Everything is a lie, or so it seems, with deception permeating so many areas that discerning the truth becomes a daunting task. In the realm of information, lies are rampant, as seen when an article falsely attributed to Dr. Walter Williams was circulated to leverage his conservative reputation, despite the accuracy of the voting figures it presented. This act of deceit, tying one's thoughts to another's name without acknowledgment, underscores a broader issue of trust in public discourse. Who among the thousands of voices broadcasting opinions is telling the truth? Is any circumstance exactly as it appears or as reported? Deception extends beyond politics into everyday commerce, with health food products claiming to be raw while fine print reveals they have been pasteurized, thus no longer raw. Warnings about knockoff items tied to major events like the Super Bowl further highlight the prevalence of fraud, urging caution with the principle of "let the buyer beware." In the financial sector, a massive fraud involving robo-signing within an unregulated shadow banking system, used by major Wall Street institutions since the late 1990s, has been exposed. This system, though not illegal, operates beyond public view, and even when caught in fraudulent practices, solutions proposed seem to protect the perpetrators due to their connections with those in power. The exceedingly high level of fraud reveals the pervasive influence of deception in human affairs.

Satan, as the father of lies, deceives the whole world, and this deception can ensnare even God's people if we fail to heed God's Word and the guidance of those appointed to watch over and protect His flock. The lies bombarding our minds daily aim to demonize those with opposing views, serving as part of satan's efforts to wear us down and separate us from God and from those called into the Body of Christ. These lies follow the pattern of the big lie that began in the Garden of Eden, where satan first distorted the truth, a tactic that continues to move men to destroy themselves. The concept of the big lie, a lie so colossal that its audacity makes it believable when repeated often enough, mirrors satan's original deception. This pattern is evident in modern society, where incessant accusations and negative coverage manipulate emotions and suspend rationality among many. The truth, embodied in Jesus Christ, stands as the mortal enemy of the lie and, by extension, the greatest enemy of satan. Thus, satan wages war on those separated from this world to live in the real truth found only in Jesus Christ, attempting to divide and conquer with the big lie that one can remain united in Him while being consumed by carnal politics. We must recognize the big lies in society today and seek the place of safety graciously given in the truth that is in Jesus Christ. As the consequences of these lies unfold, those who propagate them often repress dissent, and we must avoid being caught in the ensuing battle. We witness a time when all of God's creation is corrupted, turned from its intended purpose under the big lie that men, apart from God, can determine the knowledge of good and evil and be their own gods.

Satan is designated as a liar, speaking only from his own resources, which are filled with deceit. There is no pure truth within him, as every thought from his heart is ulterior, misleading, and self-serving. As the arch-deceiver, his intent is to capture every soul through lying and to enslave them. The whole world lies under his sway, founded upon a sneaky lie he uttered to Adam and Eve. By contrast, Jesus Christ describes Himself as the embodiment of truth, which sets one free, while lying enslaves. So detestable is lying to God that He declares all liars shall have their part in the Lake of Fire. Mankind has been affected by the lying disease through contact with Satan and his minions. The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Lying originates from the heart, becomes addictive to the liar, and renders the liar unbelievable. Lies serve as a little fortress, making the liar feel safe and powerful while manipulating others, with justifications built as walls to protect the deceit. The major damage of lying is the destruction of trust, which can irreparably harm or even destroy relationships.

Lies belong to the realm of darkness, and Satan is their source. Jesus told the Jews who opposed Him that they were of their father the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth, only darkness, in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. Those who belong to him cannot hear Christ's word, because they are not of God. Truth was a foreign language to those Jews; a lie was their native language. Pilate, enmeshed in politics, likewise could no longer recognize truth. The same darkness has fallen over present society, because most people speak the language of lies and deceit. Many politicians, lawyers, salespeople, advertisers, scientists, doctors, and teachers distort the truth to fit their own agenda. Satan also illuminates false light, focusing it on the pleasure of sin, while he himself remains surrounded by darkness. The Enlightenment shows how he uses a false light to push people into deeper darkness, since it paved the way for the false religion of evolution and humanism. Anyone who claims to walk with God yet walks in darkness lies and does not practice the truth. Those who teach God's way without living it have only a form of knowledge, a show that cannot escape God's heart-searching eye. By contrast, God is light, with no darkness at all, and He is the only source of everlasting truth. In the Kingdom, God's Spirit will shine in every mind and all will finally see the truth.

