��������� 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
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