Israel – God’s Divine Decoy for Your Salvation, by Harlan Perry, takes a bold swing at a familiar story and tells it in a way that feels fresh. Perry argues that Israel’s long history of law, temple, and ritual was not the main stage but a setup. A divine headfake, as he calls it, meant to trick Satan into focusing on the wrong thing while God’s real plan, grace through Christ, stayed hidden until the right moment. The story unfolds in two acts, one calm and one stormy, covering everything from Lucifer’s fall to the cross, from Paul’s gospel to modern church struggles. The central idea is that grace was never an afterthought. It was always the plan, and everything else was a decoy.

The writing has a preacher’s fire, full of metaphors and jolts of energy that make the pages feel alive. I liked that it didn’t hide behind polite theology. It said things out loud that many only whisper. The sentences pile up like waves, crashing one after another. That rhythm kept me hooked, but at points I wanted a little space to process. The ideas shine through, even if the intensity of the delivery occasionally takes the spotlight.

What really stuck with me was the way Perry unmasks religion as a trap. He paints it as Satan’s favorite trick, the perfect counterfeit, and he insists that true freedom is only in grace. That hit me hard. It’s unsettling and liberating all at once. I felt my own habits and assumptions being poked at. I can’t say I agreed with every leap he made, but I couldn’t ignore the pull of his message. There’s something raw in his insistence that God never scrambles, never reacts, that everything is already written and finished.

I think Israel is best for people who feel worn out by church rules and hollow traditions, the ones who suspect there’s more to the gospel than guilt and performance. It’s a wake-up call. If you’re ready to be challenged, maybe even rattled, and if you don’t mind a bit of fire in the tone, then this book will hit you right where you need it.

Pages: 194 | ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FNS1796Q