Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing.”

John 18:20 (NKJV)

OUR MISSION
As the graphic above says, John 18:20 Ministries is dedicated to sharing the Light of Jesus Christ with a dark world. Our main focus:

1. Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost.
2. Exposing the truth about secret societies, their history, and their devotion to Satan and the New World Order.
3. Revealing the symbols, writings, and idolatry of secret societies, and their evil origins.
4. Offering a solid Christian foundation for victims and former followers of secret societies.
5. Using Old and New Testament scripture to explain the end-times we are living in today.

THIS MINISTRY
What you are about to read didn’t begin as a ministry. And when it did begin, it happened without warning. But that’s how the Holy Spirit works a lot of times.

If you read About the Host, you know that I am a white male, raised in the American South. I love history, and have deep Southern roots dating back to the eighteenth century. My ancestors were slave owners, though I don’t believe one human being can truly own another; he may only keep him, or her, against their will. That being the case, my third paternal great grandfather claimed eleven souls as his own, according to the 1830 Census. I’m not proud of that; it’s just what it is.

True to my family’s slave history, my second paternal great grandfather, and his four brothers, served the Confederate cause (two were killed). As a widower, years later, he came to Arkansas with five children and one young man, a former slave. That should have been the end of the story, but it wasn’t.

Fascinated with my family genealogy, I always bore a keen interest in my Confederate ancestry. In 2006, I joined a group of Civil War reenactors out of Little Rock. Though we donned both impressions (Union and Confederate) I was always most proud when I wore the rebellious gray uniform, a symbol of Southern pride and a tribute to my ancestors who fought for the stars and bars in the War Between the States.

Some years later, I became a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Many times, I recited, “I salute the Confederate flag with affection, reverence and undying devotion to the cause for which it stands.” I would go to the monthly meetings, eat barbeque, and reaffirm the rhetoric that the War of Northern Aggression had not been fought over slavery and that the purpose of the SCV was to honor Confederate dead. That was it: Heritage, not hate… and carbohydrates.

But let me stop you a minute. I want to be very clear: I wasn’t one of the sheep being led to slaughter because I had been deceived; I was the one deceiving others. I could site my Confederate ancestry as the reason for my association with the SCV, but that would not excuse the zealousness I’d had for the furtherance of its cause. Heritage, not hate? Even then I knew better. How could I say something was not hate, when its very origins were grounded in it?

One day, the Holy Spirit dealt with me in this matter. And yet, when He spoke to my heart, He did not do it in anger or disgust; it was as if a gentle grandfather was telling me not to play too close to the woodpile (my Southern readers will understand that reference). One day, my mind unexpectedly wandered to thoughts of Americas greatest conflict, and slavery’s part in it. What started as a curious and random thought, grew into the realization that it was God ministering to me—in that moment, He asked me a single question, one that cut me to the bone: “Are you going to tell that lie one more time?”

I sank in prayer and simply replied, “No, Lord.” I asked God to forgive me for all the people I had led astray with false narratives of the mythical Lost Cause of the Confederacy and the people I had hurt with its message. With a burning in my bones, I set about that very day to research the true causes of that terrible war, and the men who were responsible so that I might tell the truth; especially to those to whom I had lied. But, this still wasn’t a ministry; just truer history.

Not far into my research (maybe weeks) it was apparent that certain men had precipitated that war. And it was also apparent that there was an inseparableness between those same men and various secret societies in the United States. One of the most infamous of these secret societies was the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC), a pro-filibustering (land stealing), pro-secession group in the South. I would eventually learn that the KGC was the forerunner to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, both the militant arm of a more centralized organization.

The 1830s saw the advent of pro-slavery/pro-secessionists groups like the Southern Rights Club (SRC), and the Order of the Lone Star (OLS). The SRC was a front for the illegal slave trade in the Americas, a practice that had been banned in the United States since 1807. The OLS was the mechanism by which an already daunting slave empire could be expanded into conquered territories in Central America and the Caribbean. The OLS would transform into the KGC in 1854.

