Deception is almost as old as the world itself.
That many are deceived, and leading self-destructive lives doomed to disappointment, heartache and frustration is a given.
Just look at the state of the world today, with all the worries over sustainability, depleting resources such as water and crops, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis and other “natural” disasters, and wars; concerns over security and violent criminal predators topping the list.
The Big Lie
Sometimes its very hard -- except for those so sure they are “right” they believe they already know the answer -- to tell the “good guys and gals” from the “bad.”
Every side -- whether it’s political, religious, national, racial or sexual orientation or practice -- believes they are being disadvantaged, victimized, misunderstood, or hurt and harmed by “the other” side.
In every way imaginable people who ought to be pulling and working together are instead tearing apart the very bonds that alone can guarantee the survival of humanity here on earth.
Why?
Simply because the vast majority, everyone in fact, has believed in the big lie!
Now you might not know what that lie is, or believe it is a lie when you hear it, but bear with me a little while longer and I will reveal some things you’ve probably never thought about or considered before (certainly the mainstream reactionary “news” media hasn’t a clue).
Perhaps you will get it, but most likely you won’t understand, even when presented with clear and convincing evidence of the deception.
You see, you’ve got a lifetime of built up resistance against the truth that exposes and banishes the big lie.
Plus it isn’t easy admitting you are wrong. Some would rather die than allow even the thought they are deceived to percolate into their conscious awareness.
Which is just what will happen if you don’t come to grips with what you are about to discover; it’s that seriously important and vital!
Ridiculous Possibility Or Inevitable Choice?
It’s sort of like a rural family in which insanity and early death eventually visits each member, until an “outsider” happens by one day and suggests that, perhaps, their water well is poisoned with arsenic.
Depending on the state of those affected and afflicted by the unseen and hidden enemy they have taken for granted over the generations that have lived, died and are buried there, some might be willing to listen and dig deeper, testing the waters in order to learn the truth of the matter.
But most would likely refuse to hear the “ridiculous” possibility that something they have relied upon every day of their lives could be the actual cause of all their misery, suffering and troubles.
After all, their only choice might well be to leave the family farm behind, without selling it to "profit" from the misery and suffering of others, and move elsewhere, to save their lives and sanity!
Often times, when faced with such a dilemma, the only choice that works best for everyone concerned is just that stark and inescapable.
The majority, however, refuses to see or acknowledge this and “bravely” (in their opinion, but actually foolishly) decides to “tough it out,” in the belief they are somehow stronger, wiser, better or more informed and able to know and take the correct path, while avoiding the false.
If that is the sort of attitude or reaction you have to what you’re about to learn, beware!
Generations before you also thought the same thing, made the wrong choices, and almost without exception they all ended up bereft of everything they lived, hoped, dreamed and strove for in the end.
What Lies Ahead?
Certainly, your forebears -- were they to come back to life today -- would most likely be aghast at what their descendants have done with the world, just as their ancestors might have regretted what they accomplished and passed down to all those who have followed them.
If you could see what lies ahead for your offspring or the next generation, and the world, would you make any different decisions, choose a different path, suspect those you presently follow of being less than “perfect,” “wise” or authoritative?
Let’s examine one of the most fundamental disconnects between professed beliefs and the actual facts that exists today, thanks to deception and trusting the wrong source, that reveals the biggest lie of them all.
If you are not among those caught up in this major fallacy, don’t smugly think you are somehow “superior,” or above such deception yourself.
The odds are that you are, in your own carnal way, just as deceived and believe in a lie just as evil and false!
The First Lie
The deception is revealed in a book the adherents of which claim to believe, follow and in many cases even worship, while they actually do the exact opposite of what is revealed in its pages.
That book is called “the bible” today.
What is one consistent message to be found from the beginning to the end of that book, and everywhere in between, which is ignored, disbelieved and fought against by almost all those who claim it to be the source or foundation for their religious belief and faith?
In the second chapter of the book of Genesis the Creator’s very first words to the crowning achievement and reason for all His creative efforts, the first man Adam, are recorded:
“You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the science [knowledge] of good and evil, because after you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17).
Of course you know the rest of the story. A lying serpent came along, deceived the man’s wife Eve, she and her husband Adam both ate what they had been forbidden, and death eventually claimed them and all their descendants as a result, of whom you are but one.
If you are reading this, of course, it hasn’t happened to you...yet, but rest assured -- despite all the promises and attempts by the science of good and evil today -- it will happen to you also, as a result of believing that first lie!
