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What is Truth?
Finding Truth in the Age of Deception
FEBRUARY 2017

Dr. Chuck Missler


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Why study the book of Jude? Because it is written for us, today.
It is written for the end times, for the end of the Church Age.
Jude is the only book devoted entirely to the great apostasy.
“Shall the Son of Man find faith on the Earth?” (Luke 18:8).
Apostosia: “Falling away” (2 Thess 2:3); departure from
the faith (1 Tim 4:1); unwillingness to endure sound doctrine
(2 Tim 4:3); false teachers, damnable heresies (2 Pet 2:1; 3:3).
Jude is the “vestibule” to the book of Revelation. It is a book
tragically neglected by students, yet filled with fascinating
Old Testament references and allusions.
Join Dr. Chuck Missler in his in-depth commentary on the book
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FROM THE EDITOR

DEAR FRIENDS
Ron Matsen
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W
e are told that the people of Issachar “were men that had an
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to
do.” These were men of action. In the New Testament we see
James teaching that “faith, if it hath not works, is dead,” so too
understanding without action is dead.
We live in the age of deception where our quest for truth is made more
difficult by the fog of false information making it almost impossible to
know whom to believe and what to do.
Fortunately, we have a heavenly promise of divine direction that is
offered to all who put their trust in God. God told Israel, “Trust in the
Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
In HIS service,
Ron Matsen
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Koinonia House
and Koinonia Institute

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Dr. Chuck Missler


Founder, Koinonia House
WHAT IS TRUTH?
T
he Basic Challenge Before Us All
What is truth? That was the rhetorical question of Pontius Pilate
when he was facing Truth, in Person. Like Pilate, we are all faced
with this basic challenge: “What is truth?” Perhaps that question
can be refined even more, to the most crucial question: “How do we
know the Bible is true?”
The first step is to recognize today’s There are attacks on
sceptical environment. There are every side for the very
attacks on every side for the very
existence of truth.
existence of truth. Society espouses
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relativism by saying, “You have your truth; I have mine.” This is


accompanied by attacks on the Bible itself—the very fountain of truth
for mankind, the very basis of our heritage. Of course, there are also
attacks on the Lord Himself.
This is all happening with a cosmic warfare going on in the background.
Scripture makes it clear that we are faced with spiritual adversaries whose
principal weapons are deceit and doubt. That was Satan’s first move in
the Garden of Eden. To ask the question, “Hath God said?” raises doubts
that God really said what He said. That strategy echoes throughout the
centuries and is very, very pervasive in our civilization today.
So how do we know the Bible is true? The traditional approach to
defending the Bible tends to be a bit scholastic. There is another
approach that uses branches of science that would not commonly
be connected with the Bible. It’s quite astonishing to realize how the
discoveries of modern science in just the last century have totally altered
our understanding of the reality in which we live. This approach is an
exploration of the very boundaries of what we think of as reality.
It may seem strange, but this approach will even require consideration
of messages from outside the boundaries of our reality. These are
messages that are
extra-terrestrial; These are messages BIO
they actually have that are extra- President/Founder,
Dr. Chuck Missler

their origin outside terrestrial; they Koinonia Institute


the space-time of actually have their After a distinguished
military career and more
earth. There are origin outside the than 30 very successful
also some hidden years in the corporate
space-time of earth. business environment,
discoveries in the Chuck was led to pursue
Biblical text itself that may be surprising. a life-long endeavor
of teaching the Bible
on a full-time basis.
This is the rather unorthodox line of inquiry that we He founded Koinonia
will use as we examine the basis for having confidence House, an organization
devoted to encouraging
in the Bible. people to study the Bible.
He also founded Koinonia
Institute to enable people
to have a Kingdom effect
on the world today.

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Attacks on Truth
There are attacks from the pagan left that are very organized, very sinister,
and possibly motivated supernaturally. One attack comes from a very
popular book, The Da Vinci Code,by Dan Brown.1
This is a very readable, and very cleverly crafted, novel. Although it
masquerades as a novel, it confronts the reader with a fact sheet in
the front of the book with three paragraphs claiming that these things
are true and accurate when they’re not; they’re deliberate deceptions.
The statements are not accidental misunderstandings, but a deliberate
attempt to deceive, confuse, and disrupt the faithful.
That book has given rise to a whole cottage-industry of rebuttals. Anyone
interested in a rebuttal has an abundance of books to help them sort
out the various premises and misinformation that pervade Dan Brown’s
colorful, but blasphemous, novel.
Despite that, The Da Vinci Code was heralded by the press.
“A masterpiece that should be mandatory reading,” says The Library
Journal, “a compelling blend of history and page-turning suspense.”2
“An exhaustively researched page-turner” was the quip from Publisher’s
Weekly.3 That’s astonishing, because it is full of misinformation and
twisted history.
To make matters even worse, a major blockbuster movie by Ron Howard
was released under the same name.4 This is very much launching a
tsunami across our culture; it’s certainly raising questions, feeding the
skeptical and confusing the marginally faithful.
The situation should challenge those of us who take the Bible seriously
to really understand its origins and its foundation.
While all this is going on, the National Geographic joined in
the exploitation. In their May issue of 2006, they featured an article on

1 Brown, Dan. The DaVinci Code: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2003.


2 "The Greatest Conspiracy of the Past 2000 Years Is About to Unravel." Dan Brown. Accessed August, 2014.
http://www.danbrown.com/the-davinci-code.
3 "Fiction Book Review: THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown, Author. Doubleday. PublishersWeekly.com.
Accessed August 18, 2014. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-50420-1.
4 The Da Vinci Code. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. Film.

