Strong Delusion: The Last Sign Before Jesus’s Return

Have you noticed how people ignore the truth of the Bible and will believe just about anything? There is a Biblical reason for this blindness to the truth of God. It is explained in II Thessalonians 2:11-12. It reads, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be dammed who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

It is sort of like the story about the boy who cried, “Wolf,” one to many times when there was no wolf. Recall how he watched the sheep while the men went out into the field to work. When the boy cried wolf, the workers left their chores to go and killed the wolf, except there was no wolf. The boy repeated this offence a second and third time. Same result-no wolf. When the wolf came for real and the boy cried out, no one came to his rescue.
God has a limited amount of patience with us. He has sent Moses and the Prophets. (Luke 16:29) And later his Apostles and Jesus, his own Son. Jesus plainly told us in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.” Not only did Jesus testify, but He died on the cross for all our sins so that we might have eternal life.

So what is delusion? Delusion is to believe an idea that is contrary to facts, the truth or sound reason. People today don’t fear God or believe the Bible. The devil has influenced our society (culture) that there is more than one way to go to heaven. Remember, when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, he posed that question to God. He asked In Matthew 26:39, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” Jesus was asking his Father that if there was another way to be saved. If so, God the Father would have revealed it to God the Son.

We have too many false religions, and apostate churches telling people that there are many roads to God. Lie, lie, lie, lie lie! Part of the delusion is the appearance of apostate churches, which the Apostle Paul called the, “falling away.” II Thessalonians 2:3 states, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” This verse and the rest of the chapter explains the apostate condition of the false churches right before Jesus comes back for his Church in the Rapture and that the Antichrist is about to be revealed.
The Bible reveals in II Corinthians 11:13-15, Satan has his own false teachers. It states, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” Satan and those that he deceives to lead others astray will receive their just punishment in the end.

Remember God is so holy that he cannot and does not lie.Titus 1:2 states, “In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began.” Hebrews 6:18 states it this way, “That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.” Jesus is called the eternal hope that is set before us. Finally, Romans 3:4 makes this declaration, “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou are judged.”

Every person born on this earth is going to face judgement day and be held accountable for what we have done in this body. (Romans 14:12) The only question is, will you be covered under the blood of Jesus who paid for all our sins. Believers will appearat the Bema seat for rewards (II Corinthians 5:10) , but all unbelievers will appear at the white throne judgement, judged for your rejection of Christ and cast into the Lake of Fire, which is the second death (Revelation 20:14). The Bible reminds us in Luke 21:25, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; four your redemption is drawing near.” Something to think about.