Salvation & Subterfuge

11/14/2018

I started to watch a video yesterday about the Illuminati. You know, the group of one-world-governance conspirators. But, I backed out after a few minutes and clicked it off. I didn’t stop because I think it isn’t true, nor do I think these people don’t exist, or this sort of expose` is too radical for me. I stopped because I didn’t want to spend an hour hearing more proof of what I know is happening to the world. You see, when you take the time to watch an hour of this sort of maddening, why-doesn’t-somebody-do-something-about-it situation, it isn’t just an hour. One hour becomes several.

It stays on one’s mind. It comes out in otherwise innocuous chats. It might even keep a conversation from advancing to a far more  important aspect of another’s life and even their eternity. If I were to prioritize my “best possible thoughts” list, I’m pretty sure the Illuminati wouldn’t be in the top 10. (Maybe 11th.) Some of you might ask, “Why not raise its priority?” Because, I don’t need to care about this. Here’s why:

I first heard about the world wide conspiracy in 1974. A friend and employee of mine gave me a poor quality tape to listen and digest the information. I was enthralled by it. I searched and got more information and more tapes and books and read about every aspect of it. I read about the “Inquisition,” the demands of the Roman Catholic popes and high office holders (Cardinals and archbishops.) I read alternate history books like The Secret History of the Jesuits, The Anabaptists, books like Convert or Die, Satan’s Evil Plan For the Earth, The Day the Dollar Died, on and on, an endless supply. Last of all, I read An Unseen Hand: a Conspiratorial View of History by Ralph Epperson. When my father died, I found a book he had which showed beyond doubt the evil that sits atop the Masonic Lodge, and for that matter, all other secret societies, as well.  All these things proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the Illuminati is real and part of a triumvirate ready at any moment to take complete control and rule the earth, in total.

So, why doesn’t it bother me? It does. Why don’t I do something? Because it isn’t going to change, not one iota. Will it continue to grow and fester? Yes, it will. If someone is a part of it, we shall not dissuade them. If someone actually revolts out of that sort of chicanery and deception, it will not be because one of us talks to and persuades them. It will be because they would have gained a recognition of an higher power.

I know the God they don’t know. He is God, The Lord Jesus Christ. Ten years before I ever heard of all the conspiracies which fill the evil hearts of mankind, one night in October, I came face to face with my own evil, my own hypocrisy, my own lost condition. I was doomed, damned, and on the road to hell. But for years, I had heard through preaching, through songs and through personal witnessing, about how that Christ had died for my sins, and how he was dead for 3 days and 3 nights, and how that God had raised Him from the dead. I knew about His sinless life and His blood being shed for sins. I knew he, Jesus Christ was what I needed. And when I said the words, “Oh, Lord, I’m a mess, please save me.” I wasn’t thinking of Buddha, Hari Krishna, Lucifer, or a man made organization. I was thinking of Jesus Christ. And He saved me. Right then, right there, no task performed, no promises made by me. Just a trust in Him.

When in the same ten years later, in ’74 when I began to understand God’s plan for us through study of His word, it was then that I heard all about this conspiracy. Why do you suppose that was? Was it because the Lord wanted me to know about it? No. You mean the Lord didn’t want me to attack all these evil people who sap the innocent and unlearned? No. It was the devil who wanted me to know about the magnitude of evil I was up against if I was going to name the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world. Satan was pulling out all the stops, surrounding me with futility in the hope I would get off track, stop emphasizing the gospel of Christ as the power of God unto salvation. He wanted me to preach against all the other stuff and leave off preaching the simplicity which is in Christ. But, his plan failed. I had already “planted my flag,” so to speak. I was going to preach the gospel and I still do.

The conspiracy is still in about the same shape it was 44 years ago. It is still a deep dark threat. It shall remain with just enough power to interrupt lives, but not enough to take the world until my Lord and Savior says it can. When that occurs, we who know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior will be gone. Even so, come Lord Jesus.

There was no song that I could identify to go with this.

thanks for reading, the Elder