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The Gospel of Judas.5 They were obviously exploiting, as best they could,
the groundswell from the Da Vinci movie, which was being released
that same month.
The National Geographic had a very slick presentation, very skillfully
designed to undermine traditional Biblical beliefs. The Gospel of Judas,
which is the subject, was discovered in the 1970s. It was known at the
time that Irenaeus refuted it back in 180 A.D.;6 so this is neither new, nor
newsworthy. It is certainly not historical, but it’s among those documents
that are used to confuse people who don’t read and know their Bible.
Mel Gibson directed a movie called The Passion of the Christ. 7
His reviews were a little different than Dan Brown’s. The New Republic
said, “A repulsive masochistic fantasy, a sacred snuff film.”8 “Courting
bigotry in the name of sanctity,” was the comment in the New York
Times.9 “A real nut case whose ulterior motive was making money,”
said 60 Minutes.
The contrast here is something strange. The deliberate deceptions of
The Da Vinci Code are ignored by these reviewers; they seem to collude
with Brown in his attempts to undermine the veracity of the Bible.
The attacks on The Passion of the Christ expose a bias against the
truth. How else can we explain the portrayal of an historical event as
“masochistic fantasy,” while the fictitious marriage of Jesus and Mary
Magdalene can be called “researched material fact”?
Along with Dan Brown and the National Geographic, we have the Jesus
Seminar. This gathering was an astonishing array of pseudo-experts who,
in the 1980s and 1990s, exchanged subjective, speculative hunches
for serious scholarship. Add to that, Peter Jennings’s TV Special, the
History Channel’s “The Banned Books of the Bible,” Hugh Schonfield’s
The Passover Plot (many years ago, in 1966), and The Last Temptation
5 Kasser, R. (2006). “The Gospel of Judas: From Codex Tchacos.” Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.
6 Ireneus wrote in Doctrines of the Cainites; "They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted
with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no others did, accomplished the mystery of the
betrayal; by him all things, both earthly and heavenly, were thus thrown into confusion. They produce a
fictitious history of this kind, which they style ‘The Gospel of Judas.’"
7 The Passion of the Christ. Director: Mel Gibson. Icon Productions, 2004.
8 Dowd, M. (2004, February 26). “Stations of the Crass.” The New York Times. Retrieved August 20, 2014,
from http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/opinion/stations-of-the-crass.html
9 Dowd, M. (2004, February 26). “Stations of the Crass.” The New York Times. Retrieved August 20, 2014,
from http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/opinion/stations-of-the-crass.html

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of Christ in 1960. Even Mel Gibson’s phenomenal movie fails to


communicate just who Jesus Christ really is, and that is the crux of the
whole issue in the first place.
So what’s going on here? This is a This is a reversal of
reversal of values. Fiction is promoted
values. Fiction is
as fact, and fact, even the deity of Jesus
Christ, is passed off capriciously as mere
promoted as fact, and
fiction. Even the undeniable grandeur fact, even the deity of
of the creation itself is attributed, in Jesus Christ, is passed
our schools and in our culture, to the off capriciously as
randomness of a cosmic accident. How mere fiction.
astonishing—how distant this is from
any real grasp of reality.

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Why study the book of Jude? Because it is written for us, today. It is written
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Apostosia: “Falling away” (2 Thess 2:3); departure from the faith (1 Tim 4:1); unwillingness to endure
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Testament references and allusions.
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• How do we know what is really true?
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Of all the end-time themes discussed in the Bible—


such as global disasters (Matt 24), the rise of the global
super-state, the identity of the Antichrist,
the mark of the beast, and the Magog invasion
(Ezek 38-39)—“deception and apostasy in the church”
is listed more times than any other end-time
“sign of the times.”
Are we currently living in the Age of Apostasy?
Ron Matsen explores the evidence
and causes of apostasy and provides an antidote
for apostasy in this timely study.

