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LET’S STUDY REVELATION #48

November 21, 2013 by Ken Blue

 REVELON BOOK

(The Jesus of Mormonism, is an entirely different person, as official publications clearly reveal.  The Mormon ‘Savior’ is not the second person of the Christian Trinity, since Mormons reject the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, and He is not even a careful replica of the New Testament Redeemer.  In Mormon theology Christ, as a pre-existent spirit, was not only the spirit brother of the devil (as alluded to in the Pearl of Great Price, Moses 4:1-4 and later reaffirmed by Brigham Young in theJournal of Discourses, 13:282), but celebrated his own marriage to ‘Mary and Martha, and the other Mary,’ at Cana of Galilee, ‘whereby he could see his seed, before he was crucified’ (Apostle Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, 4:259; 2:82).   The Mormon concept of the Virgin Birth, alone, insults God and distinguishes the Mormon ‘Christ’ from the Christ of the Bible.) Copied.

 

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“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?”  (Revelation 13:4).

We have discovered that the dragon is Satan, and that all the Gentile heads derived their power from him. It has always been Satan’s ambition to receive worship and total power. He will have that for a brief time through a man who will sell himself completely to him and Judas did. Satan will receive worship through the one willing to represent him. By worshiping the one, they ignorantly worshiped the other.

That man is called:

Antichrist (1 John 2:18).

  1. Assyrian (Isaiah 10:20-27; Isaiah 30:18-33; Isaiah 31:4-32:20; Micah 5:3-15).
  2. King of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4).
  3. The little horn (Daniel 7:8, 24; Daniel 8:9,23).
  4. The King of Fierce Countenance (Daniel 8:23).
  5. The Prince that shall come ( Daniel 9:26-27).
  6. King of the north (Daniel 11:5-45).
  7. Man of sin (2 Thes. 2:1-12).
  8. Son of perdition (2 Thes. 2:1-12).
  9. The Wicked (Isaiah 11:4).
  10. That Wicked (2 Thess. 2:8-12).
  11. The Beast (Daniel 7:11; Rev. 13).

The image of a seven-headed beast is formed from the masses, and is a “snapshot” of all seven kingdoms in one picture. They do not exist simultaneously, yet, except in the vision and in character. This is illustrated in the vision of Nebuchadnezzar.  “Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” (Daniel 2:37-43).

At the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s vision only one head was in existence – Babylon. The other three, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, came years later. The vision in the book of Daniel did not reveal the two heads which preceded Babylon, but they are seen on John’s beast: Egypt and Assyria.

The beast which existed in John’s day, while he was on the island of Patmos, was the 4th, kingdom in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision. The same kingdom is the 6th head on John’s vision.

 “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” (Revelation 13:2-3).

Scripture is clear that there are evil angels behind each of the seven heads who are also classified as beasts. In the Book of Daniel we see that angels rule over the kingdoms of men. They represent them and fight battles for them. While Daniel was in prayer, an angel came to strengthen him and inform him that God had heard his prayers. He would have arrived sooner, but was hindered by an evil angel (beast) called “the Prince of the kingdom of Persia.” Michael, the archangel, who represents God’s people, Israel, was sent to aid the angel (Daniel 10:13, 21).

After further encouragement, the ministering angel told Daniel that he must now go and continue his fight with the prince of Persia. Furthermore, he said, the prince of Grecia would come soon after he departed (Daniel 10:20). These are angelic creatures who are the unseen princes of the Gentile kingdoms. They too are seen a “beast.”

Dake says concerning this prince, “The prince of Grecia is the satanic ruler prince of the Grecian Empire that caused Alexander the Great to be so successful in 13 years as to destroy the Medo-Persian Empire completely. This prince of Grecia is the spirit now confined to the abyss who will come out in the last days and cause the human Antichrist to revive the old Grecian Empire, so that they all can oppose Jesus Christ at Armageddon.”

       As the kingdoms of this world were destroyed, God restrained these satanic angels to different confinements. Some were confined in the EuphratesRiver; others were assigned to the pit (Revelation 9:1-3, 14; 11:7). One of the princes, which come out of the pit, is the angelic prince of Grecia, and is called a beast (Revelation 11:7; 17:8).

