Everyone Rushed To His Funeral
As mentioned in my previous post, Wesley Swift seems to have taken a sabbatical from preaching after he gave his Sunday sermon of March 31st, 1968. He was absent from the pulpit until he dropped in to give a couple of sermons after the death of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, after which he was again absent until resuming regular appearances on September 8th of that year. In his initial return engagement, Swift delivered the first sermon below, with a given date of 6-8-68, a Saturday. Since the next one was dated 6-9-68, and since we know Swift preached on Fridays as well as Sundays, the most likely date for the delivery of the first sermon here was on Friday, June 7th, the day after Senator Kennedy's death on June 6th.
The sermon's theme is "wicked rich men" and how righteous judgment comes upon them. As usual, that's mostly associated with various ongoing problems posed by the existence of Jewish people, ostensibly the rich men in question. (As opposed to Swift's more typical association of Jews with Communism. That's the infamous double-edged sword of antisemitism in the modern world: Jews are stereotyped as "bankers" and thought to control world finance; but in their traditions of education and enlightenment, they are held responsible for evil influences like liberal political ideas, progressive social reform, humanism, Communism, sexual immorality, and the saying of rude things to the better people in society.) Despite the surface narrative, there's an easy and obvious parallel with the fate of Robert Kennedy and the "fall" of rich men along with Lucifer.
Swift saved the best for Sunday. In the second sermon below, he gave a taste of revelation about what was in the March 31st sermon that the tape's transcriber saw fit to withhold from public knowledge. Words in all capitalization are the transcriber's indication of Swift's emphasis in speaking, and regular parentheses represent interpolations by the transcriber. All italics are my emphasis, and my comments are in square brackets.
WARNING: If you choose to read the following material, be advised that these are the "sermons" of Wesley A. Swift, the original leader of the racist extremist group known as Aryan Nations. The content is offensive and demented, especially as it is presented in the language of -- and represents a warped version of -- Christianity. It is rightly classified as hate speech.
YE THAT HAVE KILLED FOR GOLD
6-8-68 [6-7-68 is probable actual date sermon was delivered-dwd]
We are going to talk tonight on this subject -- the people who have killed for gold. Turn to the 5th chapter of James, and it says: Go ye rich men and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Now; it does not say that all rich men are evil. God is talking now to the wicked rich men. "Ye have heaped up your treasures in the latter day." And he is talking about now. Behold your fraud, you have taken from the laborer and it has reached the ears of the LORD of the Sabbath. You have been seeking after gold in this day of slaughter, Ye have condemned and killed the just, and they have not resisted you. And God has more to say but we will come back to that.
[in different circumstances, that last sentence would be pretty funny; but it reveals something that often seems to be an issue among "religious preachers" -- "the Lord GOD Almighty has more to say, but first, listen to ME"-dwd]
Now; He is talking about a certain people, he is talking about how they raised their fortunes and raised their power, in the days of war and they do this on the bodies of men. I want you to know that one of the strangest things that you have to deal with in revelations is that Lucifer who is 'son of the morning', and overseer over one quarter of the Universe, who would not then accept the concept that God was going to have a family, sons and daughters, that would be greater than he was. Actually went so far into the areas of perversion that he turned from the truth and refused to accept the light. He thus became the most twisted person in the Universe. He who was a light, bright, shining like the sun became so enamored by material things, that he lusted after gold and after silver, and after jewels, and then he only had one tenth of the glory he used to have.
It may be hard for you to realize this but turn over into the book of Isaiah 14:13 -- "How art thou fallen from the heavens, O’ Lucifer, son of the morning. How art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the throne of God, I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be like the Most High." Thus Lucifer the Archangel became known as the devil, and Satan, according to the book of Revelation. And declared that he would exalt himself above the Most High YAHWEH, WHO IS ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE ETERNAL POTENTATE, WHO HAS ALWAYS EXISTED AND CREATED ALL OF THE HEAVENS AND THE UNIVERSE. And here we have an archangel declaring that he is going to sit in the seat of Almighty God.
Now; we want you to notice this (Isa. 14:15) ---- "Thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.” And now they that see thee are going to say, is this the man that caused the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms. Is this the man who could shake whole kingdoms, that caused the world to end? This, my friends, is the one that Michael cast into earth and he has sowed his evil doctrines, and sowed the Negroes who made up his evil doctrines, and were the fighting forces with the people of earth. Went into every portion of divine law to mutate, and toppled kingdoms in Asia. Then started mongrelizations that caused continents to sink, and whole portions of the world went into transitions. Mountains rose up and continents fell, all because of the peculiar perfidy, and the imperialistic design of this one fallen Archangel -- Lucifer....
