The Bible Student Movement Star Members
100% Pro-American Anti-Socialists
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Paul Samuel Leo Johnson was the most able defender and expositor of the works and legacy of Pastor Charles Taze Russell. Hands down, he wrote more in defense of our beloved Pastor than any other human being.
Based on the writings of these two great men, I have proffered the view that "The Battle of Armageddon" would not be literal but figurative, and that it is now perhaps at it's apex, it's zenith, as seen on TV. It is nothing other than the colossal battle between right and left, between conservatives and radicals playing out on the world stage. It is Globalism vs. Nationalism. It is Brexit vs. the EU. It is Trump vs. Socialism. It can be summed up in simplistic terms simply as FOX vs. CNN.
Now I do not claim to be the worlds foremost expert on the writings of these two men. That being said I am endlessly fascinated by them, and find myself amazed at the seemingly endless amount of knowledge these men have shared. So my focus of late has been on one main topic - The Time of Trouble, the transition from that time into the Kingdom of God, and specifically the periods of World War, World Revolution, and World Anarchy they both taught would be the precursor to the Kingdom of God ruling on earth.
From my studies it is my contention that we are in the Anarchy period, and as it grows worse and worse day by day it only cements my understanding. And while I've been explaining this as best I can publicly to the best of my ability over many media platforms, the silence has been deafening. Even among the friends of Pastor Russell and Pastor Johnson, which are often mutually exclusive, even among those who accept both as messengers used by God at Christ's Second Advent, there is virtually no answer to the simple question, are we witnessing this now?
Leaving aside for the moment ancillary unanswered questions such as, "Is Zechariah 14 now in the past?" let me explain that first of all, many of the Bible Students over the last hundred years have drifted far away from Pastor Russell's words and works. So many seem contented with three or four main items of Truth regarding "Sheol" and God's unity and that there is a coming Kingdom and that's all they need to know. Yet there is so much more to the story. So few understand or accept what Paul Johnson clearly explains, that the entire history of Christianity is typed in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible. Some recoil at such ideas.
Most in fact have no use for the questions being asked at all, because it runs up against their own cherished beliefs that they themselves are either in "The Little Flock", or another class running another type of "narrow way" - the "Consecrated Epiphany Campers" - even though both servants writings contain only proof that the former class is completed, and the latter entirely non-existent.
To my knowledge there is only ONE SMALL GROUP of Christians, "The Epiphany Bible Students" who accept BOTH Pastor Russell AND Bro. Johnson, who are even remotely interested and willing to discuss these important questions. The rest are likely avoiding losing friends by entertaining these thoughts, even for a moment. That being said I must add, guardedly, that I may be the only person in the world who writes about this and shares these views publicly. That may be why I personally have almost no friends or family left who will even speak with me.
To my point: In all my studies I often read fascinating items that I neglect to bookmark. However with our modern search terms it is usually possible to relocate important items with key words, in this case, "real americans." I had recalled that in several places Bro. Johnson taught that the same classes elucidated by Pastor Russell, specifically labor and capital, would evolve into certain movements on the world stage he referred to with new terms.
These terms apply to the world scene today in my view, although today they have changed again into the modern vernacular. For instance what was once termed "America Reactionary" is now termed "Globalists" for they "react" to what Europe was doing as far as forming their united EU under socialism, and so they emulate that here in America by trying the same policies. As various presidential administrations have come and gone, more and more socialist policies were enacted, none more obvious than FDR's "New Deal" and BHO's "Obamacare".
Recalling that Bro. Johnson wrote that "real Americans" would dismantle and remove every last vestige of these decidedly unAmerican movements, teaching that "only 100% Americanism" would be blessed by God - here are some of what he wrote under that search term. And for those who refuse to see that the Global News Media are an arm of the Globalist Socialist movement, try to suspend your disbelief as you read these quotes and imagine that the current President Donald J. Trump really is an American patriot who wants to do rightly by defending the sovereignty of the nation. Imagine if you have to that the left wing news media really are attacking American principles in favor of socialism, which is a system Pastor Russell strongly opposed.
