{"id":85716,"date":"2019-02-14T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85716"},"modified":"2019-02-22T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:48:25","slug":"q945-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=85716","title":{"rendered":"Q945 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.
\nTo read Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nListen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note:<\/strong> Labeled in part \u201cFeb 7, 1977 Philadelphia, Penn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consistent with label<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service (Note<\/strong>: This list includes only those who identified themselves by name during the healing portion of the service.)<\/em><\/div>\n
Susie (speaks)<\/strong>
\nThora Brown (speaks)<\/strong>
\nPamela Jo Keller (speaks)<\/strong>
\nKatherine Sawyer (speaks) <\/strong>
\nEssa Stevens (speaks)<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Members of Peoples Temple:<\/em><\/div>\n
Minnie
\nPop Jackson<\/div>\n

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Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i><\/div>\n
Marcus Garvey
\nHarriet Tubman
\nRt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Episcopal Bishop of New York (by reference<\/strong>)<\/div>\n

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(Editor’s note<\/strong>: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

    Each to their own. If you wanna think you\u2019re gonna die, you\u2019ll die. But I believe it said, \u201cAs a man thinketh in his mind, so is he\u201d.\u2026As you think in your mind, so am I \u2026 Because as you think, so is it. As you think, so is it.\u201cAs a man thinketh in his mind, so is he\u201d [Proverbs 23:7, \u201cFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.\u201d].<\/p>\n

    [Extensive comparison of Matthew 1:1-17 to Luke 3:23-38]<\/p>\n

    Jesus, the Christ, meant he came into the fullness of godship, he came into the fullness of the hundredfold [five references to hundredfold in Gospel, including Matthew 13:8, 13:28, 19:29; Mark 10:30; and Luke 8:8]<\/p>\n

    [The Bible] Said when the spirit of God comes, in the new order, he said you will feed the hungry and clothe the naked and take in the stranger and release the prisoners<\/em> [Matthew 25:34-46]<\/p>\n

    I am saying you should do just exactly like Jesus. They came to him and said \u201cit\u2019s written,\u201d and it is, in the old law, the Levitical law, said, \u201cMan is made for the Sabbath.\u201d One of his disciples come up and plucked him an ear of corn right on the Sabbath, started eatin\u2019 it right there, eatin\u2019 him some\u2013 he ate him some fresh popcorn. And they come and said \u201cIt\u2019s written.\u201d Jesus said \u201cI don\u2019t care what is written.\u201d Said \u201cIt\u2019s written!\u201d The old rabbis, the old Bible scholars said, \u201cIt\u2019s written! Man is made for the Sabbath!\u201d Jesus said, \u201cI turn it around.\u201d He said, \u201cThe Sabbath is made for man! Everything is made for man. [Mark 2:27, \u201cAnd he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:\u201d; see also Luke 6:1-5; Matthew 12:1-8] <\/p>\n

    That\u2019s why you don\u2019t understand the teachings of Jesus. He said the kingdom comes on earth, amongst men [Luke 17:21, \u201cNeither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.\u201d] <\/p>\n

    [It] Says search the scripture for in them you just think you have eternal life but these are they that testify of the living Christ of me and you will not come that you might have life. [John 5:39-40, \u201cSearch the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life\u201d.]<\/p>\n

    The truth will set you free! [John 8:32, \u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    In our Father\u2019s house there are many mansions, hallelujah! [John 14:2, \u201cIn my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    Even your Bible tells you don\u2019t worship an unknown god, apostle Paul said anybody who prays to an unknown god that they can\u2019t see is ignorant and too superstitious. Said you are blasphemers to worship an unknown god. [Acts 17:22-23, Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    That\u2019s sin! That\u2019s respect of persons [Romans 2:11, \u201cFor there is no respect of persons with God.\u201d].<\/p>\n

    Heaven is nigh you. As you think in your mind, so is you, so are you\u2026 And said, the word of God is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart. This is the word. Not out of a book. He said, the word of God is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart\u201d [Romans 10:8-9, \u201c\u2026the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    We don\u2019t have a prophet, and he said, you cannot hear without a prophet\u2026 How can you hear without a preacher? How can he preach unless he\u2019s sent? And if he hasn\u2019t got the power to discern and to heal and to establish a church government, to do miracles, then he\u2019s not sent\u2026 If somebody knows your thoughts, friend, you\u2019d better take into account that they\u2019re sent. And how can you hear without a preacher, and how can he preach lest he\u2019s sent? [Romans 10:14, \u201cHow then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?\u201d]<\/p>\n