......Now; the LORD says: ‘Ye may be wiser than Daniel, and have increased thy gold and silver, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches. Therefore saith the LORD thy God, because thou hath set thyself as the heart of God, I shall bring thee down. I shall bring strangers upon thee, powerful nations shall come against thee, and they shall draw their swords against thee, and they shall bring you down to the pit and thou shalt die....
[bringing "strangers upon thee" in a context of "thou shalt die" seems an oblique reference to the Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Bishara Sirhan's role in the attack on Robert Kennedy-dwd]
.......Yes, my friends, the children of Lucifer are bewitched by gold and silver. But God did not speak out against gold and silver. He just called for just weights and measures. He calls for a sound economy, and he calls the silver coin solid weights and measures. And one of these days the streets will be paved with gold and silver, more than you every dreamed of before. There is nothing wrong with gold and silver, but the strange lust for the two by the children of Lucifer is strange indeed.
.........God gave great spiritual blessings to America, and this nation was to rise to its greatness, [but] the Jew designed to take this nation and to control it thru the financial structure. And they appealed to Britain for they were getting control of that finance. And they were scattering their forces were scattered abroad, and it took money to maintain them or to bring them home. They were scattered into Egypt, and other places. And then the Jews came to King George and they said, We will finance this for you if you will let us handle the finance of all of the colonies. And if you do not win then we want control of the bank of England. So they did their work and they lost the war but they took over the Bank of England.... And they then turned to your nation, and they took money from you which was being brought by Benjamin Franklin to America to pay for the Revolution, this money without interest. And in place of this, they loaned money to you with exorbitant interest which has never been paid back. And the Warburgs still hold over you as a debt more money than the debt that was acquired clear back there in the beginning. They have collected this with interest payments. Yes, for gold and silver, they instigated the wars between the Colonies and Britain. They turned the mother nation against the colonies. Yes they did this. And the men who have died because of this, their blood is upon organized Jewry. All for their lust of gold and silver.
[and now you understand the American Revolutionary War-dwd]
Yes, for this lust of gold and silver, they threw America into the civil war, for they wanted to break the south and take control completely of the south. And therefore they utilized this system which they had no heart in. Actually the Jews have used the Negroes many times in these issues, but the fact remains, that the Jews care not for the Negroes, but they do it for the love of gold and silver.
When Abraham Lincoln turned down their design, saying listen, if you men would loan the money at tremendous interest, I will issue U.S. money and pay off the debt, and we will honor this debt with the goods of the nation.’ And you know what happened? They assassinated President Lincoln. It was not Wilkes Booth that assassinated Lincoln. It was a Jewish banking family, who hired this young man, one of their offsprings.
[and now you understand the American Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln-dwd]
I want you to know, that in the days when they brought forth the Federal Reserve System, and Carter Glass was taken in ... and Col. House was a strange friend of President Wilson ... and in that time, they took over the financial system of the U.S. with this Federal Reserve program, which was one-hundred percent pulled off with Jewish fraud....
.....Today you have in your nation in power a tremendous amount of communists. This is why you are in such a bad situation. For the Jews who come into your country supposedly fleeing from Communism become those who support it. [which makes absolutely perfect sense-dwd] Their program is to take from you the gold, and they out in the world are guiding as to where it goes. They come into your country saying that you must give the world the gold, and you should support any and all whether they want to work or not, and whether from pagan lands that God does not bless. So they take from you supposedly to build these people up but the money never reaches the people. They looted the banks of France of their gold and silver, and they have done this in America and they moved the gold and silver to Tel Aviv. But first they stored it in Switzerland and then after that they flew it to Israeli. And they are filling their vaults with the gold and silver they have been taking from you.
The Korean War and the present Vietnam War is on the same pattern. They are filled the city of Saigon with gold so as to control this situation. And they will sacrifice your sons all day long while forbidding you a victory. And in Israeli they want you to come over and destroy the Arabs so as to make their position clear. And some silly people support the Jews and they reap what they sow. The strange peculiar pattern of the darkness still moves. And all of the time they have been looting your treasure and taking the gold and the silver. And they are hiding it away in Tel Aviv. I want you to know that every Christian soldier who died in WWI and WWII and in Korea, and in Vietnam, is the responsibility of the Jews....
[the italicized part is a somewhat subtle allusion to the alleged motive of Sirhan Sirhan in the attack on Robert Kennedy and the "just desserts" resulting from Kennedy's supposedly too pro-Israel position-dwd]
......But in this hour, don’t worry about the silver and the gold, for in all of these things our Father has ordained as to what shall happen, and all of the works of darkness shall pass away. We as His people do not buy and sell the souls of men. But these people who help along this process and partake of this buying and selling for gold, will take part in the judgment, for God says-- ‘we have had enough.’ ---'Go now ye rich men weep and howl for the judgment of God has come upon you. Thus will they cry as they see their gold and silver plunge into the Mediterranean Sea. And in that day when God calls for judgment upon the fraud of the earth, you will see these things come to pass.
