Do they Lie for God? - Word for the Weekend

Do they Lie for God? - Word for the Weekend Jacob Prasch Transcript Blessings in Jesus, dear friends. My name is James Jacob Prasch from Morial Ministries, coming to you here on RTN Christian TV and radio, going from Scotland to Britain to the world. Thank you so much for joining us here on RTN. On RTN, we feature a variety of platforms, social media, obviously Facebook. We have podcasts, we have Christian internet radio, wonderful worship music, and we have a plethora of excellent Bible expositors, evangelists, preachers, every one of them screened doctrinally for their content and for their dogma. We are here for the Lord, we are here to reach the unsaved, and we are here Please tell your friends about RTN and avail yourself of our resources. One other thing about RTN, the reason we began it. As most of you know, social media, Silicon Valley, the powers that be, have become increasingly hostile. to Christian and Judeo Christian values, certainly moral values concerning things like sexuality, but a variety of issues. And it's become more and more frequent that Christian websites are getting strikes, are getting taken down, are not getting explanations, are being denied appeals. These things have become intolerable. The only thing we can really do, at least as long as we can do it, is to develop our own platforms, which is what RTN did. Several doctrinally like minded ministries, including Moriel, united to form RTN to put ourselves out of the reach of YouTube, of social media, where they can't take us down. Now if you are watching us on YouTube, we would have to watch us on RTN instead. We have our own platform. We have our own server. They can't close us down. We simply use YouTube, as it were, as a platform to direct traffic to our own server, RTNTV. org, in Scotland, Britain, and to the world. It's very, very important that we Be innocent as doves, but wise as serpents. There is a war on truth, there's a war on biblical morality, there's a war on the body of Christ, and that war is going to intensify until the Lord comes. We know that. Let us redeem the time. And here at RTN, that's what we're committed to. So once again, if you're watching us, thank you so much. Tell your friends about us, but please watch us on our own server instead of on YouTube. Meanwhile, we're moving on for today. Turn with me please, if you will. One verse of scripture, the Book of Job, chapter 13. The book, book of Job, chapter 13, verse seven. Will you speak what is unjust for God and speak what is deceitful for him? Will you speak what is unjust for God and speak? What is deceitful for him? Will you lie for God? A rhetorical question. A powerful question. Will you lie for God? Now in the book of Job, we see the quintessential example of what religious lying is like. Job's friends and accusers who were supposedly his friends who were speaking down to him who were lecturing down to him they were talking to him as if they were spiritually and morally superior to him when in fact they had no idea whatsoever what was happening to Job, or why it was happening. In fact, at this point, even Job did not know it was the working of Satan, even though God had a purpose in allowing it. What is problematic about what Job was told by his friends is this. Most of what they said to Job was true. It was, in principle, true. It was doctrinally true. It was not things that were untrue, it's things that were true. Most of what his friends say to him are things that we read that we'd all agree with. They were doctrinally true. They were correct. Job says in verse 2 of this chapter, what you know I also know. I'm not inferior to you. They begin lecturing him and preaching him on fundamentals of faith. As if he doesn't know those things himself. In fact, none of his friends or his wife would be of the spiritual caliber and stature that he was to go through and endure what he had to go through and endure. Now, a lot can be said about Job. Of course, he's the type of Christ like all of the heroes of the Old Testament. He typifies Christ, as does Jeremiah. People like Job and Jeremiah, they foreshadowed Jesus as a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. As Isaiah described him and as the New Testament portrays him. Nonetheless, the question is asked, will you lie for God? Religious lying usually, usually involves burying truth in a camouflaged lair of more truth. But in the center is a lie. In other words, you use truth. The camouflage, a lie. Peter wrote about this in the New Testament, as we've talked about various times in the past, and he uses a very interesting Greek term, parasoxusin, parasoxusin. They secretly introduced destructive heresies, 2 Peter chapter 2. They secretly introduced destructive heresies. False teachers and false prophets, parasoxusin. They secretly introduced destructive heresies, but what does para sogzuson exactly mean? Para, the Greek prefix, next to, sogzuson. They put truth next to error. They put truth next to error. Think of Satan's temptation of Jesus. He was quoting from the book of Deuteronomy. He was saying things that were true, except that they were