By Sam Adeoye
What you’re about to read is the main source and foundation for all success and wealth in the whole world and if any human being on the Earth tells you that he or she doesn’t lie, the person just lie to you right in your face.
No Economic or business venture can survive without a least element of lie.
For the sake of our religious folks, let’s examine some biblical references that the religious leaders will never touch or talk about because their intentions is never to liberate but to box you and keep you under their control in such a way that you’ll not be able to think for yourself or decide what is right for your own good.
Let’s see who lied in the Bible and why they lied.
ABRAHAM
The first person that ever lied in the scripture was Abram and he lied against Sarai his in Gen 12:10-20 where it was said that Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.” So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house. He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels. But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.” So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had. And in Gen 13:2 it was said that “Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.”
How did Abram became very rich? Abram became very rich by lying about his Wife. Now, if that was it, one would have said, maybe it’s just circumstance; but if you read further, you will also discovered that Isaac also lied about his wife; which means, the legacy had been passed down to him and he was also successful in the land.
This is one principle the successful people knew so well and trade with. Check the life of Isaac; he began his life journey to wealth from where his father stopped. The same line of business, the same system of doing the business and it was the same line of business he passed down to Jacob and Esau. But Jacob broke the code further when he went to stay with Laban his Uncle.
Even though we read in the Bible that the Lord prosper Jacob in Laban’s house; what many of us failed to pay attention to was the fact that, for good Twenty years; Jacob was studying and researching on how to rob Laban of all his possessions and when he had fully mastered the act, he went to Laban and told him that he wanted to leave; he knew that Laban understood his worth. This is one thing many people don’t understand; especially the employees. You don’t have a worth where you work and you want to negotiate your take home. You just signed for your resignation.
The moment Jacob told Laban that he wanted to leave; Laban said to him in Gen 30:27-33; “please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the Lord has blessed me for your sake.” Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.” So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the Lord has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?” So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything”.
Was Jacob really wanted to leave? The answer is NO! He was working out a plan; that was why when Laban asked him; “What shall I give you?” Jacob quickly said, “You shall not give me anything.” Who works for nothing? That’s the act of deception 101. Everyone works for a purpose and the purpose is best known to them alone.
Jacob wants nothing but he went ahead to say that; “if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks: let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages. So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”
This is an act of negotiation that is based on solid findings and understanding the weaknesses and the strengths of the person you’re negotiating with. Already, Jacob knew that Laban has no other options but he. Laban’s children are useless and nothing to write home about. Just like the many children of the high and the mighty ones in the world. Gen 30:34 made it clear that; “Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!” He had no other choice to agree to his biding.
In Twenty years of living in Laban’s house and working for him, Jacob had shown Laban what he could do so trusting Jacob was never an issue. And in those Twenty years, Jacob kept a clean record. No stealing or any fraudulent act; that’s a perfect act of creating smoke around yourself and cover your main intentions with good deeds. People who are into Charity Organizations are very skillful in this act of creating smoke around themselves.
Since they’d reached an agreement, it is now time for execution and in Gen 30:37-43 it was said that “Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink. So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock. And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s. Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.”
With Twenty years of research, pretence, loyalty, building trust and many more, Jacob robbed Laban of almost all his lifetime achievement including his precious daughters. That was the end of Laban and the generations after him.
Any Business Executives you find anywhere in the world are very good with this act of smoke creation, research, pretence, loyalty, building trust. Their intention is not just to offer you their service but as well to ripe you off your profits. During the years of the recession when things are so bad and the economic was biting so hard, the rating for business executives tripled. Even during the lockdown some Businesses that was struggling to survive before the lockdown suddenly became a global brand and were hitting profit points right, left and centre. Think about this!
To survive in business and pass the same business to the generations after you, you have to do beyond just fasting and praying. Even the sons of Jacob were into the same line of business and the dream Joseph interpreted for Pharaoh was also in line with the agricultural line of business his family was into; so interpreting the dream and telling Pharaoh what to do was never difficult because it was what he was born into; he understood the business. Friends, wake up.
The business grew from Abraham lying about his wife and Pharaoh giving him livestocks; from those gifts of livestocks Abraham started his livestock business and the business grew until the fourth generation of his children now became a Prime Minister in the same country where the investment seed was given to Abraham.
If you are born into a family of a parent doing small business and the business was able to feed you and your siblings while growing up; go back into that business and build on the foundation of the said business you’d learnt from your parents. You have no idea of how far you’ll accomplish financially doing so.
