FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
warm fellowship with a man who has not always won the approval of
his fellow Christians but who has in his heart a desire to serve God
and do His will.” At a luncheon for 500 newspaper editors during their
annual convention in Washington, D.C., Graham said that Clinton’s
personal life and character were “irrelevant” and referred to him as a
“man of God.” He said: “I believe Bill has gone to his knees many
times and asked God to help him.”There was a time (as reported by Parade magazine on February 1,
1981), when Graham said: “Communism is inspired, directed, and
motivated by the devil himself. America is at a crossroad. Will we turn
to the left-wingers and atheists, or will we turn to the right and
embrace the Cross?” There was a time when he called the
communists, “satan worshipers,” and said in 1954: “Either
Communism must die, or Christianity must die, because it is actually a
battle between Christ and the Antichrist.”In May 28, 1973, the Mainichi Daily News, in Tokyo, Japan, quoted
Graham as saying:“I think communism’s appeal to youth is its structure and
promise of a future utopia. Mao Tse-tung’s (China’s communist
leader) eight precepts are basically the same as the Ten
Commandments. In fact, if we can’t have the Ten Commandments
read in our schools, I’ll settle for Mao’s precepts.”In 1977, on a trip to Hungary, a Communist country, a deceived
Graham talked about the “religious freedom” there. In May, 1982,
Graham was invited to speak at the World Conference of Religious
Workers for Saving the Sacred Gift of Life from Nuclear Catastrophe
(which was attended by 600 clergymen from around the world), which
was sponsored by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Reagan
Administration tried to convince him not to go fearing that he would
become a victim of communist propaganda. While he was there, he
said that he didn’t see any evidence of religious repression, and said:
“There are differences, of course, in religion as it is practiced here and,
let’s say, in the U.S. But that doesn’t mean there is no religious
freedom.” That was hardly an accurate statement concerning the
religious status of the Soviet Union, an atheistic country, who at the
time was still dominated by Communism, and persecuted those who