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Matthew
6:9-15
After this manner
therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us from evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for
ever. Amen. For if ye forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Up until 1963 the people of
Births among unwed teenaged girls have since jumped from 15
to 45 per thousand. This
in spite of the massive sex education efforts of the past decades. Also keep in mind that this is not counting
the massive amount of abortions these young women have been tormented by. Gonorrhea has jumped from 18 to nearly 70 per
100,000 in spite of the safe sex revolution.
Also murder arrests have jumped from 35 to almost 150 per 100,000 during
this same period. This is what has
happened because, among other things, we have stopped our children from praying
daily for God's blessing upon them.
Next let's see what happened when we stopped our children
from praying for "our parents".
Up until 1963 divorces were at a fairly steady rate. After this, the divorce rate triples by
1978. Since 1963, couples
living together out of wedlock has increased tenfold and single-parent
households have more than tripled.
Adultery rates have also tripled.
This is what has happened since our federal government has removed
prayer from public schools.
Now let's take a moment to see what has occurred since our
government has decided to stop all these children praying for "our
teachers". How does the public
school system of today compare to the pre-1963 public school system? First, let's look at the
It is very interesting to note that this occurs only in
public schools.
The fact is, however, that private school tuitions average
around $4,400 per year, while public schools are currently spending nearly
twice that much per student. Put simply,
we are putting more money in and getting less education out of the public
school system! This does not take into
account the massive increase in violence, and other ungodly conduct that is now
the hallmark of the American public school system. When you take God out of public schools, why
should we be surprised when our children act ungodly?
The last area covered by this prayer is "our
nation". It was President John
Adams who said, "We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry
would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a
net. Our Constitution was made only for
a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other." With this in mind, let's examine what has
happened to our nation since the federal government has removed prayer from the
public school systems in
I don't think that anyone can deny that crime has exploded
since the 1960's. So has
sexually transmitted diseases, drug, and alcohol abuse. Child abuse, sexual assault, and public
corruptions of all kinds have grown tremendously since that time. Many still would hold that they are not
connected to school prayer, but if you take away the moral compass, and refuse
to allow our children to be exposed to godly instruction, what else can they
become but ungodly? In the case of our
public schools in
There is a wonderful book on this very subject entitled
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I hope that you, and others out there, will find this book
as much a blessing as I have. It is
truly time for us, as a people, to turn back to the God of our founding
fathers. King David knew this principle
well, when he stated....
Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be
turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
The following section comes from
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In the summer of 1864, an old friend of Lincoln's, Joshua F.
Speed, observed the President reading a Bible, and remarked: "I am glad to
see you so profitably engaged...if you have recovered from your skepticism; I
am sorry to say that I have not." President Lincoln then placed his hand
on his friend's shoulder, and replied:
“You are wrong, Speed. Take all that you can of this Book
upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will
live and die a happier man.”
As reported in the Washington Chronicle,
“In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, I believe
the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this
Book. But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All things most
desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in
it. To you I return my most sincere thanks for the elegant copy of the great
Book of God which you present.”
On
“Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War
Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln recorded:
“I believe in national humiliation, fasting, and prayer, in
keeping a day holy to the Lord, devoted to the humble discharge of the
religious duties proper to such a solemn occasion....I believe in Him whose
will, not ours, should be done. I believe the people of the United States, in
the forms approved by their own consciences, should render the homage due to
the Divine Majesty for the wonderful things He has done in the nation's behalf,
and invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit to subdue anger....I believe in His
eternal truth and justice. I believe the will of God prevails; without Him all
human reliance is vain; without the assistance of that Divine Being I cannot
succeed; with that assistance I cannot fail. I believe I am a humble instrument
in the hands of our Heavenly Father; I desire that all my works and acts may be
according to His will; and that it may be so, I give thanks to the Almighty and
seek His aid. I believe in praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and
Ruler of the Universe.”