The first quote:
Do you know that in answer to papal efforts to emasculate our immigration laws, real Americans are demanding an addition to them providing for the deportation of all criminal aliens, the vast majority of whom are papists?
Do you know that such alien criminals cost New York State alone $7,000,000 a year? HE 1926 #34-39
THIS ONE QUOTE puts to rest any idea that first, "real Christians" would allow any and all immigrants to enter the nation illegally, and that it's wrong to call them criminal. It also points out another fact most always ignored by the news media, that Mexico is almost entirely Catholic, which is why the Pope and his "charitable organizations" always stand at the ready to help flood the US with their faithful adherents. [Many Catholics are good people, that is not being argued. It is the Papal SYSTEM ONLY that is always called out by our Pastor and Bro. Johnson.]
Although in the world this is as unpopular as can be, I am compelled to continue to follow my conscience and explain what I see happening to the best of my ability regardless of the personal cost, even being disfellowshipped by longstanding Christian friends, even ostracized and mercilessly attacked by dearest family members with a multitude of falsehoods. Their hurtful attacks are mainly along the lines that I am just a liar and a charlatan. Whatever. If I were interested in personal gain, why would I write about the very thing that leaves me almost completely alone in the world?
SECOND QUOTE :
Do you know that real Americans should resent this with keenest indignation and most uncompromising opposition as a violation of the American doctrine of separation of state and church?
Do you know that in a speech to the New York League of Women Voters in its Albany, N. Y. convention, Dec. 1927, Al Smith said: "There are parts of the [U. S.] Constitution that I hate?"
Do you know that these parts of the Constitution include the 18th Amendment and the clauses on the separation of state and church and the freedom of conscience, the latter two teachingsbeing against the teachings of the church that he puts ahead of the United States in allegiance?
Do you know that such sentiments disqualify him for the presidency, and would make an oath of his to support the Constitution sheer hypocrisy?
HE 1928 #046-051
This passage puts the lie to the view of some Bible Students that we should never discuss ANYTHING political, which was the whole point of Pastor Russell's Fourth Volume "Battle of Armageddon".
THIRD QUOTE:
A further cogent reason for the course of enlightened Americans in the recent election in opposing Mr. Al Smith's election because of his relations to the hierarchy as a Catholic is that in every country in Christendom the Roman hierarchy is continually dabbling in politics and finds the Roman laity a pliant instrument in its hands to secure its political designs. The recent election, in which the Catholics as such almost to a man supported Mr. Smith as the hierarchy's years-long prepared and chosen candidate, proves the hierarchy's political meddling in America and its designs on America. And because history shows how disastrous to other nations the political machinations of the Roman hierarchy have been, such enlightened Americans out of love for their country, its institutions and liberties, and to maintain and perpetuate these in their true meaning, voted against Mr. Smith. Bigotry and intolerance are an ignorant, unreasonable and stubborn maintenance of one's opinions and their consequent propaganda and practices and an unreasoning boycotting attitude toward those of differing views and practices. The man who firmly holds and practices well reasoned and grounded opinions compatibly with the rights of others is not a bigot. It is simply vituperation and slander to call him such. And when such vituperation and slander proceed from designing and sinister agencies like the Roman hierarchy, the most bigoted and intolerant aggregation of all history, it should be accepted and worn as a badge of honor, an encomium from the Lord and a sign of his approval, granted by the Lord for opposition to the most bigoted of all corporations in its fell designs on the liberties of the freest and most liberal nation on earth. Let the pope fully renounce his undemocratic teachings and practices and then a Catholic will not be opposed as such when seeking the vote of real Americans for office.