This beast will empower the Antichrist. He will make war on the two witnesses and kill them. It is this Grecian beast that will be raised from the pit, whose deadly wound was healed, and will lead a revised Roman Empire, through the Antichrist.

The Antichrist’s kingdom is symbolized by the leopard to show its swiftness; the bear shows its cruelty; and the lion shows its dominion and power. The whole kingdom was energized by Satan.

One should note that the dragon also has seven heads and ten horns. This shows how interconnected Satan and his earthly kingdoms are. The Antichrist has great power and authority. These are delegated to him by Satan and directed by the beast, the prince of Grecia, from the pit.

            The Antichrist will take over the ten kings, and their kingdoms within the boundaries of the old Roman empire, and thus acquire their wealth and their armies. He will rule with absolute power and will be a military dictator. Those under his leadership will see him as invincible and believe that no power can conquer him. How wrong they are.

“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.”  (Revelation 13:5-6).

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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ARE MORMON WIVES PREGNANT THROUGHOUT ETERNITY?

November 18, 2013 by Ken Blue

ARE YOU AFRAID TO DIE – MP3

JOSEPH SMITH AND HIS WIVES
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ARE MORMON WIVES PREGNANT THROUGHOUT ETERNITY?

Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, as also plurality of wives. HC 5: 501—507.

Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principals involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831.

[INSERT: compare introduction to the 1969 edition of the Book of Mormon] Here’s the 1969 version:

——-The Prophet’s inquiry of the Lord–He is told to prepare himself to receive the new and everlasting covenant–Conditions of this law–The power of the Holy Priesthood instituted by the Lord must be operative in ordinances to be in effect beyond the grave–

Marriage by secular authority is of effect during mortality only–Though the form of marriage should make it appear to be for time and eternity, the ordinance is not valid beyond the grave unless solemnized by the authority of the Holy Priesthood as the Lord directs–

Marriage duly authorized for time and eternity to be attended by surpassing blessings–essentials for the attainment of the status of godhood –– The meaning of eternal lives–Plurality of wives acceptable only when commanded by the Lord–The sin of adultery–Commandment to Emma Smith, wife of the prophet.http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/132

  • 58 Now, as touching the law of the apriesthood, there are many things pertaining thereunto.
  •  59 Verily, if a man be called of my Father, as was aAaron, by mine own voice, and by the voice of him that bsent me, and I have endowed him with the ckeys of the power of this priesthood, if he do anything in my name, and according to my law and by my word, he will not commit dsin, and I will justify him.
  •  60 Let no one, therefore, set on my servant Joseph; for I will justify him; for he shall do the sacrifice which I require at his hands for his transgressions, saith the Lord your God.
  •  61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse aanother, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
  •  62 And if he have aten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
  •  63 But if one or either of the ten virgins, after she is espoused, shall be with another man, she has committed adultery, and shall be destroyed; for they are given unto him to multiply and replenish the earth, according to my commandment, and to fulfil the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may be glorified.
  •  64 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you, if any man have a wife, who holds the keys of this power, and he teaches unto her the law of my priesthood, as pertaining to these things, then shall she believe and administer unto him, or she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord your God; for I will destroy her; for I will magnify my name upon all those who receive and abide in my law.
  •  65 Therefore, it shall be lawful in me, if she receive not this law, for him to receive all things whatsoever I, the Lord his God, will give unto him, because she did not believe and administer unto him according to my word; and she then becomes the transgressor; and he is exempt from the law of Sarah, who administered unto Abraham according to the law when I commanded Abraham to take aHagar to wife.
  •  66 And now, as pertaining to this law, verily, verily, I say unto you, I will reveal more unto you, hereafter; therefore, let this suffice for the present. Behold, I am Alpha and Omega. Amen.

