Church Inc.
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Making Merchandise
Of You
September 24, 2016
"And found in the temple those that sold oxen and
sheep and doves, and the changers of
money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple,
and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured
out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
And said unto them that sold doves, Take
these things hence; make not my Father's
house an house of merchandise."
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The
temple of God. It is time to open your
eyes if you are going to see at all your prison cell door behind the golden
veil erected by men. What is it about
this passage from John they do not understand?
What
exception did Jesus make to the house of God being used for buying and selling,
and hoarding and heaping up of merchandise, money and rations and the souls of
men? When did Jesus pardon the
unrepentant King of Tyrus or the willful King Solomon and his collecting of six
hundred, threescore and six talents?
Nowhere
in the scriptures did Jesus ever contradict this message.
So
important was this lesson that three of the disciples also recorded this
event. Not just John, but Matthew and
Mark also:
"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought
in the temple, and overthrew the tables
of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,"
"And they come to
Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the
temple, and began to cast out them
that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold
doves;"
These
leaders of the Jews religion in Jesus’ time were named among the oppressors and
persecutors of those men of God who were shown “The Word”.
Everything
they did was behind the cloak of piousness, false as it was. Every act against a prophet of God
perpetrated under false accusations; every murder accomplished through a
front. But God knew their hands were
dirty.
A Name
profaned was still The Name. Foolish
belief in their thefts of the land, only they could convince themselves that
God did not also have a purpose in allowing the transgression. He still hears and sees in the hearts of the
wicked and the stones still cry out their deeds.
Jeremiah’s
sorrow in identifying the home office of the conspiracy against God, His Word;
the truth:
"And the Lord
said unto me, A conspiracy is found
among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
Doubt
not that they are ancient. Doubt not
that they are not well organized. Deceive not yourselves that their coats of
sheep’s wool have not been professionally tailored and fitted to their wolves
haunches for they have much at stake.
"There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey; they
have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they
have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Her
priests have violated my law, and have
profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and
profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,
and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them."
There
has not been one son of man touched by gold and shown The Word without his
sycophants. Not one saint chosen by God
has taken a step without the burdensome chattal of conniving flatterers hanging
upon his shawl.
"But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you, who privily shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many
shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose
judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
Fear
not, for the many that follow are deceived.
Truth is not borne in popularity, nor is it authored by men, but by
God. Stand fast and witness, for the
truth will defend itself once it is revealed.
They
know there is not much time left. Their
hatred will be revealed, even as their feigned love seduce for a time, the lot
of them. Their merchandising of creation
is coming to an end. The kings of
commerce with their revenue and usury; and oppression in the city will go up in
smoke.
"The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and
fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all
manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of
brass, and iron, and marble,
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments,
and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and
sheep, and horses, and chariots, and
slaves, and souls of men."
False Teachers
Every
prophet in the scriptures warned of those false teachers, the liars, the
sorcerers and flatterers who used chemical, herbal and persuasion to move the
minds of men. They are the authors of
confusion, contradiction and propaganda.
Peer-pressure is an art form developed from old.
For
this purpose and with this knowledge, Jesus taught the taking up of the cross,
and loving him first above all fleshly, worldly things. What belongs to the world will be used by the
world against the Father and his Christ.
There
is no shame in them, in lying, manipulating, persuasion, stalking, false
witnessing to subvert souls and convince you that the gift given you is
delusion.
They will
use mother, father, husband, wife, sister and brother, son and daughter to pry
you from the love of God, and the purpose for which He called you.
"Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must
be circumcised, and keep the law: to
whom we gave no such commandment:"
"But I fear, lest
by any means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if
he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which
ye have not received, or another gospel,
which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him."
They
have mimicked that which they hate. They
portray that which their law contradicts.
Any means to an end is not the law of God.
They
will accuse of you past sins for which Jesus has already forgiven of you, to
shame you from your calling. The world
will hate you, but it hated him first:
"But before all
these, they shall lay their hands on
you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues,
and into prisons, being brought
before kings and rulers for my name's
sake."
"These things I
have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye
shall have tribulation: but be of
good cheer; I have overcome the world."
We are
called to bring attention to the truth.
