Exodus 20”16 – Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
Exodus 23 “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong….
Leviticus 19:11 “‘Do not steal. “ ‘Do not lie.“‘Do not deceive one another.
Prov. 19:5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free
The Scripture repeatedly forswears the false-witness… the liar … the deceiver.
Whether it is these passages we have just had read or whether it is countless others,|
Our Savior Himself pointed out the origin of the lie
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
St. Paul as inspired by the Spirit of the living God wrote,
Ephesians 4:25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor,
And when we get almost to the very end of the final book of Holy Writ we read,
Rev. 22: But outside (the Kingdom) are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Clearly Christians are to a people occupied with the Truth before God.
The Westminster Larger Catechism teaches on this subject and here I quot only in part.
Q.144. What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?
A. The duties required in the ninth commandment are, the preserving and promoting of truth between man and man
Q. 145. What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
A. The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth … giving false evidence; … wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause;
The Heidelberg Catechism teaches in part,
Rather I must avoid all lying and deceit
as the devil’s own works, under penalty of God’s heavy wrath.
We demand this of ourselves and in raising children we demand it of them. More than once growing up I heard my Mother tell me … “If you lie to me here I won’t be able to believe you in anything else.”
We take lying so seriously in our children that we visit it with the stiffest of penalties. Or at least we should.
We take lying so seriously that we break off relationships if lies become a consistent representation of the way a person deals with us.
In other words we seek to hold this standard for ourselves and we have that standard for others in our lives.
In point of fact, when Lies and lying becomes characteristic of a social order the trust quotient becomes so low that the social order can’t function. When thou shalt not bear witness become thou shalt bear false witness at every opportunity everything breaks down and grinds to a halt.
And that is where we are approaching as a people.
Our family disintegration is what it is because spouses lie to one another and children lie to parents.
Our Civil order breaks down because Magistrates lie to their constituents routinely and with regularity.
Woodrow Wilson in 1916 campaigned on the theme of “He kept your boys out of war”
FDR promised — “Your boys are not going to fight in a foreign war”
LBJ escalated Vietnam on the lie of a torpedo being fired at one of our ships
Nixon told us on TV that “I am not a crook”
Bush promised — “Read my lips, No new taxes.”
W promised knowingly lied to us about Weapons of Mass destruction
We were told by the FEDS that Bldg. #7 fell because of shrapnel
Obama promised – “If you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor”
And these are merely the highlights.
Lying and false witness has become part of the American soul.
As Americans we have been successfully and hopelessly dehumanized by a cavalcade of lies. By the lies already mentioned. By the embrace of the lie of abortion then with our turning a blind eye to the pestilent lie that is sodomy, and then we accepted the lie of TSC agents groping our sexual organs. And now we are expected to bear the indignity of covering our faces so we can once again adjust to the lying diktats of the God-State. Incremental legislative step by incremental legislative step, with a thousand other such actions we have been dehumanized and reduced to being men without chests. At every turn, for the momentary fleeting hope that things will return to normal, we willingly surrender all our principles, our souls, all the efforts of our predecessors and all opportunities for our descendants— if only we can cling to our increasingly fragile existence.
We are no longer men of integrity, principle and honor. We want to be lied to. We take comfort in the lie. Not even the fear of the State seeking to be God walking on the earth, no, not even the fear of the world our children will occupy can break us off the lies and breathe into us the needed courage and grit to resist the lying Tyrant State. We cannot resist the lying Tyrant state because we ourselves are liars. How can we hold our magistrates accountable if we ourselves are guilty of lying to our spouses, our children, our friends and so we find the lie comfortable.
We have already taken refuge in the crevices hoping that the State will not turn its “Mordor on the Potomac” eye upon us. The only thing we fear are acts of civil courage and defiance against those who would be our Masters.
Thou Shalt Not bear false witness indeed.
We need to return to the exegesis of the public Theologian Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Any truth is morally vital to a person. Any truth in principle. The simple step of a courageous individual is to not partake in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the whole world.”
Notice Solzhenitsyn’s “any truth.” When we begin to “live by lies,” then any truth becomes ground upon which to unfurl, and plant the flag as a hill to die on.
Again Solzhenitsyn,
“The simple truth of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your Credo be this: let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
And so, like Solzhenitsyn before us, like Igor Shafarevich, like Richard Wumbrand we must return to insisting on public truth that matches our private truth telling.
And friends loved by Christ when we embrace the Mask narrative we are living by lies. We are bearing false witness.
