Deception is rampant these days. It's becoming more and more difficult to know whether what you're seeing or hearing is reality, or is fiction made to appear to be real. The movies, video games and media programming are blurring the line more and more between what's real and what's not. The advent of digital cameras and video lends itself to even more deception, as the images are "adjusted" to suit the desires of the one manipulating them. When you listen to the politicians it becomes more and more difficult to know when they're telling the truth and when they're lying to you.
Unfortunately, deception has also invaded the religious communities. It takes many subtle forms, but it exists here as well. What many don't recognize is just how greatly they've been deceived, or how pervasive some of the deception truly is. This website is devoted to revealing, and correcting, some of the most insidious aspects of this deception. The removal of the personal name of God from the Bible and replacing it with terms that do not accurately represent The Word of YAHWEH, is almost incomprehensible. That such things have been done - and worse, allowed to continue - is appalling. Surely YAHWEH is not pleased about this series of lies. It's my intent to do whatever I can to correct this deception and reveal as much Truth as possible.
Deception takes many forms, especially in the world of today. Most people seem to feel deception, in some form, is "normal". It's perfectly OK to deceive someone as long as they get what they want. However, when you deceive someone you mislead them intentionally. You are lying to them. Whether you tell an outright lie or simply try to hide the whole truth from them, you are dealing in things that simply are not true, either in whole or in part. Since YAHWEH is the God of Truth it's important to recognize that when you deceive someone, or they deceive you, you are acting contrary to YAHWEH's will. This is a very risky thing to do.
The Word of YAHWEH has much to say about deception. We are warned over and over to avoid it. This is especially true concerning the days just prior to the return of The Messiah, YAHUSHUA. Listed below are some Scriptures that speak about deception, including the matter of self-deception. Sadly, it's even possible to lie to yourself - to trick yourself into believing something is true when it's not. In these Scriptures you'll find insights into the subtlety of deception and how to deal with this issue when you encounter it. YAHWEH does not want you to be deceived. He prefers that we know The Truth. Ultimately, He is The Truth. Truth leads to freedom. Lies and deception lead to bondage. Which do you prefer, freedom, or bondage?
Genesis 27:12: My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Genesis 31:7: And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but YAHWEH did not permit him to hurt me.
Deuteronomy 11:16: Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods (elohim), and worship them;
1 Samuel 28:12: And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me, for you are Saul?
Job 15:31: Let not him who is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
Proverbs 14.5: A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs 20:1: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 24:28: Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.
Isaiah 44:20: He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Jeremiah 9:5: And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah 29:8: For thus says YAHWEH of Assemblies, The Elohim (God) of Israel, "Let not your prophets and your diviners, who are in the midst of you, deceive you, neither listen diligently to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
Jeremiah 37:9: Thus says YAHWEH; Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
Lamentations 1:19: I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Ezekiel 14:9: And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I, YAHWEH, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Obadiah 3: The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Obadiah 7: All the men of your confederacy have brought you even to the border: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they that eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is no understanding in him.
Malachi 1:14: But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices unto YAHWEH a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says YAHWEH Tsaba, and My name is dreadful among the heathen.
(YAHUSHUA is speaking specifically about the "Last Days" in the following verses from Matthew 24.)
Matthew 24:4: And YAHUSHUA answered and said to them, "Take heed that no man deceives you, (5) for many shall come in My name, saying, I am The Messiah; and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:11: And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:24: For there shall arise false messiahs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:5: And YAHUSHUA answering them began to say, "Take heed lest any man deceive you: 6 for many shall come in my name, saying, I am The Messiah; and shall deceive many."
Luke 21:8: And He said, "Take heed that you are not deceived: for many shall come in My name, saying, I am The Messiah; and the time draws near: therefore do not go after them."
John 8.44: You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Acts 5.3: But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?" (Ananias was carried out of the assembly as a dead man.
Romans 7:11: For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
Romans 16:18: For they that are such serve not our Sovereign, YAHUSHUA, The Messiah, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
1 Corinthians 3:18: Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 6:9: do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of Yahweh? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of Yahweh. 11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of The Sovereign, YAHUSHUA, and by the Spirit of our God (Elohim).
1 Corinthians 15:33: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Galatians 6:7: Be not deceived; YAHWEH is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
Ephesians 4:14: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even The Messiah: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Ephesians 5:6: Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things the wrath of YAHWEH comes upon the children of disobedience.
Colossians 3.9: Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man (nature) with his deeds;10 and have put on the new man (nature), which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him:
2 Thessalonians 2:3: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2.8: And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom YAHWEH shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: 9 even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.11 And for this cause YAHWEH shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 2:14: And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (I'll bet this is a surprise to you.)
2 Timothy 3:13: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Titus 1.1: Paul, a servant of YAHWEH, and an apostle of YAHUSHUA, The Messiah, according to the faith of YAHWEH’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 in hope of eternal life, which YAHWEH, who cannot lie, promised before the world began; 3 but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of YAHWEH, our Savior;
Titus 1:10: For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: (church leaders - be careful what and who you believe.)
Titus 3:3: For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 1:22: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1 John 1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1.5: This then is the message which we have heard from Him, and declare unto you, that YAHWEH is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not do the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of YAHUSHUA ,The Messiah, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 2.21: I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denies that YAHUSHUA is The Messiah? He is antichrist, whoever denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 3:7: Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.
2 John 7: For many deceivers have entered into the world, who do not confess that YAHUSHUA, The Messiah, has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Revelation 18:23: And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.
Revelation 19:20: And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 20:3: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Revelation 20:10: And the Devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
(Please note that The Devil, Satan, is "THE DECEIVER". It is his role, his function. Virtually all deception comes via him. He is the one who would have you believe lies and untruth. He is the "antithesis" (opposite) of YAHWEH, and acts accordingly. This is why it is so vitally important that you avoid deception at every level of your life.)
Revelation 21.27: And there shall in no manner enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie: but only those who are written in The Lamb’s book of life.
Revelation 22.14: Blessed are those who do His (YAHWEH's) commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.