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