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Letters TO ONE WHO BELIEVES DIVINITY SCHOOLS ARE LUCIFERIAN BECAUSE THEY OPERATE WITH MASONIC MONEY Dear D. W. May 12, 1987 I am very concerned about you. You are conspiratorially-minded to the point of becoming a nihilist. Instead of sorting out the bad, you want to throw out everything. Yours is the philosophy of madness. Your premise is wrong: instead of accepting the Scriptures by faith, you even go so far as to intimate the Word of God itself is the product of a conspiracy. Instead of leaning upon your understanding, you are going to have to accept something as authoritative; and, if that "something" is not the Bible, you are going to cast yourself upon the sea of relativism. "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica," Paul said of the Bereans, because they "searched the Scriptures daily whether these things were so." They scrutinized the things Paul preached comparing those things with the Word of God. When you turn your back on "divinity schools" because they operate with masonic money, remember that you, too, operate with masonic money. Your argument is foolish. Where I attended school, I was brought to an awareness of my sins against the Lord, and, it was there that the Lord opened my eyes, and gave me faith to believe that what Jesus did on the cross, He did for me. He did not die on the cross for any crimes He had done, but for the crimes I had committed against the Lord God Almighty. It was at Bob Jones University that the Lord gave me knowledge that my sins had been washed away, even mine. I believe your maze of confusion is the result of "walking in the counsel of the ungodly." That is, you are listening to, and reading after men who themselves do not have any love for God, or for His truth. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" (Psalm 1:1). ... OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT Dear F. H. October 6, 1988 ...First, I think your understanding of Romans 13 is somewhat lacking. In the first verse, Paul declares that every soul is to be subject to the power of God. This includes government leaders. This is why Calvin declared tyrants have no legitimate authority. He said, "Dictatorships and unjust authorities are not ordained governments. ...In short, they are responsible to God and to men in the exercise of their rule." Chrysostom understood it to mean that when civil authorities take what belongs to God, namely the definition of Right and Wrong, by commanding what is sinful, to pay such tribute is not being obedient to Caesar, but is doing the work of the Devil. Matthew Henry states, "If Caesar's commands interfere with God's, we must obey God rather than men." He states it to be a rule in the common law of England that if any statute be contrary to the Law of God, it is null and void. "That is right indeed that is right in the sight of God." Even Euripides asks the rhetorical question: "Should we not obey the commands of princes?" "No," he answers, "if they command evil things." Your own excellent illustration was the disobedience to Pharaoh's mandate by the Hebrew midwives... While you have not thought this through, I know you will agree that any system of government that funds the butchering of children, that supports the organizations that promote sodomy, that rewards illegitimacy, indolence and adultery is wicked. The next descent down the slippery slide of socialism will be socialized medicine. Ask the people in England, or Sweden if socialism works. The latter country takes 90 percent of earnings to provide care from the cradle to the grave: but God has no consideration from it. I trust you will keep praying for me. I need wisdom because I do not want to be the Devil's fool, and I need wisdom to know how to deal with our society, and still be true to the Word of God. After reading your letter, I believe it is only a question of time before your eyes will be opened. Perhaps, it will take the imprint in the hand before you realize where we are heading. ON LAWFUL GOVERNMENT Dear D. B. December 25, 1990 ...Does the Lord tell us to obey magistrates in everything? Did not the apostles disobey, and give as their defense, "Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye" (Acts 4:19)? Does this not mean that when government orders us to do anything wrong, we are to do the will of God? The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 13, that all are to be subject to God. Does this mean the members of City Council? What about Governors, Senators, and members of the House of Representatives? Are they to be subject to the "higher powers?" Does it include presidents as well as dictators? In Romans chapter 13, God lays down the characteristics that distinguish legitimate government. Please note: l.) "Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil" (vs. 3). But, when rulers become a terror to good works, and not to the evil, what then? "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers." 2.) "He is the minister of God to thee for good" (vs. 4). But when government funds sodomy, blasphemy, and murder, is it still the minister of God to us for good? 3.) "He beareth not the sword in vain" (vs. 4b). But when the sword is borne in vain, and evil men are no longer put to death, but good people live in peril every day, are they "God's ministers attending continually upon this very thing?" God has entrusted parents with the responsibility to teach and to train their children. In some states, parents who refuse to give up their children to the sex education of the drug culture pervading their school system—I say, in some states, their children may be taken from them. Whom do we obey? God or "Caesar?" If I voluntarily deliver up the heritage of the Lord to be defiled, God will spue me out of His mouth. "May God Smile On You."
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