Todays Lesson again ↓ The Biblical God As a Deceiver We read in... ↓ Jeremiah 4:10 King James Version (KJV) 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. We have it in... ↓ 1 Kings 22:20-22 King James Version (KJV) 20 And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Here we see that the man said that he would resort to lying in order to entice Ahab and God supported the idea and told him to go ahead and do it ! We even have it in... ↓ Ezekiel 14:9-11 King James Version (KJV) 9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; 11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God. God is punishing him for a crime that He enticed him to do in the first place? Isnt that entrapment? Another passage... ↓ Isaiah 37:6-7 King James Version (KJV) 6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. God had that spirit spread a rumor so that the King of Assyria can to return to his homeland. In short, that spirits purpose was for deception. Another example from the Bible... ↓ Isaiah 19:14 King James Version (KJV) 14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. Here we see God deceiving people to the extent that they become absolutely foolish.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:02:02 +0000
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