Freemasons

Dear Midnight Call:My family members have been Masons for many years and they are Christians.I am a past Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. The Eastern Star (5 points) tells us about the lives and legacies of Adah, Jephthah’s daughter, Ruth (who assisted Naomi), Esther (Queen), Martha (whose sister was Mary and brother Lazarus) and Electra (who lived in St. John the evangelist’s day). Our mission is to aid in our communities and state, and further Christian work. We sponsor a nursing home and assisted living and do other charity work.The Grand Lodge is not a church, but a group of men who also do community missions.The Shrine Club sponsors and supports hospitals for children who need assistance.The Knights Templar sponsors medical work for children in need of eye care.Other groups support mission work in other areas of need.One of the main requirements to join is to believe in God and not be afraid to confess.I’m sending this yearly statement to you as it tells about the “Long Life” of Masonry as it began in the building of “Solomon’s Temple at the Beginning of Time.” These are true statements and needs to be honored with dignity.-E. Steptoe, SD


Arno's Answer:


Today’s Freemasons have absolutely no connection to the building of the Temple in Jerusalem; that’s simply based on imagination.

My objection is not to the functionality, the aim and mission of the organization, but the religious content. Free Masonry is definitely non-Christian and does not “further Christian work.” Good works are not the issue; atheists do good works too.

Just one quote from Keith Harris’ book, The Masonic/Christian Conflict Explained, pages 20-21, should suffice to reveal the non-Christian spirit. It references Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, page 226:

“Masonry, around whose altars the Christian, the Hebrew, the Muslim, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim, must needs to leave it to each of its initiates to look for the foundation of his faith and hope to the written scriptures of his own religion.”

What does the Bible say? “…what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?” (2 Corinthians 6:15).

True Bible-believing Christians cannot unite in prayer with other religions. We may do social work together, but not worship and prayer.

Midnight Call - 01/2015

1058The Masonic Christian Conflict Explained
by Keith Harris
Item #1058 - 176 pgs.

Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.

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