Spoken Word no 78
Communism,
Catholicism and
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
From his sermon Jezebel Religion 61-0319 he preached in
This Evening I would like to show you how that
communism is part of the curse that has
come upon this country for turning down the Voice of God to this generation.
Now, we know according to scripture
Now, this is important to know because the curse could
be reversed if the people would only turn from their wicked ways and hearken to
and pay attention to the Message of the Hour which is The Voice of God to this
generation. For the Lord Himself has descended with a SHOUT and we know that
SHOUT is the Message.
From his sermon The Former and latter rain 60-0303 P:19
Brother Branham said, “The
enemy watches for nighttime to come. He likes to come in the night. The great raids in our armies today is at nighttime. And that's
what...You talk of communism. Communism's
laying for one thing. We hear so much about it
today. Communism's wanting one thing,
the nation's honeycombed with it, but it's waiting for what little spiritual we
have got to die out, till it gets darkness in the church. That's the only
way it can strike. Let the Americans who claim to be Christians rise to their
feet in the Name of the Lord, call out, communism
would have no place. But we weave right into it, and our
churches is even full of it, sure, everywhere. The whole thing's polluted; the whole body's polluted. There's only
one sound thing and only one Foundation, that's Jesus Christ. On Jesus Christ
is the only Rock of salvation that I know of. The only way of escape is through Jesus Christ. He is the One.
So you see there is a way out, but will
You know that is a sign of
insanity when you do the same thing over and over again thinking it will change
somehow if you do. She got herself into trouble spending money she doesn’t have
and now she thinks she will get out of trouble by spending even more money that
she doesn’t have. That is incredibly stupid. But we are forewarned that at the
end-time the only people with a sane mind are those that have the mind of
Christ. And we are there. And the only way of escape is through Jesus Christ,
that’s it. So come into Christ while you still have time. And repent of all
your wicked ways, and acknowledge that without Christ you are lost.
In his sermon
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Now, it is very apparent
that this seventh plague is spiritual death, and as we see from what brother
Branham had to say about communism is that it is already here, that this nation
back then was already honeycombed by it, but it was just waiting on the
Spiritual death of this nation before it could be set in motion.
Communism's laying
for one thing. We hear so much about it today. Communism's wanting one thing, the nation's
honeycombed with it, but it's waiting for what little spiritual we have got to
die out, till it gets darkness in the church. That's the only way it can
strike.
Brother Branham predicted in 1956 that
On June 17, 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that
any Bible reciting or prayer, in public schools, was deemed unconstitutional.
From Wikepedia: Roe
v. Wade, 410
U.S. 113 (1973), is a United States Supreme Court case
that resulted in a landmark decision regarding abortion.[1] According to the Roe decision, most laws against abortion in the United States
violated a constitutional right to privacy under the
Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment. The decision overturned all state and federal
laws outlawing or restricting abortion that were inconsistent with its holdings. Roe v. Wade is one of the
most controversial and politically significant cases in U.S. Supreme Court
history. Its lesser-known companion case, Doe v.
Bolton, was decided at the same time.[2]
Roe v. Wade centrally held that a
mother may abort her pregnancy for any reason, up until the "point at
which the fetus becomes ‘viable.’" The Court defined viable as
being "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with
artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks)
but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks."[1] The Court also held that abortion after viability must
be available when needed to protect a woman's health, which the Court defined broadly in the companion case
of Doe v. Bolton. These rulings affected laws in 46 states.[3]
Now, I would like to read
for you an article by Chuck
Morse printed Friday,
May 9, 2003entitled Communist Goals
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr.
HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of
[From
"The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT
COMMUNIST GOALS
1.
2.
3. Develop the
illusion that total disarmament [by] the
4. Permit free
trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of
whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of
long-term loans to
6. Provide
American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant
recognition of Red China. Admission of Red
8. Set up East and
9. Prolong the
conferences to ban atomic tests because the
10. Allow all
Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the
U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it
be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
(Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the
U.N. as by
12. Resist any
attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with
all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue
giving
15. Capture one or
both of the political parties in the
16. Use technical
decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their
activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of
the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist
propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put
the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control
of all student newspapers.
19. Use student
riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are
under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the
press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control
of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue
discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An
American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from
parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art
critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness,
repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all
laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation
of free speech and free press.
25. Break down
cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books,
magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present
homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the
churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does
not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate
prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that
it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the
American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with
modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the
American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no
concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all
forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on
the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give
more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any
socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the
culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics,
etc.
33. Eliminate all
laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist
apparatus.
34. Eliminate the
House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and
eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and
gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and
gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some
of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all
behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can
understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the
psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive
control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the
family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the
need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute
prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of
parents.
42. Create the
impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the
American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up
and use ["]united force["] to solve
economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all
colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44.