We are to have no fellowship with the sowers of iniquity. We are called not to debate, but to reprove
the false teachings and lies.
"For ye were
sometimes darkness, but now are ye light
in the Lord: walk as children of
light: (For the fruit of the Spirit
is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Proving
what is acceptable unto the Lord.
And have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness, but
rather reprove them. For it is a
shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret."
Stand
on truth, no matter the cost because it is not only your own soul at stake – it
is for the elect’s sake.
"Therefore I endure
all things for the elect's sakes, that
they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."
The
love of Christ is more important to me than the love of anything else. If you have the love of Christ in you, then
“none lost” becomes the desire of your heart.
None
that love deserve to be lied to. Let the
truth loose, it will defend itself.
A Global
Conglomerate
From “Keyword Michael, Part 2”
One of
the details touched on in the previous article was the “501c” non-profit
corporate entity of the “United States of America, Inc.” I had asked:
“The United States” has been a corporation,
registered and licensed in Delaware, since April 19, 1989. See “Doc”
on “Road To Damascus”. This was done within a few months of George
Bush Sr. taking office after Ronald Reagan.
The “Organizing For America that Obama is
transferring to become a “501c” as stated on the Maxine
Waters interview posted there is the “Religious Non-profit”
organization for which the 501c has been set up. Why is the ACLU mowing down prayer in school
and scripture on courthouses if the “United States of America” is registered as
a corporation in the state of Delaware under a “Religious Non-proft”?
This is the document screenshot:
MJ 2015 UnitedStates Corp Reg Del
I
noticed that the “Doc” link is under “Scrib” website. It was uploaded by “American Kabuki”. We know who “American Kabuki” is affiliated
with “RemovingTheShackles” and so does “MetaTech”. (See posts on the “OPPT”). So I pulled up the State of Delaware Website
and this is what is actually listed:
MJ 2015 UnitedStates Corp Reg Real
Notice
that the “file number”, and the “corporation” are the same, but the “entity
type” is listed as “exempt” and not as a “religious non-profit”. I searched for a former registration. On “MetaTech” website, they included a link to the Delaware State
Division of Professional Regulation. On
that site next to “License Type” (click here) is a drop down
menu. “Religious non-profit” is no
longer on it, but “Exempt” is there, which covers all non-profit. Isn’t that tricky?
On the
Delaware State list of business entities, “Exempt” is not listed, but Exempt
corporations (not taxed, only shareholders are taxed as personal income) is
listed as “S” corporation – source. “New Entities” link (source), where you begin your “New Entity” registration
request, lists “Exempt”. This is the form that is filed for all
non-profit which include “civic organizations”, “charitable organizations” and
“religious” organizations.
MJ 2015 UnitedStates Corp File
Non-Prof
Source, corp.delaware.gov./inc_exempt
Under this form any of those apply. If the United States was once listed under
“Religious Non-profit” that was changed to just “Non-profit” between 1989 when
it was first incorporated, and this year.
When I checked this back in 2013, it was still listed as “Religious
Non-profit”.
If they
have changed this to a “civic” or a “charitable” non-profit, one has to wonder
why. They were at one time separate
types under non-profit.
Why is
this important? After all, aren’t most
cities in the U.S. “incorporated”?
Yes;
but then a lot of them are not.
On a
whim I searded “Latter Day Saints” in Delaware.
The search returned no results. I
searched “Latter-Day Saints” and no entity existed in Delaware.
I then
searched “Deseret”, which is one of the publishing names I had seen, and this
showed up:
MJ 2015 United States Corp Deseret
list Del
I
searched “Trademark” for “Deseret” and it is Trademarked under number of
different entities (Source), but no search for a
corporate entity under “Deseret Management Corporation” exists. I found that registered in the state of Utah
(source). Of all ten of the links listed on that, none
of them are “Management Corp” and all are listed as either “Corporation” or
“Limited Liability Corporation”.
“Deseret
News” has the earliest trademark back in 1966.
This original expired, but is renewed a number of times under the same
name. Deseret Medicals and
Pharmaceuticals was also a registered trademark under “Deseret” in 1966 but was
“cancelled” in 2003; that was rather recently.
