To the Pharisees of the twenty-first century
To those who know only religious ceremony
Crooked liars behind pedestals
Got Bibles in their hands but know nothing of what it holds
Stand on your stage, wave your fist in the air
Move your lips to speak of your own man-made teachings
To grow to your own failure
And your death, it will come
But your advice God’s gonna hate
Your own man made-teachings
Age old traditions, is it what you hold close to your heart?
Old Testament, Old Covenant, “You That Pay,” that’s what you preach
That broke when the body of Christ broke
Did you forget, or did you just skip through that part?
The most crucial part
The part that changed history

–Sinai Beach, “Wolves In Sheeps’ Clothing”–

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¹⁴ Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”

¹⁷ Therefore,

“Come out from them
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”

¹⁸ And,

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”

–2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (NIV)–

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Dr. John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord, 1946).

—. Lodges Examined by the Bible (Sword of the Lord, 1943), pgs. 13-14. “The oath is so binding that in some degrees of Masonry, Masons are sworn to help deliver fellow Masons from any kind of trouble, ‘murder and treason excepted.’ The oath plainly has in mind the delivery of a criminal from punishment for his crime since it plainly says, ‘murder and treason excepted.’ Crimes of RAPE, THEFT, ARSON–Masons are sworn to help deliver Masons from punishment brought on by such crimes. And in the Royal Arch Degree, the oath changes, and MURDER and TREASON are not excepted. That is, advanced Masons are sworn to help one another out of their troubles and that without exception.” In other words, the Masonic Lodge is a sophisticated criminal organization. Out of the 33 degrees of Freemasonry, all you have to do to be exempted from the death penalty for murder, is to graduate to the 13th degree called the Royal Arch of Solomon degree in the South, or what is called the Master of the Ninth Arch in the North! Charles Finney said, “Freemasonry, at the best, is but a mutual insurance company. Their oaths pledge them to assist each other, if in distress or in necessitous circumstances; and each other’s families, if left in want. This they can well afford to do, on the principle of mutual insurance: for they have vast sums, almost incalculable in amount, taking the whole fraternity together; and they can lay out almost any amount of money in fitting up their sumptuous lodges of the higher degrees, in building Masonic temples, in seeking each other’s promotion to office, and in defending each other in case any one of them commits a crime and is liable to suffer for it.”

Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 by Matthew Henry and Adam Clarke.