THE GREAT DECEPTION,
Part 1

THE NEW WORLD ORDER'S CONCEPT OF EDUCATION

Thus says the LORD, Stand ye in the Ways, and seek, and ask for the OLD PATHS, where is the good Way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. ALSO, I HAVE SET A WATCHMAN OVER YOU, SAYING,

HEARKEN TO THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET. But they said, We will not hearken. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." (Jer. 6:16-19).

Alice Bailey wrote in "The Externalization of the Hierarchy", states, "Today we are watching the death of civilizations...In all fields of human expression...deterioration had set in. Worn-out religious dogmas - the grip of theology. Old political schools..the educational

systems...there is everywhere a cry for change and for those new forms in the religious, political, educational, and economic life...which will allow freer and better spiritual expression." - Bailey supposedly received some of her inspiration from the master D. K.

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven . . . to break down and time to build up." Eccl. 3:1, 3

DID SOMEONE SAY CONSPIRACY?

Edward Gibbons, tells us in, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", that the major reason for the fall of the 1,200-year Roman Empire was an inner, most secret conspiracy within the government itself. All the while that the conspirators were wreaking

their damage, they masterfully deceived the citizens of the Empire, through lies and through scoffing at the stupidity of anyone who dared suggest such a thing as a conspiracy. Anyone who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it, so we must wake up and take notice of the reality of the conspiracy in our midst.

This conspiracy was predicted a long time ago. "Why do the heathen assemble in rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against his Messiah, saying, Let us break their bands asunder

and cast away their cords from us. He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: The Lord shall have them in derision." - Psl. 2:1-4

"Then the angel that talked with me, went forth and said to me, Lift up now, your eyes and see what goes forth. And I asked, What is it? He said, This is an ephad that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their ‘resemblance’, through all the earth. And behold there was lifted up a

a talent of lead; and this is a woman that sits in the midst of the ephad. And he said, THIS IS WICKEDNESS. And he cast it into the midst of the ephad and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. . . . Then I asked the angel that talked with me, Where do these bear the

ephah? And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established there and set upon her own base."- Zech. 5:5-11 Of course the land of Shinar is where Babylon was built.

The word ‘resemblance’ in verse 6 actually means in the Hebrew, ‘a single eye’. Now, we know that the ‘all-seeing eye’ is one of Masonry’s favorite symbols. It is used alike by Masons and Illuminatists.

Peirs Compton wrote "...Adam Weishaupt could view the prospect before him with a military mind. He had thrust and vision. He knew the value of surprise, which is grounded in secrecy...He was single-minded....He would blend mankind into one whole, eliminate

Tradition ...suppress dogma..." Weishaupt "set himself apart from his fellows in the name of universal brotherhood. The ideal state that Weishaupt had in mind was...founded upon the impossible dream of human perfection...On the First day of May, 1776, the secret society that

was to profoundly affect much subsequent history came into existence as the Illuminati." Remember the admonition: "Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by letter." II Thess. 2:15

"The Illuminati had ...a plan ...they decided on a most ambitious line of conduct. It would form and control public opinion. It would amalgamate religions by dissolving all the differences of belief and ritual that had kept them apart; and it would take over the Papacy and place an agent of its own in the Chair of Peter." (p. 7-8) The Broken Cross by Peirs Compton (1981)

NEW WORLD ORDER’S CONCEPT OF EDUCATION

"Every child in America who enters school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government... all of this proves the children are sick, because the truly well individual is

one who has rejected all of those things and is what I would call the true international child of the future." Chester M. Pierce, Harvard University psychiatrist, at a 1973 International Education Seminar, as quoted in "Educating for the New World Order" by B.K. Eakman. We

have entered the Battle of Armageddon already, although some would argue with me on that but I ask, "If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how will you contend with horses? AND IF IN THE LAND OF PEACE, in which you

trusted, they have wearied you, THEN HOW WILL YOU FARE IN THE SWELLING OF JORDAN? "- Jer. 12:5

"O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but you cannot discern the signs of the times?" (Matthew 16:3).

For several years, I edited and published a magazine called The Standard. On every masthead, I had the following verse emblazoned: "And I looked and rose up and said to the Nobles and Rulers and to the rest of the people, BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM; Remember the

LORD, who is great and terrible and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses." - Neh. 4:14

PROLIFERATION OF CULTS

Recently I was visiting a church where the minister was lamenting the fact that so many Baptists are becoming Mormon. An appropriate question to ask, would be why so many are leaving main line churches to join cults. We are told that seventy-eight percent of the people who

are in the cults today are former Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Pentecostals, Baptists. The simple fact of the matter is that the mainline churches have failed to meet the real spiritual needs of the people. What is sad for me, is to see all the

folks taking trips to Toronto or Brownsville, to obtain an experience of falling on the floor, laughing, barking like a dog, rolling around or as they call it being "slain in the Spirit". These folks are continually seeking new and greater experiences based on feeling and emotion.

