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The Power of a Lie

A lie is a statement that is untrue with the intent to deceive. When a person lies, they give misinformation, misrepresentation, dishonesty, slander, and falsify things to make people believe the lie.  A good example of a lie being told is in 1 Kings 13:11-29 (read the entire 13th chapter for greater context).  A lying old prophet went out to meet a prophet sent by God and told him that an angel spoke to him by the word of the Lord to bring him to his house to eat bread and drink water.  This was a lie and in direct contradiction to what God had already commanded of the prophet sent by Him.  The lie resulted in the death of the prophet sent by God; he was killed by a lion because he disobeyed God’s instructions.