Who is this lying Ephraim?
God may have seen Ephraim as the rightful heir and favorite among the thirteen patriarchs, yet it’s ironic that prophecy also casts him in a negative light.
“Ephraim compasseth me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit” (Hosea 11:12).
Of course the house of Israel was led by Ephraim; so who is this lying Ephraim?
Ephraim could be described as a land filled with amber waves of grain and a nation holding the gates of its enemies. It’s also a country that twice saved Western Europe and Asia from collapse, but its once benevolent nature has been replaced with a reputation for deceit.
“They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine,” writes Chris Hedges of the chronic lying characteristics of the leaders of the United States.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, although one that was provoked by NATO expansion and by the United States backing of the 2014 “Maidan” coup which ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.”
The prophet Hosea said the house of Israel, symbolizing the ten lost tribes, was steeped in hypocrisy, while the house of Ephraim, the dominant northern tribe with its capital in Samaria, was consumed by lies and deceit.
The United States is Ephraim!
Here are just a few historic and classic examples of lying and deceit in the house of Ephraim for reflection:
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a supposed confrontation that pushed the United States into the Vietnam War. It centered on a fabricated claim that North Vietnamese ships clashed with US vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. The initial American report accused North Vietnam of attacking the USS Maddox, but later revelations from the Pentagon Papers, Robert McNamara’s memoirs, and 2005 NSA publications showed the US government had lied to justify going to war with Vietnam.
This deception led to the US Congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon Johnson the authority and justification to deploy US forces against what was described as “communist aggression.”
On January 26, 1998, Bill Clinton addressed the nation, firmly stating, “I want to say one thing to the American people. Listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anyone to lie. Not once. Never.” His falsehoods eventually led to him becoming the second president in US history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
In an August 2002 speech that launched the Bush administration’s push for war with Iraq, Cheney claimed, “Simply stated, there’s no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
In October 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted he had “bulletproof” evidence linking Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden. Around the same time, a National Intelligence Estimate reported that Iraq had “continued its weapons of mass destruction program.”
“However, there is no doubt at all that the development of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein poses a severe threat not just to the region, but to the wider world.” – Tony Blair, House of Commons, 10 April 2002.
Prime Minister Tony Blair defended himself in 2005: “I have never told a lie. No. I don’t intend to go telling lies to people. I did not lie over Iraq.”
“The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was one of the most prominent lies. Wikileaks testifies that there were no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square! HERE TheTelegraph
And here is the Real Donald Trump
In a June 7, 2020 interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Secretary of State and Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell called Donald Trump a chronic liar. Powell said, “The one word I have to use for what he’s been doing over the last several years is a word I never used before, not with any of the four presidents I worked for—he lies. He lies about things, and he gets away with it because people won’t hold him accountable.”
Some of President Trump’s top staff mocked him behind his back. His first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, reportedly called him a “f***ing moron.” Political adviser Steve Bannon compared him to “an 11-year-old child,” and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly allegedly labeled him an “idiot.”
And even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, considered a loyalist, was reportly said to have written a note describing the President as “full of shit.”
According to John Bolton, Trump didn’t seem aware that Britain was a nuclear power and even asked if Finland was part of Russia. “I don’t think he’s fit for office,” the former National Security Advisor added. “I don’t believe he has the competence to do the job.”
“There really isn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s re-election,” Bolton, known to the world for his walrus mustache, added, “I think he was so focused on the re-election that longer-term considerations fell by the wayside.”
“He doesn’t operate pursuant to philosophy, or grand strategy or policy,” Bolton, described by Trump as “a war mongering fool, reflected on his 17 months in the White House. “He’s often described as transactional, but what it means is that every day is a new adventure. Decisions get made on an ad-hoc and episodic basis.”
In an interview with ABC News, Bolton remarked about President Trump, saying, “Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle.”
Lastly, Bolton was unsettled by Trump’s remark that “the only way we’re going to lose this election is if it’s rigged.” He went on to say that Trump “might try anything” and that “there are no rules” when it comes to the President.
“Mr Trump is an enigma,” said Michael Cohen, who worked for him for many years and claimed to know him better than even his own family. Cohen described him in detail as “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man,” and someone who “has spent his entire life avoiding and evading responsibility for his actions.”