SAMUEL
I’d heard many preachers saying that, “God cannot lie”. Well, God might not lie but God surely tell and teach people to lie to accomplish a purpose and every true men and women of God knows this fact and they use it to their own advantages and yet they tell their congregants not to lie, God hate lies, God said thou shall not lie. Well, check the entire bible, you cannot find the word “thou shall not lie” in the Bible. And several time, God used lie to carry out a purpose.
In 1 Sam 16:1-5, the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.” And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.”
This was God practically telling Samuel to lie about his mission in the city; and it was said that; “so Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, “Do you come peaceably?” And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice”.
Then in 1 Sam 16:11-13; “Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes here.” So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah”.
Now, the story did not start in 1 Sam 16, the whole story started in 1 Sam 8:4-9 when the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day — with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods — so they are doing to you also. Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”
God accepting the request of the people was the last thing Samuel was expecting God to do. This means, all the things he was benefitting from the people will now go to the King and not to him the Prophet.
Well, Samuel heard all that the Lord said, but he had his own plans at heart to suede the people of their demands; trying to paint whoever is going to be the King black before the people. This is one bad aspect of some human being; they judge you before they meet you and destroy you before they know you.
This was made clear in 1 Sam 8:10-22 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked him for a king. And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. And you will cry out in that day because of yor king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”
But guess what; “the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” When Samuel saw that the people persisted, he had no other choice than to “heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of the Lord. So the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.”
If this conspiracy ended here it would have been better, but Samuel will not let go because there are some benefits he was enjoying that he was no longer enjoying because there is now a King who supposedly is now above him. So, sabotaging the office of the King was his next line of action and in 1 Sam 15:10-11 the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.
Shortly after this, Samuel went to see Saul and rebuked him. He acted and behaved himself like a state elder-man and a respected Prophet of God. But about going, it was said in 1 Sam 15:27-28 that “as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. 28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.”
The Lord did not send Samuel this message. The Lord said He regret that He had set up Saul as king; not that He had torn the kingdom of Israel from Saul, and has given it to a neighbor of his, who is better than him.”
Samuel saw Saul’s predicament with God as an opportunity to take over the Kingdom, but he was wrong. Instead of the Kingdom been handed over to him, it was handed over to David the shepherd boy.
Like Samuel, many of us believed that the men and women of God of all faith and religion are truly interested in our wellbeing when in actual facts they are interested in their own wellbeing and they will do anything possible to remove from power anyone that is standing on their way.
The religious leaders are the most powerful in the whole world. Many people see them as the voice of God and reference them as such. Meanwhile, majority of them are voice of greed, lies, manipulation, self righteousness and evil. They only use God as a cover up nothing more than that.
Any religion that keep you in a place of worship during the working hours or have you gather together after working hours of the day had already had you in religion prison and they will not release you until they suck you dry.
Some of the religious leaders of all sizes and shapes will tell you what God is not saying just to take your resources from you; and they do this without any remorse. Why, because they knew that whatever they do, God will cover for them. How you ask?
God said to Samuel: “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.”
Samuel said to Saul: “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.”
God came back and said to Samuel: “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?”
God did not rebuke Samuel for saying what He did not to said Samuel to say to Saul; instead, He sided Samuel and together they ended the reign of Saul over the children of Israel.
The only people that knows and understands the religious leaders so well are the politicians and if you pay closer attention, you’ll see that the religious leaders and the politicians are five and six. They’re always together. Without the backing of a religious system, any political power can and will fail. So also, any religious organization that questions or challenges the power potency of a political system is already on its path of total destruction. Now, don’t be like a man of God that said; “in this church, we’d never bribed any government official to get anything down” and the whole congregants shouted. But the staffs that helped get things done with the government looked at him and laugh. Why? While they are making request from him to get things done with the government, they included all the money they needed to use to rub hands here and there with government officials and in no time, they get the approval they need.
If you think everything can be accomplished with fasting and prayers; well you fool yourself and it’s a question of time before you are either out of business or out of running a successful religious organization.
If you listen to all that you hear from religious leaders and you believe it and live your life in accordance to it, the possibility of you failing in life is very high. Two major commercial banks that were leading in the banking industry some years back went down the drain and dead simply because the owners of the banks listened to their religious leaders and doing everything their leaders were telling them to do and teaching them.
Religion has only one intention; stealing from you. And their first mission is to cripple your thinking and your ability to reason your way out of any given situation you found yourself and totally depend on them for directions. With this, they can control you and determine your life and future. Beware!
- Inspire You is a column by Sam Adeoye, a prolific writer, analyst and social commentator.