On the
State of Nevada’s Entity Search (source), there was a lot more. I first searched “Latter”, and this list
pulled up
MJ 2015 United States Corp LDS Nev
list
All of
these are active, but most are “Trademark” registrations. Scroll through the list as I did for this
entity (source) and a “Domestic non-profit
corporation” lists two men as holding four different offices. One loner is the treasurer. But this was the one I was looking for:
“Corporation
of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints, Inc.” – Source.
This is
listed as a “Foreign Non-Profit Corporation”.
It was registered on 1/11/1963.
It’s expiration date is blank, and the “business license Exp” list’s
“Exempt”- 002. The “002” detail reveals
a 501c. Not unusual for a “church” is
it?
There
are many churches that have to register as a non-profit for the “tax exempt”
status – separation of church and state, right?
What I
didn’t understand was why the “United States of America, Inc” had to be
incorporated as 501c (formerly a ‘Religious Non-Profit). I expected the LDS to be a Religious
non-profit. What bothered me was that
the Mormons first settled Utah and ran it as a “Theocracy”. They may deny it, but it is in their own
Doctrines and Covenants which they call “scripture” that they prophecy that
they will be the “government of God” on earth; and that they will “save the
U.S.” and the “Constitution” when it “hangs by a thread”.
If the
“United States of America, Inc” is registered as “Religious Non-Profit”, does that make this
country a “Theocracy” in hiding?
My next
question was, “why was the 501c blended from having separate civic, charitable
and religious designations to the blending of all of them”?
Finally,
it is one thing for a church to incorporate as a non-profit organization for
the tax exemption. But most of us can
agree that not many churches have metastasized into their own “industrial
complex” that spans continents.
What
made me look further into this was an obscure article about a beef ranch in
Florida. This is what I found upon
search from sources revealed in just one article. As the mass of this “corporation” was unraveled,
I began to ask myself, “just what is the LDS a church OF?”
The Mormon
Connection
The
article originated on “Wiki-Leaks”.
Since Wiki-Leaks has been a popular whipping boy for the establishment,
it’s not been easy to determine whether their “revelations” are part of the
“Good Cop/Bad Cop” deception or if they are more than just another
distraction. It was a discussion on a
forum about a farm in Brazil that was owned/run by an American church:
In
2005, MST occupied a property of “AgroReservas do Brazil,” a 70,000 hectare
farm run by the Salt Lake City-based “Farm Management Company,” or “Ag Reserves
Inc.” The company’s website features a
quote from former LDS Church President Gordon B Hinckley, saying that:
MJ 2015 Mormon Foreign Farms
The
company, it turns out, is owned by the corporate arm of the LDS Church.
“Land concentration is everywhere a symptom of larger political and
military structures of coercion, and Brazil is no exception. The leaked cable describes how “Military police officers have provided
protection to the farm” and “the
judge who wanted to negotiate with the MST has been replaced by a ‘new, more reasonable judge.'”
The US Embassy seems uninterested in
the accusation of foreign land occupation; but what is more surprising is
that the United States Government is not
the cuprit here. This is a farm
under ownership of a foreign corporation, under a religious organization - or
are they one and the same?”
"But even if MST was not trying
to send a message to Mormons about the
irony of a thrifty, food-storing religious
people funding the massive concentration of land under armed guard in a foreign
land… well, the message seems clear.
There was a time when Mormon agrarian policy took the side of the
landless and the poor -communal landholding, cooperative credit
projects, full employment, self-sufficiency, an economy of sharing the risks
and the rewards of living from the land. Those values are still with us, but
the values we profess and the realities we fund couldn’t be further apart. AgReserves seems to have left the United
Order far behind, and the most beautiful core truths of egalitarian
Mormonism along with it."
- Sources, AgReserves Inc, MSTBrazil.org, themormonworker.wordpress.com
It was
hard for me to determine whether this was written by a Mormon or just someone
who was familiar with Mormon codes of conduct.
But the “foreign land occupation under armed guard” by a church is
enough to raise anyone’s eyebrows.
70,000
hectare is equal to almost 173,000 acres; not as large as other “ranches” they
own.
