Lies
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44).
The origin of all lies is the Devil. The Bible starts with it—in paradise. Highly sophisticated, as the angel of light (‘Lucifer’ means ‘light-bearer’) he sows, with half- truths (in fact complete lies), doubts as to God’s good intentions in the heart of man, resulting in death. Death in the life of man. Death in the universe. Death in nature. The fruit of the lies is the separation between God and man, resulting in death. The great decline, the entropy in the world and in the universe become reality. Not e-volution but de-evolution. Also the shedding of blood. Soon human blood flows upon the earth. Cain murders his brother Abel. The principle of decline and of spiritual darkness set in. Century after century.
What is truth? After so many lies people don’t know anymore.
On the contrary, the lie rules. Especially as far as information about Israel is concerned. Half-truths— quite often complete lies—fill the media. If you look how the reports about Gaza are presented, you discover that the cooked-up lies from Hamas are eagerly believed, and the information from Israel is presented with grave doubts, or ‘can’t be confirmed’. How does one find the truth? How does one know what is fake news? How can you distinguish between what is good and what is wrong, and even is evil? You can’t rely on the news messages in the media in general. You need more sources. Certainly, including Israeli sources of information, such as Israeli websites.
What information should churches and Christian communities and political leaders and opinion leaders give to the general public? As counterbalance? Just to be fair and even-handed? Do we sometimes ever ask ourselves and wonder: What is the opinion of the Most High? How does He feel? To get to know His point of view one has to turn to His Word, the Bible. What He thinks, He has revealed as it is written in the Bible. There it says: “All Your words are true…” followed by “all Your righteous laws are eternal…”. (Psalm 119:160).
The Apostle Paul says: “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” (Ephesians 5:11-13).
“We don’t want to know the truth, so don’t bother us with the facts.”
In 2 Thessalonians 2:11 Paul says about the ‘antichrist’, whom He calls the ‘lawless one’ and who is called by John in Revelation 13 the ‘beast’: “For this reason God sends them [to mankind] a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.” The Apostle Peter writes in 2 Peter 3:5 about knowingly believing the fallacy that “… they deliberately forget…” They say: “We don’t want to know the truth, so don’t bother us with the facts.”
The Western world has rapidly abandoned the Judeo- Christian way of thinking and ethics and Judeo-Christian values. The result of that long process of rationalism and higher Bible-criticism is that a spiritual vacuum has been created in the Western world which fills the vacuum by embracing more and more new ways of thinking, new philosophies of man and new religions, one of them being Islam. Both Jews and Christians have become an increasingly less tolerated and fast shrinking minority.
The lies rule. When one repeats blatant lies intensively and long enough, people will start thinking that they are true. The minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels in the Third Reich of Adolph Hitler knew how to do it. ‘Der Stürmer’, a weekly magazine published by the Nazi’s 1923-1945, systematically paved the way using all kinds of lies to change the minds and the hearts of the German people and nation, with all its gruesome consequences.
But one day in the future truth will come to light. One day every man will face his or her Creator. One day he or she will be held accountable for every act he or she performed. Jesus says in Luke 8:17: “For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
From the Bible we can look at the world around us in a true perspective. We can see and understand the daily news and current anffairs from a Biblical and prophetic perspective. Suddenly we understand: Israel is the focal point of world history.
In Numbers 23:19 we read: “God is not human, that He should lie, not a human being, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfil?” And Psalm 105:8-11 says: “He remembers His covenant forever, the promise He made, for a thousand generations, the covenant He made with Abraham, the oath He swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: ‘To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.”’“And Jerusalem will continue to exist in its own place, in Jerusalem”, says Zechariah 12:6. And Israel will never again be uprooted from their country. The Highest One the Creator of heaven and earth personally guarantees this. Just read Jeremiah 31:35-37, Amos 9:14-15 and Ezekiel 37:15-28!