Internationalize the
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the
Christ revealed in His Own Word pp. 41 Notice. Now, we come back;
we've got to have something another that we have to hold on to. Something has
to be a tie post; in other words, it's an ultimate. And everyone must have an ultimate or an absolute. I preached on it
one time years ago, on a absolute, a place that's the last word. Like the umpire at a ball game, if
he says it's a strike, that's just exactly what it is. No matter how you seen
it, the umpire said it's a strike. You
said, "I, It wasn't a strike. It went... I seen the..." It don't
matter what it is, when he said, "Strike," that's it, and that's
settled, just what... He's the ultimate.
And the traffic light is an ultimate. If it says, "Go," I...
You say, "Well, I--I'm in a hurry, I got..." No, no, it says,
"You stand still while the other fellow goes." See? It's the
ultimate.
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Now, there's got to be an ultimate to
everything you do. There had to be an ultimate when you chose your wife.
There had to be a woman you had to select.
Now, there has to be a time where when you're
go to buy a car, what kind of an ultimate you're going to make. Will it be
Ford, Chevy,
Now
we find that brother Branham is telling us here that it is vital that we have
an absolute. As I said, Wednesday night, I believe that the lack of an absolute
is why there is so much chaos in this country today, because that’s exactly
what happens when you don’t have an absolute, chaos results. The Legislative
branch of our government was formed to make the laws and the judicial branch
was created to police those laws, and administrate those laws. But what has
happened is that everybody wants to play lawmaker and in the Judicial branch we
have seen the
courts and other judicial branches of government have decided that they can
make up their own rules and break the
existing rules as they please. The BATF and the FBI and the CIA and other law
enforcement agencies including the IRS have run amuck with making up their own
laws or changing existing laws without proper legislative accord which must
come from those who were elected to represent the people. And we have seen the Judicial courts, the Supreme court come to the place where
they have decided that they are the interpreters of those laws and by doing so
they have changed the meaning of those laws. Instead of the Rights to Life they
have assented to the rights to murder innocent unborn children.
Since
we looked at this subject of having an absolute in terms of what has happened
to this country as a result of not having an absolute, I would now like to
continue with this thought. And since we took our thoughts to the point of what
the education in this country has become without having an absolute to guide
it, I think it would be a good idea to expand on this thought today. Therefore
this morning I want to examine the thought of this absolute that brother
Branham is talking about and why it is so necessary to teach our children and
train our children about the need for this absolute in their lives as well.
[Deut 6: 4-9] KJV {7}NIV Impress them on your
children. Talk of them when you sit in your home and when you walk along the
road, when you lie down and when you get up.
{7} Amplified And these words which I am commanding you
this day shall be first in your mind heart; then you shall whet and sharpen
them, so to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the
minds and hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise
up.” And so we see that to do so they were to place
pictures and Scriptures and all sorts of things that the children will actually
see with their eyes and when they see with their eyes it will have an influence
in their minds and in their hearts.
Now
let me tell you a true story about a little girl who was on her way home from
school one day when she was approached by a man. I want you to notice how she
was able to come out victorious in this situation. And I hope you will see by
this story just how you should, and why you need to, give your children the
proper training at home. A little girl, being asked by a priest to attend his
religious instruction, refused, saying it was against her father’s wishes. The
Priest said she should obey him, not her father. ‘Oh, sir, we are
taught in the Bible, “Honor thy father
and thy mother.’” “You have no business to read the Bible,” said the priest. “But
sir, our savior said, ‘search the
scriptures’” [John 5:39] “That was only to the Jews, and not to
children, and you don’t understand it.” said the
priest in reply. “But sir, Paul said to
Timothy, ‘From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures,’” [2 Timothy 3:15]. “Oh,” said the priest, “Timothy
was being trained to be a bishop, and taught by the authorities of the Church.”
“Oh, no, sir,” said the child, “he was taught by his mother and grandmother.”
On this the priest turned away, saying she “knew
enough of the Bible to poison a parish.”
[Ezekiel 44:23-24]
Exodus 20:3 tells us I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt have no other gods.
What
does it mean “I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt have no
other gods.” What does it mean to
have
no other? What is God trying to get across to the people by saying no other.
He is letting us know that He is it. He stands alone and there is none that
compare. There is none worthy of our worship, for the word God means an object
of worship. And He is telling us there can be no other. In other
words, He is the Ultimate, He is our Absolute and there can be no other
absolute. And yet we find according to John
1:1 tells us that God is the Word.
And we know the Scripture teaches us that As a man thinketh in His heart so is he and out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh and the
Word of God then is God to us. The Word of God declares Who He is and therefore
is Who He is. And so we find then that God’s Word is our God and no other God
or no other Word shall be received as True worship. Jesus Himself said, “God
is Spirit, and they that Worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and In Truth.”
And so without Truth, you can not worship God. And what Is Truth? In [John 17:17] Jesus was praying to God,
His Father, and said, “Sanctify them through Thy Truth, for Thy
Word is Truth.” His Word then is
our absolute and our ultimate, and this is what we shall be hearing brother
Branham bring to us as we read the next few paragraphs.
