EVERY TRUE LATTER-DAY SAINT IS A CONSPIRACY THEORIST

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Every true Latter-day Saint is a "conspiracy theorist." You cannot claim to believe in The Book of Mormon and in modern prophets if you discount conspiracy. The term "secret combination" is a synonym of "conspiracy." People don't understand the Church's doctrine if they don't believe in the existence of widespread, Satan-inspired conspiracy. An individual has to reject entire chapters in Alma, Helaman, Ether, and the Doctrine and Covenants, in order to comfortably deny conspiracy. So open your heart and receive some doctrine and admonition.
The prophet Moroni plainly told us that secret combinations are the "most abominable and wicked above all, in the sight of God" (Ether 8:18). Furthermore, he explained that "whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed" (Ether 8:22). Our God does not fool around when it comes to conspiracies. "For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations," wrote Moroni (Ether 8:19).
The Lord is so serious that He has actually given us a commandment regarding our conduct towards secret combinations. Moroni recorded, "Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you" (Ether 8:24). How well are you obeying this plain commandment? Have you awoke?
Moroni prophesied that "whoso buildeth it [secret combinations] up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning" (Ether 8:25). Might I suggest that those who build up secret combinations include those who unwittingly support corrupt people, policies, programs, and political parties.
In the days of wicked King Noah, "the people did labor exceedingly to support inquity" (Mosiah 11:6). The majority of Americans - including Latter-day Saints who ought to know better - labor exceedingly to support this great complex of secret combinations and conspiracies that rules over us. However, we are strictly commanded to awake and resist these combinations. We are told that we will be destroyed if we don't eradicate these conspiracies from among us. Freedom will be extinguished and the entire world will ultimately perish if we allow secret combinations to remain in our midst. Should not this motivate you to fervent action?
It truly does matter who we vote for and what we support. One of the great myths is that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is politically neutral. It is not. It never has been and never will be. In fact, the official doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defines what a faithful Latter-day Saint ought to believe politically. "How so?" you might ask. Let me explain.
The revelations in The Doctrine and Covenants constitute part of our Church's official doctrine. Therein the Lord has some strict words for His people regarding their political affiliations, practices, and beliefs. For instance, He declared the following:
"And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaing rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law of the land which is the constitutional law of the land; And as pertaining to the law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil. I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free. Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn. Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil" (D&C 98:5-10).
Let's analyze that passage. The first thing that should jump out at us is that our Savior refers to the "constitutional" law, not just to law in general. What is this constitutional law? Constitutional law is law that is in conformity with the "principle of freedom" which supports our rights. Specifically, these principles are contained in the U.S. Constitution. The Lord has said, "I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose" (D&C 101:80). Furthermore, the U.S. Constitution, as established by our Lord, protects the rights of "all flesh" and preserves mankind's "moral agency" by the rule of law (D&C 101:77-78). And further still, the U.S. Constitution, contrary to popular belief, was created to free mankind from slavery (D&C 101:79). Thus it is to the Constitution that we must look when discerning which laws deserve our support. Only those which preserve our rights and Freedom and accountability, and are found in the Constitution, are we justified in supporting.
How many Latter-day Saints have been guilty of supporting unconstitutional laws and the people who propose and uphold them? To name just a few, you are guilty if you support the Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, the Affordable Care Act, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments, etc. I might remind Latter-day Saints that the Lord has plainly said that "whatsoever is more or less" than the U.S. Constitution's plain principles of Liberty, "cometh of evil." Note that God did not say that contrary opinions are simply wrong or different or that they are of equal value. No, He said they were evil. That is a profound statement! God has told mankind to support His Constitution or be found guilty of supporting evil. There is only one political document in the world which has the stamp of approval of God Almighty - and that is the U.S. Constitution. Are we guilty of supporting evil? If we don't understand the Constitution, odds are that we have been guilty many times of supporting evil via our votes and voices.
Next, I want to highlight the last portion of the above passage. The Lord tells us to seek after wise men and good men and to vote for them and them alone. I believe we will have to account in the next life for how we voted in this one. Ezra Taft Benson, among others, has voiced similar opinions. Consider the last several elections you participated in. Did you support truly good and wise candidates for office, or did you settle for the "lesser of two evils"? Did you choose not to support the best candidate simply because he did not seem "viable" or belonged to a lesser known party? I ask you to take a personal accounting of your conduct.