MJ 2015 Mormon Brazil Ranch 70k
hectacre
According
to "this source", the LDS church
"corporate arm" also owns the country's largest beef Cow/Calf ranch
located in Florida., and this:
"In another situation, anti-feedlot legislation in Utah had a
lot of momentum until it got out that the
state’s largest feedlot owner was the church. It sort of fizzled after
everybody found that out."
- Source, January 2011 comment
This
farm she is talking about is "Deseret Farms" in Florida; a 300,000
acre spread over three counties, featured in a Deseret News article dated July 23,
2013.
According
to Erik Jacobsen who directs the operation at the ranch, calves are not the
only “commodity” produced in that ranch:
"Elsewhere on Deseret property, third-party operators cultivate sod, palm trees and palmettos for landscaping and roadway projects; mine large deposits of fossilized seashells used for road base; cut pine, cypress, palm and other hardwoods; and harvest small stretches of commercial crops ranging from chipping
potatoes and corn to wheat and black beans.
Another ranch
operation oversees the wildlife leases
to some 40-plus hunting and fishing clubs using select property locations.
With limited public lands in the East, most hunting has to be done on private
lands.
"They're paying for an experience,"
Jacobsen said. "Some want to come out and hunt; some want to just come out
and camp.""
- Source, Deseret News
That’s
quite a bit of revenue and that is only one ranch. The Russian times ran another article on the
“largest private land owner” in the state of Florida:
"A sect of the Mormon Church is poised to
become the largest private landowner in the state of Florida after spending more than half a billion dollars
to purchase hundreds of thousands of
acres across three counties.
Representatives from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints announced Thursday they had bought most of the real estate owned by
the St. Joe development company for $565
million. Municipalities in Bay,
Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties
are included in the nearly 400,000
acres of land. The land, much of which is rich with timber, is located along the Florida panhandle." - Source, RussianTimes.com Published 8 November 2013
That is
in addition to the 300,000 acre ranch near Orlando that they’ve owned since the
1950’s. This news source confirms it,
printed in April of 2015:
"Deseret Ranch managers and Osceola County bureaucrats are partners in mapping where a
half-million people would live and work on what today is
133,000 acres of remote, scenic and wetland-laced ranch in the north part of the county east of Orlando International
Airport. .
The development planning is general in
detail and would not bring about the first pour of concrete for decades. But it is the largest real-estate plan ever
inked in Florida and is backed by the largest landowner in the state, the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
- Source, Orlando Sentinel.com
Is this
going to be “Salt Lake City II”? How is
a “church” to decide where “half a million people” will “live and work”? Is this a “camp” or a “community”?
“I Owe My Soul To the Company Store”
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This
isn't about feeding the poor - it's about subversion. The article on the “Orlando” reveals the
380,000 acres in the Panhandle mentioned in the “Russian Times” article above:
"The church has owned the ranch for
60 years. Including parts in Orange and Brevard, it takes in 290,000 acres of mostly roadless
landscape — an area far larger, for example, than all of Seminole County. Last
year, the church acquired 380,000 acres
of mostly agricultural land in the
Panhandle. . . . "For them to establish
entitlements to their property, this has got to be worth untold millions of dollars," Commissioner Mike Harford
said. "If you had the chance to say
the land is now established for so many homes, so many road networks — how much
is that worth?"
- Source, Orlando Sentinel.com
That is
a total of 670,000 acres – and that is only in one state. Two “ranches” in one state. That does not include four other ranches in
other states and countries.
Their
website boasts Timber, Wildlife, Citrus and Beef farming, as well as
agricultural engineering; working with local ranchers, government leaders and
academics.
MJ 2015 Deseret Ranches 1
Agricultural
engineering. In the screenshot below,
they also mention “Hybrid – Genetics” management to produce the “best” of the
various breeds adapted to subtropical climate.
MJ 2015 Deseret Ranches 2
On
their website for Deseret Ranch, a tab describes the positive contribution to
the economy in taxes and jobs. But
according to the article on the LDS.org church newsletter, most of
the ranch hands, workers and cowboys are “volunteer” missionaries. And according to the same source, the LDS church owns over fifty farms and
orchards in the U.S. and Canada (Brazil is not mentioned); which
include a Turkey farm yielding five million pounds of Turkey a year; A vineyard
in Madera, California (for raisins); A Peanut Farm in Texas and five cattle
ranches.