1981 edition:

1—6, Exaltation is gained through the new and everlasting covenant;

7—14, The terms and conditions of that covenant are set forth;

15—20, Celestial marriage and a continuation of the family unit enable men to become gods;

21—25, The strait and narrow way that leads to eternal lives;

26—27, Law given relative to blasphemy against the Holy Ghost;

28—39, Promises of eternal increase and exaltation made to prophets and saints in all ages;

40—47, Joseph Smith is given the power to bind and seal on earth and in heaven;

48—50, The Lord seals upon him his exaltation;

51—57, Emma Smith is counseled to be faithful and true;

58—66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.

Did you catch it? Celestial Marriage is Plurality of Wives! The Mormon Church has never, ever stopped practicing their law that applies to polygamy or plurality of wives as that is what Celestial Marriage (The New and Everlasting Covenant) is!

Did you notice that the marriage sealing ceremony not only continues the practice of polygamy, and, because of the covenant of the Law of Consecration, married you to the church and it’s commandments by covenant, not each other?

 

BEWARE: Demand full disclosure for informed consent. You won’t get it from the Mormon Church, so do your own research.

I doubt most LDS couples recognize and understand that they married in to plurality of wives when they were sealed in the temple.

The actual sealing ceremony takes place in a sealing room off of the Celestial Room in the temple. Attendees must have a valid temple recommend and be invited. They may dress in white or in Sunday Best.

This is how it is done in the US. In England, for instance, the marriage part is performed in a chapel (or elsewhere) by a presiding authority (usually a bishop) with an official government recorder of some sort in attendance. Attendees are invited, no temple recommend required. The sealing ceremony is performed in the temple at a later time either that day or another day.

32From a letter to a Mormon lady, “-if thou wilt only abide by and walk in a celestial law, fulfill the designs of thy Creator and hold out to the end that when mortality is laid in the tomb, you may go down to your grave in peace, arise in glory, and receive your everlasting reward in the resurrection of the just, along with thy head and husband. Thou wilt be permitted to pass by the Gods and angels who guard the gates, and onward, upward to thy exaltation in a celestial world among the Gods. To be a priestess queen upon thy Heavenly Father’s throne, and a glory to thy husband and offspring, to bear the souls of men, to people other worlds while eternity goes and eternity comes; and if you will receive it, lady, this is eternal life. Hence, thine origin, the object of thy ultimate destiny. If faithful, lady, the cup is within thy reach; drink then the heavenly draught and live.” – John Taylor, third president of the Mormon Church.

33“In the divine economy, as in nature, the man ‘is the head of the woman,’ and it is written that ‘he is the savior of the body.’ But ‘the man is not without the woman’ any more than the woman is without the man, in the Lord. Adam was first formed, then Eve. In the resurrection, they stand side by side and hold dominion together. Every man who overcomes all things and is thereby entitled to inherit all things, receives power to bring up his wife to join him in the possession and enjoyment thereof.” – ‘Mormon’ Doctrine Plain and Simple, or Leaves from the Tree of Life, by Apostle Charles W. Penrose, 1897. “Do the women, when they pray, remember their husbands?… Do you uphold your husband before God as your lord? ‘What!–my husband to be my lord?’ I ask, Can you get into the celestial kingdom without him? Have any of you been there? You will remember that you never got into the celestial kingdom [during the temple ceremony] without the aid of your husband. If you did, it was because your husband was away, and some one had to act proxy for him. No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.” – as Mormon Apostle Erastus Snow preached Sunday, Oct. 4, 1857. Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, page 291.

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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THREE BAPTISMS

November 15, 2013 by Ken Blue

 

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“ In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2  And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 3:1-2…And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 13  Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14  But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15  And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.” Matthew 3:10-15.

The first important point we should notice is the gospel preached by John the Baptist, and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Kingdom of Heaven Gospel. There is a difference between the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, and the church, the body of Christ. Now, you can have the Kingdom of God, and the body of Christ without the Kingdom of heaven. But, you cannot have the Kingdom of Heaven or the body of Christ without the Kingdom of God.

John was offering both, the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God to Israel. The Kingdom of Heaven was the earthly kingdom promises to Israel throughout the Old Testament.  Unless they truly repented, and remained faithful, they could not have the Kingdom of Heaven. It was now time to repent and make ready for the King. The time had finally arrived.

