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THE MEN WHO GATHERED
THEMSELVES TOGETHER AT
CLINT MURCHISAN'S DALLAS
HOME FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO *
[Beware the Christianity of the Rich
and of Pious, Self-Righteous Men]
By: S.R. Shearer
December 20, 2008
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! FOR
YE DEVOUR WIDOW'S HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE A LONG PRAYER."
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Matthew 23:14 |
INTRODUCTION
In his incisive,
penetrating book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963,
Farewell America, James Hepburn began with the words:
"Americans are the sons of Calvin. JOHN CALVIN PREACHED THAT THE PURSUIT
OF WEALTH AND THE PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY IS A CHRISTIAN DUTY."
Strange words to begin a book dealing with the assassination of America's
thirty-fifth president - a treatise on John Calvin? Hepburn continued:
"CALVIN CREATED AN IDEAL TYPE OF MAN THERETOFORE UNKNOWN TO BOTH RELIGION
AND SOCIETY, WHO WAS NEITHER A HUMANIST NOR AN ASCETIC, BUT A [SEVERE]
BUSINESSMAN LIVING IN THE FEAR OF GOD." [Quite appropriately, these words
prove prescient as an apt description of the men who killed Kennedy: Hard-nosed,
ruthless businessmen who "lived in the fear of God." (More about that later).]
NOTE: So severe and harsh was
Calvin, the founder of Calvinism (i.e., the brand of theology out from which
the modern "dominionist" movement springs) that on October 27, 1553 he had
Michael Servetus - a Spanish theologian fleeing the Inquisition in Spain
and someone who had had the temerity to challenge Calvin's doctrine of predestination
as well as his belief that Christ's Kingdom on Earth could be set up by
force of arms - arrested as a heretic, convicted and burned to death; and
all this after Calvin had had Servetus confined for two and half month in
a filthy dungeon in Geneva with no light or heat, little food, and no sanitary
facilities.
When the executioner began his wretched work, Servetus whispered with trembling
voice: "Oh God, Oh God!" The executioner (supposedly a Christian) snapped
back at him: "Have you nothing else to say?" Servetus replied: "What else
might I do, but speak of God!" Thereupon he was lifted onto the pyre and
chained to the stake. A wreath strewn with sulfur was placed on his head.
When the faggots were ignited, a piercing cry of horror broke from him.
"Mercy, mercy!" he cried. For more than half an hour the horrible agony
continued, for the pyre had been made of half-green wood, which burned slowly.
"Jesus, Son of the eternal God, have mercy on me," the tormented man cried
from the midst of the flames.
THIS IS THE KIND OF "IDEAL CHRISTIAN" - THE KIND THAT
COULD HAVE A FELLOW CHRISTIAN (or anyone for that matter)
CONSIGNED TO THE STAKE - THAT CALVIN BEQUEATHED TO THE
WORLD; AND IT IS PRECISELY THIS KIND OF CHRISTIANITY THAT
AMERICA EMBRACES TODAY - a pitiless, cruel Christianity
locked in the pursuit of wealth and the establishment of
God's Kingdom on Earth through the barrel of a gun. [Please
see Part 7 of Chapter VII of the NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS,
"Post-Millennialism
or Dominionism vs. Pre-Millennialism" for a description
of the theology of Dominionism; please also see our articles,
"The Rutherford Institute and
R.J. Rushdoony," "Richard
Mellon Scaife: The Evil that Money Can Do," "The
Cedars: The House on 24th Street" and
"The Right Wing Panics."]
CHRISTIANS ARE CALLED TO AMASS
AS MUCH WEALTH AS THEY CAN
Hepburn elaborates on the evolution of this new kind of Christianity:
"Two centuries later, this new type of Christian came under the influence
of John Wesley: 'WE EXHORT ALL CHRISTIANS TO AMASS AS MUCH WEALTH AS THEY
CAN, and to preserve as much as they can; IN OTHER WORDS, TO ENRICH
THEMSELVES'."
And there was more! - Hepburn detected something else in the development
of the character of these Christian men: They were not bon vivants,
but men of great self-restraint of the most agonizing and painful kind; people
who believed that if they were to amass great wealth, they must also possess
-
"... a DISCIPLINE over themselves as strict as that of the military
profession."
These were frugal, penny-pinching men - the Protestant equivalent of the Catholic
flagellants who believed it to be the supreme duty of all Christians
to "... crush sin out of themselves" - and not only themselves
but others as well. [Please see Chapter III of the NEW
ANTIPAS PAPERS, "God's
Grace Contrasted with God's Law."]
They practice a certain ruthlessness in the way they conduct themselves;
people who, though they might possess great wealth, take particular delight
in the "thrifty," sparing way they live their lives. Their chief delight is
pilling up more and more money, and not so much to spend the money on the
"good things of life," but to see it accumulate in greater and greater amounts
in sterile bank accounts.
Their archetype is Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted, tight
fisted, selfish man who despised all things that engendered happiness. These
are perverted, twisted men who announce their superiority by the money they
possess and concomitantly in the fact that they have the DISCIPLINE
of mind and soul to exist in proximity to it without necessarily being lavish
in the way they live. It is precisely this kind of military-like DISCIPLINE
that they believe marks them out as "soldiers of Christ" - men like Daniel
Drew, Lyman Stewart, H.L. Hunt, etc. (see below).