“He’s a clown,” Mary Trump remembered her aunt Maryanne saying during one of their lunches after Donald announced he was running for President. “This will never happen.”
Maryanne also became enraged when Donald began to receive endorsements from prominent Christians and White Evangelicals such as Jerry Falwell Jr. remembering he was a man with “five bankruptcies.” Maryanne, who is a Catholic since her conversion 50 years ago, allegedly raged to Mary: “What the f*** is wrong with them? The only time Donald went to church is when the cameras were there. It’s mind boggling. He has no principles. None!”
“Frankenstein’s Monster,” exclaimed Mary, who had studied schizophrenia patients at Hillside Hospital on Long Island. She went on to describe the narcissist’s dysfunctional family background, likening him to a three-year-old, and remarked, “Trump’s ego is fragile and needs constant reinforcement because deep down he knows he is nothing like what he claims to be.”
Mary spoke about her uncle’s life of “cheating and lies,” pointing to an incident from his youth: “Trump even paid someone to take the SATs for him so he could get into the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Business,” where he has claimed he graduated with the “highest grades possible.”
That someone was his buddy Joe Shapiro, a bright kid known for being a great test taker, and the so-called “sociopath” had, from an early age, mastered the art of lying, spinning, and obfuscating, as well as knowing how to pay people generously. This set the stage for the rise of what we now have — not just “the World’s Most Dangerous Man” as Commander-in-Chief in the White House, but also “the World’s Most Boggling Gorilla.”
Mike Cohen paints a startling picture of the group surrounding Trump, calling him “a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, and a con man.”
In an August speech to the Council for National Policy, a conservative activist group, Trump said, “You’ll never have an election count on November 3. In my opinion, you’re not going to know the outcome of this election for weeks, months, maybe never.”
Bob Woodward: Trump Doesn’t Seem To Know “What Is Real And What Is Unreal.”
And here is Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo:
On April 15, 2019, at a forum at Texas A&M University, former CIA director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo remarked, “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like – we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” Interestingly, a Christian religious news broadcaster sharply commented on his words, saying, “That’s not the résumé of the Secretary of State… that’s the résumé of Satan.”
Of course, Trump’s Secretary of State isn’t Satan, but definitely seems like someone possessed by a demon.
During his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump often remarked, “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, though others were welcome to use it. It came at a tremendous cost in American blood and treasure — 38,000 workers lost their lives constructing it.”
Fact check: President Donald Trump repeated his false claim that 38,000 Americans died during the building of the Panama Canal. That figure is not even close to true, experts on the canal’s construction say.
While the century-old records are imprecise, they show about 5,600 people died during the canal’s American construction phase between 1903 and 1914 — and “of those, the vast majority were Afro-Caribbeans,” such as workers from Barbados and Jamaica, according to Julie Greene, a history professor at the University of Maryland and author of the book “The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal.”
The late historian David McCullough, author of another book on the building of the canal, found that “the number of white Americans who died was about 350.”
Following report of the 880lbs (408kg) of highly enriched uranium stockpile were already moved elsewhere before the seven esteemed B-2 bombers arrived, President Trump says the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities were “completely and fully obliterated!”
Then following leaks of enriched uranium stockpile being removed the strong headed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community.”
And she thickened her lie: “The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program.”
Then President Donald Trump took to social media hitting out at CNN and the New York Times over reports claiming America’s strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy the country’s program.
“We just caught the failing New York Times, working with fake news CNN, cheating again! They tried to demean the great work our B-2 pilots did, and they were wrong in doing so,” President Trump said in his Truth Social post, adding, “These reporters are just bad and sick people.”
Later he boasted: “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki. But that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war.”
Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview, Nov 7, 2025. In this video, Professor Jeffrey Sachs breaks down Donald Trump’s recent 60 Minutes interview — exposing 10 of his biggest lies and false claims. From inflation and tariffs to Ukraine, AI, and the Insurrection Act, we fact-check every major statement Trump made during his 73-minute appearance on 60 Minutes — Every Lie Explained (original video replaced)
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On the religious side, the United States was originally founded largely by Puritans, called Pilgrims, a break-away group of devout Christians who were known as Separatists, because they separated from the Church of England to follow the precepts of the Bible.