That explains why there is never a word in the gospel they preached, about His coming death and resurrection. John was not preparing the nation for His death, but for His Messianic reign. Thus, all three baptisms have some bearing on the Kingdom of Heaven rule on earth.

First, there is the baptism of Jesus. John did not know that his cousin, Jesus, was Israel’s Messiah. He was told that he would know Him when he baptized Him.

Our Lord’s baptism not only revealed Him to John, but was also the Lord’s approval and identification with John’s intended ministry. It is very significant that Jesus was thirty years old when He was baptized. This fact gives additional meaning to the statement, “for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.”

John’s message was in line with the Old Testament prophets. It was “Turn or burn.” When John used the metaphor of an ax laid at the root of the tree, or a floor cleaned of chaff to be burned, he was speaking directly to the nation of near and impending judgment if they did not repent. This is the baptism of fire to which he alluded. This baptism of fire will be fully realized in the Tribulation. By the time we get to the end of Acts, it is evident that the nation would not repent.

The third baptism was also a point of Old Testament prophecy for Israel. It is called a “pouring,” or a “falling.” “And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.” Joel 2:29.  “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:” Isaiah 44:3. “(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them :…)” Acts 8:16.

This baptism is also associated with the Kingdom of Heaven, and these events were the first installment of the promises. These three baptisms were all part of the Kingdom of Heaven gospel. Nothing in the context has any connection to the church, the Body of Christ. No one today is baptized with fire, or WITH the Spirit. The baptism today is BY the Spirit, INTO the person of Christ. “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Galatians 3:27. “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” Romans 6:3.

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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A DOCTRINE MORMONS WISH WOULD GO AWAY, THE BLACK RACE

November 8, 2013 by Ken Blue

MORMON MARK PETERSEN

(DNA VS. THE BOOK OF MORMON)

 

By Mark E. Petersen
“At Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954, at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, Petersen delivered a speech on “Race Problems –As They Affect The Church”. The speech outlined the religious underpinnings of segregation, and supported the continued practice of segregation as it related to intermarriage between blacks and whites…In April 1944, while serving as general manager of the Deseret News, Petersen was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that, we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that they used to say about sin, “First we pity, then endure, then embrace.”
• Is there reason then why the type of birth we receive in this life is not a reflection of our worthiness or lack of it in the pre existent life? We must accept the justice of God. He is fair to all. With that in mind, we can account in no other way for the birth of some of the children of God in darkest Africa, or in flood ridden China, or among the starving hordes of India, while some of the rest of us are born in the United States? We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in our pre existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter day Saints. There are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds.
• In this birth control effort man places himself in direct opposition to the plan and laws of God. The Almighty made this world, and He made us. All human beings are His children, His spirit offspring, and it is His intention to provide each one of us with a body of flesh and bones. This body is essential to eternal progress. With this in mind He gives us the powers of procreation and permits us to join with Him in a divinely sponsored act. But by preventing or aborting legitimate births, we oppose this plan. His spirit children are born into bodies of flesh and bones by His own design. Then who are we to prevent it?
• Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of harmful practices and devices resulting often in physical injury to the wife and demoralization to both parties. Some have wondered if the Church would approve such practices. Of course it never has and never could.
• I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to change that segregation? It reminds me of the scripture on marriage, “what God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” Only here we have the reverse of the thing—what God hath separated, let no man bring together again.
• From this and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. This is his objective and we must face it.
• Now what is our policy in regard to intermarriage? As to the Negro, of course, there is only one possible answer. We must not intermarry with the Negro…
• What is our advice with respect to intermarriage with Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiians and so on? I will tell you what advice I give personally. If a boy or girl comes to me claiming to be in love with a Chinese or Japanese or a Hawaiian or a person of any other dark race, I do my best to talk them out of it… I teach against inter marriage of all kinds.
• Now let’s talk about segregation again for a few moments. Was segregation a wrong principle? When the Lord chose the nations to which the spirits were to come, determining that some would be Japanese and some would be Chinese and some Negroes and some Americans, He engaged in an act of segregation.
• When he told Enoch not preach the gospel to the descendants of Cain who were black, the Lord engaged in segregation. When He cursed the descendants of Cain as to the Priesthood, He engaged in segregation.
• Who placed the Negroes originally in darkest Africa? Was it some man, or was it God? And when He placed them there, He segregated them.
• The Lord segregated the people both as to blood and place of residence. At least in the cases of the Lamanites and the Negro we have the definite word of the Lord Himself that he placed a dark skin upon them as a curse as a punishment and as a sign to all others. He forbade intermarriage with them under threat of extension of the curse. And He certainly segregated the descendants of Cain when He cursed the Negro as to the Priesthood, and drew an absolute line. You may even say He dropped an Iron curtain there.
• Mark E. Petersen, Race Problems As They Affect The Church, Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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WHAT MORMONS TEACH ABOUT THE BLACK RACE