out of context. He puts truth next to error. Satan puts truth next to error. False teachers put truth next to error. False prophets put truth next to error. That is how sincere Christians can be deceived. Because the error is so well camouflaged with truth. Again, in the book of Job, most of what his friends said were things that were doctrinally true. They were in principle true. But a little leaven leavens the entire lump. The lies that sincere Christians are more prone to believe are lies that are sugar coated with truth, that are camouflaged truth. As we always say, there's always real cheese on a rat trap. Don't be the rat. Let's look at this again. Will you lie for God? Will you speak what is unjust for God and speak what is deceitful for Him? There have always been religious liars of all types. In Matthew 23, Jesus referred to the Sanhedrin, of his day, the religious leadership of his day, as liars and hypocrites, liars and hypocrites, they've always been around. They brought false witnesses against Jesus at his trial, who bore false witness against him. They committed perjury and a capital trial to get Jesus murdered, knowing he was innocent. There have always been religious liars. Always. But let's understand this. Jesus said they will put you out of synagogues, speaking to Jewish believers, and think they are honoring God. When the Sanhedrin tried to set Jesus up for execution, and successfully did so, they thought they were doing the right thing. They become so deluded by sin. Sin itself has a power to deceive. Satan deceives, the world deceives, we deceive ourselves. But sin can become personified into something with the power to deceive in itself. Sin, the scriptures tell us, in itself has a power to deceive us. It has a power to deceive us. Um, just think of a, of a, a young couple, um, and maybe they, they, they, they're attracted and they're... They're, they're courting or they're dating or they're courting and, uh, maybe they're even legitimately falling in love. But before holy wedlock is entered into by a vow, before they formally marry, they fall into fornication. Instead of consummating a marriage, they fornicate. But they get the idea, oh, but we do love each other and we're really planning to get married and we're going to get engaged and that may be true. It's okay. We really love each other. Notice the lie is sugar coated with truth. And once the passions begin going, and the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the rest of these things, the sin itself has a power to deceive them into thinking it's all right. That's just one example. There are many examples. Sin can deceive. The lie. Satan is the father of lies, we are told. He was a liar from the beginning and a murderer from the beginning. And he's a liar and a murderer today, and his biggest lies are yet to come with the abomination of desolation. And the covenant that he'll make with Israel and the Jews, his biggest lies, are yet ahead of us. In the end, Jesus wins, but in the meantime, we are to be aware. Will you lie for God? Now, I'm not talking about religious con artistry lying, that's always happened also. I think of, I, uh, uh, uh, no problem naming him, everybody can watch him on TV or the Internet. There's an American money preacher, a real coniver named Jesse Duplantis, who has a collection of jet airplanes, that he said God told him to get, wanted Christians to give tens of millions of dollars, could have gone to missions. Now, look, if somebody gave tens of millions of dollars or pounds or euros to Missionary Aviation Fellowship that needs those planes for the legitimate work of the Lord, I'd applaud it. Praise God. Give them the tens of millions to buy airplanes. But when he has not one executive jet, he has a fleet of them. And he's not the only money preacher who does that. And, I watched a clip of him once, and he said he went up to heaven in a cable car. And when he went up to heaven, God sent him back down to get more money. Now, it's unbelievable there will be Christians who will listen to a con artist like this, but some of them did, and he got the jet, and you're talking a lot of money. Not just one jet, a fleet. Those kinds of Christians are deceived already. I'm talking about Christians who the devil is trying to deceive. That includes us. It includes me. It includes you. Lying for God. Again, I'm not, I'm not talking about religious conduct. Elmer Gantries have always been here. Um, most of you know I worked on a film that was produced in Scotland called The Daniel Project. And I was told I was doing this for the Lord. I did it gratis, pro bono, didn't charge anything. The unsaved people involved in the production were paid, the Christians weren't. We were told, and I was told, you're doing it for the Lord, and I was the narrator. There were two discs, two discs. One was a documentary that I narrated, and the other was a gospel presentation of me speaking to the presenter. Uh, with a gospel presentation. There were two discs. And I agreed that secular marketing could be a way... To get the gospel into the hands of unsaved people. If you want to market it, circulate it, distribute it