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ARTICLE

Dean Packwood
Art Director, Publications and Web,
Koinonia House
FAKE IMAGES
T
he subject of Fake News (as Ron Matsen discussed in the January
2017 Personal Update) has been in the headlines over the last few
months as though it’s some newly discovered
phenomenon. Fake news and reports have BIO
been around for thousands of years, and many of De an Packw ood,
A r t Di re c t o r,
us get caught out from time to time with fake news, Pu b l i c a t i o n s a n d
but what about fake images? Isn’t seeing believing? Web, Koinonia House
De a n Pa c k w o o d ,
New Zealand born, spent
Images and videos Images and videos most of his professional
are usually regarded are usually regarded career, before joining
K-House, in Pre-Press,
as the most concrete,
as the most concrete, Graphic Arts and I.T.
honest evidence of Wi n n e r o f Na t i o n a l

experiences and events honest evidence of and International print


awards, he now finds some
we cannot witness experiences and of the most challenging

ourselves. This is often events we cannot tasks, are taking Chucks


ideas for product covers and
the case in court, in witness ourselves. creating them. Dean comes
from an artistic family.
the news, in scientific His father Don Packwood
research, and in our daily lives. Words, we know, can is an internationally
recognized artist. Dean
lie. But that trust makes it all the more shocking— felt the Lord was leading
and serious—when images lie to us, too. him to join K-House a
few years before Chuck
set up a base at The River
The Importance of Intent Lodge, New Zealand.
He took a leap of faith,
Intent is the meaning behind what you do. If a man resigning from his secular
job and moving his family
takes a sharp knife and cuts someone, it’s not the to Taupo (NZ). He was
act that is necessarily good or bad – it’s the intent. fortunate to meet Chuck
and Nancy, joining the
A good intent maybe a doctor using this sharp knife team a few months later
to save a life; the bad intent is the attacker wishing with the establishment
o f Lyo n s h e a d Me d i a
to inflict bodily harm. Intent behind the creation of in 2010.

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a fake image is all the more important. Intent behind the


Images can encourage, entertain, creation of a fake
horrify or vilify to name a few. image is all the more
important. Images can
It is always important to remember
that an image is a snapshot of time.
encourage, entertain,
With only a photograph as reference, horrify or vilify
there is no way of knowing the details of what lies outside of the
photograph. This is implied, assumed or garnered from external
supporting sources. Objectivity when looking at a photograph is virtually
impossible. Everyone has a context in which they see the world, our
current emotional state, whether we
With only a photograph had a good sleep last night or even
as reference, there how our day is going, and this can
influence how we read and interpret
is no way of knowing
images. Our interpretation can
the details of what be further influenced by an image
lies outside of caption or accompanying text,
the photograph. whether it be factual or false.
Believe it or not, there are actually people that seemingly have way too
much time on their hands with seemingly nothing else better to do
than to go through Dr. Chuck Misslers videos frame-by-frame, hoping
to catch a compromising expression or hand gesture. Only to post it
on Social Media with a headline “Look, Chuck Missler’s a Freemason!”
or “Chuck’s a Satanist.” I have often use a phrase, “That smacks of
effort.” They’re essentially saying that Chuck spends years of Bible study
and tens of thousands of dollars to produce a 24 hour Bible Commentary
in the hopes that he can slip in a single frame hand-gesture to turn
everyone into Satanists? That smacks of effort! As the production crew in
post editing, we do our best to edit out Chuck’s slip-ups, sneezes, drinks
of water etc., but it’s essentially a live recording. A single take, for the most
part, in front of a small live audience. It’s not an old-school animation in
which every frame is hand drawn and everything in that frame is there
by design. Whenever you film anyone, and they have something in their
eye for example, and use the wrong finger to scratch it away and BOOM!
“In video frame x he was flipping the bird,” but was there any real intent

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behind it? No, these people already have a certain viewpoint and a desire
to attack Chuck’s credibility. So they will go to extraordinary lengths to
try and do just that. I think those people perhaps should just watch the
video at normal speed and potentially learn something.
Misrepresented, manipulated or fabricated images can do serious damage
to our sense of the past. Take, for instance, a 2007 paper titled “Changing
history: doctored photographs affect memory for past public events.”1
The researchers showed
participants, young and
old, either an original or
a doctored photograph
of the 1989 Tiananmen
Square protests in Beijing
or a 2003 protest in Rome
against the war in Iraq.
The manipulated images
distorted the memories
of the pictured events
for those who saw them.
They “remembered”
the Tiananmen Square
protests as being larger,
and protests in Rome as
being more violent—
more property damage Top: An unknown Beijing citizen who would come
and injuries—than those to be known as “Tank Man” stands in front of tanks
on the Avenue of Eternal Peace on June 5, 1989,
who saw the unaltered as military clashed with protesters in
images. The ones exposed Tiananmen Square.
Bottom: Fake image made to depict
to the doctored images protests as being larger.
even indicated they would
be less likely to participate Misrepresented, manipulated or
in protests in the future. 2
fabricated images can do serious
damage to our sense of the past.