On
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong
impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
In 1865, President Lincoln made his last speech to a crowd
in front of the White House:
“The evacuation of
In answering a question from L.E. Chittenden, Register of
the Treasury, President Abraham Lincoln is reported to have stated:
“That the Almighty does make use of human agencies, and
directly intervenes in human affairs, is one of the plainest statements of the
Bible. I have had so many evidences of his direction - so many instances when I
have been controlled by some other power than my own will - that
I cannot doubt that this power comes from above. I frequently see my way clear
to a decision when I have no sufficient facts upon which to found it. But I
cannot recall one instance in which I have followed my own judgement,
founded upon such a decision, where the results were unsatisfactory; whereas,
in almost every instance where I have yielded to the views of others, I have
had occasion to regret it. I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do
or not to do a particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it. I am
confident that it is His design to restore the
Recorded in the work, Recollections of President Lincoln,
and his Administration,
written by
“The character of the Bible is easily established, at least
to my satisfaction. We have to believe many things which we do not comprehend.
The Bible is the only history that claims to be God's Book - to comprise His
laws, His history. It contains an immense amount of evidence as to its authenticity....Now
let us treat the Bible fairly. If we had a witness on the stand whose general
story was true, we would believe him even when he asserted the facts of which
we have no other evidence. We ought to treat the Bible with equal fairness. I
decided long ago that it was less difficult to believe that the Bible was what
it claimed to be than to disbelieve it.”
President Abraham Lincoln stated:
“Here without contemplating consequences, before High
Heaven, and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just
cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty, and my love....Let
none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. I have always taken
Counsel of Him, and referred to Him my plans, and have never adopted a course of
proceeding without being assured, as far as I could be, of His approbation.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp
the infinite, to exist only for a day. No, no, man was made for immortality.
Whenever any church will inscribe over its altar as a qualification for
membership the Savior's statement of the substance of the law and gospel,
"Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as
thyself," that church will I join with all my heart and soul.”
Abraham Lincoln is attributed to have stated:
“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have
started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone,
attend to those things you think are important. You may adopt all the policies
you please, but how they will be carried out depends on him. He will assume
control of your cities, states, and nations. He is going to move in and take
over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations. All your books are
going to be judged by him. The fate of humanity is in his hands. The philosophy
of the school room in one generation will be the
philosophy of government in the next.”
“The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our
foundation in morality and religion.”
In 1865, shortly before Lee's surrender, Abraham Lincoln
began his second term. In visiting with State Senator James Scovel
of
“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this
country, I believe it will become what it ought to be - what its Divine Author
intended it to be - no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for
the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new
In 1865, not long before he was assassinated, a clergyman
from
“When I left
On
“He said he wanted to visit the
On
“The Department announces with profound sorrow to the
officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps the death of Abraham Lincoln,
late President of the
to any other person, are we
indebted for the successful vindication of the integrity of the
On
“The members of the Senate and House of Representatives now
assembled in Washington, humbly confessing their dependence upon Almighty God,
who rules all that is done for human good, make haste at this informal meeting
to express the emotions with which they have been filled by the appalling
tragedy which has deprived the nation of its head and covered the land with
mourning; and in further declaration of their sentiments unanimously resolve:
That in testimony of their veneration and affection for the illustrious dead,
who has been permitted, under Providence, to do so much for his country and for
liberty, they will unite in the funeral services and by an appropriate
committee will accompany his remains to their place of burial in the State from
which he was taken for the national service.”
In a Memorial Address for President Lincoln,
“Nor should I forget to mention here that the last act of
Congress ever signed by him was one requiring that the motto, in which he
sincerely believed, "In God We Trust," should hereafter be inscribed
upon all our national coin.”
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Luke 4:6-8
And the devil said unto
him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of
them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall
be thine. And
Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
Pastor Richard Wurmbrand spent a
total of 14 years in Romanian prisons. During three of those years, he was kept
in "solitary confinement," alone in a small cell. He was sick in a
prison hospital, expected to die, for two more of the 14 years. Mrs. Wurmbrand was also in prison for three years, forced to do
hard physical work for the Communists. While both of his parents were in prison,
Mihai was cared for by Christian friends. Pastor Wurmbrand wrote MARX & SATAN, a book containing
connections between Marxism and the Satanist church.
