FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
understand how they work, so what better person to use, then
somebody who is admired and respected by millions, even though his
impact for their cause is subtle and rather indirect. Throughout his life,
Graham has established relationships with people and made alliances
with organizations that seem to counteract the message of salvation
that he has brought to the world. For instance, he considered his
relationship with Henry Luce as an “enduring friendship.” Luce, the
publisher of magazines like People, Life, Time, Fortune, and Money,
was a Yale graduate, a member of the Skull and Bones and the Council
on Foreign Relations.In 1954, Secretary of State (for Pres. Eisenhower) John Foster Dulles
(founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of
Rockefeller Foundation, and very active in the Federal Council of
Churches) used his influence to help Graham’s 1954 Crusade in
London, England. Through the Federal Council of Churches, Dulles
was chairman for their Commission on a Just and Durable Peace who
issued a report calling for a “world government.”In 1957, the Protestant Council of New York, affiliated with the NCC,
invited Graham to speak at Madison Square Garden in New York. John
D. Rockefeller donated $75,000 to the Crusade, and then afterwards,
Graham donated $67,618 to the Protestant Council.In 1959 at the San Francisco Crusade, and in 1960 at the Detroit
Crusade, Graham invited Bishop James A. Pike to the platform to pray.
Pike, a member of the Episcopal Church, was very vocal on his denial
of the virgin birth, the Trinity, and salvation solely through Christ. In
the November, 1960 issue of Pacific Churchman, Pike said that anyone
who opposed Communism was doing the bidding of hell. After his
oldest son committed suicide in 1966, Pike began to consult with
various mediums to try to contact him. In 1969 when he died,
Newsweek even declared that he had “rejected orthodox Christianity.”In 1959, Martin Luther King delivered the opening prayer at one of
Graham’s Crusades, and in a 1963 interview with the New York Times
said that King was his “good personal friend.” As discussed in
Chapter Four, King was a known communist. In addition to his
adulterous behavior, he denied the virgin birth and resurrection of
Christ. In a 1961 interview for Ebony magazine he said: “I do not