The Essence of the Lie

The Essence of the Lie   by Pastor Stephen Benton

(reprint of  The Weekly Word article  September.15.1996)

Friday, September 13, marked the feast day of Rosh Hashanna, the Jewish New Year's Day.  On God's calendar that day is called the Feast of Trumpets.  It is the first day of the Seventh month.  I could not stop thinking that next year on the same day, we will be looking forward to the blowing of the last trump on the tenth day of the seventh month.  The apostle John told us to comfort one another with those words; words of the eminent arrival of the Lord.  Until that day, we have some major truths to uncover in God's word.

*[We know today, in 2013, that God delayed the blowing of the last trump to announce that 69th jubilee year, as the Holy Ghost showed us from his word, in 2 Pet. 3:9, because he is "…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."  We do know, however, that the day shall not change, He will appear for his Church on the only Feast Day upon which He can return, the Day of Atonement, the 10th day of the 7th month on the Sabbath day, the holy day upon which the Lord works his works. As the Lord says in Habakkuk 2:3 "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."]

I am continuing with the prophecy in II Thessalonians chapter 2 regarding God sending a strong delusion to those who did not receive the love of the truth.  God will not send the lie but he will send the delusion.  The delusion will not be a lie but it will cause the Church to believe the lie that will accompany it. God allows it to be perpetrated upon the Church for the express purpose of damning this present Church age, an age plagued with deafness to God's word.

Last Sunday we looked at the true meaning of a liar in the scriptures.  It should be clear from that message that God's definition of a liar exceeds man's limited use of the word.  We realized that all of Satan's children are liars because their father Satan himself is a liar.  He did not abide in the truth and when he speaks he speaks nothing but lies. That statement should give you a clear idea of what this worldly system is all about.  It is a system of complex deception and lies because Satan is the god of this world.

Additionally, we learned that anyone who denies God the Father is a liar.  Why?  Because God has provided an abundance of evidence of his eternal power and Godhead through the revelation of the creation itself. To see the intricacies and vastness of this creation and then question the existence of God automatically identifies an individual as a liar.

Naturally, anyone who denies that Jesus Christ is the Son of God is listed as a liar.

Now don't lose sight of the primary message which is: in the last days, prior to the Rapture, this earth will be officially introduced to another life form, commonly called aliens.  These aliens are twofold.  One, they are the offspring of demon angels.  Two, they are the demon angels themselves.  They will come to the earth with a deceptive message, a message that God has called a strong delusion and they will deceive many.

Question:  Will they deceive any of those who are in the faith?  Answer::  Most definitely.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devil:" I Tim. 4:1

Now the fact that God himself declared that their delusion will be strong, this soon coming event has placed me at Defcon One.  That's a military term, an abbreviation for Defensive Condition.  Number one is the highest level of alertness.  War becomes absolute at level one.

Also, remember that God's word told us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together and moreso as we see the day approaching.  Those are not idle words from God.  Once he announced the day of the gathering together of the Church, he would then commence giving messages solely for the purpose of keeping his chosen from believing the delusion to come.  Those who do not heed Gods admonition will depart from the faith before the Lord comes or God word is not true.  To those of you who don't believe that such a thing could ever happen to you, remember that Peter told Jesus that he would never deny him.  He said those words to him after Jesus told Peter that he would. Peter was outraged and thought Jesus had given him an idle message.

I instructed you to read 1 John in order to gain an understanding of the lie that would be presented by the aliens.  Some of you remarked that you could not see anything in that book that had a connection with the aliens.  I didn't expect that you would but I wanted you to be familiar with the text just the same.  If nothing else, you should gain an appreciation for the preacher God has given you because he will reveal to me what he won't reveal to you which is why God said don't miss hearing his word.  If you think about it, none of you saw the correlation of Leviticus 25 to the Rapture until God allowed me to show it to you.  Now, let me show you what John, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, is saying.

Note his opening words: 
"That which was from the beginning…the Word of life."

John is identifying Jesus' existence as eternal and the source of all life.  The lie to come will open by refuting that truth.

"(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.)" vs.2

There John includes a parenthetical statement for further emphasis.  Now let's note John's next parenthetical statement, again, parenthesized for emphasis:  It is found in the gospel of St. John.
"And the word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)…" 1:14

Now note the opening of St. John's gospel.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God," What is John's point?  That there is no source of Word apart from and outside of God!  God indeed is the Word and any other source of Word is a lie.
The alien message will undermine God's eternal existence, the eternal existence of Jesus his Son, and it will refute God's Word as the source of creation and life.

Understanding the magnitude of the lie to come, we can now have a deeper appreciation for God's own opening remarks to the entire bible.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."  Gen1:1

The emphasis should be placed on the word of God.

Now, again, there are those who think that they have no problem with that truth and that some of these current messages are irrelevant. Let me serve notice to you again that God called their message a "strong delusion."  Without knowing the details of their message I can tell you that it will be carefully and extensively documented and it will carry undisputable scientific evidence of its validity marking the first day of the seventh month.

Now let's move ahead in I John to Chapter 2 verse 18.

"Little children, it is the last time; and as he have heard that anti-christ shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."

Why do I preach about the anti-christ if the Church will be gone before he is revealed?  Because of the connection between the anti-christ, the demons, and the lie.  The latter two will be revealed before the Church is gone.

            "Who is a liar but he that denieth that jesus is the Christ? . He is anti-christ, that denieth the Father and the Son.
            Whosoever denieth the Son , the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also.
            Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning…
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you."

Now go back to Paul's in I Timothy 4:1.  the lie issued forth by the seducing spirits which shall cause some to depart from the faith, will be a lie of denial of Jesus being the Christ, and a denunciation of the Father (source of creation) and the Son (redeemer of mankind.)