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Bible Question: What
does the Bible say about organizations like the Masonic Lodge and
Eastern Star? Are they biblical?
Bible Answer: Both
the Masons and the Eastern Star are Masonic organizations. The Masons
is for men and the Eastern Star is for women.
Origin of the Masons. The Masons used
to trace their origin back to Nimrod who appears in the book of Genesis
of the Bible. He was the founder of a kingdom which included the city
of Babel and the famous Tower of Babel.
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Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one
on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore
it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad
and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (NASB) Genesis 10:8-10
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks
and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone,
and they used tar for mortar . . . Therefore its name was called
Babel . . . (NASB) Genesis 11:3, 9 |
The first Grand Master of the Masons was Nimrod.
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The central role was . . . [given] to the Tower of Babel.
Regius manuscript . . . cites King Nimrod, the builder
of the famous tower, as "the first and most excellent
master." He it was, and not King Solomon, who gave
the Masons their first "charge", their rules
of conduct and professional code. (Daniel, B. Symbols
of Freemasonry. Editions Assouline. 2000, p.
26) |
But the Masons adopted a new view of their origin around 1700 because
they . . .
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. . . were concerned with social respectability and had no desire
to threaten the establishment, finally rejected the "Legend
of the Craft" which honoured the Tower of Babel, a pagan
edifice constructed in open defiance of heaven. (Daniel, B.
Symbols of Freemasonry. Editions Assouline. 2000, p.
26) |
This comment is important because the Tower of Babel is the origin
of false religion. The Tower of Babel was related to the occult. So
a reference to the "Legend of the Craft", if true, would
imply the Masons have a background in the occult. Today, occult groups
recognize the Masons as being related to them. This is important.
The Tower of Babel is where the first false religion started. It is
the origin of the Mystery Religions which spread to the surrounding
world.
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. . . we learn that the founder of Bab-el, or Babel was Nimrod
. . . or Nimroud-bar-Cush . . .
. . . the wife of Nimroud-bar-Cush . . . was the infamous Semiramis
the First. She is reputed to have been the foundress of the
Babylonian mysteries and the first high-priestess of idolatry.
Thus Babylon became the fountain head of idolatry, and the mother
religion . . . From Babylon this mystery religion spread to
all the surrounding nations . . . (D. Pentecost, Things To Come.
Zondervan Publishing. 1972, 365-366.) |
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