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MARX & SATAN
Chapter 2: Against
All Gods-part 2
Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian anarchist
Marx did not often speak publicly about metaphysics, but we
can gather his views from the men with whom he associated. One of his partners
in the First International was Mikhail Bakunin, a
Russian anarchist, who wrote:
“The Evil One is the satanic revolt against divine
authority, revolt in which we see the fecund germ of all human emancipations,
the revolution. Socialists recognize each other by the words ‘In the name of
the one to whom a great wrong has been done.’
“Satan [is] the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the
emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and
obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and
humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.” [20]
Bakunin does more than praise
Lucifer. He has a concrete program of revolution, but not one that would free
the poor from exploitation. He writes:
“In this revolution we will have to awaken the Devil in the
people, to stir up the basest passions. Our mission is to destroy, not to
edify. The passion of destruction is a creative passion.” [21]
Marx, along with Bakunin, formed
the First International and endorsed this strange program. Marx and Engels said in ~The Communist Manifesto~ that the
proletarian sees law, morality, and religion as "so many bourgeois
prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests."
Bakunin reveals that Proudhon, another major Socialist thinker and at that time
a friend of Karl Marx, also "worshiped Satan." [22] Hess had
introduced Marx to Proudhon, who wore the same hair
style typical of the nineteenth-century Satanist sect of Joanna Southcott.
Proudhon, in ~The Philosophy of
Misery~, declared that God was the prototype for injustice.
“We reach knowledge in spite of him,
we reach society in spite of him. Every step forward is a victory in which we
overcome the Divine.” [23]
He exclaims,
“Come, Satan, slandered by the small and by kings. God is
stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood; God is tyranny and
poverty; God is evil. Where humanity bows before an altar, humanity, the slave
of kings and priests, will be condemned.... I swear, God, with my hand
stretched out towards the heavens, that you are nothing more than the
executioner of my reason, the scepter of my conscience.... God is essentially anticivilized, antiliberal,
antihuman.” [24]
Proudhon declares God to be evil
because man, His creation, is evil. Such thoughts are not original; they are
the usual content of sermons delivered in Satanist worship.
Marx later quarreled with Proudhon
and wrote a book to refute his ~Philosophy of Misery~. But Marx contradicted
only minor economic doctrines. He had no objection to Proudhon's
demonic anti-God rebellion.
Heinrich Heine, the renowned
German poet, was a third intimate friend of Marx. He too was Satan-fancier. He
wrote:
I called the devil and he came,
His face with wonder I must scan;
He is not ugly, he is not lame.
He is a delightful, charming man. [25]
"Marx was a great admirer of Heinrich Heine....Their relationship was warm, hearty." [26]
Why did he admire Heine? Perhaps
for Satanist thoughts like the following:
I have a desire ... for a few beautiful trees before my
door, and if dear God wishes to make me totally happy, he will give me the joy
of seeing six or seven of my enemies hanged on these trees. With a
compassionate heart I will forgive them after death all the wrong they have
done to me during their life. Yes, we must forgive our enemies, but not before
they are hanged.
I am not revengeful. I would like to love my enemies. But I
cannot love them before taking revenge upon them. Only then my heart opens for
them. As long as one has not avenged himself, bitterness remains in the heart.
Would any decent man be an intimate friend of one who thinks
like this?
But Marx and his entourage thought alike. Lunatcharski, a leading philosopher who was once minister
of education of the USSR, wrote in ~Socialism and Religion~ that Marx set aside
all contact with God and instead put Satan in front of marching proletarian
columns.
It is essential at this point to state emphatically that
Marx and his comrades, while anti-God, were not atheists, as present-day
Marxists claim to be. That is, while they openly denounced and reviled God,
they ~hated a God in whom they believed~. They challenged not His existence,
but His supremacy.