Facing intense persecution, they set sail for the New World, seeking a place where they could worship God freely and live in peace—at least, that was their claim.
But the same problem persists:
“Ephraim tells lies right and left. Not a word of Israel can be trusted,” says Hosea 11:12 in the Message Bible.
And the prophet Hosea continues prophesying in the next chapter:
And Ephraim said, “Yet I am become rich, I have found myself substance; in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin” Hosea 12:8
Or as the Message Bible expresses Ephraim under brighter light:
Their businessmen engage in wholesale fraud.
They love to rip people off!
Ephraim boasted, “Look, I’m rich!
I’ve made it big!
And look how well I’ve covered my tracks:
not a hint of fraud, not a sign of sin!” Hosea 12:7-8 MSG
Here again is Ephraim, or the United States of America, having built a rich and prosperous nation, they act as though they are very upright and honest in their dealings, and in acknowledging God’s blessings upon them.
And although taking notice initially of God and his providence, they soon ascribe all their wealth and riches to their own labour, diligence and industry.
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On the religious side, not long after the American War of Independence from 1775 to 1783, the story of Joseph Smith (1805–1844) began, involving a supposed prophet whose fabricated treasure-hunting scheme, fueled by false claims, played a role in shaping the Latter Day Saint movement.
Prophet Joseph Smith’s vision began when the angel Moroni gave him the Golden Plates, which were hidden in a stone box buried at the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York, just a few miles from his boyhood home on a farm.
When Smith arrived, “the hill opened, and they walked into a cave, in which there was a large and spacious room.” The account continues by saying they found “more plates than probably many wagon loads; and were piled up in the corners and along the walls.”
But Smith was forbidden by the angel to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original “reformed Egyptian” language.
At home, Smith dictated the words from the plates while his wife or a scribe wrote them down, eventually forming the Book of Mormon. Instead of looking directly at the plates, he used a transparent seer stone placed in the bottom of his hat to translate them.
Smith released the first edition of the translation in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, with an initial print run of 5,000 copies, sparking a movement more captivating and thrilling than a Tom Clancy novel.
Overlapping the life of Joseph Smith, a false prophetess were to appear to energize the Adventist movement.
Here comes Ellen G White (1827–1915):
“The Bible nowhere sanctions the use of intoxicating wine. The wine that Christ made from water at the marriage feast of Cana was the pure juice of the grape” (The Ministry of Healing, p 333) Ellen G White claimed, and thus wine is actually grape juice; and her claim manages to brainwash 20 million faithfuls worldwide with her belief that Noah was drunk because he had drank too much grape juice!
“I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision–the precious rays of light shining from the throne” (Ellen G White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p.67).
Ellen G White’s vision from the throne and her revelation about the Flood:
“At this time immense forests were buried. These have since been changed to coal, forming the extensive coal beds that now exist, and also yielding large quantities of oil. The coal and oil frequently ignite and burn beneath the surface of the earth. Thus rocks are heated, limestone is burned, and iron ore melted. The action of the water upon the lime adds fury to the intense heat, and causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and fiery issues. As the fire and water come in contact with ledges of rock and ore, there are heavy explosions underground, which sound like muffled thunder. The air is hot and suffocating. Volcanic eruptions follow; and these often failing to give sufficient vent to the heated elements, the earth itself is convulsed, the ground heaves and swells like the waves of the sea, great fissures appear, and sometimes cities, villages, and burning mountains are swallowed up” (Patriarchs and prophets, Pacific Press, 1958, pg 108-109).
Then numerous false shepherd were to follow in the land of Ephraim:
“The chronological events that are recorded in Exodus 16 clearly define ben ha arbayim— “between the two evenings,” or “between the setting times”— as the time period that immediately FOLLOWS sunset, or ba erev” (Frederick R Coulter, The Christian Passover, p 48).
Notice that Fred Coulter has the definition as distinct different times; i.e. they do not overlap.