In
Brazil, Farm Management Company (FMC) is the owner of “AgroReservas do Brasil”,
a company that manages the Church Farm of FMC in the country. AgroReservas had a website, but now does not
exist under the www.agroreservas.com/
anymore. This was the Google result when
posting it in search:
MJ 2015 Deseret Brazil search
results
There
are other “Agroreservas.com” search results for “Chile” and Argentina, but none
of them offer a “website” for the company.
Only job postings and “maps” for the business. If the “Farm Management
Company” owns “Agroreservas, inc” in Brazil, then they also own the company in
“Chile” and Argentina which means they are either “managing” those farms or
they own them.
In
Utah, it is “Agreserves, Inc” and they do have a website as shown above. Their job postings – doesn’t say “volunteer”
but they do have an “internship” section: Source.
Under “Farm Management Services” in Salt
Lake City there are five other corporations or rather, four and one ranch under
this umbrella listed on Mantra.com.
An
eye-opening article in Bloomsburg Business section is “How the Mormon Church
Makes Money”. They have not limited
themselves to corporate agriculture.
From the article:
"Mormons make up only 1.4 percent of the U.S. population, but
the church’s holdings are vast. First among its for-profit
enterprises is DMC, which reaps estimated
annual revenue of $1.2 billion from six subsidiaries, according to the business information and analysis firm
Hoover’s Company Records (DNB). Those subsidiaries run a
newspaper, 11 radio stations, a TV station, a publishing and distribution company,
a digital media company, a hospitality business, and an insurance business
with assets worth $3.3 billion." - Source, Bloomsburg
DMC is
“Deseret Management Corporation” and according to their entity registration in
Utah, it is a “for profit corporation” (source).
That’s quite
a beast under the surface of a church!
More? The "Ag"
Business:
"AgReserves, another for-profit Mormon umbrella
company, together with other church-run
agricultural affiliates, reportedly owns
about 1 million acres in the continental U.S., on which the church has farms, hunting preserves, orchards, and
ranches. These include the $1
billion, 290,000-acre Deseret Ranches in Florida, which, in addition to
keeping 44,000 cows and 1,300 bulls, also has citrus, sod, and timber
operations. Outside the U.S., AgReserves
operates in Britain, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Its Australian property, valued at $61
million in 1997, has estimated annual
sales of $276 million, according to Dun & Bradstreet." - Source, Bloomsburg
Australia
Ranch alone, sales of $276 million. Just
one ranch.
Real
estate and development:
"The church also runs several for-profit real estate arms that own, develop, and manage malls,
parking lots, office parks, residential buildings, and more. Hawaii Reserves, for example, owns or manages more than 7,000 acres on
Oahu, where it maintains commercial
and residential buildings, parks,
water and sewage infrastructure, and
two cemeteries."
- Source, Bloomsburg
Only in
Hawaii?
Investments
and holding companies and insurance companies - Source,
Whatever
happened to the lesson of Jesus overthrowing the tables and chasing the
merchants out of the temple in Matthew 21, Mark 11 and John 2? Whatever happened to the lesson of Solomon
using his God-acquired wisdom to heap up riches and horses and wives and
chariots unto himself in 1 Kings 10 and 2 Chronicles 1 – and the “six
hundred threescore and six” talents of gold a year also mentioned in 1 Kings
10?
"And king Solomon
gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that
which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own
country, she and her servants. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the
traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and
of the governors of the country."
Yes, Solomon
had them all – And this they were commanded NOT to do:
"But he shall not multiply horses to himself,
nor cause the people to return to
Egypt, to the end that he should
multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Neither
shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to
himself silver and gold."
I did
remember them who cause people to “return to Egypt”. This was not meant in a physical or
geographical sense. Mormonism is
Egyptian, not Jesus-based, just as Freemasonry is Egyptian-based. I dug a little deeper.
Disturbing:
"The Mormon Church at the time said
the estimates were grossly exaggerated, but a recent investigation by Reuters in collaboration with sociology
professor Cragun estimates that the LDS
Church is likely worth $40 billion today and collects up to $8 billion in
tithing each year.
