Although the internet search results seems to give a lot of links that shows no evidence that Thomas Jefferson was a member of Freemasonry, there is this one link.
The Midnight Freemasons
It does list other well known members of being Freemasons including George Washington & Benjamin Franklin.
I had suspected because of all the oaths being implemented into service of public office along with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, that our government has been influenced from the very beginning in being a Freemason country rather than Christian, because Jesus Christ spoke against making oaths testifying of what one will do in keeping the law of the oath when we are to live by faith in Him in helping us to do good and be good.
Indeed, extra vows of love added to the marriage covenant God performs is also an iniquity done in vanity especially when love is not boastful as it is a fruit of the Spirit that comes by way of Jesus Christ working in us and in our lives.
Billy Graham was reported to be a Mason and that is why his altar call is the opposite of the gospel he had preached.
His gospel presentation is; "it is not going to church every Sunday that is going to save you. it is not keeping the ten commandments that is going o save you. It is all those who call upon the name of the Lord."
Now his altar call afterwards is the exact opposite of the gospel he had preached. "If you are not sure you ae saved, come forward and make a commitment to follow Christ." Whatever happened to "If you are not sure you are saved, if you had called upon the name of the Lord, then believe you are saved!" ???? But no. The ramification of keeping a commitment for the assurance of salvation is akin to a promise or an oath and it is by that commitment is the knowledge of sin by why no one will be justified by the keeping of that commitment to follow Christ in order to gain the assurance of salvation. That is the mentality for why Billy Graham doubted he would be received by the Lord.
Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham
Quoting from interview at link above~~~ "
SNOW: When you get to Heaven, who's going to speak first, you or God?
GRAHAM: When I get there, I'm sure that Jesus is going to say that he
will welcome me. But I think that he's going to say: Well done, our good
and faithful servant. Or he may say: You're in the wrong place.
SNOW: You really worry that you may be told you're in the wrong place?
GRAHAM: Yes, because I have not -- I'm not a righteous man. People put
me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they
think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think
I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a
saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much. "~~~~~~~~~~~ end of quoting from link
This is why Jesus said to that of we want to follow Him, we are to deny ourselves as able to, pick up the cross daily as it is not we who live but Christ Who lives in us for how we follow Him, trusting Him as our Good Shepherd & Friend to help us to follow Him. That is what it means to follow someone by trusting that person to lead you & guide you along the way.
Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Matthew 5:33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. <--------- This is why we are not to make any promises that are His work in us to do.
37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Numbers 30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond;
he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error
: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Any believer's commitment, vow, oath, promise, pledge is a man's work for why God cannot help him do it let alone finish it. Therefore the commitment to follow Christ to gain the assurance of salvation is a work of the flesh & a sin.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 3:1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Jesus Christ can forgive carnal believers for bringing themselves into a bondage when they should have remained at liberty in living by faith in Jesus Christ, & Jesus Christ can forgive them & set them free from that bondage to rest in Him.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage....
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:...
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Hebrews 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.....
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Anyway, it does look like the founders of our country were Freemasons and while in Freemasonry, they are not allowed to speak the name of Jesus Christ, and yet they can be accepting of other religions & swear on other "holy books" in those Freemason Lodges.
For a Christian to be in Freemasonry where you have to deny Him before men while in the Lodge, and yet confess Him before others outside the Lodge? Such an agreement is an offense to God whereby they risk being left behind as denied by Him.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Although left behind at the rapture event as denied by Him, He still abides in them because He still abides in former believers that would verbally deny Him to others.
2 Timothy 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
This is why we are to call former believers, Christians in Freemasonry, Christians living in unrepentant sinful lifetsyle, and Christians in any commitment or promises to go to Jesus for help for forgiveness and to set them free from those bondages to be a witness of Him in the world so that they do not risk being left behind as vessels unto dishonor for not departing from iniquity when the Bridegroom comes to judge His House first at the rapture event.
2 Timothy 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
