Don't Be Deceived by Chris Whitcomb - HTML preview

DON’T BE DECEIVED.

MATTHEW 24: 4

COMPILED BY J.C. WHITCOMB FROM THE WORD OF GOD THE FATHER AND

CREATOR OF THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE.

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PREFACE TO THIS WRITING.

John 16 :1-4.

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea the time cometh, that whosoever kill

will think that they doeth Gods service and these things will they do unto you

because they have not known the Farther, nor me.

But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember

that I have told you about them. And these things I said to you in the beginning

because I was with you.

The reason why I was convinced to write this article or warning is when I realised that when Jesus was on the earth, he on many occasions warned his disciples and even other people about “don’t be deceived.”

This became a reality in my live when I realised that I has been deceived all my life by almost everybody I came across. Especially by churches who preaches dogmatic religion instead of what is written in the Bible.

We must realise that the great deceiver is Satan himself and he is walking around lately like a roaring lion to see who he can deceive and devour. He knows that his time is short and that is why he is extremely active now in the latter days. The big question is how he is deceiving the people of the world and why. Firstly, if people don’t believe in God they are on his side and he will not focus on them, he would rather focus on the people who do believe in God to try and convince them to change their minds by believing it is so difficult to be on Gods side, why even try?

This whole deception almost got me away from my Christian upbringing in believing that it is so difficult to be a child of the Lord, that I might as well give up. I was about 35 years old at the time and my Christian upbringing as well as all the prayers of my beloved mother, forced me to ask the Lord to please help me through this difficult time of my life. I then told the Lord that I will give it one more change, but this time around I want to understand everything I read in the Bible. I then started reading the Bible again from Genesis 1 and planned to read to Revelation 22. I however stopped at Genesis 1:2. Why?

I was educated in two Engineering fields namely Civil Engineering where I worked

for about ten years and then also studied Industrial Engineering to help me widen my knowledge to enhance my career in Engineering. I worked about 10 years in civil engineering, then did a work study course and then was lecturing at a University of Technology for 4 years and then joined a leading mining company as Industrial

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Engineer till I started my own consulting firm doing work for major International Mining Companies. This lasted until I ran out of work due to reasons I would not mention as a South African. This background about myself is necessary to understand the way I am, and the way I think.

When I started reading Genesis 1 again, I got stuck at verse two of chapter 1. “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,

The questions that popped into my head was the following.

This is not like my God; He makes everything perfect and well and good.

 Why is the earth without form and void?

 Why is there darkness upon the face of the deep?

 Where did the water come from upon which the Spirit of God moved?

Many such questions followed like the one question which most Christians always answers incorrectly namely “why did God chased Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden? “Almost all people answers because they sinned and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The answer is not totally wrong but not the reason why God removed them from Eden. The devil is hiding the reason from people because God told Adam and Eve if they eat of that tree, you will surely die, Satan told them you will not surely die but become like gods and be able to know good and evil. Satan is the one who rules death and that is his reward for all people who don’t belong to God. God is the giver of eternal life as a reward to His people. Satan deceives people to not remember that there was also another tree in the garden of Eden namely the tree of life, God’s reward. It was Gods will that man should live for ever because He did not prevent Adam and Eve to eat form the tree of life, only from the tree of knowledge. But after they did eat of the wrong tree God said the following, and this Satan is hiding from most people” and the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand , and take also of the tree of life , and eat and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So, he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden Cherubins, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

One of the very first deceptions Satan is using to deceive many people, including

the elect, is that man is born immortal and will life forever. This is not true. Eternal life is only given to those who accept Jesus Christ as their saviour and redeemer. Also, nobody comes to the Farther but trough His Son, nor does anybody come to the Son unless he or she is first called by the Farther.

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As a Christian believer and a scientist, it is a scientific fact to understand that for anybody to prove a theory or a hypothesis, you must prove time, space and matter. Amazingly our Bible does that in the very first sentence in the Bible. In the beginning (time), God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter). Amen. A fourth item is required to maintain what was created and that is energy which God added when He added the sun, the moon, and the stars. This proofs that the Bible is a proven theory and hypothesis, and therefore, the reference used mainly in this writing, is the Bible, the word of God.

The hypothesis of man not having immortality at birth, is a very important lesson to understand in the Bible. This explains a lot of other teachings in the rest of scripture. Man does not have immortality. He lost it after they were deceived by Satan in the garden of Eden. Satan can offer a lot of things to his servants and the people, but not eternal life. He and his followers are trying very hard even today, to create a way to be able to make such a promise, to the devil’s followers, possible.

Praise God, through His great love and mercy, He opened a new way to eternal life for believers through His Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

I am 70 years old today and have lost all my earthly belongings including my farm, my house in a fire in which I lost all other belongings and my best compatriot who left me without saying why and not even goodbye after 20 years of been together and taking care of her. I only now realise that the reason why all of this happened to me, is because I did not do what the Lord wanted me to do, and this is to start doing what I should have done many years ago. Revealing Satan’s deceptions as revealed to me in scripture.

In the last chapter of Daniel, he said the following” And I heard, but I understood not; then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, go thy way, Daniel; for the words are closed and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand”. The Lord opened my eyes so the I can understand.

I understood for a long time but did not share it the way I should have. But I think the time has come and that is why I am now doing what I should have done 35 years ago. Start writing down what the Lord revealed to me in His word. I know what I am going to write is going to be against a lot of previous believes, understandings and doctrines of churches and preachers, but I keep on asking the Lord not to allow me to write what I think, but what I write is in the Bible and revealed to me by the Holy Spirt. I am only the instrument doing the typing.

I also want at this stage to clarify something on my research methodology and the lack of sticking to traditional methods of recognition and acknowledgment like in normal writings and books. I was so focused on finding the truth, that I wrote down things that I used in this writing which I have read and saw in articles and even 4

different Bibles and never even thought of making notes on where I found the information and articles. The only things I did write down was the Biblical scriptures. I was never thinking of writing a book about this topic and my research was focusing on finding the truth. If I therefore use some things written by somebody else, I do apologise for it, but to me it was just a way of explaining and proving a fact or a point to make about something the devil was miss leading people with. To me, bringing the deceptions to the light was the motive, not to use it to make money. This is also why my intention is and will always be, to expose the deception and not to sell the book even if I have to hand it out for free. I also made to a great deal used of Professor Google who I must say was very useful in finding scriptures I could then read from the Bible and not as captured by Prof. Google. In most articles found by the Professor, there was also almost no reference given.

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