Freemasonry’s Attempted Murder of Ed Decker
By Ed Decker
FOREWORD to Charles G. Finney’s 1869 book, reprinted in 1998, entitled
“The Character, Claims and Practical Workings of Freemasonry”
I lay on the floor of the bathroom, retching. I was sure I was going to die. I had a TV show to do in just a few hours and I was certain that I wouldn’t live to see it. I pulled myself up, leaning against the wall next to the toilet, trying to pull away from the pain I was in and sort out what was happening.
I supposed that I had contracted food poisoning during the Pastors’ lunch earlier, but then, my table companions, sharing the same pizza, were not in here fighting for space at this receptacle. I remembered the two out-of-town visitors, whose attendance made our host concerned. “This is a dangerous business, and I don’t know these fellows,” he warned.
“Don’t give it another thought,” I answered. “God is our protector.”
Then I recalled that one of them had offered to refresh my drink and I had consented. A half hour later, I was convulsing in pain.
Reflecting back I guess I ought to have questioned the wisdom of going to Inverness, Scotland to do a TV program on “The Occult Origins of Scottish Rite Masonry.” My host was correct in his concern, yet God truly was my protector.
I rose up that evening by His strength and did that program standing up. Yet, by the morning I was too ill to continue my tour. The next day I began a terrible journey back to Seattle. I arrived home 25 pounds lighter and barely able to walk. The poison had affected my involuntary muscle system and it was difficult to use my hands and feet and hold my head steady.
Tests showed that I had sustained a high, lethal dose of arsenic, enough to have killed me a few times over. It took months to recover from the incident. Not only had the poison done serious damage to my digestive system, but also I would lie in bed, sleeping fitfully while my body twitched continually. Later, the heavy metal began to work its way out through vicious sores on the tops of my hands and my head, making a terrible odor that smelled like dog urine.
Even just recently, while I was undergoing lung surgery caused by a bus accident, several blood vessels in my lower back broke spontaneously for no apparent reason. The doctors puzzled over the phenomenon for the better part of the day until a nurse asked my wife if I had been exposed to metallic poison in a work environment. When Carol told them about the Scotland incident, they had their answer. Tests showed that pockets of arsenic still in my system [lower back area} had been the cause and the vessels broke while I was in severe trauma.
In Scotland, I suppose I could have pointed out the man who poisoned me. Maybe he would have gone to prison, but as one Scottish friend warned, our host would have paid the price at the hands of the Masons. I determined it wasn’t worth it.
I am sure there are more than a few Masons in Scotland that can’t understand why I am still alive. But, it’s no puzzle to me. God intended for me to live so I could continue to speak out on the awful truth of Freemasonry.
The trip to Scotland wasn’t by chance. I had been studying, writing and lecturing on Freemasonry for a number of years. Somehow, I had become an expert.
It wasn’t an easy transition, because it meant that I had to look back at my own father, grandfather and their fathers before them for almost two hundred years. They were honest men — churchmen who took our faith, and family and our country seriously, fighting in its many wars. Generation after generation, each son followed after his father and entered into lodge membership. That line ended when I stepped out of the DeMolay to join the Mormon Church.
The Mormons told me that Masonry was a society of “secret combinations” and “works of darkness.” I was forbidden to continue membership in the DeMolay. As an active Mormon, I would not seek to follow my father into the Lodge.
After I became a born again Christian, I began to speak at churches on the Mormon Temple ritual. At one such service in a Baptist church, I discovered from an angry Deacon that the ritual of the Masonic Lodge was the actual foundation of the LDS (Mormon) Temple ritual. I knew that if what he said was true, I would also have to expose the roots of Masonry to the same light of truth that I was bringing to bear on Mormonism. That was easier said than done.
Within a month of that experience, I found myself at the funeral of a friend’s father and once seated, discovered I was about to witness a Masonic funeral. By the time those men in their somber clothes walked down the church aisle, I knew that this was birthed in the very pit of hell and it had become rooted within the church itself. I knew there was work to do.
It wasn’t like the work hadn’t been done before. Great men like Charles Finney had discovered its evil core and brought this information to the church. But the church soon forgot the danger, choosing instead not to rile the Masons who ran their boards and paid their salaries. Only a few lone pastors over the next century would study Masonry and bring out its darkness from the pulpit. Many times this resulted in their removal. Sometimes their careers were destroyed in the process. This mattered not to the Masons, for their goal had been accomplished. With the pastor’s dismissal, the preaching of the truth about the lodge was removed from their ears.
There will be a day of reckoning. A Mason’s ignorance of the Luciferian roots and dark secrets of the Lodge will be no defense on that Day of Judgment. As for the Mason who calls himself a Christian — woe be unto him [Luke 13:24-28]. As for the pastor who is a Mason — woe, woe be unto him [Mathew 7:21-23 and 23:13-14]!
Well, Finney’s words are still the fire of truth today, as they were in 1869. As you shall see, Freemasonry and Christianity are as far removed from each other, as are the North and South poles. And like Finney, Godly pastors are still speaking out in spite of threats from the Masons and their odious acts of ignominy in defying the very Word of God. You shall hear from four of these courageous pastors at the end of Finney’s book.
Ed Decker
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