LOST FOUNDATIONS

by

Pastor Bertrand L. Comparet,A.B., J.D.

Most church goers will say that they believe the Bible, but the question is, WHAT BIBLE?  If pinned down to specific answers, they will discount the Old Testament about 90%.  They are skeptical of its history, they give no credence to its miracles, they know only utter confusion as to its prophecies and they reject its laws as being repudiated by the New Testament.  For their beauty of language, they will accept part of the Psalms, those which are not "controversial", which could not offend even the most wicked, but they reject all the others which sternly call the Christian to the duties he wants to evade.  Ask them "What else?" and they can point to nothing.  They will, however, say that they are "New Testament Christians."

Well, what about the New Testament? Challenge them to produce from it the basis of their faith.  They will confidently assert several doctrines, but be hard put to find the source of them in the New Testament, but they were told that these are Christian.  In fact, no one can find certain of these doctrines in the Bible, for the real author of a number of doctrines now being taught as Christian is not Matthew nor John, not Mark nor Peter, not Luke nor Paul, but KARL MARX.(Son of a rabbi, note added.)  Some of the most monstrous evils of the age, cancers which have recently sprung up to attack the very existence of our civilization and our Race are World Government ruled by Pagan and Satanic powers.  Destruction of the White Race by integration and mongrelization, are now being taught by many in the name, falsely taken, of religion. They are being taught as a so called "Christian duty" to destroy everything that has made us great and brought civilization to the world and in its place to enthrone in power everything evil and debasing, against which we have had to fight throughout the centuries.  Only a rejection of the Bible can account for this, for it does not really come out of the New Testament.  Its real purpose is to destroy the laws given by God.

People who have been misled into the belief that the New Testament repealed all of God's laws, nullified His promises and discarded His prophecies are really saying that the Old Testament is just the record of God's mistakes, which He finally had to abandon and make a fresh start on something He was able to handle.  But you can't found a religion on a God who was too mistaken to know He was wrong, too weak to carry out His will.  If that belief about the Old Testament were true, we would have no religion.  Since it is false, then it is time we got rid of it.

Christianity is not something new, resting upon the empty air, without foundation.  It is based upon the solid bedrock of God's purpose before time began.  Its foundations are Moses and Elijah, David and Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel.  In short, the Old Testament as well as the New.  It is because we have lost these foundations that today many try to build the shaky structure of their belief on shifting sands and find that they have built juvenile delinquency and racial suicide through integration at home, and a foreign policy containing far too much of cowardice and treason, by which for many years we have retreated before the advance of Communism and bleated about "our Christian Duty" to co-exist with evil on terms dictated by Satan; and by which we negotiate agreements to put all civilization completely under the rule of barbarians and outright savages.  Before these disasters extinguish all the light we ever had, it is time to re-examine the whole problem, to find again our LOST FOUNDATIONS.

WHAT BIBLE?  ALL OF IT, both Old and New Testaments.  It is all one book and no man can understand either half without the other.  There is just as much Christianity in the Old Testament as in the New, though it is harder to find because there it still looked to the future to events which then had not yet happened.  It appears there in the form of prophecies, rituals and symbols.  But, when you understand these, it is all there.

The best proof of the genuineness of the Old Testament is the fact that the New Testament fulfilled all that the Old had prophesied and promised.  The best proof of the genuineness of the New Testament is that it is the fulfillment of the Old.  Christ Himself used and relied on this as the proof of His identity.  He told his listeners:

Search the Scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and it is they which testify of Me." John 5:39

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for He wrote of Me.  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?" (John 5:46:47)

They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.  If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." (Luke 16:29-31)

Again, after He rose from the dead, and talked with two of the Disciples, He still used this as proof of His identity: He said:

O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." (Luke 24:25,27)

When Christ told His listeners to "search the scriptures", He referred them to the Old Testament for the earliest book of the New Testament was not written until 7 years later and the rest of it not until 24 to 66 years later.

What part of the Old Testament should we take as our foundation?  The Prophets?  Of course.  THE LAW?  YES.  Perhaps you have been seriously misled about the Law: you were told it was abolished by the New Testament?  No, indeed!  The individual no longer relies upon keeping Old Testament Law for his personal salvation.  Christ bought that for him, upon the cross.  Neither do you expect to gain your salvation by obeying the laws of the United States, the State of California, or the city in which you live.  But, do you believe that these laws serve no purpose and have been abolished? The Laws of God are still in force and still serve the same purpose, to guide the nation, the family and the individual to peace, prosperity and happiness.  Our present troubles are caused by our violation of God's eternal laws.  Christ Himself said:

Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.  For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever therefore, shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:17-19)

It is still true, as the prophet Hosea warned us: God says,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." (Hosea 4:6)

Do you say, "I was told that Christ abolished the Law, nailing it to His cross." then you were told something wrong.  The two verses you refer to are Colossians 2:14 and Ephesians 2:15 and both of them speak only of that part of the Law contained in ORDINANCES.  These were the rules of the religious ceremonies, pertaining to the feast days, the sacrifices and offerings.  These were done away with because they expressed the believer's faith that Christ would come to save him sometime in the future.

After he had already come, the believer must not reject Him by proclaiming that he was still waiting for a future coming.  So, these ordinances were abolished.  But it is still just as true as ever that, "THOU SHALT NOT MURDER," THOU SHALT NOT STEAL" and THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY."  The rest of the law is still in effect, to keep peace, honesty and justice in the land.  Until we all know and ENFORCE, God's Laws, we shall continue to have our present troubles.

Because I am myself a lawyer, I can understand the perfection of God's system of laws, as compared to any man made laws in the world.  I can see how God's Laws, if firmly enforced by our governments, would clear up our troubles.  I believe it of the greatest importance that YOU also should know this whole system of Divine Law.  It covers all the economic laws for prosperity; all the agricultural and dietary laws for health; all the political laws for world wide power and respect in times of peace and for survival and victory in war; the laws for immigration and naturalization and for the selection of the leaders who are to govern us.  In short, all the rules to bring and preserve a high civilization.

From time to time on this program I will tell you in detail of these laws and how they would benefit YOU if they were put in force.