1 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.1394/full
2 http://nautil.us/blog/fake-images-are-getting-harder-and-harder-to-detect

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But fake images have been around for a while, long before digital
technology and Photoshop. Compositing is probably the most common.
Compositing is taking multiple images or exposures and combining
them to make a single image. Take this 150-year-old portrait of U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln (below left), in which he looks every bit the
all-American hero. All is not as it appears - as although it is undoubtedly
the 16th Commander in Chief ’s face staring at the camera, the body in
fact belongs to a prominent southern politician.

Stitched up: This portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (left) is a composite of Lincoln’s head
and the body of Southern politician John Calhoun (right)

It has led to claims the 1860 “Although we may have


portrait, stitched together from the impression that
two pictures as ‘no sufficiently photographic tampering
heroic portrait of Lincoln had yet is something relatively
been taken’.3 Other interesting new - a product of the
images from down the years
digital age - the reality is
show how the art of photographic
trickery has developed over time. that history is riddled with
photographic fakes.”
3 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107109/Iconic-Abraham-Lincoln-portrait-revealed-TWO-pictures-
stitched-together.html

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Fake: The photo on the left appears to be of General Ulysses S Grant in front of his troops at
City Point, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It is in fact created from three pictures,
the head from a portrait of Grant; the horse and body from Major General Alexander M McCook;
and the background of Confederate prisoners captured.

Digital forensics expert Dr. Hany Farid said: “Although we may have
the impression that photographic tampering is something relatively
new - a product of the digital age - the reality is that history is riddled
with photographic fakes.”4

Regal doctoring: King George VI was removed from the original photograph of himself, Queen
Elizabeth and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Banff, Alberta, because,
it is believed, the PM wanted to paint himself in a more powerful light.

This type of editing is very commonplace today in publishing


and advertising, and not just fashion magazines. When I was employed
4 http://apo.org.au/source/2089

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as an artworker at a design company in Wellington, New Zealand,


one of my tasks was to take concepts from the designers and make it a
finished work. This often consisted of hiring models, a photographic
crew and venue. Then we would select the best photos from that shoot
and composite a piece over several days suitable for publication. Another
example, we would be publishing an annual report for a large company
that would require a group photo of the board members. Trying to get
all the members in for a photo shoot at the same time proved to be
difficult. So, we would photograph them around their regular schedules,
individually or in several smaller groups. I would then construct a single
composite image for publishing. If I did my job right, you should not
be able to tell it was a composite.
Now I work for K-House, that whole process is very expensive and
time-consuming. So, we discuss ideas, and I usually then peruse stock
image sites5 (if we can’t take photos, or fully create the image ourselves)
purchase a license for a couple of images (maybe $6-$30) and then
proceed to composite the desired image over a day or two. There’s no
malicious intent. When you’re dealing with ancient or supernatural
themes, sometimes there’s just no photographs in existence.
Behold a Livid
Horse briefing
pack cover by
Dean Packwood.
Some source
images (left) and
final composite
image (right)

5 Stock image
sites like iStock:
istockphoto.com

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With photorealistic and hyperrealistic painting and drawing skills, artists


can also completely create photorealistic representations that cannot be
easily distinguished from real life.

From left to right: Sir Ian McKellen by Joongwon Charles Jeong (South Korea), acrylic paint
on canvas. Old Man by Dean Packwood (New Zealand), digital painting. An elderly man by
Olga Larionova (Russia), pencil.

In staging an image or scene for a movie, it can be prohibitively expensive


to have physical sets, so a chroma keying will often be used. This process
includes live action filmed or photographed in front of a Green or
Blue screen that can be easily selected and removed in post-production
making it possible to add different backgrounds. Done well, and you
would not be able to tell.

Left: From the Movie The Chronicles of Narnia. Right: From the movie The Monuments Men. Photos
from Moving Picture Company (https://www.facebook.com/pg/Moving.Picture.Company).

In fact, many news-rooms, weather channels, and sports feeds


use live compositing techniques. Some news-rooms are ‘Virtual
Studios’ consisting of nothing more than a desk and the presenters,
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the background is digitally composited. Sports feeds can add in field


lines or even billboard advertising to the original footage.

Example of set used for a virtual studio using green screen. Background will be added in digitally.

Image misrepresentation
Let’s now go beyond some of the practical necessities for creating images
(discussed earlier) and look at some examples of misrepresentation or
even a more sinister agenda behind image creations. During hurricane
Sandy this photo (below) was being spread on Twitter.

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The image was accurate in that it did show soldiers at the Tomb.
But it had been taken a month earlier, not during Sandy. The picture
had been posted on the Facebook page of the First Army Division East.6
In 2016, protesters turned violent against Trump supporters at a rally
in San Jose. And the conservative media had been posting photos of
people injured in the clashes. Some photos, however, aren’t actually
from the protests.
The Twitter account Cons_Nation posted a photo (below left) claiming,
“Here’s what happened to female Trump supporter when she met
‘peaceful’ and ‘tolerant’ liberals.” But it’s not from the protests at all.7
The photo is real, but actually shows Samara Weaving, an Australian
actress from the series Ash vs. Evil Dead. The “blood” is makeup, photos
of which she posted to her Instagram back in January 2016 (below right).