EQUATING FINANCIAL SUCCESS
WITH MORAL INTEGRITY
There is, of course, no basis in the Scripture for such ideas (i.e.,
that those who are successful financially are ipso facto men of high
integrity). Nonetheless, it has been repeated in the language of our culture
so often that it has now taken on the aura of biblical truth. For example,
take a passage such as the following; a passage that has been extracted straight
out of the folksy lexicon of one of this country's most well-known purveyors
of such thinking, Benjamin Franklin:
"Remember that money is of the prolific,
generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more,
and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence,
and so on, till it becomes five hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the
more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker.
He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth
generation. He that murders a crown [five pounds ($8.50 in today's money)],
destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds."
IT SOUNDS SO BIBLICAL - BUT IT ISN'T
This all sounds so biblical - it even has a biblical cadence to it.
The use of terms such as "beget," and "to the thousandth generation,"
lends to it a certain biblical veracity. But Franklin was no Christian; he
was a Deist. He had, as a result, no real knowledge of the Scripture. It should,
therefore, come as no surprise that the quote used above has little to do
with the Bible - at least insofar as the New Testament is concerned - and
everything to do with the "wisdom of this world," which the Bible
UTTERLY condemns and TOTALLY rejects:
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."
(1 Cor. 3:19)
The fact is, the New Testament does not hold the rich in any kind
of esteem or respect; quite the opposite! - it scathingly condemns them in
terms which can only be described as brusque and severe; for example,
"Woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation."
(Luke 6:24)
And -
"... a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
"... It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a [sewing] needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:23-24)
THEY THAT WILL BE RICH DROWN
THEMSELVES IN DESTRUCTION & PERDITION
Not only that, but what's even more frightening, the Bible says that
the pursuit of wealth can actually drive men to DESTRUCTION and PERDITION:
"They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many
foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition."
(1 Tim. 6:7)
And one should remember here that the above verse (i.e., I Tim. 6:7)
is directed at a Christian audience; in other words, it's not just unbelievers
that wealth has the potential of ruining, but it also has the very real possibility
of destroying Christians as well, or how else is it possible to understand
such harsh words?
Nonetheless, one would think in listening to the pompous toadies
of today's Christianity (e.g., the late D. James Kennedy, Charles Stanley,
Rick Joyner, Gary North, R.J. Rushdoony, etc.) that the words of Benjamin
Franklin carry more weight in the councils of the church than do the words
of the Apostle Paul.
NOTE: Now keep in mind here
- Hepburn has a reason in dissecting the mentality of these so-called "men
of God" in his book on the assassination of JFK; he is saying that "Christian"
men of wealth, like Calvin, are capable of most anything, and one should
be very, very careful in their presence - something that is very prescient
insofar as the danger that is even now gathering itself around Obama. The
feet of these men are ROOTED IN HELL! (1 Timothy 6:7 - above)
YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED
Moreover, the
fact that these so-called "Christian" men of wealth are in danger of perdition
is not the end of it; there is something else that should be remarked upon
here: The very riches these men have accumulated - the actual riches themselves
- are corrupted! That's what the Apostle James wrote:
"Go to now, YE RICH MEN, weep and howl for your miseries that shall
come upon you.
"YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED, and your garments are motheaten." (James
5:1)
THE USE OF "CORRUPTED"
WEALTH FOR THE LORD'S WORK
"Your riches are corrupted!" Think about that: The very
riches themselves are corrupted - like great pustules that reek
of putrefaction; abscesses that cannot be healed, full of poison
and contagion. What's that say, then, about the many, many Christian
ministries such as the Wycliffe Bible Translators and Youth
with a Mission (YWAM) whose ministries have been endowed by
such wealth? Can any good thing come out of this kind of "corrupted"
wealth? Of course not! [Pease see our articles on the Wycliffe
Bible Translators, YWAM, etc., "The
American Empire: The Corporate / Pentagon / CIA / Missionary
Archipelago," "The Rich
Have Seized Control of the Church," "Colombia:
America's New Vietnam" and "Making
Merchandise out of the People of God."]
The Bible elaborates on the putrefied nature of such wealth:
"YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED; and the rust of them shall be a
witness against you, AND SHALL EAT YOUR FLESH as it were fire. Ye have
heaped treasure together for the last days. (James 5:2)
Your money stinks with decay; it's a necrotizing fasciitis
- it eats your flesh!
A MALIGNANT FORM OF CHRISTIANITY
What a twisted, malignant form of Christianity that these "Christian"
men of wealth produce (the kind of men who, as Hepburn will demonstrate, killed
JFK) - a Christianity with no room for the Bible's warning:
"The love of money is the root of ALL evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:10)
OR Christ's words concerning the "rich man:"
"Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in
the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
"And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man
brought forth plentifully:
"And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no
room where to bestow my fruits?
"And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater;
and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years;
take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
"But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required
of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
"So is he that layeth up treasure for himself ...
"And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought
for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put
on.
"Life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. (Luke
12:15-23)
Very obviously, such verses do not find a place in today's American
form of Christianity.
Nonetheless, it is precisely on this kind of "Christian wisdom" -
the kind purveyed by Calvin - that America is founded. Hepburn explains:
"According to President Madison, 'The American political system was founded
on the natural inequality of men'. Correlatively, THE MORAL PHILOSOPHY
OF THE UNITED STATES IS BASED ON [FINANCIAL] SUCCESS.
"At the end of the Eighteenth Century a Frenchman, the Chevalier de Beaujour,
wrote on his return from North America, 'The American loses no opportunity
to acquire wealth. Gain is the subject of all his conversations, and the motive
for all his actions. Thus, there is perhaps no civilized nation in the world
where there is less generosity in the sentiments, less elevation of soul and
of mind, less of those pleasant and glittering illusions that constitute the
charm or the consolation of life. HERE EVERYTHING IS WEIGHED, CALCULATED
AND SACRIFICED TO [FINANCIAL] SELF-INTEREST'.
