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Q: How do so many people still believe ‘the Big Lie’ or that the January 6th insurrection in America was peaceful, or didn’t really happen? Are there any parallels from the Bible?
A: You are certainly not alone in pondering answers to your first, probing question! Yep, open any book of The Bible and you will see countless parallels from across the ages of time of folks discounting Truth to the point of full disbelief, then acting on their disbelief, and reaping the consequences thereof. This is a ubiquitous theme across all 66 books of The Bible! Moreover, there are iterative predictions that this condition will spread widely and deeply across the global population in the final days of this particular age. 1 Yet even though it’s ‘in our faces’, many still disbelieve, and are therefore caught in the traps and webs of lies.
Unfortunately, in our pondering, I suspect most folks are omitting the spiritual dimension of this life, and as a result, they are guaranteed to ‘come up short’ in their perceptions and understandings of what’s really going on. 2 This blog is dedicated to helping to pull back the curtains that separate our physical realm from the all-encompassing spiritual realm of life, based on Bible insights. Only with perceptions of both of these ‘counterpart realms’ are we equipped to understand Heaven’s core message and warnings to humanity, namely, that:
o There is an unseen dimension of life that controls and influences the physical side;
o There is on-going warfare between enemies that inhabit this realm;
o People are unknowingly being influenced by these beings for good or evil -- tested for good, tempted for evil; and
o For our responses (thoughts, words and deeds), there are rewards, consequences and prices to be paid, both in this life and throughout eternity.
Regarding Bible examples of believing a BIG lie, please consult the following examples:
Genesis 3 - the BIG lie that got all humans into the mess we’ve been in since the beginning!
Numbers 13 and 14 - the story of how believing lies that The Lord could not possibly deliver the Amorites inhabiting the promised land into the hands of a bunch of Jewish ex-slaves. Their disbelief led to The Lord’s decision to confine the whole group to wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, including a few righteous souls! The story is dramatized in the movie, The Ten Commandments.
Numbers 16 - the BIG lie and consequences thereof when some Hebrews, newly freed from Egyptian slavery, convinced others to join them in challenging Moses’ God-given authority to lead folks to the promised land. Unlike the punishment of 40 years wandering in the wilderness, the judgement on this small group was IMMEDIATE and horrific!
Ezekiel 9 and 2 Chronicles 36 - the culmination of many decades of folks believing BIG lies that their sinfulness didn’t matter to God because they were His chosen people, or that He had abandoned them, therefore they turned to fake gods - idols
Matthew 27 and 28 - consequences of the BIG lie that Jesus is not The Jewish Messiah, The Son of God, as He declared, because He did not immediately fulfill ALL of the many end-times prophecies about Him. In their short-sightedness and spiritual blindness, they totally misperceived that these prophecies would be fulfilled over several millennia, not in His short, 33 years as a human on Earth. But their deception fit perfectly into God’s strategy which included sacrificing His Son, Jesus, in death and then in resurrection as payment for the sins of all who would believe and embrace Him as their Lord and Savior.
Romans 1:18-32 - the BIG lie folks across the ages have believed and acted upon, and received the consequences thereof. This passage quite accurately captures the state of our world today – folks acting out the imaginations of their debased minds.
1 Timothy 4:1-2 and 1 John 4:1-3 - the general predicted state we are in and clearly witnessing today
Revelation 21:27 and 22:15 - the final, eternal state of affairs for all liars and all unrepentant sinners
Need more? Read through the history of ancient Israel, both before and after it split into the two nations of Israel and Judah. Both of these nations were iteratively warned over centuries, then severely judged for believing and acting on all sorts of lies. This is summarized in the historical books of Judges, 1st/2nd Samuel, 1st/2nd Kings, and 1st/2nd Chronicles. The prophetic books (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi) persistently lay out warnings of The Lord’s responses to folks who believed lies about Him, His strategic plans for humanity, His rewards for righteousness, and His punishments for sinfulness. These themes continue throughout New Testament books that primarily focus on the small proportion of humans who will embrace The Lord’s plan of salvation, and escape His eternal wrath, namely His true (not fake) born-again saints.
Genesis 6, 7 and 8 - perhaps most relevant for us today are the BIG lies folks believed for well over a century, namely that Noah was foolish to build a huge boat (ark) on dry land with no water in sight, preaching ‘it’s gonna rain cats and dogs until everything is flooded’, when there had NEVER been any rain falling on Earth since the beginning. Only 8 wise souls escaped the global inundation. Though we are descendants of these wise believers, honestly we act much more like the fools who refused to believe, and who were thus drowned!
To which group do you belong …today? 3
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1 The Bible reveals seven ‘ages’ of and for humanity: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation period, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity. With such a GRAND, multi-millennial strategic plan, The Lord harvests ‘saints fruits’ from each of the first six ages for our seventh age. Ponder that…
We are currently in, and rapidly nearing the end of the 3rd age. Predicted pre-cursors of the promised tribulation period are increasingly in clear view, especially ‘the BIG lie’ being believed across America, including by many professed Christians in whom the Spirit of Truth allegedly dwells. As you imagine that, read Revelation 3:14-22 to understand The Lord’s response to such. Then see: Laodicean Lackadaisicalness (Series) to understand the applications across our world today, especially in America.
2 See: What’s Really Going On (…Inside) and also Heart Expressions (Poem)
3 See: Prayer of Salvation (Poem)