Quinn, a faithful Mormon who spent 12 years on the
faculty at the LDS Church’s Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, before being excommunicated for apostasy
related to research he published on Mormons, has been gathering financial
information for years. Several high-ranking
church insiders told him that the church’s finances are so compartmentalized
that no single person, not even the president, knows the entirety of its
holdings." - Source, Bloomberg.com
Michael
Quinn, previously high up in the Mormon Church, was ex-communicated for his
divulging of previously covered up church finances and according to the Wikipedia page on him, is now gay. I wonder if he was assisted in the same way
Bruce Jenner was assisted (MK-Ultra).
Now that other news papers are covering Quinn’s revelations, how viable
is his ex-communication? The Mormon
legislaters on Utah voted in a Gay rights bill, one has to wonder what “else”
Quinn could possibly have done wrong. If interested, a write up of this on “Slate” tells part of the
story. The section on Quinn’s experience
with Packer is very interesting – especially the part about historians who
“idolize the truth”. Given later
revelations by other news sources by insiders of the LDS, Michael Quinn was
dead on. The same “Slate: article:
"Unlike local lay leaders, who hold secular day jobs and perform their ecclesiastical
duties on a voluntary basis, they are full-time employees who oversee the global
operations of the church. They don’t acquire these positions by filling out an application and
sending in a résumé. They are called to
them by the men at the very top of the hierarchy. Devout Mormons consider
these callings divinely inspired. While such a calling does not officially
confer infallibility on the man who receives it—and the general authorities are
all male—publicly criticizing the men in
these positions is strongly discouraged. At its worst, such talk is
sometimes called “speaking evil of the Lord’s anointed.” - Source, Slate.com
Quinn
calls the highest leaders of the Mormon Church “a social elite”:
"In his Yale dissertation, Quinn examined the “highest leadership” of
the LDS church “as a social elite,” focusing on the extensive family ties
within the hierarchy, the considerable
wealth of Mormon authorities, and their long-standing involvement in politics." - Source, Slate.com
He also
mentions the “considerable wealth” of the Mormon authorities and their
“longstanding involvement with politics”.
There IS no separation of church and state – the LDS IS a state.
There
is more on the “Deseret Management Corporation” and the church hierarchy:
"To understand DMC’s place in the church’s financial structure, it’s important to
start at the very top: The Mormon Church
is owned and run by what is called the Corporation of the President of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This entity is a “corporation sole,” which is an
obscure legal body owned entirely by one person. In the case of the Mormon Church, that person is Monson,
the prophet.
The Mormon presidency
is not an elected position, and while the president is considered a prophet,
it’s also not considered a direct appointment from God. When one president
resigns or dies, he is replaced by the longest-serving member of the Quorum of
the Twelve Apostles, an ecclesiastic group commonly referred to as the
Apostles. Each new president handpicks two counselors to help him lead. The
three-man team is called the First Presidency." - Source, Bloomberg.com
It's
Founder's Revelations were about Money.
This was quoted of historian Leonard J. Arrington – the man that hired
Michael Quinn, and the man who was “relieved” by the incoming Packer (who has a
problem with truth):
"The group also espoused separatist financial goals of “erecting and
maintaining an improved economic system for its members,” according to historian Leonard J. Arrington, who points out that 88 of Smith’s 112
revelations deal directly or indirectly with economic matters. " - Source, Bloomberg.com
That
doesn’t sound like a church to me. It
sounds like a glorified and well protected pyramid scheme.
Operates just like the government - or
under-government:
"Until the 1990s, wards—the Mormon
equivalent of parishes—kept some donated
member money locally to distribute for aid and activities as they saw fit. Today all money
is wired directly to Salt Lake City. McMullin insists that not one penny of tithing goes to the church’s for-profit endeavors, but
it’s impossible for church members to know for sure. Although the Mormon Doctrine and Covenants says “all
things shall be done by common consent in the church,” members are not provided with any financial accounting. Daymon M.
Smith, a Mormon anthropologist, points out that tithing slips read, “Though reasonable efforts will be made
globally to use donations as designated, all
donations become the Church’s property and will be used at the Church’s sole discretion to further the church’s
overall mission.”
- Source, Bloomberg.com
Just
what is their mission? To become another
“Solomon”? They’ve gone quite a bit
beyond 666 talents of Gold. Their
tabernacle is the corporation. Their god
appears to be money.