"Another Frenchman, the Baron de Montlezun, added, 'In this country, more
than any other, esteem is based on wealth ... How much is this man worth?
they ask. Not much? He is despised. But at the mention that he possesses one
hundred thousand crowns, the knees flex, the incense burns, and the ... MERCHANT
[BUSINESSMAN] IS REVERED LIKE A GOD'."
EVERY CIVILIZATION HAS ITS IDEAL MAN
Hepburn continues:
"Every civilization has its ideal man; an archetype that stands as a model
for the average citizen. Athens chose the philosopher and the artist; for
the Jews, it was the law-giving prophet; for Rome, the soldier-administrator;
for China, the learned Mandarin; for England, the empire builder; for Japan
and Germany, the professional soldier; for India, the ascetic. For the United
States, it was the businessman!
"While other nations might have chosen wisdom, beauty, saintliness, military
glory, bravery or asceticism as their popular divinities, the United States
chose the civilization of gain. The true gods and the only Titans of America
were Jay Gould, Daniel Drew, Jay Cooke, Andrew Carnegie, Charles T. Yerkes,
Solomon Guggenheim and Irenee Du Pont.
"Some of these men, like J. Pierpont Morgan, became gay, high-living nabobs.
BUT MOST, LIKE HENRY FORD, WERE FRUGAL AND DREARY PURITANS. All
of them, even the most devout, even the most devoted, even the most sincere,
had one thing in common: where business was concerned, they were tough. The
churches approved of this attitude. In his book Heroes of Progress,
the Reverend John McClintock wrote of Drew:
'May he long enjoy the fruits of his work and promote the reign of Christ
on this earth, not only through the Christian use of the vast fortune with
which God has favored him, but through the living example of his active
and peaceful piety'.
Hepburn gasps, knowing that -
"He [i.e., Drew] ... pitilessly and callously cheated his associates, bribed
municipal governments, and took advantage of the credulity of the people ..."
NOTE: The relationship between
Drew, a ruthless financier and railroad tycoon of the late
Nineteenth Century, and Rev. McClintock is illustrative
of the relationship between men of money and the leaders
of the American church. Drew founded Drew Theological Seminary
on the money he squeezed out of the people he cheated on
the way to amassing his riches. But McClintock is absolutely
ambivalent as to the way Drew made his fortune - calling
it the result of "God's favor."
The bond between Drew and McClintock parallels the relationship
between R.A. Torrey who founded the Bible Institute of Los
Angeles (B.I.O.L.A.), and Lyman Stewart of Union Oil, a
man who remorselessly plundered Mexico of its oil wealth
at the turn of the last century and who was responsible
for the assassination of the Mexican revolutionary Poncho
Villa. [Please see our articles, "The
Bolivarian Revolution Reaches America's Southern Border,"
"The American Empire and the
New Global Elite" and "The
Business Right and the Christian Right: An Alliance Made
in Hell;" please also see our short docufilm, "Why
Is It?"]
BEHOLD THE HIRE OF THE LABOURERS
These (specifically Drew and others like him), are those about whom
the Bible says:
"Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which
is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped
are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." (James 5:3)
In connection with this, one might ask himself, What's that (i.e., James
5:3) say about corporations such as Nike, Liz Claiborne, Fisher-Price, ad
nauseum who ship their factories to Third World countries to take advantage
of the cheap labor there? - manufacturers that seek
out those workers who are the most docile and impoverished, and work them
to death. Still lower wages have been obtained by the use of prison labor.
In Columbia, for example, Container Corporation of America, B.F. Goodrich,
and dozens of other companies have employed thousands of prisoners at extremely
low wages - a few cents a day - under programs advertised as "rehabilitation
programs," although 75 per cent or more of the prisoners have never been
tried. China also is heavily involved in prison labor connected to products
regularly sold at some of America's most well-known retail outlets.
The Bible continues in its condemnation of the rich or this world:
"Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished
your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
"Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist
you." (James 5:4-6)
NOW IT'S NOT WITHOUT REASON ...
Now it's not without
reason, as we have already indicated, that Hepburn began his book by noting
the connection between "men of wealth" and Christians in this country; and
not only that, but the connection that all these men had with a sense of personal
piety and frugality - as if one's personal piety absolves one of the way he
treats his fellow man. Hepburn made this connection early on in his book BECAUSE
IT'S MEN LIKE THESE WHO MURDERED KENNEDY IN DALLAS SO MANY YEARS AGO -
AND WHO TODAY ARE UNDOUBTEDLY STALKING PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA, all the
while thumping their Bibles and breathing fire down on those who do not measure
up to their standard of what they call "godliness." These are precisely the
people to whom Jesus said:
"Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye?
"Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine
eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." (Matthew
7:3-5)
These are hyper-critical,
censorious, disapproving little twits who feel free to cheat and connive in
their business practices (people like Daniel Drew, Lyman Stewart, H.L. Hunt) and believe
that they can escape the wrath of God by resort to their own PERSONAL
piety; people who have no social conscience; people who believe that "the
poor deserve to be poor;" people who maintain, like David Ricardo (one of
the founders of our modern system of capitalism), that -
"Someone who lacks independent wealth has no claim to even the SMALLEST
portion of food ..."