through secular agencies or secular businesses, secular outlets, I had no problem with that if it was going to get the gospel into the hands of unbelievers. And I agreed to that. But what I did not agree to was taking the gospel disc out, removing the gospel. I did it because of the gospel. Remove the gospel and then sell it to Hollywood, to Paramount Pictures, to California Pictures, and then a sequel to China. This was just disgusting. And then someone had the audacity to come and say, Well, you knew about this ahead of time and you approved of it. No, I did not approve of taking the gospel disc out so it could be sold to the world. I was told I was doing it for the Lord and for the gospel and getting the gospel into the hands of the unsaved. Okay, you've always had people like that who will lie. You've always had con artists. You've always had people who will do things like that. They've always been around. But we're talking about something very different here in Job. Will you lie for God? People who are not lying to get another jet airplane, or to sell a movie that's supposed to be a Christian evangelistic instrument or tool into the hands of the secular world with the gospel removed from it. We're not talking about that. We're talking about people who are actually Lie, and think they're serving God in the process. We see some of that in the behavior of the Sanhedrin and the passion narratives at the trial of Jesus. But let's look. Will you lie for God? Will you speak deceitfully for God? Job 13, 7. On the internet, you can watch the testimony of people who've been born again, who've been saved out of the Jehovah's Witness cult, the Watchtower Society. I've had a number of Christian friends, brethren, who are ex Jehovah's Witnesses, and I've read a couple of Christian books by people who were Jehovah's Witnesses. One book, the first one I'd read, was Thirty Years of Watchtower Slave, quite a book for its time. And another was Crisis of Conscience, with somebody from their governing committee, one of the top 11 leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses, uh, it was Ray Franz. He wrote a book exposing the corruption of it. And from these ex Jehovah's Witnesses, from what they write, what they say, you can watch them being interviewed on the internet, they say that they were actually taught lying is permissible to get somebody to join that cult. They believed it was acceptable to lie for a greater cause, the cause of Jehovah. Now they had reason to lie. Right from the beginning, their second founder was Judge Rutherford. At his divorce trial, he was caught lying under oath, essentially perjury. He claimed he could read Greek, and he was given a Greek manuscript. It was very basic Greek. Even guys like me could read it. It wasn't, you know, the Iliad or the Odyssey, which would take a bit of doing. It was Koine, basic New Testament Greek. He couldn't read a word of it. He was a liar. Um, Joseph Smith was a con artist. These people built a house for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in San Diego, California called Beth Sarim. House of the Princes in Hebrew, Beth Sarim. And they said that the patriarchs were going to live there. During the millennial reign, which they first said was 1914, then 1915, and of course when the millennium didn't happen, and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob didn't show up, Rutherford moved in himself. That whole organization is built on lies. They had magic wheat and all kinds of other stuff. Miracle wheat is crazy, but they're actually taught that they can mislead people, that they can lie. in order to advance Jehovah's Kingdom, which they think is the Watchtower Society. They think they can lie for God. That's what they think. In Islam, there is the doctrine of Taqiyyah. Taqiyyah. Again, there are some excellent, excellent evangelists to the Muslims, including ex Muslims, who've come to faith in Jesus. And I'd point you to the ministry, of course, of J. Smith and Dr. David Wood. But there are some Arab speaking, Arabic speaking brothers and others who were Muslims. I had a friend, Dr. Rach Matula. Connie was martyred, but he was a, a friend and he had a doctorate in Islam from Zeria University in in, in Cairo. He was an academic Muslim scholar who became a believer in Jesus. And when you listen to these Muslims who've come to faith, they will show you the Islamic doctrine of Takah. You can lie for Allah. You can lie to the infidel. It's acceptable. You see, in Arabic, we have two words for peace, for instance. Salim, which is like Shalom. And there is another word, Hudna. Hudna was when Muhammad made a strategic withdrawal from Mecca to Medina until he got the strength to attack again. In Jihadist Islam. When Muslims say they believe in peace, they use the word Hudna very often. It's peace. Oh, we believe in peace. We want to make peace. No, they want to make Hudna. They want to be at peace until they get the numerical capacity to attack. You see this, for instance, well, you've seen it in Britain. You've seen it in America. But you certainly, above all, see it in France. You, above all, see it in France, even this past