Our
educational system in this country has run aground because we are so Laodicean
in our approach as a nation. You say, what do you mean by that? What I mean is
because we are rich and increased with goods we think that money is the answer
to al our problems. If we have a social problem, what do we do? We throw money
at the problem. Why? because we are so lazy as a
nation. The average child receives over $400 dollars in back to school clothes
and -0- time dressing their minds with Truth, and Right-wise-ness to protect it
from the liberal lies. [Deuteronomy 4: 8 - 10] [Matt
5:19][Psalm 86:11, 90:12, 143:10] [Isaiah 28:9]
That’s
why our educational system has run amuck, it’s because the teachers unions
control what is being taught and they have no True absolute, and so the
teachers push the agenda’s of the Liberal Unions and this has created chaos in
American society. Children today are graduating from the public schools who can
not even read. This nation spends more per student than any other nation in the
world yet we are the last in value of education per dollar spend, even behind
the lowest third world countries. And if
you get a good teacher who tries to teach the children to learn, they will be
ostracized by the other faculty members and the union will not support them
because they are not following the unions manifest.
In
fact I the National Federation of Teachers manifesto for 1995 and 1996 in which
the gay agenda began being pushed forward as an
acceptable lifestyle in the schools. The
Now
we all know this is the effects of a Godless society. But did you know that the
Catholic church through the Society of Jesus (the
Order of the Jesuits) has been planning the take over of the minds of this
nation for well over a 100 years or more?
I have 7 books in my possession that deal specifically with this subject
and only one of them has been written in the past few years and that by a devout
Catholic Malachi Martin. The other books are very old and in fact 3 of them
were written around the turn of the century.
Pope Pius IX said in his
Encyclical 45 “The
Roman church has a right to interfere in the discipline of the public schools,
and in the arrangements of the studies of the public schools, and in the choice
of teachers for these schools.” Pope Pius IX Encyclical - 47: “Education
outside control of the Roman Catholic Church is a dangerous heresy... Public
schools open to all children for the education of the young should be under the
control of the Roman Catholic Church and should not be subject to the civil
power, nor made to conform with the opinions of the
age.”
Quote from Catholic Priest in
The
But
the Catholic church has been trying to get government
funding for their own schools since the mid 1800’s and they will stop at
nothing to get our tax dollars into their coffers. here
is a sample of how they used the media back then to push for what tax funding
of Catholic schools.
The New World (The official paper of the Archdiocese of
Chicago, February 6, 1904: Every
school that does the work of education in a way to satisfy the requirements of
the state in all the secular branches of instruction is entitled to state
support, no matter what religious denomination the school managers may belong.
...In all justice, then, to religious schools, if they give the same amount of
secular instruction as the others, then they are entitled to the same support
for the secular instruction they give. Why not? Can any man except the
unreasoning bigot see why they should not be treated alike? If, in addition to
the secular instruction required by the state, the religious schools also teach
religion because the parents want it, the state can have no objection. Because it will not be paying for the religious instruction, only
the secular instruction. ... Let us take our stand on this platform,
“The same pay for the same work.” That seems to offer tot he people of the
Back
around 1900’ Cardinal McClosky said: “We must take part in elections. Move in
solid mass in every state against the party pledged to sustain the integrity of
the public schools.”
President Garfield in His
Acceptance letter, July 12, 1880: “Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education,
without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. It
would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions, to apply any
portion of the revenue of the nation, or of the State, to the support of sectarian
schools. The separation of the Church and the State, in everything relating to
taxation should be absolute.”
General Grant Des Moisnes, 1876: “Encourage free schools and
resolve that not one dollar appropriated to them shall be applied tot he support of any sectarian school. ‘
Now,
what I am trying to get across to us this morning is this, The Catholic church
has been trying to destroy the Public schools in America for well over 100
years and they have finally prevailed. The Reverend Jeremiah Crowley Ex-Priest
from Cincinnati, said in his book, Romanism A menace to the Nation written in 1912, the following:
I assert that it is the set
purpose of the great majority of Roman Catholic Hierarchy in
1.) The bringing of the public school into
contempt by characterizing it as godless, vicious, and a sink of corruption.
2.) The securing of the
3.) The encouraging of other sets to start
sectarian schools and to demand public moneys in payment for the secular
education of the children.
4.) The securing of a Catholic majority on
public school boards and on the teaching staff of the public schools in the
hope of being able thereby to lower the tone of instruction and discipline in
the public schools and thus bring public schools into disfavor.
5.) securing the
employment of nuns and monks as public school teachers.
6.) The prevention of normal school
training of public school teachers.
By these and other means
Catholic ecclesiastics hope to destroy the public school system, and to make
the parochial school supreme. I have had many conversations with members of the
American Catholic Hierarchy during the past eighteen years about the public and
parochial schools in
Abraham Lincoln 1864: “The common people see and hear the big
noisy wheels of Southern Confederacy’s cars, they call the Jeff Davis, Lee,
Toombs, Beauregard, Semmes, etc., and they honestly think that they are the
motive power, the first cause of our troubles. But it is a mistake. The True
motive power is secreted behind thick walls of the
Cardinal Martinelli Papal delegate to