Hence two lamb would be needed: one to fulfil Exodus 12:6 “hā·‘ar·bā·yim” another Detueronomy 16:6 “at erev!” Hence this false shepherd is blind and naked!
“There is no question that the Passover commands in Exodus 12 have been misinterpreted and given different meanings than the true scriptural meaning of God’s ordinances and statutes delivered to Moses” (ibid, p 115). Such a loaf of greasy bullshit!
Gerald Flurry’s chronic lying claim of a Mighty Angel that had handed Malachi’s Message to him must be confused and not very articulated because Flurry in later years has to make revisions after revisions to get the messages right for his so-called Philadelphia Church of God. Flurry also prophesied that Donald Trump would serve his second term to fulfill Jeroboam II revival, “BECAUSE A BIDEN PRESIDENCY IS CONTRARY TO BIBLE PROPHECY.” What nonsense and all Flurry’s incurable BULLSH^T! (Pg 1, The Philadelphia Trumpet, January, 2021).
In fact, Gerald Flurry’s teaching is more like the original crafty Jeroboam. “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! And he set one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan,” (King Jeroboam: I King 12:28-29)
And in UCG‘s teaching, the morning includes the afternoon?
And the writer wrote, “Evening is associated with darkness and night, morning is associated with day, (pg 9).
Nothing is consistent as yet a while later he wrote evening means twilight:
The term twilight means: “evening twilight; time of concealment; of refreshment; of stumbling, in dim light.” Twilight is not in the afternoon, but it is when the light grows dim, after sunset, but before complete darkness (The Passover of Exodus 12, pg 10).
Can this writer be specific and consistent since later he came back and wrote it means night again!
Genesis 1:3-5 “Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening [erev, darkness, night] and the morning [boqer, light, day] were the first day.” Morning is used in Scripture to refer to the light portion of a day. The Hebrew word for night is layil. It is used as a synonym for the Hebrew erev, which is normally translated “evening” (The Passover of Exodus 12, pg 11).
So according to UCG, morning (boqer) would be day, which starts from 6 AM unto 6 PM, including the afternoon? “Morning is used in Scripture to refer to the light portion of a day.” So 1 PM, 2PM 3 PM is also morning. And evening is the whole night, from 6 PM to 6 AM. Think again. Morning includes the afternoon? Yes this is not just UCG’s morning but UCG’s insanity!
Think again, the morning includes the afternoon? Was the writer just lying or on drugs? And this contradicts a moment later: “Next we find the expression “at evening” or “at even” (Exodus 12:18). This is the Hebrew expression ba ‘erev. In general it means sunset” (pg 12). It doesn’t mean night anymore? Blind Guides. The whole body of UCG is sick, full of coronavirus, starting with the head, and the whole Council of Elders has been infected since 1999.
This modern day of a lying and deceitful Ephraim is like going back to the ancient days of Jeroboam:
“It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!” 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan . . . 31 And he made a house of high places . . . 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah. (King Jeroboam: I King 12:28-32)
For these reasons his shepherd are under rebuke followed by their judgement:
Isaiah 56:9 Come, all you beasts of the field;
eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.10 Israel’s watchmen are blind,
they are all oblivious;
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they are dreamers lying around,
loving to slumber.11 Like ravenous dogs,
they are never satisfied.
They are shepherds with no discernment;
they all turn to their own way,
each one seeking his own gain:12 “Come, let me get the wine,
let us imbibe the strong drink,
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!” Isaiah 56:9-12
“Who is blind, but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord’s servant?” Isaiah 42:19
“Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be” Hosea 5:9
These shepherd are currently not sanctified nor purified yet; they definitely still need to be sanctified . . .
Perhaps the two-pronged mysteries about how such sanctification and purification could occur are prophecied and explained in the book of Ezekiel
(1) Ezekiel 4 – 390/40 Years Timeline
(2) The Flaming Sword and Fire from the South!
Until these shepherd are sanctified, until they are purified, the City on the Hill doesn’t shine, and won’t shine; and their teachings are of no effect.
“Thus saith the Lord God: Woe unto the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts” Ezekiel 13:3-4
“You only have I known… therefore I will punish you” Amos 3:2
Joel
A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob 