MAN OF LAWLESSNESS The Antichrist will come with power, with signs, and with lying wonders. But all of this is according to the working of Satan, as described in π Revelation 13:13-17. If someone has spiritual power, signs, or wonders, those are not enough to prove they are from God. Satan can perform his own powerful works, either through deception or through his own resources of power. βHe is Satanβs messiah, an infernal caricature of the true messiah.β However, the deception can only take root in those who do not receive the love of the truth. These people are ready for the deception of the Antichrist, because they want a lie, and God will send them a strong delusion. ππ½ββοΈ They were first deluded, which was their sin; and God sends them strong delusion, and that is their punishment.β "That they should believe the lie": Specifically, God sends them the lie. This isnβt just any lie, but the lie, that has enthralled the human race since Adam. π€¦π½ββοΈ This is the lie that God is not God, and that we are or can be gods. ππΎ God's point is that the anti-Christ will embody all that is profane and blasphemous, every conceivable element of impiety; and that, instead of being rejected, he will be welcome by Jews as well as pagans. That they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness: As God gives rebellious man the lie he desires, it isnβt out of His generosity. Instead, it shows Godβs judgment on those who reject the truth. As π Romans 1 points out, in judgment God may give a man up to the depravity of his heart, to his pleasure in unrighteousness. They think that they are acting in defiance of God. But in the end, they find that those very acts in which they expressed their defiance were the vehicle of their punishment. #abidinginchrist #antichrist #eduringwisdom #2thessalonian2 #scripturewithpatu #thefall #manoflawlessness #followingjesus https://www.instagram.com/p/Co4sQ-POHpI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