We’ll get back to that in a bit, but first let’s look at what the last chapter of the last book of scripture in the bible has to say about this curse we call death.
There, you will find a prophecy of a future time when a “river of life” will flow, and that:
“On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month [i.e. twelve times every year]. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse” (Revelation 22:2-3).
Good Or Bad Food?
So here we see, from beginning to end, a message that deals with the importance of what you eat or consume for food, and how it affects your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual states.
What is the message of Christianity, the major religious system that professes to accept and follow the precepts of scripture found in this book they call the bible?
“Nothing is unclean to eat today, because that ‘Old Testament’ law has been fulfilled and done away with, is no longer in force, and doesn’t need to be obeyed any longer, because you can gain salvation without all that.”
Salvation means life after death, absent the curse of judgment for our sins, which can only be defined by the very Law or Commandments Christians love to hate.
Now let’s look closer at the first big lie, that resulted in the deception of the entire human race. A serpent who was opposed or adversarial to what is good took away the blessing for obedience by telling the first woman:
“‘Did the Almighty One really say, “you must not eat from any tree in the garden”?’” (Genesis 3:1); which of course was not what He said, and was a prelude to the big lie that immediately followed:
“The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat from the trees in the garden, but the Almighty One did say, “You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent told the woman. ‘For the Almighty One knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like the Almighty One, knowing good and evil’” (Genesis 3:2-5).
Once she accepted this lie and acted upon it, by ignoring and forgetting about what her husband was told and warned not to do, the inevitable result was the curse:
“When the woman saw [believed] that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of Yahveh the Almighty One as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahveh the Almighty One among the trees of the garden. But Yahveh the Almighty One called to the man, ‘Where are you?’
“He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’
“And He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?’
“The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me -- she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’
“Then Yahveh the Almighty One said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’
“The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’...
“To the woman He said, ‘I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be to your husband, and he will rule over you.’
“To Adam He said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat of it,” Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
“‘It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for you are dust and to dust you will return’” (Genesis 3:6-13, 16-19).
Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree
As you can see, if you are able to admit it, the message and the very first sin -- or breaking of a commandment of the Creator -- concerned what was good and fit to eat, as opposed to what was not, or unclean and unsuitable as food.
And part of the curse was that, no longer would the fruit from trees alone be sufficient for sustenance, and that crops painfully grown in hard earth, along with hurtful thorns, briars and thistles would eventually result in disease and death.
The fruit from the tree of life was thereafter denied to the first man and woman, and their descendants, by being thrust out of the garden, with their reentry guarded against and denied to prevent that from happening (Genesis 3:22-24)!
Why?
Evidently to prevent living forever with the results or curses of this sin that created a sinful nature in Adam, Eve and all their progeny, which has brought so much misery, suffering, pain, anguish, evil and death into the world.
Finding Paradise Again?
On a “positive” note, at least prisoners have the escape of death to look forward to, to finally end their tortuous existence!
Which is just how many have mistreated the innocent among their fellow man, while the guilty are often rewarded with high positions of fame, honor, wealth and privilege, free to continue their dishonest, duplicitous and massively destructive ways.
In fact, the most sinful and evil among us are usually the very ones ordering everybody else around, deciding who stays free and unharmed, or who suffers loss and is denied liberty and freedom of choice; who lives or who dies.
Those who gravitate to positions of influence and power in this world are most often those least deserving of being entrusted with that serious and oft-abused responsibility.
Were it otherwise we would not live in a world filled with so much trouble, fear, hatred, war and vice!
So how can we find our way back to paradise, to live in a state of grace and forgiveness, blessing and joy?
Is this even possible, at this late date?
Certainly not if we keep doing what we’ve always done, believing as religious traditions of all stripes tell and assure us, and behaving as if tomorrow will always be nothing more than a continuation of what yesterday and today have always given us.
Uncleanness Still?
So let’s recap:
The majority of modern Christianity, with very few (almost no) exceptions, teaches and believes that diet is unimportant, especially where the “Old Testament” teaches that certain animals are unclean or unfit for consumption.
It says: “Pigs, shellfish, rabbits, blood and animal fat etc., won’t surely hurt you, that law about these being unclean has been put aside and ‘nailed to the stake,’ and was nullified by the savior, so you don’t have to obey it to be saved.”
Scripture, on the other hand, repeats:
“And he carried me away in the spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the sacred city, Yaravsalem, coming down out of heaven from the Almighty One...
