Founded on False Knowledge
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A concluding section of the white horse chapter returns, this time as a question: Have you ever examined why people believe as they do? Why have so many come to accept the doctrines that they hold—and for that matter their view of prophecy—as having come from the Bible? Why have you believed and accepted the things that you do? Almost all who consider themselves Christians have carelessly assumed from childhood the answer to the most important question that they could address—do they have and are they worshipping the RIGHT GOD?
Many come into adulthood having accepted without question what they repeatedly heard, read or were taught in Sunday school. They have been unwilling to challenge what their peers have also accepted without question. Strangely, these same people will often vigorously defend their beliefs, while feeling absolutely no need to examine proof of why they believe what they do—or to consider how they came to such beliefs. Human nature wants to follow the crowd. And we have at least briefly seen this has been the case with virtually every one of the popular teachings, traditions and practices found in orthodox Christianity—which have been taken almost entirely from paganism, false customs and human reasoning. This is why the masses have followed a triune god that was conceived and developed entirely outside the pages of the Bible.
Incredibly, I have even seen those who knew the true God become willing to carelessly exchange Him for another god as easily as taking trash to the dumpster. Yes, throughout history, many who have known the God of the Bible have been willing to slowly blur and then lose altogether the knowledge of who and what He is. An “arrow” of lies and deceit (read Jeremiah 9:3) from the one riding the white horse was able to pierce their understanding.
Source of Deception, Confusion
We saw the apostle John described Satan the devil as having “deceived the whole world” (Rev. 12:9). And we saw that his greatest goal has been to keep man from a relationship with his Creator. The apostle Paul described Satan as “the god of this world” who we also saw “has blinded…them which believe not” (II Cor. 4:4). Is it strange to think of Satan as this world’s GOD? Does this seem impossible to believe? Yet, there it is in your Bible. After all, as arch-deceiver, on what point would the devil most want to deceive—blind—mankind, other than the identity of the true God? Satan is theauthor of the trinity—a false, counterfeit, substitute deity—designed sixteen centuries ago to deceive millions into unwittingly worshipping him, while thinking they serve the God of Christianity and the Bible.
The highly educated of this world ought to know who God is! But they do not, because this is spiritual knowledge, divinely revealed by the very God these scholars and educators have been unable to discover on their own—and Whom they could never discover on their own.
These modern educators have been steeped in the false understanding of the theory of evolution. Because they have believed this fable, they have taught it to unsuspecting minds, and conditioned them to reject God’s revelation of Himself at the very beginning of Genesis. Then, having rejected the Creation account of this same Genesis, inspired by the God of the Bible, these have become blinded to the identity of the true God—leaving them utterly unable to find their way out of the maze of confusion in which they have placed themselves. Evolution has taught them self-reliance, and ultimately cut them off from the knowledge that would have freed them from ignorance in all the most important matters of life. There they sit, left without the answers to life’s greatest questions. Because intellectual vanity—plain pride!—would not let them seek a higher power greater than their own minds, these have literally trapped themselves in confusion, with no idea where to turn for light.
The Unknown Book
If the Bible is as it has been called—“The Book that nobody knows”—then the One who authored it is truly the God nobody knows! While this was not what He intended, this God has remained a mystery, concealed from a humanity willing to follow a “mystery god” that cannot be understood.
Some years ago, a world-famous evangelist declared of the trinity, “When I first began to study the Bible years ago, the doctrine of the Trinity was one of the most complex problems I had to encounter. I have never fully resolved it, for it contains an aspect of mystery. Though I do not totally understand it to this day, I accept it as a revelation of God…To explain and illustrate the Trinity is one of the most difficult assignments to a Christian.”
How true! With at least 10 recognized versions or descriptions—definitions—of the trinity, no wonder it cannot be understood.
In the world, mystery books are often the bestsellers. The same with movies. Everyone seems to like the proverbial “Whodunit?” Any mystery in which a crime was committed involves several critical elements that must eventually come to light—perpetrator, victim, crime scene, weapon, witnesses, motive and other evidence. When this happens, there is tremendous satisfaction and excitement. No one would read a mystery book or watch a mystery movie if he knew in advance that the writer or producer was not going to solve the mystery in the end.
The mysteries of men’s religions are different, however. They always remain mysteries. In the end, they are never explained—never solved—and followers of these religions are told that they must accept this. This is never more true than when it comes to the concept of a triune god. Why would vast numbers be willing to accept, for a lifetime, a mystery about God, when they would not accept this of a mere book or movie?
Yet, they do—and this has cut them off from understanding the truth about prophecy!
If the trinity represents the true God, we could ask: Why is there such widespread confusion and division—such disagreement—about Him? Why is not the subject of God clear—plain—to the common man? Remember, “God is not the author of confusion” (I Cor. 14:33). He never wants His servants to be in confusion. Why then have so many been willing to accept without question this disagreement and confusion on the nature of God? So many of these same people readily admit, “God just doesn’t seem real to me.” Yet they seem willing to let Him remain this way.
Not only do the masses on Earth today stand in ignorance of life’s most important knowledge, including both the identity of the true God and correct understanding of the many biblical truths that this God teaches, most do not appear to care about any of this. Billions do not even seem to want to know—to want to solve the mysteries of God and His Word, as well as of prophecy. Strangely, in this case, they seem willing to read a mystery book or see a mystery movie, knowing in advance the mystery will not be solved.