Greg Harris - The Lie

2021 Gregory H. Harris
The Lie
And Other Biblical Truths about the Coming Tribulation

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Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE,

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Full Bibliographic Info

Chapter OneGregory H. Harris, Satans Work as a Deceiver, Bibliotheca Sacra. 156:2 (Apr-June 1999), 190202. Used by permission.

Chapter TwoGregory H. Harris, Satans Deceptive Miracles in the Tribulation, Bibliotheca Sacra. 156:3 (JulySept 1999), 30824. Used by permission.

Chapter Three Gregory H. Harris Does God Deceive? Towards a Biblical Understanding of the Deluding Influence of 2 Thessalonians 2:11, The Masters Seminary Journal 16:1 (Spring 2005), 7393. Used by permission.

Chapter FourGregory H. Harris, The Wound of the Beast in the Tribulation, Bibliotheca Sacra. 156:4 (OctDec 1999), 45968. Used by permission.

Chapter FiveGregory H. Harris, Can Satan Raise the Dead? Toward a Biblical View of the Beasts Wound, The Masters Seminary Journal 18:1 (Spring 2007), 2341. Used by permission.

Chapter SixGregory H. Harris, Premillennialism in the New Testament: Five Biblically Doctrinal Truths, The Masters Seminary Journal 29:2 (Fall 2018), 177205. Used by permission.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore, God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie [literally, the lie] and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 1:2125

N ormally we end up dedicating the book to someone or a group of people. As I more and more hand Glory Books over to beloved people, I wanted to thank you all who had any part in thisbig, small, or just prayed or encouraged one way or another.

I tell people quite often to Walk with God, and you will not miss His will. You may not understand it for a while, but you will not miss Gods Will.

Glory Books is one of those. I bucked, kicked, dragged my fingers on the sidewalkso to speakand nevertheless, here we are. Ill wait and let God show you some of the things He did and how He used this association that He had put together.

I think it would surprise you. It certainly surprised me.

God bless you all,

Greg Harris
June 2021

Dr. Greg Harris personal editor: Patricia Rotisky

Associate editor: Chris Fowler

Dr. Greg Harris website: www.glorybooks.com

TMS consulting class : The Masters Seminary consulting class, Spring 2021: Bob and Julie Fanciullacci, Becky Howard, Rob Thurman, Nancy Anderson, Tricia Steiger, Andre Randolph [Emeritus], Faly Ravoahangy [Emeritus], Premend Choy [Emeritus], Dave Owen, Chad Tucker, and Chris Fowler.

And those untimely born and grafted in: Kevin Laymon, Aaron Filburn, Bill and Lalanne Barber, and Chazz Anderson, King Charles Clemons.

Ongoing thanks to Dr. Bill Barrick for his godly scholarship and Brotherhood.

S ince my diagnosis of a terminal disease, and major side effects of some very strong medicine that I am on, I have not been racing wildly, but I certainly have tried to redeem the time, purposefully considering the situation. Until recently, things were fine, and it was a very productive segment of time for me. As I was preparing and writing a bit of The LieAnd Other Biblical Truths About the Coming Tribulation, godly friends intervened and told me it was time to stop writing; that the standard of writing had dropped considerably.

I had made peace with that and was looking for something to do, because I had spent virtually every day of the past 5 to 6 years, including this Introduction in mid-2021, writing in some way. I was looking for something the Lord would have me do, but I was not sure what to do.

I was informed by a close friend who knew the situation very well, that some of my journal articles, already edited and published, would make up between 85% to 90% of what I had planned to include in The Lie. Of course, using different journal articles to cover the material meant that not everything would be in perfect order, and that one journal article might contain four or five different items from the same biblical chapter. I tried to have very little overlap, but some of it could not be helped.

So, under my no-other-option than use the journal articles to produce this book by how I just described, I am only using materials from previously published journal articles, including their footnotes. Special thanks to Dallas Theological Seminary for permission to reprint my journal articles in Bibliotheca Sacra (the name of their periodical journal), and thanks to The Masters Seminary for allowing me to use some of the articles I published with their journal, entitled the Masters Seminary Journal.

A few final points to note: first, just for claritys sake, in the Table of Contents we have put in only the chapters names (which are actually the titles for the individual journal articles). I think you will see how much easier they are to read. Second, the full bibliographic entries will be on the first page and the end of the book. Third, I purposely wrote my journal articles to meet the academic standard, but alsoand this is important to knowI wrote them for people in the church to read. So, do not let the concept of journal articles discourage you from reading this book. There may be a few words or contents that need explaining, but I tried to do that whenever I wrote.

If you have not seen the massive differences of interpretation between the premillennial understanding of Scripture versus the amillennial, we will clearly view both positions side by side, with their supporting quotes from some of their stalwarts. We will set forth different approaches to Scripture as we study the Book of Revelation, and these are not some minor issues. So much of how one interprets Scripture ties in with those views.

And who knows, maybe that was one reason God wanted The Lie to be written.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA 156 (AprilJune 1999) 190202

Gregory H. Harris

T he Bible presents Satan as playing a strategic role in deceiving people so that they either do not receive or do not retain the truth of God. By deceptive tactics Satan continually attempts to hinder Gods program. Deception is an essential element of Satans nature, for Jesus said he is a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies (John 8:44). Lying is one of his basic means of deceiving others.