Geographical Wealth:
"The Mormon Church is by far the most numerically successful creed born on American soil and one
of the fastest growing anywhere. Its U.S.
membership of 4.8 million is the seventh largest in the country, while its
hefty 4.7% annual American growth rate
is nearly doubled abroad, where there are already 4.9 million adherents. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church's
President--and its current Prophet--is engaged in massive foreign construction, spending billions to erect 350 church-size
meetinghouses a year and adding 15
cathedral-size temples to the existing 50." - Source, LDS-mormon/time.shtml
Financial/Corporate Wealth:
"The church's material triumphs rival even its
evangelical advances. With unusual cooperation from the Latter-day Saints
hierarchy (which provided some financial figures and a rare look at church
businesses), TIME has been able to quantify the church's extraordinary financial vibrancy. Its current assets total a minimum
of $30 billion. If it were a corporation, its estimated $5.9 billion in annual gross income would place it midway through the FORTUNE 500,
a little below Union Carbide and the Paine Webber Group but bigger than Nike and the Gap." - Source, LDS-mormon/time.shtml
This
was written up in Time Magazine and to put this in perspective, the original
article was published eighteen years ago, back in August of 1997; the same year
Michael Jackson released "Blood On The Dance Floor" and four years
before the "towers fell". The
title of the Time Magazine Cover?
"Mormon, Inc"
MJ 2015 Mormons Inc Time Cover
In a paragraph
further down, the article said this:
"Historian Leonard J. Arrington says the church, along with the values it
represents, "has played a role,
and continues to play a role, in the
economic and social development of the West--and indeed, because of the
spread of Mormons everywhere, of the nation as a whole." And in a country
where religious unanimity is ever less important but material
achievement remains the earthly manifestation of virtue, their creed may never face
rejection again."
- Source, mormon.com/time lds-mormon.com/time.shtml
“Material
achievement remains the earthly manifestations of virtue . . .” That could not have been said better by the
devil himself.
It is
on this article that the verification of their "assetts" spans
"Time", and nations.
"The top beef ranch in the world is not the King Ranch
in Texas. It is the Deseret Cattle &
Citrus Ranch outside Orlando, Fla. It covers 312,000 acres; its value as real estate alone is estimated
at $858 million. It is owned
entirely by the Mormons. The largest
producer of nuts in America, AgReserves, Inc., in Salt Lake City, is Mormon-owned. So are the Bonneville International Corp., the
country's 14th largest radio chain,
and the Beneficial Life Insurance Co.,
with assets of $1.6 billion. There are richer churches than the one based
in Salt Lake City: Roman Catholic holdings dwarf Mormon wealth. But the
Catholic Church has 45 times as many members. There is no major church in the U.S. as active as the
Latter-day Saints in economic life, nor, per capita, as successful at it." - Source, Time Reprint at Lds-mormon.com
List of Corporations as of 2005.
It did
not escape me that two other detractors from the “September Six” as they are
called (which included Michael Quinn) ended up dead, both from car bombs by a
“Mormon Apostle” who never went to trial (Source).
JFK,
while not directly connected to the LDS, made two speeches that were hauntingly
more prophetic than the Book of Mormon, was assassinated.
Abraham
Lincoln while appearing neutral on “the Mormon Problem” in his debate with
Douglas (source), was the one that was assassinated. Why?
Because while Douglas had turned on the Mormons after at first
supporting them; Lincoln Federally outlawed both slavery and polygamy (Source), although polygamy wasn’t
shut down until the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1886 and
1887.
No one really
knows how much land, assets or revenue in totality, make up the Mormon
organization. But scripturally by the
same Bible they carry with their Book of Mormon, this is NOT the church of
Christ. Jesus never taught lying,
subversion and acquisition.
There
is also this to consider: If the
assets/revenue of the Mormon church is so “compartmentalized” that “even the
President doesn’t know all it’s holdings” as quoted in that Time Magazine
article . . . then just who does?
Does
the United States of America, Inc. and the “Office Of the President of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Inc” run a parallel road to
global, theocratic power? Or are they
yet another Identity over what this really is: The bondage of Egypt and Mystery
Babylon?
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