With the dawning of this new slave mega-empire came the need for an extensive transportation system into these new states and conquered territories. Research showed the contention between planners from the North, who wanted the Transcontinental Railroad to run through Chicago, and their Southern counterparts who vied for a route through Memphis, eventually leading into Texas and a conquered Mexico—a super-highway for the slave empire.

During the search for those involved, I found my first big nugget—an 1857-map that showed the names of four very familiar men—one of them would be a future Confederate Brigadier General. What did these four men have in common? 1) They were all lawyers, 2)they all lived in Little Rock, Arkansas… and 3) they were all railroad delegates. One of the names, that of a future Confederate general, particularly stood out in my mind; a very familiar name in Arkansas. But I quickly dismissed him and moved on.

Realizing that these men were pushing America closer and closer to civil war, I found that southern Democrats had intentionally divided the 1860 Democrat presidential ticket, one that Stephen Douglas might have won had the ticket remained intact. It occurred to me that the War Between the States might never have occurred had Lincoln not won the election. Why did they split the Democrat ticket that could have spared over 600,000 American lives?

Note: The 1860 Democrat nominees for President were Stephen A. Douglass and John C. Breckinridge. Breckinridge was U.S. Vice President under President Buchanan, and would be the Confederate Secretary of War in the final months of the war.

Was their sole purpose to ignite a war the South was destined to lose? The leader of the men, who staged the walkout at the 1860 Democratic Convention, was that same Confederate general. Still, I moved on.

The 1857-map was big, but one of my most shocking finds came while digging through National Archives data. I found an interesting correspondence (written in November 1860) that directly tied one man to the arsenal crisis in Little Rock in February 1861 (I will talk more about this in my blogs and videos); this was the first act of aggression against the Union in Arkansas. And who was this man who wrote the correspondence? It was the same man that kept popping up on my radar… one man!

Who was this man who organized slave transportation systems, sabotaged presidential elections, and started wars? He was the most powerful man in America from 1859 until his death in 1891; his name was Albert Pike, and his core centralized organization was Freemasonry.

The more research I conducted into the causes of the War Between the States, the more connected Albert Pike and Freemasonry became with that war. In the big picture, it became painfully clear that the story of Albert Pike and this civil war, could not be told apart from the other.

My general conclusion? The War Between the States was precipitated years (many years) before Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, by intentional acts of political sabotage designed to eventually incorporate slavery as a means to trigger the bloodiest of all American conflicts. The war wasn’t about Northern Aggression, state’s rights, or preserving the Union. Was the war about slavery? Yes, but only because it was God’s will that the institution end. As for the human cause, evil men (foreign and domestic) used the conflict to bankrupt the United States, and weaken the republic from within… we never fully recovered.

As for the Confederate Lost Cause? Throughout my research, I observed a distinct and definable phenomenon associated with that cause; its mantra, the whole southern idea that the South will rise again. I coin this phenomenon, The Southern Aberration: a lie that continues to eat away at the fabric of society, and maintains disunity amongst the races. And until authors, educators and ministers tell the truth about the true causes of that war, and the racial persecution that followed, enmity amongst our fellow man, black and white, North and South, Democrat and Republican, will continue to drive a wedge into the greatest country ever conceived by God.

And Albert Pike? I finally concluded that the man was a Satanist and that I had to expose how Freemasonry is in direct contradiction to the Holy Bible. That’s when my research changed to a ministry!

If you are a member of a secret society (ANY secret society), please know that I love you, and that I realize that you may not be aware of the truth about the origins of these organizations. And you’ll notice I said ANY secret society and not simply Freemasonry? That’s because there are many. I intend to talk about them all as long as I have breath in my lungs.

Please join me, pray for this ministry and for my safety!

Your friend and fellow warrior in Christ Jesus, Randy.