Strong Delusion
There are some spirits, that have been turned loose in this world. They are stronger and more powerful than many we have seen before. There was a reference in a letter written to one [Facebook] group, that there would be a time when this delusion would come. And where was it going to come from? It says, that God, was going to send it. And He is, and He already has done so.
In some recent travels, I visited a place I have been to quite a number of times. I was surprised and absolutely stunned, at just how much things have changed, just in the last six months or so. I couldn’t believe it. Where people are known for being prompt, and having the best driving habits, they are literally running over each other. They’re speeding like crazy, running all up on the back of one another. Once recognized for honesty and hard work, they are now lying to their customers and doing shoddy work. Unreachable.
It’s past time, that we here understand, that we are only being told, what others want us to hear. That event of a certain number, is far more obvious in other places; it’s been coming there, but it is no longer being done discretely. Old fashioned or not, when having money and things, becomes more important than God, it is a fact, that much begins to go down. That old attitude of, we got it going on; we’re smarter; nobody can touch us, begins to prevail. It’s, look what we’ve done; we don’t need God. We can do it all ourselves.
Pride, goeth before destruction; a haughty spirit, before a fall. I do think some of us have heard that before. Lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God. What I observed, was a violent and uncaring spirit; it’s all over the world. I kept asking myself in the past year or two; what is this spirit? People are devouring one another; the human life, is becoming less and less valuable. It’s rampant in some parts of the world; but it’s here too; it’s everywhere; and it shows no mercy. And it’s growing. Delusion and real deception.
There are those who seem to be quick to point at others about them being deceived or deluded. They are totally missing, the real changes, that have happened in them also. This was not written about just one particular group; it was written about everybody. It includes everyone, on every level, that worships man, more than they worship God. We can accuse others of believing a lie, when we are doing it ourselves. When we choose to have a form, and not truly manifest the fullness of the real thing, God let’s us.
It seems that deception and delusion, happens to people, that once knew better. Somehow, following their own way, their own plan, their own program, promoting themselves, became more important than actually following God . For these, the scripture is always about somebody else; but delusion, is delusion. When it truly comes, we’ve likely already crossed a line; and don’t know it.
~ Robert Blackburn
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 (NKJV)
The Great Apostasy
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Matthew 24:24-25 (NKJV)
For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.