One of the major problems with the Protestant churches is that they threw out all sense of Mystery at the time of the Reformation. The King of England seized all the properties of the monastic orders and turned them over to his personal friends. These properties had been

given to God via the Church. True they occupied thousands of acres and many beautiful buildings but this did not give the King the right to bestow these properties on his friends. J. R. Rushdoony pointed out in one of his newsletters that all those men who accepted those estates died miserable deaths.

The Church of England turned the Epiphany from a real spiritual experience into a feast. The other Reformers refused to believe that the Bread and the Wine in the Lord’s Supper could be transformed by blessing it. Consequently, we have many churches today who desecrate the Lord’s Table by serving soda-crackers and grape juice to their people.

For a more comprehensive study on how they desecrate the Lord’s Table, see my book, ‘FORBIDDEN TRUTHS REVEALED’. It is no wonder that real intellectuals flee the dogmatic pronunciations made by dead men who wanted to reinvent the Church, after their own concept of truth. And it is no wonder that those who seek for God in mysticism flee to Buddhism or one of the cults.

THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

I have asked myself the question why so many join an organization such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I have read the Jehovah’s Witness literature and have to admit that I cannot even find a reason why these people continue their existence as a religious organization, if I were to

believe their own literature. I believe that these were simply people, who were not part of any church and were happy to find someone who could make a demand upon their time and energy and tell them they were doing God’s service. However, their beliefs about the Kingdom of God,

require no efforts on their part, as far as assisting in ushering it in. Like so many other foolish Christians, they are going to leave everything to Christ at his return.

Today, the Witnesses have 488,000 full and part time missionaries. Do you know what the entire missionary force of the Christian church is? Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox? Less than 110,000. This one cult has three times as many people in the field,

calling on people's homes and evangelizing than the rest of Christian church combined! The Watchtower's presses turn out more information in six months, than all the presses in all the denominations turn out in a year, and in more languages!

The Jehovah’s Witnesses were founded after Charles Russell, a Mason, was exposed to the teachings of William Miller. In 1914 Russell had predicted the return of Jesus Christ. His prophecy proved false. In 1918, new math didn't help the Jehovah's Witnesses from

striking out again. The Witnesses had no better luck in 1925. They already possessed the title of most wrong predictions. They would expand upon it in the years to come.

THE MORMON CHURCH

In a new book just recently published, The Mormon Corporate Empire, declares its assets in excess of $7.5 billion dollars. They double their membership every ten years.

The Latter Day Saints (or Mormons as they are often called), are wise to take advantage of the zeal of young people, and to send them out two by two. Most churches support missionaries but they are not sent out two by two. This is a very sound and wise practice ignored by all the

churches except perhaps the ‘Two by Twos’ and the Jesuits. I am amused, however, every time a couple of young Mormons come knocking on my door and introduce themselves as ‘Elders’.

Also, coming back to the sense of Mystery that I spoke of earlier, the Mormons have in each of their temples a very elaborate room with paintings showing the Universe. They use this special room for certain rituals. They encourage their people to advance thru various grades of learning. They have two kinds of priesthood, which are nothing like Catholic priests.

DID THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS TEACH DEIFICATION OF MAN?

According to Stephen E. Robinson, the LDS doctrine of God (God was once a man, and men can become gods) was actually taught by the Anti-Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers and is still proclaimed by many modern Protestant conservatives. In his doctrine of deification

section, Robinson quotes the fifth LDS Prophet Lorenzo Snow's famous couplet: "As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be." Not only good Mormon doctrine, Robinson insists that it was also the doctrine of the early church. Others who have taught that

doctrine include: Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Athanasius, and "the greatest of the Christian Fathers," Augustine. Pp. 60-61 ARE MORMONS CHRISTIAN?, Stephen E. Robinson, Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, 1991

He quotes Irenaeus, "If the Word became a man, It was so men may become gods." He adds, "Saint Clement of Alexandria wrote, `Yea, I say, the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god,'--almost a paraphrase of Lorenzo Snow's statement" (pp. 60-61).

It should be noticed that in all of his citing of the Fathers, Robinson never attempts to support the first half of Snow's couplet--that before becoming a God, our Heavenly Father was once a man. He does suggest that Jesus is human, and Christians believe that Jesus is God. Christians,

of course, are saying they believe that Jesus is eternally God, who became a man in his incarnation (John 1:1-14). They are not saying that they believe Jesus became God, nor are they (or any of the Fathers) trying to say God the Father is or ever was a man.

