know about these things? We are just Hebrew. I believe the pure language is
beginning to see that there exists, on this going to be the English language.
planet, the necessary things to wipe out
people by the hundreds of millions. Man The reason God's people will be given a
cannot do a thing about it. Doctors are try- pure language is "to call upon the name of
ing to find out ways and nothing they can the Lord, to serve him with one consent."
do can stop it. I believe God is bringing
these diseases upon these people. This will be a world wide occurence
and the next verse gives the location of
“For then (following that) will I turn where it will start.
to the people a pure language, that
they may all call upon the name of the “From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
Lord, to serve him with one consent.” my suppliants, even the daughter of
Zephaniah 3:9 my dispersed, shall bring mine offer-
ing.”
There is a long sermon contained in Zephaniah 3:10
that verse. I believe that pure language
happens to be the English language. Now, if you were where Zephaniah
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beyond Ethiopia (which is the ancient Has that ever happened? No! This,
name for Africa), you would see this North then, must be a prophecy of the end of the
American continent. That's where they age, after the last battle, when all of these
were to start coming to the Lord. things that are out of line with the Word
of God have been swept from off the earth.
We read earlier that part of the offer-
ing mentioned in this verse would be “Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
"their brethern even their seed." I know of Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the
only one race of people upon this earth heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
who bring their children before the God of The Lord hath taken away thy judg-
Israel to dedicate them. That race is the ments, he hath cast out thine enemy:
Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic and kin- the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in
dred peoples. They dedicate their children the midst of thee: thou shalt not see
to the God of Israel, the Lord Jesus evil any more.”
Christ. This is what Zephaniah was talk- Zephaniah 3:14-15
ing about.
“In that day shalt thou not be The culmination of all that Zephaniah
ashamed for all thy doings, wherein saw was the casting out of the enemies of
thou hast transgressed against me: Israel.
for then I will take away out of the
midst of thee them that rejoice in thy “In that day it shall be said to
pride, and thou shalt no more be Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to
haughty because of (or as the margin Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
says: "in") my holy mountain.” The Lord thy God in the midst of thee
Zephaniah 3:11 is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice
over thee with joy; he will rest in his
Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and all of the love, he will joy over thee with
other prophets talked of the regathering singing.”
of the house of Israel, the place where Zephaniah 3:16-17
they would turn to the Lord Jesus Christ
as His holy mountain. Isn't that wonderful to read the words
of this prophet that it is God himself who
“I will also leave in the midst of thee will be joyful over our salvation? I believe
an affiicted and poor people, and they there is too much preaching today that the
shall trust in the name of the Lord.” person to be joyful is the person who is
Zephaniah 3:12 saved. God says "he will joy over the sal-
vation of Israel."
I believe that when we get through
with this, we will be able to be called "an “I will gather them that are sorrowful
afflicted and a poor people." for the solemn assembIy, who are of
“The remnant of Israel shall not do thee, to whom the reproach of it was a
iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall burden.”
a deceitful tongue be found in their Zephaniah 3:18
mouth: for they shall feed and lie
down, and none shall make them Brother, Sister, there are millions of
afraid.” people in Christendom to whom this anti-
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going on, are a reproach, they are a bur- him to write of a time that we now see
den to them. They don't quite know what coming to fruitian. There will be a time
is wrong; they don't know how it is going when God has gathered all the natians af
to end. They don't see the hope that you the world, and He is ready to pour out His
people see, but God said that they'll be indignatian upon them, in order to do one
there when He joys over Israel. thing. To destroy all the followers of Baal,
the followers of all the other gods, and to
“Behold, at that time I will undo all destroy all the other gods and set up the
that afflict thee: and I will save her kingdom af God upon the earth.
that halteth, and gather her that was
driven out: (the house of Israel) and I After you finish reading this, read the
will get them praise and fame in every fourth chapter of Micah. You will see that
land where they have been put to Micah saw this same day, when God
shame. would move to shake terribly the earth to
At that time will I bring you again, deliver His people, Israel, and destroy all
even in the time that I gather you: for of these disciples of Baal that are such a
I will make you a name and a praise burden to us. Who is going to do it? Are we
among all people of the earth, when I going to do it by preaching? No, we are
turn back your captivity before your going to tell people about it, but God is
eyes, saith the Lord.” going to do the destroying.
Zephaniah 3:19-20
Pastor Emry
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