If the criminal, the vicious, the grafting, the rebellious, the traitorous, the oppressive, etc., denounce our well-reasoned opposition to their evil designs as bigotry and intolerance, do such denunciations really make us bigots and intolerants? Should we permit them thereby to make us, cowardlike, desist from opposing their ways? Surely not! And, for a similar reason, the similar denunciation of Americans enlightened as to papal political designs on America, which sought realization in Al Smith's election to the presidency, does not make such Americans bigots and intolerants, nor should such denunciation make such Americans retreat one step in this battle for the actual separation of state and church in America. Rather it should make them all the more aggressive to oppose unto complete victory designs so inimical to America's well-being and liberty. And the irony and effrontery of the whole situation is this, that the most intolerant and bigoted system of all history has hypocritically put on the to her ill-fitting garments of tolerance and brayed "intolerance" at the most tolerant part of the human race, whose intelligence as to papal designs on America rightly arouses them against the unAmerican designs of the foreign-spirited Roman hierarchy on American soil, which designs it seeks, among other ways, to realize by the election of its subservients to office in America. It was not bigotry and intolerance that moved patriots, Protestants and consecrated Christians to vote against Mr. Al Smith for his relations to the hierarchy as a Catholic, but it was a well-reasoned vigilance, whose eternal exercise is the price of liberty, a true knowledge of history, whose pages teach that the papacy is everywhere and always the worst, most cunning enemy of popular liberty, a holy love for the principles of our government, whose foundations are directly opposed to those of the papacy, and the laudable desire to preserve American freedom, for whose existence our fathers sacrificed, bled and died, that moved patriots, Protestants and consecrated Christians to vote against Al Smith as the hierarchy's candidate and hope for the realization of its designs on America.
HE 1929 #052-057
I had to post the entire quote to prove a point: The brethren are right in talking about the political landscape as it regards the divine plan. They either have forgotten or never knew this basic fact.
Fourth Comment:and last (for now)
Do you know that while advising the New Deal as a temporary measure, the hierarchy was acting in bad faith, since it has all along purposed, after getting it introduced, to have it made permanent and thus destroy America's Democracy and perpetuate an absolutism in the form of Fascism in America?
Do you know that since the New Deal has been introduced, Rome is working to effect this, its ulterior and secret purpose, as the following facts prove: (1) its mouthpieces, like the Jesuit magazine America, Rome's ablest literary advocate in this country, Priest Dietz, at the encouragement of his metropolitan, Archbishop Stritch of Milwaukee and others, are advocating the abolition of the Constitution in whole or in its parts that make for Democracy, "to legitimate the New Deal," which they concede contravenes many Constitutional provisions; (2) the papal governmental theories, as absolutistic, to which the entire hierarchy is committed, make the hierarchy hostile to Democracy and friendly to absolutism; (3) Rome's efforts began before the Civil War to Romanize America and its people, politically, governmentally, religiously, socially, educationally, economically, financially, etc.; (4) her course in advocating that the pupils of the public schools be indoctrinated in the theories of the New Deal, so that when they are grown up they may accept it as a matter of course and conform to it, i.e., long after the present emergency is past; (5) her indoctrinating, as her textbooks prove, the scholars of her own schools in its undemocratic theories, all the time the hypocritical lip service that her advocates have here offered Democracy has been intended to blind the American people on her real intentions; (6) the course of the hierarchy in Fascist Germany, Italy and Austria is to perpetuate Fascism; and the future will prove that the hierarchy has been plotting for Fascism throughout Christendom, since Rome is "semper idem"—always the same?
Do you know that neither Mr. Roosevelt, nor Congress, nor the bulk of non-Romanist supporters of the New Deal ever dreamed that the hierarchy plotted through the New Deal to destroy perpetually Democracy in America and to establish in its stead a perpetual absolutism in the form of Fascism?
Do you know that this situation means that unless real Americans defeat the hierarchy in this plot Democracy in America is lost?
"Our Father's God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light,
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King."
HE 1933 #076-081
After reading these remarks, is there any doubt that the "Star Members" of the Truth Movement were pro - democracy, pro - America and decidedly anti-socialist? Is there any doubt as to who they would be decrying were they on the world scene today?
So to reiterate my question from the beginning of the Trump presidency: Is "Trump Vs. Globalism 'The Battle of Armageddon'"? The question still stands, but with far more corroborating evidence behind it now than it had those three years ago. As always, feel free to contact me, share, like, discuss, any and all of the above.
Yours in Truth,
Bro. Regan