Finally, in connection
with all this, WE URGE YOU TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT WE ARE SAYING
HERE BECAUSE IT IS PRECISELY SUCH "CHRISTIAN MEN OF WEALTH" THAT ARE IN PURSUIT
OF YOUR SOUL IN THESE "LAST DAYS" - "hyper-critical," "censorious," "disapproving"
men who by their withering glance seek to make a monster out of you and frighten
you into the same hell they inhabit. [More about this later.]
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR
THE DEFENSE OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE
Most of the "men
of wealth" who were later implicated in the murder of President Kennedy (but
who were never brought to justice) were members of an organization known as
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE (henceforth
called the "Committee"). The Committee was a spying operation directed against
the "Enemies of Christendom." [No surprise here! Men like these are forever
examining the lives of others in order to fetter out the slightest indiscretion
or transgression. Spying on others is written into their DNA.]
In connection
with its spying operation, the Committee was closely associated with the American
Security Council (ASC). The ASC began in Chicago
in 1955, staffed primarily by former FBI agents. In its first year it was
called the Mid-American Research Library. The organization's initial function
was to compile files on suspected Communists (which was tantamount to saying
"non-Christians") who might apply for jobs in the private sector. Sponsoring
corporations included such well-known firms as Sears Roebuck and Company,
Motorola Incorporated, Marshall Field and Company, etc. At its peak, the council
served more than 1,500 firms as the private equivalent of the FBI or Senate
Internal Security Committee, with 6 million personnel file cards and a specialized
subversive activities [defined as anti-business, pro-union activity (which,
again, in their eyes, was anti-Christian)] library. Files and documents were
collected from the House Committee on Un-American Activities and several private
file collections. Corporations joined to take advantage of what former FBI
agent William Turner described in Power on the Right as "a dossier
system modeled after the FBI's which was intended to weed out employees and
prospective employees deemed disloyal to the free enterprise system (i.e.,
union activists)" and - ipso facto - the Christian religion.
HUNT - THERE WAS NO WAY TO GET
KENNEDY OUT EXCEPT TO SHOOT HIM
H.L. Hunt - who
was the "money-man" behind W.A. Criswell's giant First Baptist Church of Dallas,
Texas - set the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture
up in coordination with the Rev. Billie James Hargis who promoted the group as "a Christian weapon against Communism
and its godless allies." They were people who - like Calvin - wouldn't
blink an eye at burning their enemies at the stake or standing them up against
a wall and shooting them - and it's precisely in this connection that Hunt
(and the other members of the Committee) harbored a burning hatred towards
Kennedy.
So hateful was Hunt towards Kennedy that early in 1963 Hunt publicly
stated that JFK should be shot since "there was no way to get those
traitors out of government except by shooting them out" - and it
was, therefore, probably no coincidence that on the day of Kennedy's assassination
in Dallas, Hunt's son - Nelson Bunker Hunt - and other members of the International
Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture took out a full-page advertisement
in the Dallas Morning News accusing JFK of being a Communist sympathizer
and a traitor to the nation - and by implication someone who was worthy of
death. And can there be any question here that this mindset parallels in every
respect the mindset that gripped Calvin's brain and impelled him to have Servetus
burned at the stake for being "a traitor to the Christian faith?"
NOTE: The Committee was saturated
with Nazis and ex-Nazis. Konrad Adenauer, Germany's post-war
Chancellor, supported the organization. It was associated
with Russell Maguire, the pro-Nazi publisher of The American
Mercury. Maguire was a close associate of William F.
Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell, two young men who were
at the time speech writers for Senator Joe McCarthy. In
1953 Buckley and Bozell completed a pro-McCarthy book entitled
McCarthy and His Enemies; the book was published
in the spring of 1954 by Henry Regnery, a pro Nazi German-American
who had published Buckley's first book in 1951. Also associated
with the Committee was Dr. John O. Beary, Professor of English
at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Beary later became
president of SMU. Beary authored a book entitled Iron
Curtain Over America, a book that denounced "Khazar
Jews" and "eastern European elements" as "the insidious
forces working within which are seeking to destroy America
and Western Civilization." [Please see our article, "The
Rutherford Institute & R.J. Rushdoony" for a
thorough discussion of the so-called "Khazars."]
Beary wrote that American policy during the Roosevelt Administration had
had three purposes:
As early as 1937, our government determined upon war against Germany
for no formulated purpose beyond pleasing the dominant Eastern European
element (meaning Jews) and allied elements in the National Democratic Party.
The powerful Eastern European element dominant in the inner circles
of the Democratic Party (once again, meaning Jews) regarded with complete
equanimity, perhaps even enthusiasm, the killing of as many as possible
of the world-ruling and Khazar-hated race of Aryans.
Our alien-dominated government fought the war (World War II) for the
annihilation of Germany, the historic bulwark of CHRISTIAN Europe.
One should note carefully the linkage that Beary made between
Germany and "the defense of Christian culture" - especially
as it is connected to point #3 above. The fact is, both
the religious leaders and the businessmen associated with
the Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture had an
especially close affinity with Germany and most particularly
with Nazi Germany. [We urge you to see our articles, "Henry
Ford and Gerald L.K. Smith: Big Business and the Religious
Right" and "The Growing
Phenomenon of Anti-Semitism" for a discussion of
the Religious Right's affinity with Nazi Germany."]
From a business perspective, the affinity of those associated with the
International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture
with Nazi Germany and with Nazis in Germany who rose to
places of prominence in Germany after the war is astounding
- and parallels closely the affinity that the CIA had with
Nazi elements after the war. [Please see our article, "Liberation
Theology, the Vatican, and the CIA: Ghosts and Phantoms."]