Robinson does support the second half of Snow's couplet with quotes from the Fathers, saying: "If Saint Irenaeus, Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Clement of Alexandria, . . . all believed that human

beings can become gods, and if these good former-day saints are still to be counted as Christians, then the Latter-day Saints cannot be excluded from Christian circles for believing the same thing." (p 63).

Robinson quotes Irenaeus, "Do we cast blame on him [God] because we were not made gods from the beginning, but were at first created merely as men, and then later as gods?" While it may seem at first glance that Irenaeus and the Church Fathers are teaching Mormon theology (or at least the second part of Snow's couplet), this is not the case.

BEHIND ECUMENICISM

Last year, the Roman Papacy realized one of its main objectives - the reconciliation of the Lutheran Church. The "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification," drawn up in 1997 by the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Union to

end a 400 year-doctrinal dispute between Lutherans and Catholics over the Reformation, was approved by the ruling body of the Lutheran World Federation on Tuesday. In a released statement, the Lutheran body said, "The 'Joint Declaration' ends 400 years of condemnations on

the principle doctrinal dispute of the Reformation, that salvation is a gift from God through grace, not something humans earn through good works. The 'Joint Declaration' asserts that though there still remain some differences on the understanding of justification, the differences are not substantial enough to warrant the condemnations."

In the statement, the Federation said its ruling 48-member Council had unanimously approved the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" after polling its 124 member churches in 69 countries over the past year. It was drawn up in 1997 by the Lutheran World Federation

and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Union. Swedish Lutheran Archbishop K.G. Hammear told the press, "It is a big day for the Lutheran world. The reason for the rift of the 16th century is no longer applicable for our present moment."

Now, the Lutheran World Federation wants the Vatican to clarify its response to a joint declaration on the doctrine of justification. The joint declaration was intended to allow the churches to lift condemnations

placed on each other during the Reformation. Vatican officials agreed that the document "virtually resolves a long disputed question," but said there are still disagreements.

...There is a "consensus in basic truths of the doctrine of justification," but there are "divergences" between the two churches' doctrines, the Vatican said, stating that "eternal life is, at one and the same time, grace and the reward given by God for good works and merits."

The Presbyterians - not to be left out, have also entered into agreement with the Lutherans. After 32 years of talks, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved yesterday an agreement to work to more closely align their

denominations by allowing each other to share the Communion table and the pulpit. This historic agreement was recognized by Presbyterians attending their 210th annual General Assembly in Charlotte NC.

THE OLD PAPACY WE USED TO KNOW

Pope John Paul II has traveled to many countries of the world calling for freedom and truth for everyone, that is everyone except those in his own Catholic Church. Theologians such as Kung and Curran are silenced and their work suppressed because they dared to challenge

Rome’s doctrine. Hans Kung, a Catholic theologian and professor of history denied the doctrine of infallibility on the grounds that history proved otherwise.

Years ago, Thomas Aquinas stated in his ‘Summa Theologica’, Vol IV, page 90: "Though heretics must not be tolerated because they deserve it, we must bear with them, till, by a second admonition, they may be brought back to the faith of the church. But those who, after a second admonition, remain obstinate in their errors, must not only be excommunicated, but they must be delivered to the secular power to be exterminated."

And again: "So far as heretics are concerned, heresy is a sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death" (Vol. II, 154).

In the official Jesuit organ, Civilta Cattolica, published in Rome in April of 1948 we read: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced through its divine prerogatives, of being the only true church, must demand the right of freedom for herself alone, because such a right can only be possessed by truth, never by error. As for other religions, the

Church will certainly never draw the sword [although she has forced the civil arm to do so], but she will require that by legitimate means they shall NOT BE ALLOWED TO PROPAGATE FALSE DOCTRINE. Consequently, in a state where the majority of people are Catholic, the Church will require that legal existence be denied to error,

and that if religious minorities actually exist, they shall have only a de facto existence without opportunity to spread their beliefs...In some countries Catholics will be obliged to ask full religious freedom for all, resigned at being forced to cohabit where they alone should rightfully be

allowed to live. But in doing this the Church does not renounce her thesis which remains the most imperative of her laws, but merely adapts herself to de facto conditions which must be taken into account in practical affairs...The Church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice."

Even recently, the Catholics in certain parts of Mexico were encouraged to kill and drive out their Protestant neighbors. Many hundreds were killed.

THE NEW PAPACY

As we saw earlier, the Illuminati made it one of their key objectives early on to infiltrate the Catholic Church and the Papacy, knowing that the Pope would never join their organization, they determined to place one of their own on the Papal throne. With the arrival of Vatican II, their plans were reaching maturity.