week. This is the doctrine of taqiyya. When they come, oh, we want peace. No, to them it is hudna, it is not salim. There is no country that has allowed Islamic immigration that has not reaped the whirlwind as a result. Be it September 11th, be it the San Bernardino attacks, be it the multiple attacks that have taken place across Europe. Be it the, um, Rushdie riots in Britain or the Bradford riots, it doesn't matter. It is taqiyya. Now, I'm not saying every Muslim is a jihadist radical fundamentalist. Some of them are, some of them aren't. But they will go to their doctrine of taqiyya. We are allowed to lie to you because you're not a Muslim in order to advance the interests of Islam. They do not see it as lying. They see it as military disinformation and the jihad. They see it as military disinformation in the jihad. Um, I was in the north of France recently in Normandy. And you go to the museums and they show you how Eisenhower and Montgomery were orchestrating the invasion. And in the early phases and just before the invasion, they were doing everything to make the Nazis, Germans, think they were going to attack at the Pass, uh, du, du Calais, that they were going to attack at Calais, the English Channel, opposite Dover, when in fact they were trying to, they were planning to, to invade Normandy, which was further to the west. Um, but they did everything they could with disinformation. They put out radio broadcasts, they allowed military communications to be deliberately intercepted. They were doing everything they could to make the Nazis think that the invasion was going to come somewhere other. Now, we wouldn't call that lying. We would call that military disinformation in warfare. Well, in the doctrine of taqiyya, that is how fundamentalist Islamists, that is how jihadist Muslims think. They're allowed to lie to you for Allah. They're allowed to lie to you for Islam. It's not a lie. It's simply military disinformation. Will you lie for God? Notice, false religions are by definition false. And when there's falsehood, there's always going to be lies. That's the Jehovah's Witnesses. That's Islam. I recall a con artist. I didn't know him personally, but I knew people who did know him and who had talked to him. Now, the main evangelical Christian holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem is the Garden Tomb. And the Garden Tomb is adjacent to what many people believe to be the location of Golgotha, Calvary. It was first pinpointed. By a British general named Gordon, General George Gordon. He was interested in biblical archaeology, but he was a senior British military commander, and he pinpointed the location. And geomorphologists, experts in geology, that will tell you what rock forms and land forms and escarpments would have looked like centuries earlier. They looked at this escarpment that actually stands over the Arab bus station, next to the garden tomb, and... It looks like a skull, and they said 2, 000 years ago it would have looked more like a skull than it does now. It is one of the three possible locations, generally agreed, where the, uh, site of the crucifixion may have been. Actually, technically, there's four, but Gordon's Calvary would rate pretty high. It looks like it. There was this guy who was funded by Seventh Day Adventists. I'm not joking. His name was Ron Wyatt. And he began putting out films and raising money. And giving speeches and going to churches and all sorts. And he made some crazy claims that he found the wheels of Pharaoh's chariots down in the Gulf of Aqaba at the entrance to the Red Sea. That was his claim. Uh, and he had these kinds of nebulous photos claiming that he actually found it. Well, if something like that was actually found, it would be on the front cover of Biblical Archaeology Review. And every scholar you can think of, from every Department of Antiquities and every university in the world that has a Department of Antiquities, such as Princeton in the United States, or Hebrew University in Jerusalem, or Al Azeera University in Cairo, they would all be there. But of course he found no such thing. But then he went further. When some people took his initial bait, Ron Wyatt, who's now dead, went further. He claimed he went digging. At Gordon's Calvary, next to the Garden Tomb, and he claimed to have gotten access, with permission of the Garden Tomb, to dig. Now, on top of the skull enscarpment, overlooking the bus station, next to the Garden Tomb, some of you may have been there, in your mind's eye you can picture what I'm saying, there are graves, there are Muslim graves. You're going to go digging in a graveyard? But that's what he claimed. And he claimed to have found some, not only artifacts, but he claimed to have found the Ark of the Covenant. And he saw the blood of Jesus stained on it. That Jesus was crucified up there, the Ark from the First Temple was hidden underneath and permeated down through the rock formations, through the porous rock formations, onto the Ark. And he began crying and saying, I saw that blood. He actually claimed to have seen the blood of Christ on the Ark of the Covenant underneath the graves on top of the escarpment