The Church does not openly endorse specific candidates or parties (though on occasions they have), but they do, by virtue of their doctrine, tell you who NOT to vote for and which programs NOT to support. And let me tell you, there has not been a mainstream Republican or Democratic candidate for national office in modern history that has been worthy of a vote from a Latter-day Saint. No, not one (I'm excluding individuals such as Ron Paul who did not ultimately get their party's nomination). That's a bold statement, but I stand by it. I believe that Latter-day Saints need to repent for their political choices and strive to obey the Lord's command to support only good and wise men for office.
Now, let me say an additional word on this last point. I believe most Latter-day Saints are still fairly good people who are sincere, even if largely inattentive, when it comes to politics. However, the majority are nonetheless politically naive and ignorant, and are uneducated in the principles of Freedom and constitutionalism. I dare say that most, upon close examination of the ideas and policies they support, would be found to be socialists or communists. Latter-day Saints have overwhelmingly discounted and ignored the counsel given by numerous prophets such as Ezra Taft Benson, David O. McKay, Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith, and J. Reuben Clark, Jr. That's the ugly truth. I do believe the sincere intents of our heart will be rewarded. However, I believe there is great cause for admonishment. We are naive as a people and erroneously believe that politicians are generally well-intentioned individuals. We don't dare think that they are part of a modern band of Gadianton Robbers. Yet, a good many of the people Latter-day Saints are found supporting are conspirators in this devilish conspiracy.
On the good, better, best scale, Latter-day Saints are barely hitting the "good" level with their political choices. Most of the time they compromise their values, disregard the Lord's admonitions in Doctrine and Covenants section 98, and settle for the lesser of two evils. I do find it heartening, however, that when Chuck Baldwin ran for president in 2008, the largest number of votes he received came from Utah. This shows that there are at least a handful of Latter-day Saints who are obedient to the Lord's command to diligently seek out only the best candidates - the ones who stand by the Constitution and who are good people. And the growth of this Awaken page is further evidence that many are finally waking up. I pray that this movement spreads. I encourage you to actively assist in this noble effort.
Next, I want to identify which people form secret combinations and then discuss their modus operandi. Most Latter-day Saints, when asked to identify a secret combination, will answer, "the mafia." While some mobs can be identified as secret combinations, they are not what we are warned about in the scriptures. Historically, the chief conspirators were generally those in law, in government, and the elite. Today the same types join the various conspiracies. We should also add bankers, Wall Street bigwigs, military leaders, and higher ups in entertainment and education to the list.
In Book of Mormon times, secret combinations sought to capture the Nephite and Jaredite governments. With one prominent exception in the days of Lachoneus, secret combinations always desired political control via secret infiltration rather than through blunt and overt force. Their tactics included political assassination, murder, controlling judges, falsely accusing detractors, lying, secrecy, blood oaths, extralegal courts and tribunals, launching wars, manipulating public opinion, etc. Their goals were power, gain, glory, and the destruction of true religion and all that was good. It should not be surprising, then, that modern secret combinations have identical goals and operate the same way. Past and present secret combinations are Satanic not only because they do evil, but because Lucifer is their founder. I believe that the highest ranking members of these conspiracies knowingly worship Lucifer, believe he is the true God, and seek to do his bidding.
In Nephi's day, secret combinations "did obtain the sole management of the government" (Helaman 6:39). Today, sadly, this conspiracy also has sole management of our own government and the governments of Europe. Similarly evil combinations control the governments of the rest of the world. These conspiratorial blocs do not work together, though their goals are the same and they are led by the same dark master. The conspiracy's hold became so strong in ancient times that we read that "the more part of the Nephites . . . did unite with those bands of robbers, and did enter into their covenants and their oaths" (Helaman 6:21). Circumstances today are slightly different, and there are a good many more people, therefore the majority have not knowingly entered into these dark oaths and covenants. However, I do believe the majority of Americans support today's Gadianton Robbers by their votes, by their lifestyle and entertainment choices, by their ignorance of this conspiracy's existence, by their taxes (i.e. labor), and by their lack of resistance. We are "in an awful state, and ripening for an everlasting destruction" (Helaman 6:40).
Ezra Taft Benson famously declared, "There is no conspiracy theory in the Book of Mormon - it is a conspiracy fact" (General Conference, April 1972: https://www.lds.org/…/civic-standards-for-the-faithful-sain…). And, if you recall, Moroni told us that these combinations "shall" be among us. There was no hesitancy - they SHALL be here. And they are. It is a fact. I ask again, have we awoke to a sense of our awful situation?
