Why the Many Are Wrong!

Scripture shows a clear pattern throughout its pages. Most people are usually sincere, religious, and fully convinced they are right. Yet time after time, when Yahuah reveals His truth, the majority turns away from it. This same pattern runs from Genesis all the way to Revelation.

The narrow way has always been the road taken by only a few. Yahusha Himself drew a sharp contrast between the two paths.

Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV) 

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

The difference could not be clearer. Many choose the broad way. Few find the narrow way.

Truth is not decided by how many people believe something. Israel often followed the majority straight into error. When Moses went up the mountain, the people grew impatient and gathered around Aaron. Exodus 32:1 tells us, "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron..." The result was the golden calf.

Later, twelve spies went into the promised land. Ten of them brought back a fearful, negative report. Only Joshua and Caleb trusted Yahuah. The whole nation chose to listen to the ten instead of the two. Because they followed the majority, they wandered in the wilderness for forty years.

Scripture gives a direct command against following the crowd. Exodus 23:2 says, "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment." This is not just about obvious crimes. It warns us not to let the crowd decide what is right or true.

The prophets often stood nearly alone. Elijah felt completely isolated. In 1 Kings 19:10 he said, "...I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." Yahuah later told him that seven thousand others had remained faithful, but in the moment Elijah still stood virtually alone against the nation and its leaders.

Jeremiah preached to a nation that largely rejected him. Micaiah stood against four hundred prophets who all spoke the same message. In 1 Kings 22, those four hundred were wrong, and the one who stood apart was right.

Yahusha sometimes hid the truth from the crowds on purpose. Many people think He used parables just to make things easier to understand. But He explained the real reason to His disciples. In Matthew 13:10-17, when they asked why He spoke in parables, He said it was because the mysteries of the kingdom were given to them, but not to everyone else. He quoted Isaiah to show that some people's hearts had grown dull, their ears were hard of hearing, and their eyes were closed.

Understanding is something that is given, not just learned through effort alone. Even after His resurrection, Yahusha had to open the minds of His own disciples. Luke 24:45 says, "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures."

The religious leaders were often the ones who missed the truth. The scribes and Pharisees knew the Scriptures well, yet they opposed the Messiah. Yahusha told them in John 5:39-40, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." Head knowledge did not lead them to the life He offered.

Many people have believed they were serving Yahuah while actually opposing Him. Yahusha warned His followers in John 16:2-3 that a time would come when people would kill them and think they were doing God a favor, because they had not known the Father or Him.

Yahusha gave one of His most serious warnings about the final day. In Matthew 7:21-23 He said that not everyone who calls Him Lord will enter the kingdom. Many will point to their prophecies, miracles, and good works, only to hear Him say, "I never knew you."

Paul also warned that people would gather teachers who told them what they wanted to hear. In 2 Timothy 4:3-4 he wrote that they would turn away from sound teaching and chase after fables instead.

The world in general rejects those whom Yahuah sends. Yahusha told His disciples in John 15:18-19, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own..."

The right response is shown by the Bereans. Acts 17:11 says they were more noble because they received the word eagerly and then searched the Scriptures every day to check if these things were true. They did not simply accept teaching because of who delivered it or how popular it was.

In the end, Revelation shows a massive worldwide deception. Satan deceives the whole world. The beast receives worship from nearly everyone. Once again, the majority follows the wrong path while a faithful remnant remains.

When you look at all these passages together, a consistent biblical principle stands out. Scripture repeatedly warns that truth is not decided by popularity or numbers. Those who truly receive Yahuah's word are shown as a remnant, not as the majority.

Why does TMH allow people to be deceived?

Scripture looks at this question from several different angles. It never shows Yahuah enjoying deception, but it does teach that He allows people to stay in their deception when they keep rejecting the truth He has already shown them.

Yahuah starts by calling people to repent. In Ezekiel 18:23 He asks, "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" And again in Ezekiel 33:11, "Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live..."

The New Testament says the same thing. Second Peter 3:9 tells us that the Lord is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." So the starting point in Scripture is always Yahuah's desire for people to turn back to Him.

At the same time, the Bible makes it clear that people are responsible for how they respond to the truth they receive. John 3:19 explains, "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." The problem is not that the light never came. The problem is that people preferred the darkness.

Paul describes how this unfolds. In 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 he writes that because people "received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved... God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie." The order matters. First they refuse to love the truth. Then Yahuah gives them over to the delusion they have chosen.

Paul shows this same pattern in Romans. In chapter 1 he says that when people knew God, they did not glorify Him as God. So "God also gave them up." They changed the truth of God into a lie, and "God gave them over to a reprobate mind." Three times Paul repeats that God gave them over. Each time, it comes after they persistently rejected Him.

Yahusha explained why He spoke in parables. In Matthew 13:13-15 He said, "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand... For this people's heart is waxed gross... and their eyes they have closed." Notice that it was the people who closed their own eyes. The responsibility starts with them.

Yet Yahuah keeps inviting people to come to Him. Isaiah 55:6-7 says, "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found... Let the wicked forsake his way... and he will have mercy upon him." Jeremiah 29:13 adds this beautiful promise, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."

Yahusha gave the same encouragement. In Matthew 7:7-8 He said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth..."

When you put all these passages together, Scripture shows a clear pattern. Yahuah genuinely desires repentance. He reveals truth and calls people to respond. Some refuse that truth because they love other things more. When the rejection continues, Yahuah eventually gives them over to the path they have chosen. But those who sincerely seek Him with their whole heart receive the promise that they will find Him.

In the end, the Bible does not present deception as some random act on Yahuah's part. It shows it as the result of persistent rejection of the truth, while He continues to welcome anyone who truly wants to seek Him.

Conclusion:

In the end, all of this brings us back to the heart of the gospel. Scripture reveals that Yahusha is the truth, He is the light, and He is the narrow way. One of the greatest mysteries in all of Scripture is that God Himself was manifest in the flesh. The Creator stepped into His own creation to rescue us.

Yahusha made this very clear. He told the religious leaders of His day, "Unless you believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins." Believing that God came in the flesh is not just one teaching among many. It is at the center of the gospel. Those who deny that Yahusha is Yahuah in the flesh are warned in Scripture as carrying the spirit of antichrist.

This connects directly to everything we have been looking at. Many people today, just like in the days of the prophets and the apostles, have closed their own eyes and made their ears dull to this truth. They may be sincere. They may be deeply religious. But if they keep rejecting the light that has come into the world, preferring other ideas or traditions instead, Scripture shows that Yahuah can eventually give them over to the very delusion they have chosen.

Even so, the invitation remains open. The same Yahusha who is the narrow way, the light, and the truth is still calling. He is calling those who have wandered, those who have been deceived, and those whose hearts have grown hard. He is calling them to return, to seek Him with all their heart, and to walk through that strait gate.

The pattern in Scripture is consistent from beginning to end. The majority often walks the broad way. The remnant follows the narrow way. But the door is not yet closed. If you are reading this and something in your heart is stirring, that is the voice of Yahusha Himself calling you home. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Turn to Him. Believe that He is the great I AM who came in the flesh for you. The light is still shining. The narrow way is still there for those who will seek Him.