that many believe is Golgotha next to the Garden Tomb. Now many Christian tour groups bring their pilgrims and tour groups to the Garden Tomb. I've had a long standing relationship with them, uh, for some years. I know some of their staff. My daughter's bat mitzvah was there. Um, I had some Christian, uh, businessmen from South Africa and the States did a pro bono security job for them that we were able to... To, to broker and arrange, uh, with, with their new security system. I've had a long standing relationship with them. I know the senior accountant for many years. I knew his family. I know these people. Okay. My daughter's bat mitzvah was there and, and so forth, and we would take our tour groups to, to the garden tomb. At the end of our tours for the Lord's Supper, I knew these people. They gave me a letter on their letterhead saying that Ron Wyatt came there, requested permission to dig. They didn't know what to make of him, and then he found nothing. There was another chap I knew. He was a policeman turned archaeologist. He was a friend of Chuck, of Chuck, uh, Missler. And I did a conference with him, and I talked to him, and he knew Ron Wyatt. And he confronted Ron Wyatt, and he said Ron Wyatt admitted to him that he lied. But he said he lied to encourage people's faith. I guess his motive was not the money he was raising. He did it to encourage people's faith. He said he lied for God. Ron Wyatt, a charlatan, a complete charlatan, claimed he lied for God. Jehovah's Witnesses, jihadists. Now we get to Ron. Let's move ahead to Mormonism. Joseph Smith, publicly and demonstrably, fully documented, lied about polygamy. He lied about polygamy. In 1997, their prophet, The heir, positionally, of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, Gordon Hinckley, in 1997, lied in writing about the Mormon belief that as man is, God was, and as God is, man shall become. Every Mormon knew this, but in writing, he attempted to deny it. Their founders were liars, and they've continued. The lies surrounding the Salt Lake City bombings that took place And a scandal involving claimed manuscripts of original Mormon writings were incredible. The lies that were told were unbelievable. This is the Latter day Saints. This is Mormonism. Will you lie for God? Let's move ahead to Roman Catholicism. Just in the United States, there are 179 Roman Catholic dioceses and archdioceses. Last I knew in two of them, one of them being Fairbanks, Alaska. With a very few people and very few Catholics. Litigation was pending, investigations are underway. But in the other 177, 177 have all been found guilty or admitted to guilt of protecting pedophile clergy at the expense of not protecting their own children. We saw the heads role of Cardinal Mahoney in Los Angeles, of Cardinal Law in Boston. Of Cardinal McKendrick in Washington, D. C. These are the Cardinals, the top leaders of the Roman Church. Stretching all the way to the Vatican. We saw the resignation, the retirement of Joseph Ratzinger. In his youth, had been a member of the Hitler Youth and fought in the Nazi Air Force. An anti aircraft. Don't know if he agreed with it. He may not have had much of a choice, he claimed, or they claim. But it's clear that we have photos of him dressed in his Nazi outfit. uniform, and he becomes pope. But then he has to resign as pope because of the pedophilia scandals. The lies that were told are unbelievable. Unbelievable. I watched one film of a nun who was involved in the lesbian abuse of girls and in procuring Catholic school girls for priests sexually. These girls got older, they became young women, they went to the police, to the crown prosecutors, and so forth. The Roman Catholic Church, this is on TV in Australia and New Zealand. You can still see it on internet, I believe. They said, this nun is dead. She's been dead a long time. We, we have a burial certificate, a death certificate, whatever. She's dead! She's wanted in Australia for these sex crimes against these underage girls. And they said, oh, she's dead. Well, not everybody believed them, fortunately. They found her being hidden in a convent in New Zealand. The church was hiding her, the same way as with the Ratlines, they hid the Nazi war criminals like Eichmann, and helped them to escape to South America. They lied! They lied to protect Nazis, they lied to protect pedophiles, they've lied and lied and lied, and what it always comes down to is, when they're caught lying, we were trying to protect the church. There were cases where they told children who the priests had molested, or raped. Or sodomized, that if you tell anybody you'll go to hell, and they told the children to lie. They, Roman Catholic clergy told these little kids who were molested to lie, victimized to lie. We did it to protect the church. We lied for God. Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam, Ron Wyatt, Mormonism, Roman Catholicism. But let's look a bit at Eastern religion. Hinduism is really interesting. There are five kinds or five categories of permissible lying in Islam. I'm sorry, in, uh, Hinduism. Islam is taqiyya. In Hinduism, there's permissible lying. I'm reading from Matsya Purana 3116. This is just one of the five. There is no sin in speaking untruth in order to have sexual pleasure. There is no sin in lying to obtain sexual pleasure. Now, what this is doing is... Condoning extramarital seduction, fornication, adultery, whatever. You can lie. You can lie to him. You can lie to her. You can lie as long as it's for sexual pleasure. Hinduism actually teaches that. Matsya Purana 31. 16, but there are five cases. And two of them are related to sexual immorality. This is the teaching of Hinduism. I once watched a Chabad rabbi, a, a, uh, ascetic rabbi, In an interview, speaking about Daniel chapter nine, and the claims of Jewish believers in Jesus and Christian evangelists, that the Messiah would have to come and die before the second temple would be destroyed. It's there. It's caused rabbis to be saved. Most notably, Rabbi Leopold Cohen, who got saved and became a Baptist minister, and was the founder of the American Board of Mission to the Jews, today called Chosen People Ministries. Headed by our friend Mitch Glazer, my friend. Many of you know him. But Rabbi Leopold Cohen got saved because of Daniel 9. The Talmud actually says there's a curse on reading it. Don't read it. There's a curse on reading Daniel 9 because the time of the Messiah's coming is foretold in it. The Messiah had to come and die before 70 AD. I watched this Chabad rabbi, this Lubavitch rabbi, lie. He openly lied. He stated a number of things that are categorically false in order to persuade Jewish people not to listen to this. And he believed he was lying for God, protecting Jews and Jewish souls from faith in their own Messiah. He was deceived by the devil. He lied. Lied for God. I once watched, well, I've seen more than one, but there's one that comes to mind particularly, of staged faith healings. Staged faith healings. Where they, with the consent of the preacher, they brought somebody up in a wheelchair for prayer, and he lays hands on him and prays and commands him in the name of Jesus, and the person gets up. Well, it was uncovered that the person was not handicapped and not bound to a wheelchair. They were perfectly healthy. When accosted, They said, we did it to encourage other people's faith. Same as Ron Wyatt, they lied to encourage other people's faith to come up with. Will you lie for God? Will you speak deceitfully for God? Will you speak what is deceitful for Him? Job 13, 7. No, false religions again are by definition false. And when they're false, they speak falsehood, and I've only given some examples. We can go on and on with various cults and so forth. They all seem to do it, pretty much. I've seen it in Judaism and Roman Catholicism. I've seen it in, I'm sorry to say, those claiming to be evangelical. Hyper Pentecostalism. We see it in Islam. We see it in cults like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. And we see con artists like Ron Wyatt. And there are certainly others. There was a woman named Doreen Virtue who claims to have become a Christian. She had been a practitioner of witchcraft by her own admission. And, Doreen Virtue claimed that Jesus was appearing to her, and she described Jesus as he appeared to her to an artist, a professional artist, who painted the picture of Jesus. And he came to her, and this caused her to leave witchcraft, she said, and many people believed her. She'd become very wealthy in the occult. This Jesus appeared to her, and so many naive Christians thought it was wonderful. And she was promoted by pirate radio, by Chris Rosebro and his son in the United States. Now those people are notorious for their filthy language. Literally, go F yourself, F you, go get F'd. This is what they, this is, it's on their websites. Um, they're, Rosebro is a catechetical Lutheran, another, a catechetical Lutheran. He's half Catholic and half Protestant. Rosebro teaches that forgiveness from sins comes from kneeling down and telling them to him. And because of his vow to God, he has the power to forgive your sin. Now this is virtually a twin brother to the Roman Catholic doctrine of confession. And Well, that's what he believes. Um, he believes there's no Antichrist, no falling away. He mocks people who believe it. He says the book of Revelation has no literal meaning. He says we've been in the Millennium for 2, 000 years and we've been in the Great Tribulation for 2, 000 years. Very confused and very confusing. And we have photos that we've featured of him praying in front of a statue of the Jesus on an altar with candles and flowers. And this statue of Jesus, of Christ, is standing there with him dressed in Babylonian robes, Roman Catholic style vestments, praying in front of the statue of Jesus with no stigmata. That's never been crucified. He did five radio broadcasts promoting Doreen Virtue and her books. And after... They admitted it was the devil, she put out a fifth book, and she still, he still had her promoting the book on his radio station, knowing it was of the devil, he finally admitted it, but her, Jesus, that she described to the artist who painted it, and put the photos all over the internet, had no stigmata. The nails would have actually went through the radius, not the metacarpal. Nonetheless, there was none. Now remember, Jesus stated, Jesus said, If anyone says he's in the inner rooms, don't go there. If anyone says he's in the wilderness, don't go there. He's gonna come back the way he left. Only an antichrist or a false christ would come to earth claiming to be christ. When Jesus confronted St. Paul on the road to Damascus, he spoke from the heavens. In the martyrdom of Stephen, he speaks from the heavens. He doesn't come back until he comes back the way he left. Nonetheless, she said he did come back. And he was not crucified. Now, whenever the scripture speaks of Christ, after his resurrection, the stigmata is always emphasized. What did he say to Doubting Thomas? Here's the nail marks. Here is the nail marks. What is the prophecy of Zechariah 12 that we see in the book of Revelation? They will look upon me whom they have pierced. He's always described as having the nail marks even in eternity. This is because of a prophecy. I believe in Isaiah. You are graven on my hands. That's stigmata. We are graven on his hands. He was crucified in our place. He doesn't come back to earth until he returns into the parousia and Whenever it speaks of him, after his resurrection, the nail marks are still there. Even after he rose from the dead, the nail marks, and his body was glorified, he was still there. When he comes back, the nail marks will still be there. They'll look upon him with their pierced. Well, she didn't have any nail marks, other than Chris Rosebro in the statue, in his Jesus that he prays to, on his altar, whatever it is, the statue. Again, he's a catechetical Lutheran, he's half Catholic and half Protestant, and the vulgarity in this scandal is unbelievable. Nonetheless, why did Rosebro promote this woman? Why did will you lie for God? It's a lie. It wasn't the real Jesus. And even after admitting it was the devil, he has her on a radio station the fifth time, and she puts out the fifth book after she admitted it was from the devil. After first going on the radio and saying it was God four times. Unbelievable. And so many naive Christians were sucked in by this, by her and Roseborough. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. He was supposed to debate me about it, but then he wanted to change the subject of the debate to avoid having to deal with what he did. This is Rosebro. Wow. Here's these people. You'll have Rose Bros and Ron Wyatts. You'll have Joseph Smiths and Judge Rutherfords. You'll have Gordon Hinkley's. You will have... These people. You'll have Pope Benedict XVI, cum Joseph Ratzinger. Will you lie for God? Jehovah's Witnesses will. Islam will. Ron Wyatt will. Mormonism will. Roman Catholicism will. Hasidic Judaism did it. They all did it. They all lied, justifying it by saying they were lying for God. Well, now we have a problem. A sad and serious. A con artist like Ron Wyatt I can deal with a catechetical Lutheran and a deceiver like Rosebro. I can deal with adoring virtue. I can deal with I can deal with people I can deal with a lying Pope. I can deal with lying cult leaders I can deal with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons and Muslims. I can deal with all of that But what happens when you have people claiming to be your brethren in and promoting it I received An email from the United States by a member from a member of our team about less than a week ago and I answered it and it led me to become familiar with somebody called Lee Brainard, a pre tribulation activist. I didn't know much about him. I was told about him by several people. Our RTN Charles Jardine told me that Joel Richardson, whom I only know, I know him, but only by email. Um, was warning about and I Learned further about him from Ilon Moray, who is the Morio administrator in Israel He told me what this chap was doing and I began to read some things about him and look at what he was doing And then I went to see what what Joel Richardson said about him, but there was I checked out from a couple of sources I wanted to make sure I had it absolutely right Lee Brainerd is a revisionist. He literally re writes church history. He is taking things from the pre Nicene Fathers and editing them, redacting them to make it sound like they believed things they didn't. Even many, if not most, pre tribulational scholars, those who are actually scholarly, academics, admitted they had a problem with the fact that That the evidence from the patristic literature shows that the pre Nicene Church did not believe in a pre tribulation rapture. This is certainly true of, I think, the most important of these, Irenaeus, who got his doctrine from the Apostle John via polycarp, but there were others. There's Hippolytus and various other ones. I watched what this guy is doing. He actually, actually extracts. Fragments of what the Church Fathers wrote about this subject, and he redacts them. He extracts them out of context, and then he redacts them. He edits them. He changes the wording, and then recompiles them, re edits them together to make it seem like they wrote something that they never even said, revisionism. Would make George Orwell blush. He