In 1965, I published a picture in The Standard, (a magazine I edited and published) showing the proposed Temple of Understanding which was to be build in Washington D. C. It was to serve as the center for the six major religions of the world, working in unity. Now read carefully.

Compton reveals the next step of the Illuminati Plan: Thus, "Pope Paul VI on October 4, 1965, went and spoke to the United Nations.(p.67) His speech " propagated the social gospel so dear to the heart of revolutionaries, without a single reference to the religious doctrines that they [the revolutionaries] found so pernicious". (p. 68)

"It now remained to round off a truly historic visit with an initiatory rite that would put the seal on this newly admitted realization..". After the speech, Pope Paul VI went to the Meditation Room of the U.N. "A carefully edited bulletin, that supposedly dealt with the meaning and

purpose of the room, was produced by the Lucis Press, which issues printed matter for the United Nations." The fact that Lucis Trust is the Publishing House which prints and disseminates United Nations material is a devastating indictment of the New Age. Lucis Trust was established

in 1922 as Lucifer Trust by Alice Bailey to be the publishing company to disseminate the books of Bailey and Blavatsky. In 1923, Bailey changed the name to Lucis Trust, undoubtedly because Lucifer Trust revealed the true nature of the New Age Movement too clearly. - P 49, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, Constance Cumbey.

"This [meditation] room was a centre of the Illuminati, given over to the Cult of the All-Seeing Eye that under a system of allegories and veiled secrets...was dedicated to the service of pagan cults, and the obliteration of Christian in favor of humanistic beliefs." - p.68-69, Ibid

This occultic initiation ritual by Pope Paul VI in the Meditation Room of the United Nations "represented the early stage of a scheme, the fulfillment of which would be...the erection of the Temple of Understanding, on fifty acres of the Potomac in Washington, D.C ....The underlying purpose of the Temple was plainly revealed by its...All-Seeing Eye...that represented six world faiths -- Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Confucianism, and Christianity..." This abdication means that the Pope no longer considers himself to be the "Vicar upon earth of Jesus Christ". (p.70-71).

A WARNING TO FREEMASAONS

The Masons have succeeded in placing their men into key judicial and other high official positions throughout the land. I think David, the prophet had these men in mind when he prayed:

"Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from the fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; FROM THE INSURRECTION OF THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY; Who wet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words; That they may shoot in secret at the Perfect; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not." - Psl. 64:1-4

God speaks to these conspirators, who think that they will be exempt from the world revolution, which they are working so hard to bring about, saying: "Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men that rule this people . . .Because you have said, We have made a

covenant with Death and with Hell we are in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: . . . "Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to

the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with Death shall be disannulled and your agreement with Hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , then you shall be trodden down by it." - Isa. 28:14-18

Yes, we are living through a revolution and it will get a lot worse before it gets any better. And I am satisfied that thousands upon thousands of Christians may disappear from earth but not because of the ‘rapture’. When it is all said and done, those who survive, will be living in a New Age called the Millennium.

THE NEW AGE

In the early days of the Church, some of the Elders believed that one day with the Lord was like a thousand years on earth. Therefore, they conceived that history would consist of six thousand years of human history and a final thousand years, in which the Lord would live with his

people. These included men like Barnabas, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Lactantius and Methodius, Bishop of Tyre (c. A.D. 300).

Barnabas (100 A.D.) wrote: "As there had been 2,000 years from Adam to Abraham, and 2,000 from Abraham to Christ; so there will be 2,000 years for the Christian era and then would come the Millennium."

Irenaeus (150 A.D.) wrote concerning a belief of the early church: "For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were completed; it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand years."

Lactantius, (325 A.D.) tutor of the son of the Roman Emperor Constantine, categorically stated in his Book of Divine Institutes, Chapter 14: "let the philosophers know that the six thousandth year is not yet completed; and when this number is completed, the consummation must take place."

Later, in A.D. 1552, Bishop Latimer wrote: "The world was ordained to endure, as all learned men affirm, 6,000 years. Now of that number, there be passed 5,552 years (as of A.D. 1552), so that there is no more left but 448 years (ending in A.D. 2000)." In the

17th century, Archbishop Ussher had access to many ancient church manuscripts that were lost in the burning of early Irish churches during the Irish wars. In A.D. 1650, in Latin, he wrote The Chronology on the Old and New Testament in which he calculated that the Millennium

would begin in A.D. 1997. His chronology was based on Christ being born in 4 B.C. Modern scholarship places Christ's birth between 6 B.C. and 1 B.C. which, according to Ussher, the Millennium would begin 1995-2000.

May God bless these thoughts and inspire you to action. Your editor, Jeffrey Brackeen