(End of message.)
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MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE
6-9-68
This afternoon we turn into II Chronicles, and we read this word: --"If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I WILL hear from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land." My people who are in trouble, and are called by my name, and if they realize that they are in trouble and they want to get their nation out of trouble, and want to be delivered, if they will humble themselves.
[the invocation passage from II Chronicles would become very well-known about a decade later as the motto of the Christian Right during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign-dwd]
Oh, I know that you think, oh, we can work it out for ourselves, and militarily. So you want to do it all by yourself while the majority of the people in the world are against you. For you are only 1/6th of the worlds population. The Kingdom of God which is only one sixth of the world's population is going to need a lot of help before it gets thru. You are being disarmed while the enemy builds up its arms while he masses his troops and his people, and runs test wars against you.
......Now listen. HE says if you will do this, I will hear you from the heavens and I will forgive you and heal your land, and deliver my people.
HEAR this now:-- If my people will just humble themselves, and pray --- come on Father we need help. Come on Father for we need you to avenge your land. And if you will do this then startling things will commence to happen.
We said several weeks ago that if just this one congregation would call for God to start removing men and he would do just that. And if this then catches on and all of our people start to pray then don't be surprised at how fast this would start happening....
[this is undoubtedly in reference to what Swift said in the March 31st sermon that the tape's transcriber felt should remain publicly unknown-dwd]
We turn over to the book of Joel and we find that he says that it will come to pass, that who shall ever call on My name shall be delivered. For in all of Mount Zion, and in all of Jerusalem, the people shall be delivered. Therefore the people must learn to pray and to turn to HIM for guidance -- and THEY SHALL BE DELIVERED.
What does deliverance mean? It means that these shackles of Communism shall be broken. It means that this most covered up plot against you will be discovered. It means that a nation will rise and awaken in a day.
........Then over in the book of Jeremiah he starts telling Jeremiah that he wants him to start telling the people, about the rascals in government. I want you to start telling them about the transgressions going on in your nation. I want you to start calling the people together. And do you know what Jeremiah said? “Oh, LORD how can I do this?” But the LORD said, ‘know this, I formed thee from the belly, before thou even came forth out of the womb. And before the foundation of the world I wrote your name Down in the Lamb's book of life. I knew you the moment then that you were born.
Some people do not know this, that they were begotten in the heavens even before the world was framed. And HE said, I know you and I set you apart to be a prophet so go out and prophecy. Tell the people about the rascals that have moved into positions of government, that this is the whole situation, I tell you to get out and speak. But Jeremiah said, Oh, YAHWEH, I am but a child before these great and powerful men. But the LORD said, what are you saying? -- you are a child? But if I command you to speak out then you will speak. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, and we shall wake my people up and we will get rid of this northern army. Therefore, Jeremiah be not afraid of their faces, or their power. It does not make any difference who they are, or what their jobs are, or what kind of chariots they roll around in. Don't be afraid of them just because they have big wheels. You get out there and awaken the people, you tell them the truth and I will back you up.
Notice this then. “I demand that you declare the truth and, therefore be not afraid for I will be with you, and I will deliver thee, saith YAHWEH.”
Do you know that there are many people who are afraid for they worry about their jobs and about the power of this person, who spreads out like a green bay tree? He spreads out his branches, and everybody bows down, and when he dies everyone rushed to his funeral. And the LORD then says, just remember this -- I am going to bring down all those that rise up like a green bay tree, and I will make this like the trees of Lebanon. (No more). [sic, tape transcriber's interpolation-dwd] So HE says to Jeremiah---I tell you to speak out, and not to cover up but to tell the truth. Yea, he may be above thee, but I am YAHWEH, and I will take thee by the hand, and I will deliver you.
[what might have been an obscure reference is made obvious by "when he dies everyone rushed to his funeral," as had just happened the previous day for US Senator Robert F. Kennedy-dwd]
.......Let me point out to you that ever since America has been a nation you have never been in the kind of trouble you find yourself in today. They are trying to pin on you this guilt complex. [just as "they" did when President Kennedy was murdered-dwd] You have never been in the kind of trouble which finds that altho you have a Constitution so strong and sound that it has been circumvented. And that men you have elected to represent you are instead representing the whole world. For they have you now in a constant hypnotic phase where you are for every thing that is evil. I want you to know that the ones who run T.V. today praise the evil, praise those who run your government, and that they are the pagans that God said you should come out from among, and be separated from, and never to join yourselves to. They come out to say but this is great these mixed marriages, and this scattering of your goods over the nation. And even the rich are now scattering their goods. Thus, the whole policy is one of great and tremendous evil. Thus, you are in a time of trouble.