The fact is, ALL the businessmen who gathered
themselves at Murchison's home on the evening before Kennedy's
assassination were deeply influenced by Nazi beliefs and
had been closely connected to Nazi Germany as businessmen
- a fact they tried desperately to obscure after the war.
[Please see the NOTE
following the first paragraph in our last article, "Whether
Obama Will Live or Die May Be Determined by What He Does
in the Middle-East and Central Asia."]
At the close of the war in Europe, emissaries from all the businesses represented
by members of the Committee were to be found scurrying hither and thither
over the continent gathering up and destroying incriminating evidence regarding
their past connections to Nazi German, buying silence, and rewriting history.
WORDS ARE THE MIDWIVES TO ACTION
NOT
MANY PEOPLE TODAY REMEMBER THAT AD
- i.e., the one that Nelson Bunker Hunt and other members of the Committee
placed in the Dallas Morning News on the day Kennedy was assassinated
(see above). It has been carefully covered over in the intervening years;
but at the time, it was enough for many "lefties" to make the connection between
what Hunt had said earlier in 1963 - i.e., that Kennedy should be shot - and
connect those comments to the ad that appeared in the Dallas Morning News
the day Kennedy was shot, and from that assume without much trouble that Hunt
and other members of the Committee were behind the assassination. THERE
IS, AFTER ALL, A CONNECTION BETWEEN WORDS AND ACTION; INDEED, WORDS ARE THE
MIDWIVES TO ACTION.
NOW THESE SAME
WORDS ARE BEING UTTERED ABOUT OBAMA.
The fact is, like the rage that Hunt exhibited towards Kennedy forty-five
years ago, the Right's rage today against Obama borders on a mindless fanaticism:
"Kill him!"
"Terrorist!"
"Traitor!"
"Sit down, boy!"
"He is not one of us!"
"He's an Arab!"
"Socialist!"
"Bomb Obama!"
These are just a few of the audible rants that are emanating today out from
the same "Christian" crowd that cheered the assassination of
Kennedy four and a half decades ago; people who listen to Russ
Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, Mark
Levin, etc. [Please see our article, "McCain
& Palin: The Business Right Marries the Religious Right."]
It's in this connection
that some might remember comedian Eddy Murphy's
1980s delirious stand-up routine where he joked about whites voting for Jesse
Jackson -- after a night of drinking and pranks -- only to discover the next
morning, that Jackson had been elected; during his fictitious inaugural address,
Jackson runs back and forth from left to right on the stage as the imagined
assassins look through a rifle scope saying, "He won't stand still, he
won't stand still."
STEELY-EYED, BIBLE-TOTING
CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMEN
These steely-eyed,
Bible-toting Christian businessmen whose disposition of mind is to HATE
rather than to love are exactly the kind of people about whom Jesus said:
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOW'S
HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE A LONG PRAYER: therefore ye shall receive
the greater damnation.
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for YE COMPASS SEA AND
LAND TO MAKE ONE PROSELYTE, AND WHEN HE IS MADE, YE MAKE HIM TWOFOLD THE CHILD
OF HELL THAN YOURSELVES."
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES! for
ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin [in other words, they go about 'establishing
their own righteousness'], and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith [but who think nothing of participating in the
wicked activities of today's world]: these ought ye to have done, and not
to leave the other undone.
"Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside
of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
"Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the
cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited
sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of
dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
"Even so YE ALSO OUTWARDLY APPEAR RIGHTEOUS UNTO MEN, BUT WITHIN YE ARE
FULL OF HYPOCRISY AND INIQUITY." (Matthew 23:14-15, 23-28)
THE MEN WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE - DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY - FOR THE MURDER OF JFK: NAMING
NAMES
These verses (i.e.,
Matthew 23:14-15, 23-28) perfectly
describes the character of the men who gathered themselves together in the
home of Clint Murchison in Dallas, Texas to put the final touches on Kennedy's
assassination the next day near the Texas Book Depository: Men such as Texas
oil magnates Sid Richardson and H.L. Hunt; FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and
his right-hand man at the agency, Clyde Tolson; John J. McCloy, past president
of the World Bank; Richard Nixon, Vice President under President Eisenhower
(later to become America's thirty-seventh president; Robert L. Thornton, who
made his fortune as an insurance magnate; Lyndon Johnson (who was to become
president the next day, immediately following Kennedy's assassination); and
various members of the so-called "Suite 8F Group," a network of right-wing
businessmen such as George and Herman Brown of Brown and Root - a company closely
tied to the Bush family and reputed to have had close ties with the Nazis
during World War II; Jesse H. Jones, an investor affiliated with the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation; Gus Wortham of the American General Insurance Company;
James Abercrombie of the Cameron Iron Works; Hugh Roy Cullen of Quintana Petroleum;
Texas Governor William Hobby; William Vinson, Great Southern Life Insurance;
James Elkins, American General Insurance and Pure Oil Pipe Line; Morgan J.
Davis of Humble Oil; Albert Thomas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee,
Subcommittee on Defense; John Connally, later to become Secretary of the Treasury;
as well as Alvin Wirtz, Thomas Corcoran, Homer Thornberry and Edward Aubrey
Clark - four lawyers who worked closely with the "Suite 8F Group."