A digital composite of a British soldier in Basra, gesturing to Iraqi


civilians urging them to seek cover, appeared on the front page of the Los
Angeles Times shortly after the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. Brian Walski,
a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times and a 30-year veteran
of the news business, was fired after his editors discovered that he had
combined two of his photographs to “improve” the composition.8
6 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/10/29/163875922/photo-despite-sandy-soldiers-stand-
guard-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier
7 http://gizmodo.com/7-more-viral-photos-that-are-totally-fake-1764101952
8 http://pth.izitru.com/2003_04_00.html

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A digital composite (top) and source images (bottom) of a British soldier in Basra composited
by Brian Walski, a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times.

Mark Twain once said, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are
uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”9
Some may think this is quite harmless; “If you don’t read the
however, once it’s revealed that the
newspaper, you are
photos are fake or misrepresented,
you naturally start to have doubts the
uninformed. If you do
event actually took place and doubt the read the newspaper,
credibility of its source. There’s a lot of you are misinformed.”
discussion about the Moon Landings and fake images. That’s a larger
discussion, but some of the photos we see on the web may be real, some
retouched and some fake. I could create a fake moon landing image,
but because you may discover errors and that it’s a fake, that does not
prove the event never took place.
On December 24, 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 took a gorgeous
shot of the “earth rise” as came from the dark side of the moon.10
It was the first photo of our planet from the perspective of another
9 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Mark_Twain
10 https://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/14day4_orbits456.htm

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planetary body. Although a color photo was taken moments later,


In 2013 NASA produced a computer-generated re-creation of the first
photo, in full color. But ever since, people have been passing the re-
creation around as an authentic photo.

Left: Computer generated image, 2013. Middle: Original first photo taken in black and white, 1968.
Right: Color photo taken moments after the 1968 photo.

Distorting the truth


It is believed that this doctored
photograph (right) contributed to
Senator Millard Tydings’ electoral
defeat in 1950. The photo of Tydings
(below left) conversing with Earl
Browder (below right), a leader of
the American Communist party, was
meant to suggest that Tydings had
communist sympathies.11
A 1993 photo showing what appears to
be an Israeli boy and a Palestinian
boy overlooking Jerusalem
with their arms around each
other is one of the best-known
photographs from the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. Tweeted
by Rihanna in 2014 – and re-
tweeted over 40,000 times –
11 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/
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the photograph seemed to exemplify hopes for coexistence and peace


in the region.12
But Rihanna was likely unaware that the photo was staged. American
photojournalist Ricki Rosen who took the photo for a story on the Oslo
Peace process, told The Forward “it was a symbolic illustration” and was
never intended to be a documentary photo.
A photograph apparently taken by a man pursued by the Israeli Defence
Force (IDF) is revealed to be stunt by Israeli-Arab rapper Tamer Nafar
from the band DAM – but that does not prevent it sweeping the internet.
In reality, the IDF soldiers chasing the man are two actors and was taken
on a film set that’s based on a true story. This was clarified later on Twitter
but the clarification post was much less popular.13

Staged photo: Israeli-Arab rapper Tamer Nafar, from the band DAM, pursued by actors posing as
IDF soldiers.

Another photo circulating on Facebook that purports to show an IDF


soldier aiming his rifle at the neck of a Palestinian youth is apparently
staged, Israeli Channel 2 news reported.14
12 http://time.com/3624953/israeli-palestinian-friendship-photo-staged-fake/
13 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/11393953/Palestinian-man-
chased-by-Israel-soldiers-fake-selfie-goes-viral.html
14 http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/06/08/the-staged-photo-circulating-around-facebook-that-is-
delegitimizing-israel/

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According to the report,


both the “Israeli soldier”
and the “Palestinian
youth” in the image are
actors, and a follow up-
picture, discovered by
websurfer Roi Rahmani
shows the pair standing
together for a selfie
shortly after the initial
photo.
Facebook photo purporting to show an IDF soldier aiming his
Rahmani, who posted rifle at the neck of a Palestinian youth, was proved to be staged.
the photo and its
explanation on Facebook explained that it “was taken by actors, and
their goal was to present the soldiers of the IDF in a negative light.”
But the fake image
posted on social
media this week went
viral within minutes,
notching up over
15,000 re-tweets within
24 hours.
How many sites
have we seen with
accusations presented
with supporting
‘screen grabs’ of tweets,
posts, webpages
or emails as proof?
To determine a fake The two actors pose for a selfie after staging a scene of Israeli
brutality – Facebook photo.
from an authentic can
be virtually impossible
if you don’t have access to the original source. These screen grabs can
be easily faked.

