Terry James - Deceivers: Exposing Evil Seducers & Their Last Days Deception

First printing: April 2018

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Contents

Acknowledgments

As always in a book project, there are so many to thank.

First, I thank our Lord Jesus Christ for the privilege of being allowed to participate in this effort on His behalf.

Although I thank our participating authors in the introduction and conclusion, I also want to note their contributions here. Each brings tremendous knowledge and insight into the areas they cover on this prophetic topic.

To Angie Peters, my long-time editor, who is a daughter in my heart, my thanks and love. As always, she makes the book seamless and as near-perfect as possible.

To Dana Neel, who is daughter-close in every area of my life, my thanks and love.

To Jeanie, a daughter who means so much to me, my heart-felt love.

To Todd Strandberg, my partner in raptureready.com, my love and thanks for being a family-close friend and brother in Christ.

To my wife, Margaret, and our kids, Terry, Jr., Nathan, and Kerry my love and thanks for always being there, close by.

To everyone at New Leaf Publishing Group, my deep gratitude for all your efforts in bringing this book to publication.

To you, the reader, thanks for picking up and reading this book, which I hope will bless your life in whatever way the Lord chooses.

INTRODUCTION

Terry James

T he greatest of all prophets looked from the mountainside across the Kidron Valley to Mount Moriah. His gaze was unlike that ever cast upon the topography, taking in a prophetic vista unprecedented in breadth and scope.

As He compassionately breathed in the essence of His beloved Jerusalem, God, Himself, pronounced with 100 percent clarity and accuracy the final throes of human history that would precede His Second Coming. He answered His disciples question about what will mark the end of the age: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many (Matthew 24:45).

It was the first recorded prophecy Jesus Christ uttered in what is known as the Olivet Discourse. His declaration echoes in cavernous reverberation through the corridors of past ages to our own time. Deception is the order of the day within the 21st-century world.

The deceivers are among us. They, in fact, rule this fallen planet while the wind-up of human history runs its inevitable course. Never have there been prophetic topics more worthy of dissection and analysis than those encapsulated within this books title.

Authors who agreed to do that dissection and analysis for this volume are far more than merely excellent writers. Each is a widely recognized expert in publishing and broadcasting Bible prophecy. More importantly, each puts the soul-saving gospel message that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven at the heart of their ministries. Even beyond those credentials they share, each has been granted by the God they serve the dual gifts of spiritual discernment and prophetic insight into the issues and events that flood our daily headlines.

I am most gratified and humbled that they have agreed to take on their various assignments in presenting these chapters. Each one, I earnestly believe, is written with Holy Spirit influence and guidance. Our collective prayer is that you, the reader, will take from the book the things our Lord wants you to discern while life moves forward into the troubling although exciting times just ahead.

In Deceivers: Exposing Evil Seducers & Their Last-Days Deception , we have attempted to examine the many facets of todays rapidly degenerating culture i.e., each chapter looks at a specific, corruptive aspect of life on the planet and in the nation through the prophetic, revealing lens and light of Gods Word, the Bible.

We believe that stage-setting for Christs Olivet prophecy about deceivers and deception is on the front burner of life today. It is altogether fitting, therefore, to assess this particular end-times signal in ascertaining where we might stand on Gods prophetic timeline.

End-of-the-age deception has at its black heart increasingly virulent intrusion by the spirit world. This invasion is predicted in the Apostle Pauls prophecy: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived (2 Timothy 3:13).

Satan, the ultimately evil one, works through human agencies human beings to accomplish his nefarious desires. His objective is summed up in one brief and powerful statement of warning by the Apostle Peter: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).

So, what do we observe today that shows the devils use of human agencies to accomplish his intended destruction? His handiwork of seduction and deception is readily manifest in most every area of life at this present hour.

Religious Deception

One of the most blatant displays of Lucifers deluding assaults is in the arena of theology. While false religions and false belief systems of all sorts are prevalent today, the most troubling such evil comes from within the body of believers. It is, I think, the Laodicean church in the making.

The development of this end-of-the-age church warned about by John in the Revelation exploded on the contemporary scene, Im convinced, with the Purpose-Driven movement. Its most manifest lie was penned by its key architect, in my view. That lie declared that Bible prophecy isnt relevant and should be disregarded.