Ed Decker!
Go Away and Leave Us Alone!
I have been besieged of late to explain why I just won’t go
away and leave the Masons alone to do their “good
works.” Let me share a little
history about this ministry and me.
I was in Scotland and I lay on the floor of the bathroom, violently
retching . I was sure I was going to die. I had a TV show to do in just a few
hours and I was certain that I wouldn't live to see it. I pulled myself up, leaning against the wall
next to the toilet, trying to pull away from the pain I was in and sort out
what was happening.
I supposed that I had contracted food poisoning during the
Pastors' lunch earlier, but my
table companions, sharing the same
pizza, were not in here fighting for space at this receptacle. I remembered the two out-of-town visitors,
whose attendance our host had expressed
concern over. "This is a dangerous business, and I don't know these
fellows," he warned.
"Don't give it another thought," I answered.
"God is our protector."
Then I recalled that one of them had offered to refresh my diet
coke and I had consented. A half hour
later, I was convulsing in pain.
Reflecting back, years later now, I guess I should have questioned the wisdom of going to
Inverness, Scotland to do a TV program on "The Occult Origins of
Scottish Rite Masonry." My host
was correct in his concern, yet God truly was my protector.
I rose up that evening by His strength and did that program,
standing up. Yet, by the morning I was too ill to continue my tour and the next
day began a terrible journey back to Seattle ,
to my own doctors and my own family. I arrived home barely able to walk. The
poison had effected my involuntary muscle system and it was difficult to use my
hands and feet and hold my head steady. I arrived in Seattle more than 25 pounds lighter than I
left.
Tests showed that I had sustained a high, lethal dose of
arsenic, enough to have killed me a few times over. It took months to recover
from the incident. Not only had the
poison done serious damage to my digestive system, but I would lay in bed,
sleeping fitfully while my body twitched continually. Later, the heavy metal
began to work its way out through vicious sores in the tops of my hands and my head, making a
terrible odor that smelled like dog urine.
Even years later, while I was undergoing lung surgery caused
by a bus accident, several blood vessels in my lower back broke spontaneously
for apparently no reason. The doctors puzzled over the phenomenon for
the better part of the day until a nurse asked my wife if I had been exposed to
metallic poison in a work environment. When Carol told them about the Scotland
incident, they had their answer. Tests showed that pockets of arsenic still in
my system [lower back area] had been the cause and the vessels broke while I
was in severe trauma.
I suppose we could have pointed out the man who poisoned me.
He would have gone to prison, but as one Scottish friend warned, our host would have paid the price at the hands
of the Masons in response. It wasn't worth it. I am still alive and I am
still speaking out the awful truth of the lodge. I am sure there are more than
a few Masons in Scotland
that can't understand why I am still alive.
I do. It was because God intended me to live. It wasn’t the first
time my life was threatened by the Masons
and certainly not the last.
The trip to Scotland
wasn't by chance. I had been studying, writing and lecturing on Freemasonry for a number of years. Somehow, I had become an expert. It wasn't an easy transition.
When I began to study the Lodge with a critical eye, it
meant that I had to look back at my own father, grandfather and their fathers
before them for almost two hundred years. They were honest men, church men who
took our faith, our family and our country seriously, fighting in its many
wars. Generation after generation, each
son followed after his father and entered into membership in the Lodge. That
line ended when I stepped out of the DeMoLay to join the Mormon Church.
The Mormon church told me that Masonry was a society of
“secret combinations” and “works of darkness. “I was forbidden to continue
membership in the De Molay and later, as an active Mormon, I would not seek to follow my father into the
Lodge.
Years later, after I became a born again Christian, while I
was at a service in a Southern Baptist church teaching on the LDS Temple
ritual, I discovered from an angry
church Deacon that the ritual of the Masonic Lodge was the actual foundation of
the LDS temple ritual.
He told me I was courting serious harm of I continued in my
path of teaching about the LDS Tempe ceremony. He said that in doing so, I was
also revealing the secret rituals of the Masonic Blue Lodges.
I knew that if what he said was true, I would have to expose
the roots of Masonry to the same light of truth that I was bringing to bear on
Mormonism. That was easier said than done.
Within a month of that experience, I found myself at the
funeral of a friend's father and once seated, discovered I was about to witness
a Masonic funeral. By the time those men in their somber clothes walked down
the church aisle, I knew that this was birthed in the very pit of hell and it
had become rooted within the church, itself. I knew there was work to do.
It wasn't like the work hadn't been done before. Great men
like Charles Finney had discovered its evil core and brought it to the church,
but the church soon forgot the danger, choosing not to rile the Masons who ran
their boards, paid their salaries, settling instead for the ten shekels and the
shirt they offered.
For the next century, lone pastors would study it and bring
out its darkness from the pulpit. That
usually resulted in the pastor being removed from that pulpit, his career
usually destroyed in the process and the preaching of the truth of the lodge
once again removed from the ears of the
Masons in the church.
Freemasonry and Christianity are as far from each other as
the North and South poles. His ignorance
of the Luciferian roots and dark secrets of Freemasonry will be no excuse on
that day of judgment for the man who calls himself a Christian Mason. Woe unto
him.
When Masons receive their own personal, white lambskin apron, they are told it will be their
covering when they stand before the great white throne judgment. It is a
tragic promise they are bound to since the great white throne is not a good
place to stand before if their blood oaths, their good works and an apron are
their covering.
Well, ministries like ours continue to speak the fire of
truth and godly pastors are still speaking out in spite of the threats from the
Masons and their the odious acts of
ignominy in defying the very Word of God. For many valuable, free articles on this
subject, visit our Freemasonry resource page at www.saintsalive.com