NOTE: The name (i.e., "Suite
8F Group") comes from the room in the Lamar Hotel in Houston where the group
held its meetings. Others associated closely with the "Suite 8F Group" included
Robert Anderson, president of the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
and later Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Treasury; Robert Kerr
of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries; Billie Sol Estes, an entrepreneur in the cotton
industry; Glenn McCarthy of McCarthy Oil and Gas Company; Earl E. T. Smith,
of U.S. Sugar Corporation; Fred Korth, Continental National Bank and Navy
Secretary; Ross Sterling of Humble Oil; Eugene B. Germany, Mustang Oil Company;
David Harold Byrd, chairman of Byrd Oil Corporation; Lawrence D. Bell, of
Bell Helicopter; William D. Pawley (business interests in Cuba); Gordon
McLendon of KLIF; Senators George Smathers, Richard Russell, James Eastland,
Benjamin Everett Jordan; and lobbyists Fred Black and Bobby Baker, also
affiliated with the Serve-U Corporation.
IN THE TRADITION OF JOHN CALVIN
Now in all of
this, it cannot be reiterated enough that ALL these men considered
themselves to be "good Christian businessmen" in the "service of Christ" and
in the tradition of John Calvin; people who were so "filthy" rich that the
late Professor C. Wright Mills of Columbia University could write of them:
"They had transcended the ordinary environments of ordinary people;
by their decisions they set up and break down the destinies of others ...
They define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they have
come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their
possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite
selves. In this sense, the idea of the elite as composed of men and women
having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite as a
privileged ruling stratum, and this is true whether the ideology is elite-made
or made up for it by others."
Calvin couldn't have put it better!
THIS IS NO SET OF MEN WITH WHOM A REAL
CHRISTIAN WOULD WANT TO IDENTIFY
Professor Wright warns, however, that -
"... [This] is no set of men with whom members of the mass public can rightfully
and gladly identify ..."
They are, instead, people for whom -
"The pursuit of the moneyed-life is their commanding value, in relation
to which the influence of other values has declined, SO ... [THAT THEY]
EASILY BECOME RUTHLESS IN ITS PURSUIT ... [They have] narrowed the meaning
of 'success' to big money and in these terms condemn failure as the chief
vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value."
How is it, then, possible to equate this kind of an attitude to what
Jesus commanded His disciples to do? -
"LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH, where moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)
It is, of course, impossible to equate the two: Christ's attitude
towards wealth is diametrically opposed to any concept the rich might find
convenient to harbor with regard to the matter of wealth.
Professor Wright goes on to say:
"Whenever the standards of the moneyed life prevail, the man with money,
no matter how he got it, will eventually be respected. [In America], it is
not only that men want money; it is that their very standards are pecuniary.
In a society [i.e., the American society] in which the money-maker has ...
no serious rival for repute and honor, the word 'practical' comes to mean
'useful for private gain', and 'common sense', 'the sense to get ahead financially'."
Again, this is not what Calvin - who preached THAT THE PURSUIT
OF WEALTH IS A CHRISTIAN DUTY - or what Wesley - who exhorted ALL CHRISTIANS
TO AMASS AS MUCH WEALTH AS THEY CAN - would say. And it runs absolutely
counter to what most American Christians in the United States have been led
to believe, especially the devotees of people such as Charles Capps, Kenneth
Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Bennie Hinn, Rod Parsley and the other purveyors
of the "Green Gospel:" That a life of virtue will result in financial
success.
It seems, once
again, that -
"... the children of this world [i.e., secularists like Professor
Mills] are in their generation wiser than the children of light."
(Luke 16:8)
THE GREAT COVER-UP
By now the story of the cover-up of JFK's assassination is well known
- at least to those who don't want to bury their heads in the sand. Commenting
on the cover-up, David Miller writes:
"Curiously, the 'Committee' was disbanded in 1964, just a few months after
President Kennedy's assassination."
Miller, of course, was being facetious here; there was nothing surprising
about it. Everybody involved "headed for the hills," as it were, to lie low
while the storm blew over. Meanwhile, the "Christian" activists (from both
the business community and the religious community) who had been involved
in vilifying Kennedy labored mightily to change their image and "re-gain
public respectability." The effort proceeded along three avenues:
- First, there was the Warren Commission charged
with legitimizing the "lone-assassin" theory - the absolutely
mind-boggling story that Lee Harvey Oswald was alone responsible
for Kennedy's murder. [Please see our articles, "MK-Ultra
and the Search for the Manchurian Candidate," "Now
Is the Time to Do Something; It May Be too Late Tomorrow,"
"Conspiracy Theories"
and "MK-Ultra & the Assassination
of John F. Kennedy - More Evidence."]
- Second, the effort by the far right to surround
itself with legitimate public figures, while at the same time
hiding its unseemly past with "nuts" and "crazies" such as
Billie James Hargis, Gerald L.K. Smith and the so-called "Jay
Hawk Nazi," Gerald Winrod; and so thorough were these men
in this effort - especially the Christians - that today there
is nothing at Moody Bible Institute and the Bible Institute
of Los Angeles (BIOLA) which would give away the close connection
that these men enjoyed with these and a myriad of other Christian
schools in the lead-up to the assassination of JFK. [Please
see our articles, "Henry Ford
and Gerald L.K. Smith: Big Business and the Religious Right,"
"The Republican Party and the
Jews," "The Growing Phenomenon
of Anti-Semitism" and "The
Business Right and the Christian Right: An Alliance Made in
Hell."]
- Third, the far right embarked on a calculated process of
"desensitizing" the public to its radical agenda,
an effort that reached its zenith under the Reagan and Bush
I and II Administrations. [Please see our article, "The
Corporate State and the Mass Media."]