    He didn\u2019t say, you\u2019re saved by Bible-reading, it said, Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God! [Romans 10:17, \u201cSo then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    \u201cBe ye transformed by the renewing of the mind.\u201d [Romans 12:2, \u201cAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.\u201d] <\/p>\n

    He said, you are saved by the foolishness of preaching [I Corinthians 1:21, \u201cFor after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.\u201d].<\/p>\n

    [The Bible] Says, \u201cWomen, keep silent in all the churches. Suffer not a woman to speak\u201d\u2026 Be silent in the church. [1 Corinthians 14:34, \u201cLet your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    You\u2019d better become a living epistle. [2 Corinthians 3:3, \u201cForasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    The Bible will kill you, \u2026 the killer, the killer, the killer, the Bible, the letter kills! [2 Corinthians 3:6, \u201cWho also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    Where the spirit of God is, there\u2019s liberty [2 Corinthians 3:17, \u201cNow the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    And you see, we\u2019re not deprecating Christ. No, no, no, no, no, we\u2019re not deprecating Christ, we\u2019re not speaking against Christ. You\u2019re not to know any man after the flesh, not even Jesus. [2 Corinthians 5:16, \u201cWherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    Jesus said \u201cLet this mind be in you\u201d \u2013 not the Bible, said \u201cLet the mind be in you.\u201d [Philippians 2:5, \u201cLet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:\u201d]<\/p>\n

    [The Bible has] got lies put in there in the mouth of the apostles, saying \u201cwhatever state you find yourself in, therewith be content. Whether slave or free\u201d\u2026 Whatever state you find\u2013 [Philippians 4:11, \u201cfor I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    You got to find life in you, Christ in you. Christ in you must be your hope of glory. No Christ in the sky\u2026 He said, \u201cChrist in you, the hope of glory\u201d\u2026 You\u2019re to know the Christ in you! [Colossians 1:27, \u201cGod would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:\u201d]<\/p>\n

    He put in there, \u201cSlave, servant, obey your master.\u201d [Colossians 3:22, \u201cServants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;\u201d]<\/p>\n

    Who can know the thoughts of your mind? It said only the Word can know the thoughts of your mind. Said the Word is sharper than a two-edged sword, it discerns the thoughts, it knows the intents of the heart, it cuts away the bones from the marrow, and it quickens the body. Separates the soul from the spirit [Hebrews 4:12, \u201cFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d].<\/p>\n

    You need to give them the truth, \u2018cause we\u2019re gonna have shakin\u2019 of truth over there. \u2018Cause God is shaking up everything that can be shaken, so that that which cannot be shaken will remain! [Hebrews 12:27, \u201cAnd this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.] <\/p>\n

    [The Bible] says, obey those that rule, have rule over you\u2026 Obey those that have rule over you. [Hebrews 13:17, \u201cObey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.\u201d] <\/p>\n

    [The Bible] Says, \u201cyou got a good master, be thankful. If you have a bad master, endure him.\u201d\u2026 It said \u201cIf you\u2019ve got a good master\u201d \u2013 I\u2019m talking about the book \u2013 It said if you\u2019ve got a good master, be thankful, but if you\u2019ve got a bad master who kills your children, rapes your wife, endure him\u2026 Obey your master. If you\u2019ve got a good master, be thankful. If you\u2019ve got a bad master, endure him. [1 Peter 2:18, \u201cServants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.\u201d].<\/p>\n

    \u201cObey your husband. [1 Peter 3:1. \u201cLikewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands\u2026\u201d; See also Ephesians 5:24].<\/p>\n

    John said, I see a new heaven coming down out of the sky, coming down as a bride is going for her husband. Heaven on earth [Revelation 21, esp. Revelation 21:2, \u201cAnd I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.\u201d]<\/p>\n