“I did not see a temple in the city because Yahveh of hosts and the Lamb are its Temple.
“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of the Almighty One gives it light, and the Lamb is its Lamp. The nations which are saved will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
“On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life” (Revelation 21:10, 22-27).
So there will still be uncleanness, but it will be excluded from entering into the salvation represented by this new and sacred City of Life!
Fulfilling The Law --
What Does This Mean?
The teaching that “the law was done away” sounds exactly like the adversary’s very first lie: “You shall not surely die!” because that is just what it is, falsehood and the way of death, taught and learned at leading seminaries, disguised as “truth” and the “wisdom” of supposed “salvation!”
The Savior Himself taught:
“Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets, for I have not come to do away with them but to fulfill them.
“I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
“Anyone who breaks one of the least of these Commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys and teaches these Commandments will be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.
“For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of heaven” (“Matthew” 5:17-20).
“Fulfill” means the same thing here as it does in the context in which the same word is elsewhere used throughout the New Testament, as in Luke 3:4-6 and 9:30-31, for instance, as follows:
“A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Sovereign, make straight paths for Him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all mankind will see the Almighty One’s salvation.”
“Two men, Moses and EliYahv, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Yahvsave. They spoke about His departure, which He was about to bring to fulfillment at Yaravsalem.”
In other words, the word “fulfill” means to accomplish, but in the context of the Law and Commandments, this means to obey, not disobey or teach others to do this.
That would have been utter hypocrisy, had the Savior done or said what most modern Christian preachers today say their version of “the savior” did; in which case, no man following their way of disbelief, in everything the true Savior stood for, could ever have qualified to save anyone; not even himself!
Fouled Translations
Much as the modern heretics of Christianity would like to have these verses excised from their bibles, translated into meaningless gibberish, or lifted out of context to imply the exact opposite of what they actually say, there can be no mistake.
If you believe the Commandments or Law of the Creator given through Moses -- obedience to which is the very scriptural definition of righteousness (cf. Psalms 119:138, 160, 164-168, 172, 175-176) -- are no longer to be obeyed, and violate them heedlessly, the Savior said you will most certainly not enter into His Kingdom, which is the very definition of salvation!
Notice how the NIV translation of Revelation 21:24 omits the vital words “which are saved” from this pivotal verse of scripture.
Why did the translators, doubtless “good Christians” all, by their own definition, fail to recall the closing words of Revelation 22:19, which warns:
“And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, the Almighty One will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the sacred City, which are described in this book.”
Which, according to those missing words, means they will not be counted among the saved! So what sort of so-called “salvation” does Christianity teach or guarantee, which is clearly not the sort of salvation taught throughout scripture, in both testaments?
The sole answer must be: only the same kind of “salvation” the serpent offered to Adam and Eve, which ends in curses, death and destruction!
Salvation In Any Other Name?
Regarding salvation, the Apostles clearly taught that only through believing in and calling on the Savior’s true name can someone gain salvation, then or now (Acts 4:10-12, 10:43; cf. “John” 14:6).
But whose name do you find in the English version of Acts 4:10, and throughout the entirety of the Greek, Latin and English versions of the New Testament?
Is it the same as the Creator’s name, whose name the Old Testament prophets taught alone grants those who call upon it true salvation?
What does “Joel” 2:32 say, in this regard, restoring that name to the text from the original language in which this scripture was inspired?
“And everyone who calls upon the name of Yahveh will be saved; for on mount Ziavan there shall be deliverance, as Yahveh has said, among the survivors whom Yahveh calls.”
This, then, must have been the Savior’s actual name and not that false name substituted for it throughout the entire New Testament, in its apparently uninspired translations!
It Wasn't All Greek To Them Then!
Despite what “scholars” unitedly teach, as the first century Ibreyan (actual “Hebrew” not the modern peoples falsely claiming this heritage) historian Yavceph (“Josephus”) testified, Greek was never the “lingua franca” of his people in Palestine.
As he wrote, in Antiquities XX, XI, 2 (bold emphasis added for clarity):
“I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of the Greek language, although I have so accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I cannot pronounce Greek with sufficient exactness: for our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations, and so adorn their discourses with the smoothness of their periods; because they look upon this sort of accomplishment as inferior, not only to all sorts of freemen, but to as many of the servants as please to learn them....on which account, as there have been many who have done their endeavors with great patience to obtain this learning, there have yet hardly been so many as two or three that have succeeded therein, who were immediately well rewarded for their pains.”
