Someone  approached me to chat on Internet. He told me  that he  had just left Masonry two weeks ago and that his  Grandfather is a Christian Mason of 91 years of age. I told him that someone should  witness to him, that he must renounce Masonry  before  he dies  or  he will be in bad straights. He is  most  likely  still alive  because  God is waiting on that to happen. He assured  me that he would tell his mother what I said. I offered to send  him a  book free but he said his grandfather "doesn't read", he  only watches television. How often have heard that before.

As  we chatted back and forth for several days, he asked  me to  visit  a  website "The Shepherd's Chapel,"  which  is  Arnold Murray's  site. I had not heard of him. The surfer was  impressed with him and thought he was a safe preacher to listen to, because he supposedly goes through the Bible verse by verse. I noticed in our  conversation that the surfer had various hangups  about  the Word  of God which concerned me. One was about the  144,000  Jews
would not necessarily be Jews but Jews and Gentiles mixed,  which is not  Scriptural. Another comment was about Eve's  first  baby Cain  conceived by Satan by eating of the apple tree. "That  was really  Satan," he said, "and that is why Cain was  evil."  There was more that he said that was disturbing.

The relationship ended with him slipping me an article about a  post-tribulation  Resurrection/ Rapture, which also  had  some major  errors in it. We discussed it but to no avail and  I dismissed  the encounter. We received MacGregor Ministry's  newsletter,  two days later, which explained why this young man was  not Scriptural.  I sent him the article about the  Shepherd's Chapel and  Murray's teachings and he wasn't too happy. He  accused  the ministry  of  not knowing what they were doing. I  told  him  the MacGregor  ministry  is highly respected, of long standing  and appropriate in the field of discernment. The truth came out. What he really wanted, for me to get out of my ministry.
He  said that God would not want us to go up against  ministries of the Gospel, that I should get out of the business  since I had been deceived for many years, I was probably still deceived
and that I should teach pure Scripture like Arnold Murray. I told him that once again he was not Scriptural, that women are not  to teach  men.  Discernment ministries are giving women  a  role as sheep dogs, keeping the herd running in the right direction.

The article in the January issue of MacGregor Ministries was about Arnold Murray of the Shepherd's Chapel - Cult or Christian? I couldn't believe my eyes. So God had his own reason for  bringing this man to my website after all. If he had indeed  converted to  Christianity, then he is being led down the wrong  path  just like  we were after Mormonism. Satan doesn't let go easy.  Satan has  an  unbelievable number of disciples, and many  former  cult members  don't know they are still running under  his  influence after they get out. Why, because they are still relying on  other men  to  interpret the Bible to them. The Holy  Spirit  wants  to teach us personally by means of studying the Bible ourselves.  It is  hard work but well worth it. Another person  cannot  possibly provide that understanding of the whole body of knowledge of  the Word. Without that it doesn't really register.

Lorri MacGregor writes: "Early-morning viewers in Canada are regaled  with a powerful preacher using plain language  and  frequent  insults to present his brand of the "gospel". He is on TV in the USA also as well as the Internet.

"So,  who is Arnold Murray anyway, and should Christians  be listening  to him? He appears very patriotic, usually  displaying the  American flag behind his desk. This is, in reality,  a  prop
for his message that the white, Anglo-Saxons are the chosen race. Worldwide  Church  of God watchers may remember that this  was  a favorite  doctrine  of  the late  Herbert  W.  Armstrong, called "British-Israelism".  The  World-wide  Church of  God  has  since denounced  this  theory after careful research, but it  is  still alive  and well through ministries like "The Shepherd's Chapel", and offshoot, dissident groups of the WCG.
"Basically,  it teaches that America and Great  Britain  are the  ten lost tribes of the children of Israel,  therefore  being the  now chosen people of God. Trouble is, the "ten lost  tribes"
were  never  lost, according to the Bible, never  mind  traveling first to England and then immigrating to the USA. The doctrine is just thinly veiled racism in its ugliest form.
"Christians know that ".. God is not one to show partiality, but in EVERY NATION the man who fears Him and does what is right, is  welcome to Him". (Acts 10:34,35) So, since God doesn't  discriminate on the basis of skin color, neither should we. A favorite charge of Arnold Murray is that Christian, orthodox, teachers "don't know their Bible". Well, neither does Mr. Murray! As  with all  cult groups, we find Mr. Murray denying the basic,  biblical doctrines of the Christian Church.
"For example, he denies the Trinity, the Bible teaching that the One, True God of the Bible revealed Himself in Three Persons, (not 3 gods!), as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is  ample proof of this straight from the Bible. All cult  groups seek  to  downgrade Jesus Christ while  exalting  themselves.  Mr Murray is no exception.
"One  of his favorite heresies, which I find mind  boggling, is  the  false  teaching of the "serpent's seed".  This  strange doctrine  teaches  that, in the garden of Eden,  Eve  had  sexual relations with the serpent Satan the Devil. This resulted  in  a child, Cain. (Abel is conceded to be Adam's child). Then, all  of the  descendants  of Cain are branded as "seeds of  the  serpent" (the nonwhite races). He accuses the present-day Jews of actually being the descendants of Cain, calling them "Kenites". Since,  he believes, these were the ones who crucified Christ, they are the evil "Serpent's seed".
"His followers, of course, are the true seed of God,  Abel's descendants.  He  also  gives himself the  designation  of  God's exclusive end-time messenger for the world. Neo-Nazi groups  just lap up this stuff! As expected, hell is denied, as is the rapture teaching.  Avoid  this bigoted man and, better yet,  complain  to your  TV station!" (MacGregor Ministries, #47 January  1999, Box 454 Metaline Falls WA 99153-0454 (250) 352-9327 www.macgregorministries.org)