You are surrounded by enemies and the storm is growing closer. Don't you think it is about time that you called on God.... And he said of this nation which is in so much trouble, since they became a nation that every last one of them will be delivered, whose name is written in the book.
What does that mean? It means my friend, the white race, the people that are in the structure of that race, are the people in the kingdom of God. And everyone written in that book are going to be delivered. For your name has been written in that book before the foundation of the world. So the Almighty said that he will send Michael in, and yes, you can be participant in it. For the children of the kingdom are going to rise up and take the kingdom, and hold it forever and forever.
He said, ‘I shall see that they are not overpowered for their deliverance is assured, so you will not be able to cut them down. For the power of God will be in your midst. This will be a tremendous catalytic force. Yes, the forces of heaven will come in. And everyone whose name is written in the book will be delivered. And you can have that deliverance just as quick as you will acknowledge that you have done wickedly, and permitted these people to move into power when you permitted these people to come into your land. When you permitted them to enter into negotiations with the pagans. When you joined yourself with the world. You have to come out from the world, out of the United Nations, and God will do the rest....
And when that kingdom moves into its ultimate goals, with God and His household, and they bring forth the royal diadem and crown Christ King of Kings and LORD of LORDs you will be joining an administration that world without end, and forever and ever will take possession of the earth. And there will be no more violence. And there will be no more crime and no more criminals, for all will walk as they are supposed to walk in a perfect kingdom.
I think of this as I read the reports out of the police department. 87% of the crime in the United States today is committed by Negroes. That leaves only 13% for the rest of the people. And if you take out all of the other minorities then the white man is only a small majority of this if you are fighting crime.
.......And I can tell you this, that in this day when you ask Christian Americans about this blessing of Greatness, and the capacity of God to hold this nation up, then look on this nation and how it has deteriorated in the last few years. Then it is time to say that we have had enough of this. As we hear the military say they do not have the capacity to defend us right now then I think it is time we said enough.... But never forget that we have the assurance of the Most High God that HE will deliver, every last one whose name is written in the book.
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Swift Sermons Postscript: (Originally published separately as "Predicting Some Killings.")
I would guess that a report in an FBI AIRTEL dated 7/22/68 [p. 7] may be relevant to some issues previously mentioned, including the sermon delivered by Wesley Swift on March 31st, 1968.
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-587)
FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (56-156)
SUBJECT: KENSALT [i.e., the FBI's investigation of US Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination]
Reference Bureau Airtel to Los Angeles, 7/5/68, and letter from [d e l e t e d].
[deleted] interviewed Coachella, California, and advised that had no firsthand knowledge of killing of Senator KENNEDY. [deleted] advised had predicted that President JOHN F. KENNEDY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, and Senator ROBERT F. KENNEDY would be killed before it happened and had told a friend about his predictions. [d e l e t e d] God had revealed this to him, and this was "God's prediction and not just his." [deleted] stated that when he made the prediction, he did not know who would do the killing and has no other information concerning the death of Senator KENNEDY. No further investigation will be conducted on this matter by the Los Angeles office.
President Kennedy had been dead for four and a half years at the time of this FBI interview, but this unnamed clairvoyant allegedly predicted he "would be killed before it happened." That may well refer to an issue addressed in the conclusion of an earlier post, especially in light of the implicit suggestion that the interviewed subject initiated the contact, via a letter. At the start of the report, an initial short deletion would be consistent with a reference by last name only, indicating that the interview subject was already fully identified in the Reference sub-heading (the long deletion after "and letter from"). A similarly long deletion preceding reported information that includes a direct quote -- instead of the agent's reporting in his own words of what the subject said -- suggests that the deleted portion had identified that sentence's information as coming from the letter itself. This has the look of someone "reporting in" to authorities due to concerns that unwarranted finger-pointing could arise in certain situations as had occurred previously.
There seems not much to go on from this brief, censored report. But it's at least interesting to know that the FBI conducted a Coachella, California interview with an unknown subject who "predicted" death "before it happened" in a few cases of some notoriety, which was "God's prediction and not just his." It's likewise of interest to ponder a possible attempt to obscure things in his claim that he "had told a friend about his predictions." (In case anyone wondered about how those "predictions" had spread -- from a pulpit, perhaps?) Finally, the report's composition and wording may reveal still more intriguing implications. It begins by noting that the subject "had no firsthand knowledge of killing of Senator KENNEDY"; and near the end, it relates that "when he made the prediction, he did not know who would do the killing...."
That's reassuring. In any event, official investigators evidently did their usual bang-up job in another high-profile murder case of the 1960s: "No further investigation will be conducted on this matter by the Los Angeles office."
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