What is to be done now that we know secret combinations, or conspiracies, exist among us and infest our society and government? Ultimately, it boils down to two things - awareness and repentance. We must become thoroughly informed. For this purpose, Ezra Taft Benson asked Latter-day Saints gathered in General Conference to read two books: "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" by Gary Allen and "Prophets, Principles, and National Survival" by Jerrald L. Newquist. I add the following books to that list:
"None Dare Call It Conspiracy" by Gary Allen
"Hiding in Plain Sight: Unmasking the Secret Combinations of the Last Days" by Ken Bowers
"Hope of the Wicked: The Master Plan to Rule the World" by Ted Flynn
"Awakening to Our Awful Situation" by Jack Monnett
"Secret Combinations Today" by Robert E. Hales
"Trilaterals Over Washington" by Antony C. Sutton
"The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline" by James Perloff
"The Naked Capitalist" by W. Cleon Skousen
"Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy" by Jim Marrs
"Proofs of a Conspiracy" by John Robison
"The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty" by Jim Marrs
"Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, volumes 1-3" by Abbe Barruel
"Brotherhood of Darkness" by Stan Monteith
"The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, spiritual, Cultural, Political, and Economic Decline of the United States of America" by John Coleman
"America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones" by Antony C. Sutton
"Fourth Reich of the Rich" by Des Griffin
"Descent into Slavery?" by Des Griffin
"Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time" by Carroll Quigley
"The Anglo-American Establishment" by Carroll Quigley
"Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage: The Story of the Financiers, Their Fellow Conspirators, and the Plot to Destroy Western Christian Civilization" by Robert Henry Goldsborough
"The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin
"Foundations: Their Power and Influence" by Rene A. Wormser
"The Cruel Hoax: Feminism and the New World Order" by Henry Makow
"The Sex Industrial Complex: America's Secret Combination, Pornographic Culture, Addiction and the Human Brain" by John L. Harmer
"Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor" by Robert B. Stinnett
"The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska" by John W. DeCamp
"The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal" by Nick Bryant
Once we realize how entrenched these secret combinations are, and how threatened our Liberty is, we will want to inform other people. The number of good people who have been hoodwinked by this band of deceivers is far larger than the conspiracy itself. If we were able to wake them up, we could turn the tide of tyranny. Evil people scurry for cover like cockroaches when you shine the light on them and expose their dark deeds. Unfortunately, many judges, lawyers, and law enforcement personnel belong to this secret band and conspire to let the guilty go free. With the People on our side, awake and alert, we could take these people - including the judges, lawyers, and police officers invovled - and try them according to just laws. The People are the source of power and they can rightly exercise it for their protection and in fulfillment of divine commandments.
Integral in this process is repentance. Immediately after realizing that we have been deceived, we should humble ourselves and repent, calling upon the Lord for strength in combating those who seek to control us, pervert constitutional laws, protect the guilty from punishment, and destroy our rights. Unless we repent, we will not be able to overcome the deeply entrenched conspiracy which controls our government, our military, our schools, the media, the entertainment industry, the economy, big business, the banks, law enforcement, the "justice" system, and many churches. It is our duty to "waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness" (D&C 123:13-14). And we don't have a moment to spare.
I know that I've made some blunt statements, and I'm sure to incur the wrath of LDS Republicans who feel that I have censured them, which I have, but the truth needs a willing friend. The truth is that Moroni's prediction is accurate - secret combinations have come among us and threaten us with utter destruction. According to the words of our Lord, we are in an "awful situation." The scriptures testify that our government will be controlled by Luciferian conspiracies - and it is. We are told to support the Constitution and that anything more or less than its pure principles is evil. We are told to support only good and wise men, and, that to do anything else, is evil. How well are you doing? How well are you obeying these counsels? I hope you've been taking personal assessment as you've read this.
The Lord needs you on His side. He needs you to awake and to awaken others. He needs you to educate and protect your family. He needs willing warriors who will rise in defense of truth and Freedom, His Constitution, and all sound principles. If I sound particularly strict on this subject, it's because I am. I love my Freedom and the Freedom of my land with the same abiding love that Captain Moroni demonstrated when he raised his title of Liberty in defense of his God, his religion, his Freedom, his peace, and his wife and children. And so I end with Captain Moroni's ever-pertinent rallying cry:
"Whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter into a covenant that they will maintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless them (Alma 46:20).
In the strength of the Lord, we will ultimately triumph over Lucifer and his minions who seek to drag us carefully down to an everlasting destruction. Of this I testify.