    City foursquare\u2013 King James\u2019s taken those Bible verses and made them so ridiculous, any child would know something\u2019s wrong. City foursquare? Can you imagine all of us goin\u2019 someplace for the rest of eternity in a city that was only four squares? Can you imagine all the folks that have ever died in the faith going to a heaven where there\u2019s only twelve gates to the city? [Revelation 21:10-21]<\/ol>\n

    Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    (This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

    This tape consists of the latter part of a sermon which Jim Jones delivered to a church in Philadelphia in early 1977, just a few months before his permanent self-exile to Guyana. It includes many elements of a typical Jones address, including its fiery delivery \u2013 at several points, his cries into the microphone overwhelm the ability of the tape recorder \u2013 and the repetition of his stock biblical references.<\/p>\n

    If anything, this address is a distillation of how Jones has preached for the previous five years. He speaks of the errors and inconsistencies in the Bible, and asks rhetorically how they can consider such a flawed work to be their path to salvation. \u201c[W]hen I\u2019m countin\u2019 on going someplace by a book, if I took a roadmap and it told me to take [Interstate] 40 and I\u2019d get to Chicago, and I end up in Kansas City, I would put that roadmap away.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Jones also focuses on the Bible\u2019s atrocities \u2013 such as its repeated endorsements of slavery and subjugation of women \u2013 but also points out how King James, the man who produced this version of the Bible, was a drunk, a child-molester and a slaveholder.<\/p>\n

    But the Bible and King James aren\u2019t the only ones keeping black people in bondage. The \u201cjackleg\u201d ministers with their fancy cars and fancy teas, are ripping them off. \u201c[W]e made money, we worked hard,\u201d he cries, \u201cbut where is our money<\/em>? Where is black people\u2019s money<\/em>? Look up and down Broad Street! It\u2019s in these big old churches, that\u2019s where it\u2019s at!\u201d Jones also tells the story of an 80-year-old black man who said he wished he had heard Jones\u2019 message earlier. \u201cFor forty years,\u201d he quotes the man as saying, \u201cI\u2019ve been taking up anniversaries for preachers. I\u2019ve been singin\u2019 that song \u2018Take the whole world and give me Jesus\u2019. They done taken the whole world and given me nothing<\/em>but Jesus!\u201d<\/p>\n

    Because he is speaking before an audience which is unfamiliar with him, it far is less political than many of the contemporary sermons he gave in his home churches in California. There are also no references to himself as God, or as Jesus reincarnated, or as \u201cGod in a body\u201d (the latter of which find resonance is the location were Father Divine\u2019s Peace Mission in Philadelphia; the other indication that no Peace Mission members are in the audience is that the people whom he calls out have standard names).<\/p>\n

    After his closing remarks \u2013 which last 20 minutes \u2013 he turns to the healing portion of the service. This model is the same as he used throughout his career: he calls a person from the audience, confirms that he doesn\u2019t know the person, establishes his own bona fides as a healer by telling them facts from their lives which no one without his talents would know, and then cures them of their illness. As he explains near the end of the tape, \u201cThe sister tonight got healed, that was crippled in her back, because she said, \u2018I perceive<\/em>you\u2019re more than a pastor.\u2019\u201d In some cases, he says he has relieved them of a longtime problem, but other times, he cures them of an illness that they didn\u2019t erven know that they had, or protects them from a heart attack or a fatal automobile accident which would have happened in the next few days.<\/p>\n

    A underlying purpose of the address, though, seems to be to recruit new members for Peoples Temple. He tells the congregation about the Promised Land of Jonestown, although he exaggerates its size and amenities. He tells them how easy it would be for them to get on the bus that\u2019s going back to California \u2013 \u201cif you want to go home, if you want to go to freedom\u201d \u2013 adding that he will take all comers, that they don\u2019t need money or clothes. \u201cWe\u2019ll hold up the bus long enough you to go home and get your little bit of things. You can take your wraps and put \u2018em in a gunny sack and come on with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

    FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Date of transcription: 6\/29\/79<\/p>\n

    In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

    On June 9, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B102-13. This tape was found to contain the following: A recording where JIM JONES speaks out on the lies in the Bible and organized religion.<\/p>\n

    Differences with FBI Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Tape originally posted\u00a0February 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1,\u00a0Pt. 2). FBI Catalogue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: Labeled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85716","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85716"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86067,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85716\/revisions\/86067"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}