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Here is a screen grab of USA.gov website. The website was not hacked in any
way, but the screen grab was edited on my computer with some alterations
I made in under a minute.

Fake screen grab of the USA.gov website.


Imagine the damage to a person’s
Imagine the damage to reputation should a fake screen
a person’s reputation grab be shared of an email or tweet.
We see these on Facebook all the
should a fake screen
time, and we are all too quick to
grab be shared of an believe and share. From time to
email or tweet. time I see a shared post on Facebook
showing a cctv image of an alleged thief with a headline “Share this
so we can catch these shoplifters!” Before you re-share, remember the
following: You have no idea where the image originated or if it’s been
manipulated. Or it could just be an internet troll causing trouble. If it’s
a direct post from a ‘friend’, then it’s relatively easy to get in touch with
them to verify. If it’s a shared post, that can be a lot more difficult, so I
usually will not share unless I can verify its authenticity.

Online tools to help verify the authenticity of a photo


It may come as a surprise that the technology for manipulating images
is improving so rapidly that it seems we’re actually getting worse at
detecting altered or fake photographs.

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If the artist is an expert, it can be virtually impossible to detect if an


image is fake. Knowing full well what is capable in image manipulation,
I usually take that position that an image may not be authentic and go
from there.
Here are some online tools that may help you verify the authenticity
of a photo:
• Findexif.com – a free tool where you could upload a photo
or provide a reference to it and Findexif will identify EXIF-
data (when and with what device a photo was made, image
characteristics, sometimes a place, where a photo was made,
could also be identified). www.findexif.com
• Foto Forensics – a web-site that can run error level analysis
(ELA), that is to find parts of a picture that were added to it
after editing. After processing a photo the program produces
the image with edited parts standing out. Besides, the program
will also provide EXIF-data of a photo. fotoforensics.com
• Google Search by Image – reverse image search. You could
upload a photo there in order to find its origin source
and to examine where else it was published. images.google.com
• TinEye – one more tool for reverse image search. tineye.com
• JPEGSnoop – a program that has to be installed (only for
Windows). It shows metadata not only of images, but also of
such formats as AVI, DNG, PDF, THM. The program could be
used for different purposes. For example, it makes it possible to
detect errors in corrupted file, to find out if an image was edited
and so on. sourceforge.net/projects/jpegsnoop
• Image checking algorithm
1) To determine a photographer or an origin of a photo,
the most obvious, and often the most efficient way to do it,
is to contact the person who uploaded the photo or sent it
to an editor. Ask if this person made that photo by himself/
herself. Also, it is obligatory to try to find this photo with a
reverse image search. Google also shows similar images

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and sometimes it helps to determine if the photo was edited.


It is likely that a reference to a high-resolution image would
be the original source.
2) You also have to check the person that spreads the
information. There are several different tools that can help to
gather information about him/her. Though they are mostly
designed for US residents, there are also some that will be
useful for residents of other countries. For example, Pipl.com
looks for “internet trace” of a user, helps to identify him/her
and to find photos. You have to enter the name of the person
in Latin, and the program will run a search through all
American social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace).
The feature of the program is that it runs a search through
deepWeb, finding items that are usually ignored by ordinary
search engines and is not normally available for users.

An additional useful tool, WebMii (webmii.com), searches


the reference with the name of the person and produces the
“web visibility” rating, with which you could find out fake
accounts. Thanks to this tool everyone can find references
to his/her name on international sites. You can also use
people.yandex.ru for a search through Runet.
3) The next step is to determine the place, date and
approximate time of the photo. The easiest way is to ask
the photographer (if he/she is available) or ask him/her to
make more photos of that place. Then you should check the
given data with the above-mentioned programs. Journalists,
who are good in digital photography, will understand
numerous characteristics, provided by this program.
The most important information for the others is time,
place, and the type of a camera. If metadata is not available,
you have to examine carefully the picture: license plate
numbers, weather conditions, landscape, mode of dress,
advertisements, buildings, stores. All these details can
help to determine the place and sometimes they could even
testify forgery.
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Actor Denzel Washington dropped “What is the long-


this truth bomb on the American term effect of too much
mainstream media December 2016, information? One of
“What is the long-term effect of the effects is the need to
too much information? One of the
effects is the need to be first, not
be first, not even to be
even to be true anymore. So what true anymore...”
a responsibility you all have, to tell the truth, not just to be first, but to
tell the truth. We live in a society now where it’s just first, who cares?
Get it out there, we don’t care who it hurts, we don’t care who we destroy,
we don’t care if it’s true, just say it, sell it! Anything you practice you’ll
get good at.”15
Fake news and images are everywhere. Magazines, web, social
media, news media, even in educational and scientific publications.
As Christians, we should be a little more cautious and exercise a
little more wisdom and discernment the next time we see an odd or
controversial image in the news or on or social media. Take a pause
before hitting that share button.
You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand
with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 23:1