PNAC - TODAY'S CHRISTIAN RIGHT & BUSINESS
RIGHT FOLLOW-ON TO "THE COMMITTEE"
In
addition to all this (see above), the Right created new institutions to take
the place of its older ones - the ones that were discredited as a result of
the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations and America's failure in the War in Vietnam.
One
of the most important new institutions is the "Project For A New American
Century" (PNAC), an elite American New World Order "front group"
consisting of one primary group, and two lackey groups who - like the "lapdogs"
they have become - exist off the scraps of food that fall from time to time
from their master's table.
The primary group is made up of leading elements of the Political
and Economic Right (for example, Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney,
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Michael Ledeen, Marc Reuel Gerecht, etc.,
as well as elite economic groups that revolve around Exxon/Mobile,
Chevron, Haliburton, Philips, etc.). [Please see our article,
"The Neo-Conservatives"
for an examination of this group; please also see, "Making
Merchandise out of the People of God."]
The
two lackey groups are:
- Conservative Jews dedicated to cementing a military alliance
between the United States and Israel, for example, Midge Deckter
and the Norman Podhoretz "circle" centered around
the conservative Jewish publication, Commentary. [Please
see our article, "Israel: In
That Day There Shall Stand Up A Root Of Jesse That Shall Be
an Ensign For The People" for the sad story as to
how the Jewish community and the state of Israel have been
suckered into an alliance with America's "richy-riches;" please
also see "The Superman Theology
of the International Christian Embassy's Feast of Tabernacles"
for an expose of the theology (eschatology) that has led evangelicals
to "trick" Israel in the way that they have; in addition,
please see our article, "McCain
& Palin: The Business Right Marries the Religious Right."
Finally, and most importantly, please see Part 4 of Chapter
XIV in the NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS, "Apostasy:
Making Israel and the Church Servants in the Household of
the Devil."]
- Heavy-hitters" from the Christian Evangelical Community - the group
that forms the CORE political constituency for
the richy-rich's "mass" political following. [Please
see our article, "Inside
the American New World Order System."]
NOTE: All of these groups in one
way or another see in the very power America wields proof
of America's "exceptionalism," and each group
hopes to harness U.S. power for its own purposes - whether
for economic aggrandizement, security for the state of
Israel, or the expansion of Christianity. Moreover, none
of these groups shrinks from the possibility of having
to use the "barrel of a gun" to promote its
interests. Finally, each of these groups has come to believe
that Islam is a force to be reckoned with insofar as the
promotion of its interests are concerned; and, therefore,
each is fervently working for Islam's diminution, and
even - if possible - its destruction. [Please also see
our article "Radical Islam."]
SHADOWS AND PHANTOMS
It
is here - in PNAC - that one can see today's version of The International
Committee for the Preservation of Christian Culture, AND WHERE ONE CAN
BEGIN TO GET AN IDEA OF WHO THOSE ARE WHO ARE EVEN NOW CIRCLING OBAMA FOR
THE KILL - shadows and phantoms who like spiders that dwell in the shadows
of a room, are spinning a web of deceit calculated to "CATCH CHRISTIANS"
and cause them to approve of their actions. These are people about whom the
Bible warns:
"Know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers ... unthankful, unholy,
"Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good,
"Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of
God;
"HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS, but denying the power thereof: FROM
SUCH TURN AWAY." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
FROM SUCH TURN AWAY
The Bible commands us to "TURN AWAY" from these people
- people like Calvin and Rushdoony whose looks wither and bring
others under condemnation; the kind of people we described in
Chapter IV of the NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS, "The
Image of Christ and the Image of the Beast," as well
as in our articles, "Luciferic
Christianity," "The God-Men
of America's New World Order System" and "Today's
Church: Making Zombies out of Christians - the Prophets and
Apostles Movement."]
Calvin's
disciples - ALL OF THEM; people who would not hesitate to burn
their enemies at the stake; people like Bennie Hinn who wants God to give
him a "HOLY-GHOST MACHINE GUN" so that he can kill those who oppose
him (please see our movie, Greed
Is Good); and not only Bennie Hinn, but people
like Rick Joyner who says:
"SOME PASTORS AND LEADERS WHO CONTINUE TO RESIST THIS TIDE [i.e.,
the Christian conquest of the world through the barrel of a gun] ... MUST
BE REMOVED FROM THEIR PLACE."
And people like Francis Frangipane who says:
"... there will be many 'stumbling blocks' circulating in the church
... Those serving in leadership must trust their discernment and REMOVE
the 'stumbling blocks'." [And God only knows what both Joyner and
Frangipane mean by their use of the word, "remove."]
And people like the late R.J. Rushdoony who
said:
"In winning a nation (or the world) to the gospel, the sword as well
as the pen must be used."
And, finally, people like C. Peter Wagner who
says:
"God has prepared us for this moment: Intercessors began to be recognized
in the 1970s, prophets in the 1980s, and apostles in the 1990s. THE GOVERNMENT
OF THE CHURCH IS IN PLACE and we must be obedient ... (The apostles are
now prepared to rule over the saints and prepare them for war) ... the church
leaders most responsible for MOVING BELIEVERS INTO WAR ARE THE APOSTLES
..."
THE BIBLE CONDEMNS SUCH PEOPLE
The
Bible unswervingly condemns ALL such people, saying:
"These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to
whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
"For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean
escaped from them who live in error.
"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption:
for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." (2 Peter
2:17-19)
The
Bible calls them -
"FALSE BRETHREN unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out
our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, THAT THEY MIGHT BRING US INTO
BONDAGE." (Galatians 2:4)
AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT
And make no mistake about the psychological power such men wield; it is
withering in its affect; hurtful, cutting, wounding - and so much so that
it has the power to frighten and even terrify the most mature Christians.