That is one of the first things that the wearing of the Mask does. As a people, it tells us that it is acceptable to live by public lies.
Everyone knows the Mask is irrelevant. 4 months ago they couldn’t tell us enough that the mask was irrelevant to the Wuhan. 4 months later we are told to live by these lies.
We must respond with a Solzhenitsynesque, “Live not by lies.”
There is not one RCT (random control trial) experiment that shows that masks stop the spread of respiratory viruses. In fact 14 studies show that they do not work. No science has determined that masks can keep the viral spread down. You have been told that masking might save you but there are no scientific studies that show this. Newsflash — Viruses are not filtered out by a mask.
We must not sin by bearing false witness by wearing masks. We must not let the Government train us to live by lies.
Yes, Yes, Yes, … I understand that many of your are boxed in by your workplace and its requirement for your to mask. There are times we must play the enemy’s game just long enough to smash the enemy. But when you’re not boxed in do not wear the mask and so support the State’s false witness.
Reformed clergy have been saying endlessly that people like me should not make such a big deal out of such a little thing, but in saying such a thing a thing they don’t understand what is at stake.
The Reformed clergy across the nation, exceptions notwithstanding, are leading their people to Statist slaughter. Scripture teaches that we are not to be conformed to the world but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. Where is the transformed mind of the American Reformed clergy? Why are they going along in this manifest lunacy?
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, mask-wearing is:
“A form of disguise or concealment usually worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being.”
The mask completes the work of the Globalists to turn man into a cog so that all cogs are seen as mere replacement for other cogs. Look at crowds as they are each and all masked. What you gaze upon is a sea of undifferentiated human cogs. The individual and the personal is lost in a sea of sameness. Masking is the perfect egalitarian move.
Even more than the French Revolution Phrygian cap or the Chinese Maoist Revolutionary Mao Suit, the mask communicates the apex of the egalitarian drone. With the wide wearing of the mask an occult transformation has occurred. Man in the image of God has become the Borg having no distinct identity.
Mask wearing then, when not necessary, is anti-Christ and Pastors who keep writing hallmark tropes on how one is showing Jesus love are doing anti-Christ work. They fail to realize not only what has been said above but they fail to realize that the mask is merely conditioning for one more step into the breech of Government tyranny.
Wear the mask has already turned into… nark on your neighbor for not wearing the mask.
Wear the mask will assuredly turn into … take the vaccine and chip
Wear the mask turns into … we must get rid of money to be hygienic
Wear the masks turns into … in order to stop this we must put this tracer on you.
Do you see why not participating in this false witness impressed upon you by the lying State is so important. It is not “just a mask,” it is the camel’s nose under the tent unto the next breach of the Christ hating tyrant state.
Masks are supporting the lie of a social order that is amped up on fear. This fear juice throughout history has been used upon the public to support Marxist Revolution. Whether it was the constant lies of the Duc d’Orleans of the French Revolution or whether it was the constant lies of the Bolsheviks before the Russian revolution or whether it was the lies of the abolitionists and jacobins of our own Revolution of 1861 fear is ginned up in order to drive people to support the Christ hating Revolution.
Christians … do not bear false witness. Live not by lies.
Masks are supporting a social order controlled by the State. A state that can make you put on a clown mask can make you accept a vaccine, can make you give up your currency, can make you tell on your neighbor for the silliest of reasons.
Fear and control … do not bear false witness. Live not by lies.
From the pulpit, in my teaching, in my writing, and even on the radio platform God has opened up I have tried to warn people that our biggest enemy right now is the Tyrant State. It was the case through Scripture and it remains the case now. Government is fire and while it can be a fine servant it always needs to remain under the control of a Christian people.
And right now the State is seeking to control you through fear by having you wear the worthless mask. Do not bear false witness. Live not by lies.
Let us close by quote Solzhenitsyn one more time. Of course Solzhenitsyn knew what it was to live under a state tyranny that required its people to live by lies if they desired to survive. How long until we are living under that same kind of tyranny? We are well on our way there. We can avoid paying the cost that the Russian people paid if we will just stand fast now… at this point. If we will just refuse to bear false witness with these masks… if we will just live not by lies.
Solzhenitsyn speaking in 1978 said,
“Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. A loss of courage may be the most striking feature, which an outside observer notices in the West in our days…Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course, there are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
Commencement address at Harvard University , June 8, 1978
Do not bear false witness. Live not by lies.
