Lying Spirit: What Man Sees Versus What God Says

If God cannot lie, then why would he cause Ahab’s four hundred prophets to lie by sending a lying spirit? Commentators, teachers, preachers, and Christians all have struggled with this contradiction. Some even claim God sent a demon to do his dirty work. Speculation has produced these varied explanations. Guessing certainly provides an answer. However, it does not provide the answer. Moreover, it produces divergent answers, lots of them. Finding the truth of the matter requires approaching the subject objectively. Only then will the biblical student discover the translators had misrepresented the script. In altering two words only, they managed to completely muddle Micaiah’s intended meaning. According to the words as Jeremiah originally intended, God did not send a spiritual being to infest the mouths of Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah’s vision simply pointed an accusatory finger at the four hundred, declaring they produced revelations in the nature of falsehood.