Again, in Against Apion I, 9 the same historian wrote and confessed, about his other scholarly work, History of the Destruction of Yaravsalem (bold emphasis added, once again, for clarity):
“As for myself, I have composed a true history of that whole war, and all the particulars that occurred therein, as having been concerned in all its transactions; for I acted as a general of those among us that are named Galileans, as long as it was possible for us to make any opposition. I was then seized upon by the Romans and became a captive.... At first I was put into bonds; but was set at liberty afterward, and sent to accompany Titus when he came from Alexandria to the siege of Yaravsalem; during which there was nothing done that escaped my knowledge; for what happened in the Roman camp I saw, and wrote down carefully; and what information the deserters brought [out of the city] I was the only man that understood them. Afterward, I got leisure at Rome; and when all my materials were prepared for that work, I made use of some persons to assist me in learning the Greek language, and by those means I composed the history of those transactions....”
Yet not even in the English translation of this historical author’s works will you find the correct and only true rendition of the Savior’s name.
The Savior's Actual Name
Only in the original King James Version of Acts 7:45 and “Hebrews” 4:8 do you find any clue what that name actually was, when a certain Old Testament patriarch’s name is incorrectly translated “Jesus,” which newer versions of the King James (in the first verse mainly), the NIV and other modern translations, “correct” (incorrectly) to “Joshua” (another incorrect English rendition).
In the underlying language of the books of Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and, of course, “Joshua,” among numerous other Old Testament scriptures where this name is found, in various incorrect forms and spellings in the English translations (from “Jehoshua” to “Hosea”), the true and only correct transliteration of that name into English is: Yahvsave.
That name derives from the name Yahveh, and literally means: “Yahveh our Savior,” believe it or not!
Sabbaths Or Not?
Also, in the matter of the true calendar and sabbaths revealed in scripture, it is apparent that even after the Savior’s resurrection, the Apostles kept and observed such supposedly “Old Testament” Laws as the ones related to the annual Feasts, such as Pentecost (Acts 2:1), Passover (Acts 18:21; edited out of the NIV and claimed by “scholars” to have been added to “western editions of the text” but found also in the eastern Aramaic Peshitta), and Unleavened Bread (I Corinthians 5:6-8).
These, along with the regular date of the year sabbaths kept from the spring and fall equinoxes -- as revealed in the seven full sabbaths after Passover/Unleavened Bread, leading up to Pentecost, without which the correct date for that annual observance cannot be known -- (Acts 13:14, 27, 42, 44, 15:21, 16:13, 17:2, 18:4 and Colossians 2:16), reveal an entirely different calendar than that in common usage in the western world today.
The “week” of the Gregorian calendar is well-known to have come from the Egyptian practice of worshipping the sun, moon and five of the then-known planets, as they arose first at dawn each day, in order.
This practice -- and therefore the calendar based upon it -- is forbidden in the Law of Moses, as follows:
“And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars [i.e. planets] -- all the heavenly array -- do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshipping things Yahveh your Almighty One has apportioned to all the nations under heaven” (Deuteronomy 4:19).
As if in total rebellion against this wise proscription, the religions of this world, including or especially Christianity with which the Gregorian calendar system originated, all follow and adhere to a corrupt, imperfect and utterly pagan calendar system, the “week” days of which are devoted to and therefore named after the sun, the moon, saturn, and other planets (or now named for their Norse idol equivalents).
This is declared to be an “evil” practice and “a detestable thing” -- which was a capital offense subject to the death penalty -- in Deuteronomy 17:2-5.
Your Only Real Choice
This is the sort of spirit that Christianity as a whole has followed, and is the main reason why there have been two world wars so far, in which Christians of various denominations or nations have slaughtered Christians of other denominations or nations.
It is the quintessential reason why, despite the religious nature of the world’s nations, none have been able to find or secure peace on earth, which is reserved only for men of good will (Luke 2:14); which is how scripture, and not men or their false religions, defines good!
In light of this great, but mostly suppressed pure (clean) truth, you must now ask yourself, and determine the reality and truth of this matter:
Have you been, or are you now deceived!?
If so, what do you intend to do about it?
Your choices are to either ignore this calling and perish, in just judgment as the certain end result....
Or to repent (change), and live a life worthy of salvation through obedience, genuine humility (teachable), and true righteousness, thereby gaining and securing the most precious and rare blessing available in this otherwise most evil of all ages!