When the revolution broke out in
Marx greatly praised the Communards who openly proclaimed
this aim. But what has this to do with a more equitable distribution of goods
or with better social institutions? Such are only the outward trappings for
concealing the real aim - the total eradication of God and His worship. We saw
the evidence of this in such countries as
Marx's Devilish
Poetry
We see this clearly in Marx's poetry. In "Invocation of
One in Despair" and "Human Pride," man's supreme supplication is
for his own greatness. If man is doomed to perish through his own greatness,
this will be a cosmic catastrophe, but he will die as a godlike being, mourned
by demons. Marx's ballad "The Player" records the singer's complaints
against a God who neither knows nor respects his art. This emerges from the
dark abyss of hell, "bedeviling the mind and bewitching the heart, and his
dance is the dance of death." [28] The minstrel draws his sword and throws
it into the poet's soul.
Art emerging from the dark abyss of hell, bedeviling the
mind ... This reminds us of the words of the American revolutionary Jerry Rubin
in ~Do It~:
“We've combined youth, music, sex, drugs, and rebellion with
treason - and that's a combination hard to beat.” [29]
In his poem "Human Pride," Marx admits that his
aim is not to improve the world or to reform, revolutionize it, but simply to
ruin it and to enjoy its being ruined:
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet
Full in the face of the world,
And see the collapse of this pygmy giant
Whose fall will not stifle my ardour.
Then will I wander godlike and victorious
Through the ruins of the world
And, giving my words an active force,
I will feel equal to the Creator. [30]
Marx adopted Satanism after intense inner struggle. He
ceased writing poems during a period of severe illness, a result of the tempest
within his heart. He wrote at that time about his vexation at having to make an
idol of a view he detested. He felt sick. [31]
The overriding reason for Marx's conversion to communism
appears clearly in a letter of his friend Georg Jung
to Ruge: it was not the emancipation of the
proletariat, nor even the establishing of a better social order. Jung writes:
If Marx, Bruno Bauer and Feuerbach
associate to found a theological-political review, God would do well to
surround himself with all his angels and indulge in self-pity, for these three
will certainly drive him out of heaven.... [32]
Were these poems the only expressly Satanist writings of
Karl Marx? We do not know, because the bulk of his works is kept secret by
those who guard his manuscripts.
In ~The Revolted Man~, Albert Camus
stated that thirty volumes of Marx and Engels have
never been published and expressed the presumption that they are not much like
what is generally known as Marxism. On reading this, I had one of my secretaries write to the Marx Institute in
The vice director, one Professor M. Mtchedlov,
after saying Camus lied, nevertheless confirmed his
allegations. Mtchedlov wrote that of a total of one
hundred volumes, only thirteen have appeared. He offered a ridiculous excuse
for this: World War II forestalled the printing of the other volumes. The
letter was written in 1980, thirty-five years after the end of the war. And the
State Publishing House of the
From this letter it is clear that though the Soviet
Communists had all the manuscripts for one hundred volumes, they chose to
publish only thirteen. There is no other explanation than that most of Marx's
ideas were deliberately kept secret.
Chapter 2
20. Mikhail Bakunin, ~God and the
State~ (New York: Dover Publications, 1970), p. 112.
21. Roman Gul, ~Dzerjinskii~, published by the author in Russian (
22. Op. cit., Enzensberger, p.
407.
23. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, ~Philosophie de la MisŠre (The
Philosophy of Misery)~ (Paris: Union G‚n‚rale d'Editions, 1964), pp. 199,
200.
24. Ibid., pp. 200, 201.
25. Paul Garus, ~History of the
Devil~ (
26. Heinrich Heine,
~Works~, Vol. I, p. LXIV.
27. Charles Boyer, ~The Philosophy of Communisn~(10: "The Political Atheism of Communism" by Igino Giordani) (New York:
Fordham University Press, 1952), p. 134.
28. Op. cit., Marx, "Spielmann,"
pp. 57, 58.
29. Jerry Rubin, ~Do It~ (New York: Simon & Schuster,
1970), p. 249.
30. Karl Marx, "Menschenstolz"
("Human Pride"), MEGA, I, i (2), p. 50.
31. Ibid., Karl Marx, letter of
32. Ibid., Georg Jung, letter of
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week. Just what exactly is the biblical
view of slavery? God bless. MARANATHA!
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