November 3, 2013 by Ken Blue

                                                  

 (THE CULT OF MORMONISM)black

 

 

 

(MORMON SCIENTIST DISPROVE MORMONISM THROUGH DNA, AND THE LACK OF LINGUISTIC,AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svfxSscxh8o)

By Ken Blue

To understand this teaching of Mormonism, one must understand their teaching that every person’s spirit was conceived through sexual intercourse of their god with one of his celestial wives in heaven.  These spirits babies continue to progress in heaven while awaiting proper parents on earth. Their behavior in heaven determines their earthly destination and assignment.

As I mentioned in a previous article, Mormonism is an ever evolving religion. Therefore, the information their members are receiving today may be altered from the originals to protect the church. However, they cannot hide the truth from those who seek it. The original writings are readily available to all who want them.

  • Apostle Mark E. Petersen presented the Mormon thinking concerning the doctrine of pre-existence: “Is there reason then why the type of birth we receive in this life is not a reflection of our worthiness or lack of it in the pre-existent life? … can we account in any other way for the birth of some of the children of God in darkest Africa, or in flood-ridden China, or among the starving hordes of India, while some of the rest of us are born here in the United States? We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in our pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds….Let us consider the great mercy of God for a moment. A Chinese, born in China with a dark skin, and with all the handicaps of that race seems to have little opportunity. But think of the mercy of God to Chinese people who are willing to accept the gospel. In spite of whatever they might have done in the pre-existence to justify being born over there as Chinamen, if they now, in this life, accept the gospel and live it the rest of their lives they can have the Priesthood, go to the temple and receive endowments and sealings, and that means they can have exaltation. Isn’t the mercy of God marvelous?
  • Think of the Negro, cursed as to the priesthood…. This Negro, who, in the pre-existence lived the type of life which justified the Lord in sending him to the earth in the lineage of Cain with a black skin, and possibly being born in darkest Africa—if that Negro is willing when he hears the gospel to accept it, he may have many of the blessings of the gospel. In spite of all he did in the pre-existent life, the Lord is willing, if the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory (Race Problems—As They Affect The Church, Address by Mark E. Petersen at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, delivered at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954).

Mormons believe Cain followed the Devil while in heaven. Cain manages to have a physical birth, and the curse upon the Negroes, through Cain, was the dark skin. Those born in Africa were the vilest, and lowest of all spirits in their pre existance.

  • In Joseph Smith’s History of the Church, we read that “the negroes” are the “sons of Cain” (vol. 4, p. 501). Apostle Bruce R. McConkie explains the curse put on Cain as follows: Though he was a rebel and an associate of Lucifer in pre-existence, and though he was a liar from the beginning whose name was Perdition, Cain managed to attain the privilege of mortal birth…. he came out in open rebellion, fought God, worshiped Lucifer, and slew Abel….As a result of his rebellion, Cain was cursed with a dark skin; he became the father of the Negroes, and those spirits who are not worthy to receive the priesthood are born through his lineage. He became the first mortal to be cursed as a son of perdition. As a result of his mortal birth he is assured of a tangible body of flesh and bones to eternity, a fact which will enable him to rule over Satan (Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p. 102).

Thus, as a result of following the Devil, these spirits are cursed, and come through the lineage of Cain. “The black skin and flat nose, is “emblematic of eternal darkness.” They were an “inferior” race.”

(We challenge any Mormon to refute what we have said here.)

 

Ken Blue

Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.

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