Additional References:
• Photo Tampering Throughout History – http://pth.izitru.com/
• 20 Epic Fake Pictures that Have Fooled the Whole World –
http://photodoto.com/epic-fake-pictures-that-have-fooled-the-
whole-world/
• 69 Viral Images From 2016 That Were Totally Fake –
http://gizmodo.com/69-viral-images-from-2016-that-were-
totally-fake-1789400518
• Stop Fake – http://www.stopfake.org/en/13-online-tools-that-
help-to-verify-the-authenticity-of-a-photo/

15 http://www.dailywire.com/news/11411/fake-news-alert-denzel-washington-blasts-john-nolte

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Proverbs (8 sessions) CD047 29.95 CDC05 44.95 DVD29 44.95
Ecclesiastes (8 sessions) CD039 29.95
Song of Songs (5 sessions) CD017 29.95 CDC30 44.95 DVD98 44.95
Isaiah (24 sessions) CD022 44.95 CDC33 89.95 DVD139 89.95
Jeremiah/Lamentations (24 sessions) CD015 44.95
Ezekiel (24 sessions) CD008 44.95 CDC16 89.95 DVD60 89.95
Daniel (16 sessions) CD004 39.95 CDC02 69.95 DVD20 69.95
Prophets to the N. Kingdom (13 sessions) CD051 34.95 CDC26 59.95 DVD91 59.95
Prophets to the Gentiles (8 sessions) CD052 29.95 CDC27 44.95 DVD92 44.95
Prophets to the S. Kingdom (13 sessions) CD050 34.95 CDC25 59.95 DVD87 59.95
Prophets to the Post-Exile (22 sessions) CD053 44.95
Matthew (24 sessions) CD006 44.95 CDC06 89.95 DVD33 89.95
Mark (16 sessions) CD028 39.95 CDC23 69.95 DVD81 69.95
Luke (24 sessions) CD021 44.95 CDC29 89.95 DVD96 89.95
John (20 sessions) CD027 39.95 CDC32 74.95 DVD120 74.95
Acts (16 sessions) CD023 39.95 CDC31 69.95 DVD104 69.95
Romans (24 sessions) CD009 44.95 CDC10 89.95 DVD46 89.95
I & II Corinthians (22 sessions) CD055 44.95 CDC34 89.95 DVD164 89.95
Galatians (8 sessions) CD012 29.95 CDC15 44.95 DVD55 44.95
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Philippians (6 sessions) CD030 29.95 CDC28 44.95 DVD93 44.95
Colossians (8 sessions) CD034 29.95 CDC21 44.95 DVD74 44.95
I & II Thessalonians (8 sessions) CD032 29.95 CDC24 44.95 DVD83 44.95
I & II Timothy/Titus/Philemon (8 sessions) CD014 29.95 CDC13 44.95 DVD51 44.95
Hebrews (16 sessions) CD016 39.95 CDC11 69.95 DVD54 69.95
James (8 sessions) CD013 29.95 CDC07 44.95
I & II Peter (8 sessions) CD024 29.95 CDC18 44.95 DVD64 44.95
I, II, & III John (8 sessions) CD029 29.95 CDC22 44.95 DVD78 44.95
Jude (8 sessions) * Now as DVD * CD010 29.95 CDC08 44.95 DVD169 44.95
Revelation (24 sessions) CD005 44.95 CDC03 89.95 DVD26 89.95
Minor Prophets Set on MP3 CD-ROM CD054 99.95
Entire Old Testament on MP3 CD-ROM CDOTEST 499.00
Entire New Testament on MP3 CD-ROM CDNTEST 399.00
Entire Bible on MP3 PC DVD-ROM DVDMP3BIBLE 550.00
Comprehensive Study Workbooks # Price Qty Total
Cosmic Codes Comprehensive Workbook BK124 14.95
Hermeneutics 101 Workbook (How we Got/How to Study Bible) BK136 14.95
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours Comprehensive Workbook BK123 14.95
Prophecy 101 Comprehensive Workbook BK122 14.95
Genesis Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK120 14.95
Numbers Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK144 14.95
Proverbs Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK137 14.95
Daniel Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK127 14.95
Prophets to the N. Kingdom Comprehensive Workbook BK167 14.95
Prophets to the S. Kingdom Comprehensive Workbook BK168 14.95
Prophets to the Gentiles Comprehensive Workbook BK169 14.95
Matthew Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK143 14.95
Mark Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK183 14.95
Luke Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK177 14.95
John Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK182 14.95
Acts Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK178 14.95
Revelation Commentary Comprehensive Workbook BK131 14.95
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Finding Truth Bundle: (DVDs) Jude Commentary, What is Truth? Critical Thinking * NEW * BUNDLE014 69.65
The Four Horsemen Paperback Bundle (White, Red, Black and Livid books) BUNDLE003 19.95
Genesis Study Set (DVD, Notes, Workbook) BUNDLE011 100.00
Revelation Study Set (DVD, Notes, Workbook) BUNDLE012 100.00
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours # Price Qty Total
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours DVD set (24 hrs.) - Chuck Missler (Incl. Free Video Download) DVD25 89.95
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours Book BK107 19.99
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours on Audio CD - 24 CDs + CD-ROM CDA10 89.95
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours CD-ROM - w/automated PowerPoint CD105 44.95
Learn the Bible in 24 Hours Study set (DVD, Handbook, Workbook, Free Video Download) BUNDLE004 100.00
Books # Price Qty Total
Alien Encounters - Chuck Missler & Mark Eastman BK056 16.95
Behold a White Horse - Chuck Missler BK195 5.95
Behold a Red Horse - Chuck Missler BK196 5.95
Behold a Black Horse - Chuck Missler BK197 5.95
Behold a Livid Horse - Chuck Missler BK198 5.95
Beyond Coincidence - Chuck Missler BK205 5.95
Beyond Newton - Chuck Missler BK207 5.95
Beyond Perception - Chuck Missler BK206 5.95
Beyond Time and Space - Chuck Missler BK204 5.95
Cosmic Codes - Chuck Missler: Revised & Expanded! BK119 19.95
The Christmas Story - Chuck Missler BK199 5.95
Daniel's 70 Weeks - Chuck Missler BK194 5.95
The Feasts of Israel - Chuck Missler * NEW * BK209 5.95
Footprints of the Messiah - Chuck Missler * NEW * BK210 5.95
Hidden Treasures - Chuck Missler BK100 5.95
How We Got Our Bible - Chuck Missler * NEW * BK203 5.95
I, Jesus: an Autobiography (Hardcover) - Chuck Missler & William Welty, Ph.D. BK188 19.95
Israel and the Church - Chuck Missler * NEW * BK214 5.95
The Kingdom, Power & Glory - Chuck & Nancy Missler BK150 18.95
Mary: Ten Test Questions for the World's Finest Woman - Dr. William Welty BK208 14.95
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Prophecy 20/20 - Chuck Missler BK139 13.99
The NOW Prophecies - Bill Salus BK213 15.95
The Rapture - Chuck Missler BK193 5.95
The Romance of Redemption - Chuck Missler * NEW * BK202 5.95
Spiritual Gifts - Chuck Missler * NEW * BK215 5.95
The Trinity - Chuck Missler BK200 5.95

