Living in the Age of the Great Delusion

You don’t have to look far to see that the world has lost its mind. Right has become wrong, and wrong has become right. Folks are celebrating what God condemns and condemning what God celebrates. Human beings have now achieved a condition where they experience both confusion and deception. The situation becomes even more frightening because numerous people remain unaware of their situation.

The Bible predicted this event. Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 2:3–4 that before Jesus returns, a great rebellion would rise up and the man of lawlessness would take center stage. The lawless act begins its operation before the man appears. The system which trains people to follow false information instead of facts has already started its operation. Through its practice of giving applause to sin while disregarding holiness the world shows this phenomenon. Religious organizations display their transformation through their decision to swap biblical instructions with motivational guidance and their use of emotional comfort instead of spiritual assurance.

God allows people to experience the results of their refusal to accept His truth after they repeatedly reject it. Paul said that God sends them a strong delusion so that they may believe what is false (2 Thessalonians 2:11). The lie becomes your personal truth whenever you discover it more attractive than the actual truth. A person who consumes poison daily while labeling it dessert has become completely insensitive to spiritual matters because sin has destroyed their ability to feel anything.

That’s where we are. The god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers (2 Corinthians 4:4). People now move through life with spiritual cataracts which prevent them from perceiving true light while they only notice darkness. The situation becomes more severe because numerous religious individuals do not practice moral conduct in their daily activities. They accept Jesus as their Savior but reject His authority as Lord. They shout “Grace!”while dancing in rebellion.

Paul gave us a warning together with an encouragement. He said, “God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:13). God’s people need to maintain their faith because the world has lost its relationship with truth. We remain peaceful during deception because we continue to learn about the Word.

To maintain faith in a world of deception you should avoid constructing your beliefs from news headlines and social media trends and TikTok religious content. You need to be anchored in the unchanging Word of God. That’s why Paul said, “Stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us” (2 Thessalonians 2:15). The truth of Scripture stands above all human traditions.

The situation requires immediate action so you should focus on grabbing the anchor instead of debating sail colors during a storm at sea. The Word of God functions as our spiritual foundation. People of God must remain steadfast on the unshakable Rock when lies spread and truth becomes distorted and when society confuses right with wrong (Isaiah 5:20).

So don’t get shaken. Don’t get seduced. The same Jesus who will destroy the man of lawlessness with the breath of His mouth is the same One who lives in you. The truth remains unshaken by every assault which attempts to destroy it.

Hold on to the Word. Walk in the light. The Shepherd continues to call His sheep by name even though deception fills the airwaves (John 10:27).

Jeremiah 23:21-25:38
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17
Psalm 84:1-12
Proverbs 25:15 

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New Testament: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17

Summary: The Man of Lawlessness, Stand Firm

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
~ 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12

strong delusion. People who prefer to love sin and lies rather than gospel truth will receive severe, divine recompense, as do all sinners. God Himself will send judgment that insures their fate in the form of a deluding influence so that they continue to believe what is false. They accept evil as good and a lie as the truth. Thus does God use Satan and Antichrist as His instruments of judgment (1Kings 22:19-23).  ~ MacArthur Bible Commentary

Because they receive not the love of the truth, which is the reason here given: and this comes to pass partly through God’s denying his grace, or withholding that light and knowledge, by which error may be discovered and detected; and by taking from men the knowledge and conscience of things they had, see Rom 1:28. So that they call evil good, and good evil, and do not appear to have the common sense and reason of mankind, at least do not act according to it; and by giving them up to judicial blindness and hardness of heart, and to the god of this world, to blind their minds; and without this it is not to be accounted for, that the followers of antichrist should give into such senseless notions as those of transubstantiation, works of supererogation, or into such stupid practices as worshipping of images, praying to saints departed, and paying such a respect to the pretended relics of saints, as they do; but a spirit of slumber is given them, and eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, because of their rejection of the Gospel:  ~ John Gill

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