THE MEN OF HIS OWN HOUSE

Rev. Bertrand L. Comparet

   It is clear to all students of Bible prophecy that we are now in the last days of this Age: the “Time of the‑End.”  We know this because we recognize in the conditions surrounding us, and in the principal events of current history, the things which the prophets said would be the signs of the end of the age. Among these signs are the gathering of the heathen nations against the Christian nations, and their preparation to conquer us in battle, if they can.  But there is another and far more sinister sign ‑‑‑and it also is one which the prophets said would be a sign of the end ‑‑‑and that is the danger from internal subversion.

   God has set His own children, the sons and daughters of Israel, apart from the rest of the world. They were put here for a purpose: to know their Father, their God, to worship Him only, to know His laws and to obey them, and to demon­strate to the rest of the world what great blessings come to those who do worship and obey the only true God.    You who listen to this program know that the Children of Israel are today known as the Anglo‑Saxon nations of the world: the Germanic, Scandinavian, British and Keltic peoples, found in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Swe­den, Finland, Holland, The British Isles including Ireland, and in their former colonies, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Not all of these people, as individuals, have lived up to this obligation, as we know; but these nations, as a whole, have lived up to it to a degree which has set them apart among all the nations of the world. Because they have in general been faithful to their God, they have also received the benefits which He promised to them. Truly they have received the blessing, "God give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mothers sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." (Genesis 27: 8‑29‑

   In short, by reason of the blessings given them by our God, the Anglo‑Saxon peoples have become the "have nations" of the world; while the pagan nations have been the "have‑not" nations, even though they are living on land rich in natural resources--- resources which have not been developed unless we have done it for them.   Naturally, they envy us most bitterly for all this, they hate us even for the things we have shown them how to do. It is no cause for surprise that they now are joining together against us, hoping to destroy us and steal our wealth.

   But it is also true that our greatest danger is not from these external enem­ies, but from the traitorous enemies from within. And this, also, is a fulfill­ment of Bible prophecy, and a sign of the time of the end. Jesus Christ mention­ed it, among other places, in His parable of the tares among the wheat ‑‑‑that the enemies, the sons of Satan, would be living among us and doing their deadly work here in our own land, right down to the very end, when the angel reapers would take them out and burn them. Meanwhile, the angels are fulfilling the prophecy by “gathering the tares in bundles" ‑‑‑that is, the opponents of Christianity and God's Kingdom are being gathered into the various left‑wing organizations.

   But, as I have said before, the Bible is always true to its own law of the Two Witnesses: what one prophet says is confirmed by the writings of another pro­phet, written centuries before or centuries later. Therefore, we find ‑‑‑as we would expect ‑‑‑confirmation in other parts of the Bible. For example, Psalm 74 is a prayer of God's People Israel for His help in a time of great peril; they tell Him, "Thine enemies roar in the midst of Thy congregations * * the tumult of those that rise up against Thee increaseth continually."  Surely this is true, to­day! The enemies of our God roar out their hatred of us and our God from within His congregations: they fight bitterly to keep His name from being mentioned in our schools; they threaten lawsuits against any City Council, School Board, or other governing body which would allow any kind of religious services on public property; they object even to having any session of an official body opened with prayer. By their own admission, they are the enemies of our God.

   But these same ones, whom Jesus Christ identified as the sons of their fath­er, the devil, are also the enemies of our nation and our American way it of life. Everything which has made us great, they denounce as belonging to the horse and ­buggy days", they call it "reactionary", and attack as "fascists" and "extreme right wing, " all those who seek to preserve the virtues which made us the freest, most prosperous and most powerful nation in all world history. They put evil pre­ssures on our Congressmen and Senators to enact laws and approve treaties which would completely destroy our independence and make us a conquered province of the United Nations, without power to control our political relations with other nat­ions, or our trade with them, or to forbid pagan and hostile races from pouring in by the millions until we are swamped under the incoming tidal‑wave of other races, aliens who will then rule us In our own country!

   The prophet Micah knew the score!  In chapters 2 & 3, he describes the evil deeds of these tares among the wheat; in Chapter 5, he prophesies the attack upon us by the armies of the enemy from without; but in chapter 7, verse 6, he warns us that in these times, “a man’s enemies are the men of his own household." Truly inspired is this connection of the threat of invasion from without, at the time of the end, and the fact that the real enemies are "those of our own household."

   Jesus Christ confirms this, for in Matthew 10:34,36, He warns us, "Think not that

I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. And

a man’s’ foes shall be they of his own household."

   While the evil originates with the tares among the wheat, the sons of their father the devil, they know how to dress it up in false colors, until even some of the Children of Israel are deceived. Evil never makes much headway when it sails under its true colors; but when it is falsely represented as good, it will deceive many who are not among God's Elect. Therefore, these evil doctrines have made quite a number of converts among our people who should know better. Accord­ingly, Jesus Christ warned that there would be many of the Children of the King­dom who would be cast out into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

   The purposes of prophecy are two: first, to serve as a warning of what is to come, for the benefit of all who will believe it and act upon it. By his belief in prophecy, Noah saved himself and his family from the flood. But there have been many books of religion and of prophecy written, making it difficult to know which were genuine and which were false. Therefore the second purpose of prophecy is to prove which are the truly inspired works, and which the forgeries. In Isaiah 41:23, God challenges the other religions "Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods. They could not, so their claims and their writings have been rejected.