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DECEIT

Would you be willing to buy a flat screen TV for $250.00? Would you be willing to buy an oven door with a cord and a remote control for the same amount? Leaan Day's boyfriend thought he was doing one, but did the other. Many unsuspecting people who thought they were getting a good deal on a flat screen television learned a hard lesson about "getting what you pay for." Leann Day's boyfriend spent $250 for what he thought was a new TV. Day told reporters later, "If you're going to buy something from someone, make sure you open it first."

Authorities in Indiana say the fake TVs were packaged so professionally, victims had no idea they made a bad purchase until they got home and opened the merchandise.

—http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8442540/detail.html. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.

Matthew 24:4-5 (NIV) "Jesus answered: 'Watch out that no one deceives you. [5] For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.'"

Gaby Rodriguez, a 17-year-old Washington student fooled everyone into thinking she was pregnant. The only people aware of her deception were her mother and her school principal. Gaby decided to perform this charade in order to document how a teen pregnancy may affect the life of a young mother and how the people around her would react to her pregnancy. Her experiment went on for six months, during which Gaby disguised her stomach with a fake belly that made her look pregnant. She finally did reveal that she was not pregnant in a school wide assembly designed to make the audience aware of the type of prejudice and suspicion a teen mom suffers when they are pregnant. It seems people were quick to believe her lie and did not investigate further when they saw heard Gaby’s story. 

--ABC News-  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/washington-teen-gaby-rodriguez-fakes-pregnancy-social-experiment/story?id=13434764 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Miguel Martinez

When emotions or simple sight direct us, it is easy to be deceived. We can be led to believe anything if we are not truly attuned to the word of God.

Jeremiah 17:9 (NASB77) "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

DECEIT  

Jessica Chiccehito Hindman recounts a four-year stint of her life experience in her new book, Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir. From 2002 to 2006, she was a violinist for an ensemble that toured the country playing New Age Music. The thing was, they faked every performance. All their music was pre-recorded and they just went through the motions. Audiences never realized that what they were hearing was not real.

Reviewed in The Week, March 8, 2019, p. 22

Deception and deceivers are everywhere. They will fool you and take advantage of you at every opportunity. It is one thing to be deceived by a fake concert. It is much worse to be deceived about Jesus. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell.

2 John 7 (CSB) “Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.”