Robert Cornuke Book Price Qty DVD Price Qty


Golgotha - Searching for the True Location of Christ’s Crucifixion * NEW *
BK212 14.95 DVD175 19.95
(DVD approx. 2 hrs)
In Search of the Lost Shipwreck of Paul (Hardcover) BK211 22.00
Mountain of Fire - The Search for the True Mount Sinai - (Approx. 1 hr) DVD171 14.95
On the Trail of Discovery - (Approx. 2 hrs) DVD163 19.95
Search for the Ark of the Covenant - (Approx. 1 hr) DVD172 14.95
Search for the Lost Shipwreck of Paul - (Approx. 1 hr) DVD173 14.95
Search for Noah's Ark - (Approx. 1 hr) DVD174 14.95
Temple BK191 12.00
The King’s High Way Series - by Nancy Missler Book Price Qty DVD Price Qty
Against the Tide: Getting Beyond Ourselves -- Book BK105 5.95
Be Ye Transformed BK020 14.95 DVD16 49.95
Be Ye Transformed Leader's Guide -- Notebook BK023 19.95
Faith in the Night Seasons BK087 13.95 DVD17 49.95
Faith in the Night Seasons Leaders Guide -- Notebook BK095 19.95
Hope Against Hope -- Book BK189 18.95
Never Give Up! -- Book BK129 6.95
Private Worship: The Key to Joy -- Book BK114 10.95
Re-Igniting the Passion - DVD (4 hours) DVD39 34.95
Reflections of His Image: God's Purpose for Your Life -- Book BK140 12.95
The Choice: Hypocrisy or Real Christianity? -- Book BK102 6.95
The Key: How to Let Go and Let God -- Book BK098 6.95
The Kingdom, Power & Glory BK150 18.95 DVD57 59.95
The Kingdom, Power & Glory Leader's Guide -- Notebook BK155 19.95
The Kingdom, Power & Glory Workbook BK154 12.95
The Way of Agape BK016 17.95 DVD10 49.95
The Way of Agape Leader's Guide -- Notebook BK019 19.95
Tomorrow May Be Too Late -- Book BK118 6.95
Why Should I Be The First to Change -- Book (Introductory) BK015 6.95

Conferences # Price Qty Total


Strategic Perspectives 2016 DVD Set * NEW * KIDVD30 60.00
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Strategic Perspectives 2015 Audio CD Set KICDA11 60.00

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ROBERT CORNUKE

A former police investigator and SWAT team member,


Bob Cornuke is a biblical investigator, international
explorer, and author of nine books. He has participated
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