Indeed, the Apostle Paul relates the story of a "dinner party" that he
was at in Antioch; the Apostle Peter was there too. They were both enjoying
themselves in the company of uncircumcised Gentile Christians, when some "Judaizers"
(Jewish Christians who believed that Gentile Christians MUST
be circumcised and come under the demands of the Jewish dietary Laws and other
such minutia that had come to characterize the Judaism of Christ's time) arrived
from Jerusalem, bringing with them the kind of Calvin-like harshness of soul
that accompanies all such people - and with that harshness the withering looks
that tear at one's psyche and pierces people "to the quick." Paul writes about
what happened:
"But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because
he was to be blamed.
"For before that certain [brothers] came from ... [Jerusalem], he
[i.e., Peter] did eat with the Gentiles: but when they [the Judaizers] were
come, he withdrew and separated himself, FEARING them which were of
the circumcision.
"And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas
also was carried away with their dissimulation." (Galatians 2:11-13)
Now think about what occurred here; Peter, known among the early Christians
as the "Chief Apostle," was himself carried away by FEAR of
these people - of these Judaizers. Now that's something! - and not only Peter,
but Barnabas (Paul's partner in the faith), and all the others Jewish Christians
who just before the arrival of "those from Jerusalem" were enjoying themselves
in the company of their Gentile brethren (i.e., those who were not circumcised).
PAUL REPROVES PETER, AND
RESTORES HIM TO HIS SENSES
Paul goes on:
"But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of
the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest
thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
"We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
"Knowing that A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY THE
FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we
might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law:
for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found
sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
"For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
"For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
"I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST
LIVETH IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH
OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.
"I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Galatians 2:9-21)
LISTEN TO ME HERE, DEAR
BROTHERS & SISTERS IN CHRIST
Listen to me very carefully here, dear brothers and sisters in Christ:
WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS - that period of time about which Paul said:
"Know this, that in the last days perilous times shall
come" and these "perilous times" will be accompanied by men who "HAVE A
FORM OF GODLINESS" - people like those whom we have been describing here:
"Christian" businessmen and politicians such as H.L. Hunt, Daniel Drew, R.A.
Torrey, Henry Ford, Theodore Olson, Kenneth Starr, ad infinitum; and
so-called "Christian leaders" such as Rick Joyner, Francis Frangipane, C.
Peter Wagner, ad nauseum - who by their withering looks and hyper-critical
attitudes will seek to bring you into bondage; to FRIGHTEN you much
in the same way that "those from Jerusalem" FRIGHTENED Peter and Barnabas
in Antioch so many years ago.
Now, understand something here: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THOSE WHO
WOULD FRIGHTEN YOU INTO SUBMISSION AT THE POINT OF A GUN; but what I am
talking about here are THOSE WHO WOULD FRIGHTEN YOU BY THEIR SEVERITY
in the fashion that Peter and Barnabus were frightened.
Paul says that "No, not for an hour" must we be brought into "subjection"
by the likes of such people! (Galatians 2:5)
THERE IS A VERY PRECISE REASON
Now there is a very precise reason why we have taken the time to
go into all this; and the reason is this: The time will come when the forces
that are now swirling around President-elect Obama will strike. There is,
of course, no way that we can set an exact date; but the question is not IF,
but WHEN. Obama - like Kennedy before him - must be stopped.
AND
WHEN THESE SPECTRAL FORCES STRIKE - IN THE NAME OF CHRIST, OF COURSE - THEY
WILL EXPECT CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE TO UNITE WITH THEM IN THIS EFFORT. Those Christians who refuse to "go along to get along" will
come under a withering compulsion to do so - THE SAME KIND OF SEVERE PRESSURE
THAT CAUSED EVEN PETER AND BARNABAS TO SUCCUMB TO THE JUDAIZERS "FROM JERUSALEM"
in Antioch so many years ago. (Galatians 2:11-13)
You will be charged with succumbing to the abortionists, the gay
and lesbian community, the radical feminists, and on and on ad infinitum.
You will be called "TRAITORS TO THE FAITH;" people who make friends
with the "enemies of Christendom;" with so-called "Islamofascists."
And all this will occur long before the power of the state is called
in to take action against you. It's not without reason that the Bible says:
"They will deliver you up to [church] councils, and they will scourge you
in their synagogues [churches]." (Matthew 10:17)
AND SO I SAY TO YOU ALL
And so I say to you all, YOU MUST GUARD YOUR FREEDOM IN CHRIST.
YOU MUST NOT ALLOW THESE "JUDAIZERS" TO FRIGHTEN YOU INTO SUCCUMBING TO THEIR
PRESSURE - AND IT IS EXACTLY FOR THIS REASON THAT I URGE EVERYONE WHO IS READING
THIS ARTICLE TO "INVEST" THEMSELVES IN THE NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS; AND
TO SUBMIT THEMSELVES TO THE RIGORS OF OUR TRAINING.
BELIEVE
ME WHEN I TELL YOU THAT YOU MUST ARM YOURSELVES WITH THE WORD OF GOD FOR WHAT
YOU WILL EVENTUALLY FACE IN THESE "LAST DAYS." To that end, I leave you with the words of Paul to the Ephesians:
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the
wiles of the devil.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.
"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
"Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breastplate of righteousness;
"And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench
all the fiery darts of the wicked.
"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God:
"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Again, it's in the light of these facts that I URGE
you to acquaint yourselves with what's happening today; and TO CONSIDER
TAKING THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS:
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