wrote about this kind of rewriting of history in 1984. Stalinism was based on revisionism of history. I would put Lee Brainerd in the same class with Joseph Stalin and his propagandists and with the villains in 1984. He actually, actually extracted strains of what Eusebius wrote and others wrote. And redacted them, then conflated them together in an edited format to make it seem like they said things they never did. And then he read this on TV. Now a lot of this trend that was never believed by serious scholars, that the early church was pre Trib, was first popularized a number of years ago, maybe 15 to 18 years ago, I think, by a crackpot named Grant Jeffries, who's no longer alive. Now, I'm not judging Grant Jeffrey's salvation, or if he's a Christian, that's not my place. But as a Christian author, the man was an absolute crackpot. He wrote the book on Bible codes, where you use acrostics to find cryptic messages in the text of the canon of Scripture. And it was unbelievable. Now, this was based on the work of some Israeli mathematicians who were trying to find, by mathematical determination, If there was any truth to Wellhausen's theory of Pentateuchal sources, J E D P, if you're not a, someone who went to seminary, you probably won't know what that is, don't worry. It just claims that the book of Genesis had four different authors. And, uh, he was trying by mathematical analysis to see if they were or they weren't. This was Dr. Eliyahu Rips, a rather prominent Israeli mathematician at the Technion in Israel, in Haifa. And he said, this stuff is nuts, these Bible codes are nuts. If you get a big enough manuscript, and then you've got a linguistic thing from the Hebrew, putting it into English or whatever, you could find, Bugs Bunny eats cheese omelets for breakfast. You could find anything. A pair of religious con artists, Paul and Jan Crouch. Founders of TBN were saying that there was messages about them in the Bible because of these acrostics. Three letters over, two down, two up, find the word. This was Grant Jeffries. He wrote this nonsense. Total nonsense. Now again, I'm not judging his faith or his motives, but as a Christian author, he was an absolute crackpot. In fact, he was a crackpot among crackpot. He began by taking something from the seventh century, at least seventh century, called Pseudo Ephraim, writing in the name of somebody who existed in Syria in the 4th century, called Ephraim. But then there was Pseudo Ephraim, other people trying to write in his name or in his character or style or whatever. You're talking 700 years after the time of the apostles. And within these writings, it came hundreds of years later, they were finding what they said were evidence. Even proof that the early church was pre Trib. What? Read Hippolytus, read Hagia Sippis, read Eusebius, read Irenaeus, read Poppius, read the pre Nicene Fathers. It's all rubbish. Yet this guy, Lee Brannard, takes excerpts. He extracts excerpts from the writings of the pre Nicene Fathers, the patristic writers. He extracts excerpts. And redacts them, and then edits them together, and produces artificial paragraphs, saying things they never said. Will you lie for God? He's trying to defend a position that fewer and fewer believers are accepting, because the Holy Spirit is showing them it's not true. That is the pre tribulational rapture. His motives may be to defend pre tribulationism against the evidence to the contrary. Or to those who are departing from it, or challenging it. His motives, God knows. He thinks he's lying for God. Will you lie for God? Jehovah's Witnesses will. Islam will. It's their God, being Allah. Ron Wyatt did. Founders of Mormonism did. Roman Catholicism will. Hinduism will. Lubavitch Hasidim. Doreen Virtue did. So, those Lee Brainard. Don't be deceived. In their mind. In their convoluted, warped reasoning, they actually imagine it is morally justifiable to lie because they think they're doing it for God. Now look, if you're lying to save someone's life, there were Christians in Europe who hid Jews in the Holocaust and lied to the Gestapo. I'm not saying that there are not those kinds of circumstances where somebody in a sense would lie for God, but that was not this sense. These people were actually teaching error. And they believe they can lie to defend what they believe because they're doing it for God. From a Jehovah's Witness, I would expect it. From a Mormon, I'd expect it. From a fundamentalist Moslem, I'd expect it. From Ron Wyatt, well, he did it. From Roman Catholicism, I'd expect it. From Hinduism, I'd expect it. Lubavitch, I'd expect it. But from someone who claims to be a saved, born again, Bible believing Christian, I don't expect it. Nonetheless, it is exactly what is happening. The deception of the last days is quite real. Will you lie for? The answer that many of these people are giving is yes. May God have mercy and may he keep us from lies. May he keep us in the truth. As Jesus prayed, Father, sanctify them in the truth. Thy word is. My name is James Jacob Prasch from Morial Ministries coming to you here on RTN. Christian TV and radio. God bless and thank you so much for listening.