The Great Masquerade
by Dr. Bertrand Comparet
The whole Bible is the history of the conflict between
our God and the rebel,
Satan‑‑carried on between their children, also. Didn't
you know that they both had
children? (Yes, I do mean CHILDREN, not merely
followers.) If you don't know this,
you should read your Bible more carefully.
Luke 3: 38 tells us that Adam was the‑son of God: and
surely you know that Adam
had children and descendants down through our own
generation. In many other
places, God refers to His children: for just a few of
these, consider Deuteronomy
32: 19, "And when the Lord saw it, He abhorred them,
because of the provoking of
HIS SONS AND OF HIS DAUGHTERS." Again, Isaiah 43:
6, "1 will say to the north, Give
up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring MY SONS
from afar, and MY DAUGHTERS
from the ends of the earth." Isaiah 45: 11: "Thus saith
the Lord, the Holy One of
Israel, and his Maker: Ask Me of things to come
concerning MY SONS, and concerning
the work of My hands command ye Me." In Psalm 82: 6:
"1 have said, Ye are gods;
and all of you are CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH." In
the New Testament, we read in
John 11: 51‑52 . he prophesied that Jesus should die for
that nation; and not for
that nation only, but also that He should gather together
THE CHILDREN OF GOD
that were scattered abroad." And Paul, in Romans 8: 14,
16 says, "For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, THEY ARE THE SONS of GOD ...
The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF
GOD."
As to the children of Satan, this also is affirmed in the
Bible from beginning to end.
First in Genesis 3: 15, where God tells Satan, "I will put
enmity between thee and
the woman, and between THY SEED and HER SEED."
The same Hebrew word for
"Seed," or descendants, is used in both instances, so
Satan is to have just as literal
seed, or children, as the woman, Eve. ‑‑ Jesus Christ,
Himself, affirmed this,
several times. For example, in Matthew 13: 38‑39,
where He said, "The field is the
world; the good seed are the Children of the Kingdom:
but the tares are the
children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them
is the devil." In John 6:
70‑71, Jesus said to His 12 disciples, "Have not I chosen
you 12, and one of you is a
devil?" Again, very carefully read John 8: 31‑55, where
Jesus said to these people,
"I speak that which I have seen with MY Father: and ye
do that which ye have
seen with YOUR father. They answered and said unto
Him, Abraham is our
father. Jesus saith unto them, IF ye were Abraham's
children, ye would do the
works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill Me, a man
that hath told you the
truth, which I have heard of God...Ye do the deeds of
YOUR father. " They tried
to masquerade as God's children, but they couldn't
deceive Him: they said, "We
have one father, even God. Jesus said unto them, IF
God were your Father, ye
would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from
God ... Ye are of YOUR
FATHER THE DEVIL, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him
... It is My Father that honoureth Me: of whom ye SAY
that He is your God: yet ye
have not known Him." Jesus was not using vulgarly
abusive language to them: He
was stating a biological fact, with scientific accuracy.
Paul, also, does not hesitate to identify certain people
as the children of the devil.
Meeting one, in Acts 13: 6‑10, Paul plainly called him
"thou child of the devil. "
In the thousands of years of this conflict, whenever we
have remembered that
we are the children of God, remained loyal to Him, and
remembered that God
Himself put enmity between HIS children and SATAN'S
CHILDREN, we have had
prosperity and high civilization, with very little crime;
and the wars which the
wicked started against us ended quickly with
tremendous victories in our favor.
Satan's tactics have always been the same, down
through the ages: first he tries
to crush us by force, as the Bible records many times,
and as we saw a few years
ago in Japan's treacherous attack upon us. But these
attacks always fail, when we
remember who WE are and who THEY are, and act
accordingly. Then Satan tries
another method: Since God has given us the victory
whenever we remember that
we are HIS CHILDREN and have nothing to do with the
children and the ways of
Satan, the only way to conquer and enslave or destroy
us is to make us forget this
division between the CHILDREN OF GOD and the
CHILDREN OF SATAN, get us all
mixed together so our ways will be corrupted with
theirs, our children will learn
their evil, our government will be controlled by their
power, and they will make us
enemies of God like themselves. Only when we are in
rebellion against God, and
therefore do not receive His help, can Satan and his
children hope to destroy us.
We were warned of this, as of all other dangers. In
Deuteronomy 7. 2‑4 we got the
first warning: "Thou shalt smite them, and utterly
destroy them; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
neither shalt thou make marriages
with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his
son, nor his daughter shalt
thou take unto thy son.
For they will turn away thy son from following Me, that
they may serve other gods:
so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and
destroy thee suddenly."
But we have allowed them to enter our land in great
numbers‑multitudes of them
were admitted illegally, under the Roosevelt
administration‑‑and to take over
control of our commerce, our government, our schools,
and now they who hate our
God are even laying hands on our churches. God
warned us not to allow them in the
land, "For they will turn away thy son from following
Me." They have done this:
Their organizations have made such a bitter fight
against any mention of the name
of Jesus Christ in our schools that many school boards
have yielded to their
pressure; they have sometimes been able to put some
of their own people into
public office, where they have ruled officially that we
cannot even read one verse
from the Bible in our schools, because it offends them.
Our children are not
allowed to hear the name of God in our schools; and
now even our churches are
being infiltrated and corrupted in the same way. Under
the guise of "interfaith"
movements, supposedly Christian ministers have been
induced to bring into their
pulpits those whose official doctrine calls our Savior,
Jesus Christ, a liar and a
fraud; to avoid offending these people, supposedly
Christian ministers carefully
avoid preaching anything from the Gospel of John; they
practically deny. their
Savior to please His enemies; so our children, who
cannot hear the name of our
God in school, often cannot hear it in their churches
either. The evil of which God
warned us has come upon us.
How are Satan's children able to do this? By a great
masquerade, in which they
pretend to be God's children, and have corrupted most
of our clergymen until these
no longer tell us who we are. We received warning of
this also, if we would only
heed it: In 2 Corinthians 11: 13‑15, where it says, "Such
men are sham apostles,
dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of
Christ. And no wonder, as even
Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel. So it is
nothing strange if his servants
also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their
doom will fit their actions." So
we are told by them that these people are God's
chosen, that they must be helped
to invade and steal other people's land, that our own
institutions must be changed
so as not to offend them and that our churches must
abandon Jesus Christ because
these people hate His name and we must abandon Him
in order to have fellowship
with them. But God warned us NOT to have fellowship
with devils.
All masquerades must reach an end; and this one is
almost finished. It has nearly
succeeded in bringing us to destruction. But God will
save us, because we are HIS
CHILDREN. Though most of us have forgotten our
identity, He has not forgotten.
Masks will be removed and our true identity revealed. In
Isaiah 51: 1‑2, God has
told us, " Harken to Me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the Lord:
look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn, and to the
hole of the pit from
whence ye are digged. LOOK UNTO ABRAHAM YOUR
FATHER, AND UNTO SARAH THAT
BORE YOU." That is, look to your ancestry, recognize
that you are Israel, God's
children; stop masquerading as gentiles; and tear the
mask off Satan's children who
masquerade as you.
New Christian Crusade
Sermon for October 31, 1999
New Christian Crusade Church
Box 449
Arabi, LA 70032