Lies form a central element in the end-time deception described in II Thessalonians 2:9-12, where the lawless one arrives through Satan's power with signs, wonders, and unrighteous deception aimed at those who reject the love of the truth and thus face condemnation through belief in the lie. This lie emerges amid the increase of knowledge foretold in Daniel 12:4, as artificial intelligence advances from early military-backed research toward systems capable of generating unverifiable events, deep fakes, fabricated eyewitness accounts, and contradictory narratives that fracture any shared reality. Such technology can simulate signs in the heavens or a false return of Christ, echoing warnings in Mark 13:21-22 against false Christs and prophets who produce wonders to mislead even the elect if possible. These lies extend to infiltrated teachings within congregations, such as claims about the flat earth or altered biblical order, and to longstanding deceptions like Christmas observances that contradict Jeremiah 10. The result is a psychosocial collapse marked by eroded civic trust, hardened tribal divisions, institutional failure, and replacement by authoritarian controls or tech platforms as new arbiters of truth, fulfilling the pattern of those who take pleasure in unrighteousness rather than believing the truth. Only steadfast love for the truth, drawn solely from Scripture, offers protection against this delusion, as artificial constructs lack genuine intelligence and serve merely as tools that devalue human life while attempting to obscure God's Word.

Lying is rampant in the world, in the media, in business, and in ordinary individuals, and it has become so normal that people take it for granted and can unconsciously take part in it. Isaiah 59 describes Israel at the end time as a people whose lips speak lies, so that truth fails. God condemns lying in the Ten Commandments, ranks liars among the worst of men (I Timothy 1:9-10), and hates a lying tongue and a false witness (Proverbs 6:17). God never lies; if He did, no one could have faith or hope in Him. Satan is the source of lying. Before him, deceit did not exist, and he introduced it to cause confusion, division, rebellion, and sin. Anyone who lies, even in small matters, imitates the Devil as his father (John 8:44). People are most tempted to lie when they want an advantage, when pride is at stake, when they want to cover a defect, or when they leave out something that should be told, whether by shading, obscuring, or omitting the truth. Paul commands God's people to put away lying and speak truth with one another, since they are members of one another (Ephesians 4:25). Truthfulness does not require telling everything. Some matters are private, and silence or a brief answer may be right, provided the motive is not selfish deception. Those who love and practice lying will not enter the Kingdom (Revelation 22:14-15). God's people are to be lights in the world, a truthful society, and should think before speaking so as to repudiate Satan's way and bear God's image.

Liars are stupid and foolish, and lying has no good end, as Psalm 52:2-5 shows: God will destroy the deceitful tongue that loves lying more than speaking righteousness. This holds for journalists or any other human being. Machines such as polygraphs and voice analyzers cannot reliably identify liars, but people can learn to detect lies through knowledge, training, and practice, using principles from the Five Books of Moses. The Hebrew word for truth, emet, is made of the first, middle, and last letters of the alphabet, so truth fits a consistent sequence from A to Z. The word for a lie, sheker, is made of jumbled letters near the end, so lies are isolated anomalies that never run from A to Z. Truth's letters stand on firm, broad bases, while a lie's letters stand on points and are unstable. The first uses of emet concern one issue, while the first uses of sheker are scattered across different contexts. There is only one truth but many lies, and people tell the truth naturally but lie in countless ways. To detect a lie, check whether the story fits a sensible context, probe it to see if it wobbles, and watch for departures from the speaker's baseline truth-telling mannerisms. Because lies abound, news and information must be questioned, and absolute trust belongs only to God's Word.